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Overwatch |OT2-2-2| Role With It
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Yes, i am really going to miss this Brigitte because to me she is super fun to play. And i won't be able to play her as i want to because of all the changes she got, i will have to adjust to her new playstyle and i don't like it.
Not everything has to be abput brainless aiming. Brig is strategic than anything, people think its easy to play her then once they pick her they her rolled they literally don't know what they are suppose to do.
I'm going to miss the Paladin in your face style of play, but overall this patch is what the game needs.
She might be viable still, but her kit doesn't synergize anymore. She was made to be a melee healer, yet her rework and nerfed shield is forcing her to be ranged.
They should give her shield back, give her a new passive, and move her melee damage back to her flail so she can contribute damage while not being forced to be in melee range. I guess shes going to be useful when you have a Tracer flanking your back line, but I don't see myself ever playing her over Moira, Ana, Bap, or Mercy. I like Brig over Lucio and Zen from my time on the PTR.
Even Tracer can one clip her shield now, it serves little to no purpose. I can see myself playing her over Moira now that Moira's buff has fallen through, depending on comp of course.
Usual update time is about 2pm EST or 2 hr 30 min, but the competitive season ends in about 40 mins so it could come early.
Ughh I hope not 2 and half hours I can't stay that long
Yeah, I think the system is trying to find people who aren't actually in queue, but they've messed up somewhere. At least I don't have it as bad as the people in GM with so few players. For example, like I mentioned with surefour, he found one game in 2 hours. How shitty is that. I would have given up long before that, lol.
Remember that this update will make games consistently better, not consistently good.
Her main heal output is much, much better. Her play style is completely different now though. She is a bodyguard only. Going yolo front liner is easily punishable.
What i don't like in this 2-2-2 is all the talk about Reaper and Mei. Obnoxious tier heroes. Brig is nothing compared to these two.
Many can counter reaper easily ,but mei is really OP lately definitely on the top list of annoying heros
Yeah McCree can easily destroy him for example or any long range hitscan but the combo of Reaper/Mei with Lucio/Moira is like mini GOATS. Him alone is nothing. Him with these three is way too much cancer.
Mei needs a nerf to her freeze multiple target with primary attack. It's absolutely stupid they gave her multi CC with one button hold plus her ult. What were they thinking?
I don't mind that, they honestly should nerf her wall size wayy too big
Doesn't matter....even if it's 1cm long, teammates will never shoot it.
SHOOT THE MEI WALL FFS
It's almost time then? until then I'm gonna pour one out for Briggy, I always loved your melee stylings but you were too poorly balanced for this cruel world
Bring back increasing damage stats for shooting ice walls and shields, that'll finally give people some slight minuscule motivation I'd hope!
I thought sigma was for the Sept 1st patch when role queue is official
Sigma is today, September 1st is real comp day and the day he can be used in comp.
And then another 2 weeks to get him on Comp, they release him today they get him in Comp on September 1st when the new season starts.
September 1st for QP
Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – August 13, 2019
A new patch is now live on Windows PC. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.
To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum
For a list of known issues, visit our Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support forum.
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
New Feature: Role Queue
Role Queue is an update to Overwatch's matchmaking and queuing system that gives players the power to choose which role they play in games. In Competitive Play, players choose their role before finding a game. The matchmaking system will create a team that is comprised of two tanks, two supports, and two damage heroes. Upon entering the match, players select heroes to play within their chosen roles. At the end of a match, competitive players will return to the main menu and select their role before queuing into their next game. For more information about Role Queue, read the detailed blog post: LINK
New Hero: Sigma (Tank)
Sigma is an eccentric astrophysicist and volatile tank who gained the power to control gravity in an orbital experiment gone wrong. Manipulated by Talon and deployed as a living weapon, Sigma's presence on the battlefield cannot be ignored. Sigma launches two Hyperspheres (gravitic charges), which bounce off walls and implode after a short duration, damaging enemies within a sizable radius. Using Experimental Barrier he propels a floating barrier to a location of his choosing and he can dismiss the barrier at any time. With Kinetic Grasp Sigma freezes incoming projectiles in midair, converting them into shields. Sigma uses Accretion to gather a mass of debris, then flings it at an enemy, knocking them down. Unleashing his full powers with Gravitic Flux, Sigma takes flight, lifts enemies in a targeted area, and launches them into the sky before slamming them back down.
GENERAL UPDATES
Endorsements
- Players can now endorse each other in the following game modes:
- Mystery Heroes
- No Limits
- Deathmatch
- Total Mayhem
- Low Grav
- All PvE Event game modes (Uprising, Retribution, Storm Rising)
- Mystery Heroes - On Control maps, heroes are now reset between rounds.
New Events
- Player Dealt Healing
- Player Received Healing
- Player Joined Match
- Player Left Match
- Start Transforming Throttle
- Stop Transforming Throttle
- Healer
- Healee
- Event Healing
- Host Player
HERO UPDATES
General
- Global ultimate cost increased 12%.
- Slowing Effects: Instead of stacking together, friendly and hostile slowing effects are now separate, and movement speed will be determined by whichever is slower.
- Fixed a bug in which full damage was not dealt by abilities that rapidly gain/lose targets, such as fast-tracking with Zarya's and Symmetra's primary fire beams.
Ashe
- Reload time per round decreased from 0.3 to 0.25 seconds.
Brigitte
Inspire (Passive)
- Healing amount increased from 100 to 130
- Self-healing from Inspire is now halved
- Now has 3 charges
- Healing amount changed from 150 to 120
- Now heals over 2 seconds instead of instantly
- If you throw multiple packs at the same person, the current duration will be extended by 2 seconds
- Out-going velocity increased from 60 to 80
- Retracting time reduced from 0.6 seconds to 0.3
- Barrier health reduced from 500 to 200
- Stun duration reduced from 0.9 seconds to 0.75
- Ultimate cost increased 10%
D.Va
Call Mech
- Pilot ultimate cost reduced by 12%
Doomfist
Melee
- Quick melee no longer pauses ammo reload.
Hanzo
Storm Arrows
- Storm Arrows ammo reduced from 6 to 5
Orisa
Protective Barrier
- Cooldown increased from 8 seconds to 9
Reinhardt
New Passive: "Steadfast"
- Reduces knock back effects by 30%
Sombra
Hack
- Duration on enemy players reduced from 6 to 5 seconds
- Activation time increased from 0.2 to 0.35 seconds
Symmetra
Teleporter
- Now lasts an infinite duration until destroyed
- Players can destroy their Teleporter with the ability 2 input
- Cooldown now starts when Teleporter is destroyed
- Maximum range increased from 25 to 30 meters
- Teleporter is destroyed if the entrance is more than 40 meters from the exit
Tracer
Pulse Bomb
- Damage increased from 300 to 350
Wrecking Ball
Minefield
- Increased projectile speed from 10 to 12, causing the mines to spread out more
- Reduced the activation time from 0.25 to 0.1 seconds
BUG FIXES
General
- Fixed a bug that prevented subtitles from displaying when spectating while waiting to respawn
- Fixed a bug that caused charging heroes (Reinhardt, Doomfist, Brigitte) to inconsistently knock each other down when colliding
- Fixed a bug so that some abilities (Hanzo's Dragon Strike and Roadhog's Chain Hook) will appear smoother when time is slowed down (end of round or custom game)
- Fixed a bug that caused the Presets UI in Custom Game to be displayed in the wrong order
- Fixed a bug so that placement previews (Reaper's Shadow Step, Mei's Ice Wall) should now be much smoother
- Fixed a bug so that placement previews will now hold their position after clicking, until they've been confirmed by the server
- Fixed a bug where orientation toggles for placement previews could flicker at higher latencies (Mei's Ice Wall, Baptiste's Amplification Matrix, Symmetra's Photon Barrier)
Route 66
- Fixed a bug that allowed attackers to leave the spawn room before the round starts
Ashe
- Fixed a bug that caused her gun to clip into the camera slightly when jumping while shooting down sights
- Fixed an issue that enables Doomfist to get through doorways while using Rocket Punch and clipping the corner
- Fixed a bug that prevented Rocket Punch from consistently destroying Sombra's Translocator and not being stopped by it, similar to Symmetra's turrets
- Fixed an issue so that targets hit by Rocket Punch will now go directly backwards, instead of maintaining any lateral momentum they had
- Fixed an issue so that targets that are immune to stun but not immune to knockback (Zarya's Particle Barrier, Zenyatta during Transcendence) are no longer able to affect knockback trajectory
- Fixed a bug that caused Doomfist to move more slowly for the duration of Meteor Strike when using it while crouched
- Fixed a bug that caused Doomfist to move backwards slightly slower during Meteor Strike
- Fixed a bug that prevented Defense Matrix from pointing down when D.Va was aiming downward while moving
- Fixed an issue that caused false positives with Lúcio's animation landing prediction when wall riding
- Fixed a bug that caused some VFX to stop playing upon successive viewings of Orisa's "Oh!" highlight intro in Hero Gallery
- Fixed a bug that caused charge knockback to be applied multiple times
- Fixed a bug that caused Wrecking Ball to get stuck in his slam animation if he landed on very flat, slippery surfaces
- Fixed a bug that caused Wrecking Ball to be temporarily stuck when using Piledriver on slippery surfaces
- Fixed a bug that caused Wrecking Ball to gain an incorrect amount of shields when using Adaptive Shield
- Fixed a bug that caused Zarya's weapon and arm to animate oddly during her emotes when viewed in third person
- Fixed a bug that caused a delay in Zenyatta's first person quick melee animation when interrupting his primary fire
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trying to think of something clever for the OT title. something Sigma related.
Good choice. I was gonna suggest Know Your Role but this is just as good. Nice and evergreen.
Hey everyone, I am trying to find out more about this. I don't think it was intended to role lock to 2-2-2 without the role queue matchmaking for Quick Play.
(Remember they have lots of internal "dials" they can move for each of their modes (much like the settings of a custom game).
Quick Play Role Queue is suppose to start on September 1st.
(Remember they have lots of internal "dials" they can move for each of their modes (much like the settings of a custom game).
Quick Play Role Queue is suppose to start on September 1st.
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