We’re continuing to monitor the health of competitive play and matchmaking across Overwatch 2, both for returning and new players. We’ve made numerous tuning adjustments on the server for both the initial and continued determination of a player’s skill tier and division, many of which will become even more noticeable at the start of Season 2.

We’ve increased the precision of our queue time estimates for each individual role in role queue.

Defense Matrix

The audio transcription feature has been added with a limited rollout for PC players in select countries. As a piece of our Defense Matrix initiative, audio transcriptions allow us to analyze a transcript from a temporary voice chat recording of a reported player. Players will now see a notification when entering voice chat for the first time during a play session indicating that voice chat may be recorded. Make sure you report as close to when disruptive behavior occurred to maximize this feature’s effectiveness. Once reported, a temporary audio recording will be used to make a text file transcript through speech-to-text programs. No one listens to the temporary audio recording, which is quickly deleted after being transcribed. Transcriptions are only made for reports of disruptive behavior in public voice channels, which includes team and match chat—group “party” chat is excluded.

Crossplay and Aim Assist

We made a change to Aim Assist in Crossplay (PC+ Console) lobbies. If you play in a Crossplay game now, Aim Assist is enabled in all matches except Competitive.

In our data, we found many groups were crossplay groups between PC and console players. This meant if you were playing on console and grouping with players on PC, you were opting into a bad experience for yourself to play with your friends. Also, if you had a group that was primarily console, but one of your friends was a PC player, you had to leave the PC player out to have a good experience.

Hero Updates In Overwatch 2 Patch Notes – Mid Season 1

D.VA

Fusion Cannons

Spread increased from 3.5 to 3.75

Boosters

Impact damage reduced from 25 to 15

Call Mech

Fixed in last update- Call Mech ultimate cost reduced by 12%

Zarya

Particle Barrier

Duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds
Cooldown increased from 10 to 11 seconds

Projected Barrier

Duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds
Cooldown increased from 10 to 11 seconds

Genji

Shuriken

Maximum ammo reduced from 30 to 24
Damage reduced from 29 to 27

Junkrat

Steel Trap

Fixed in last update- Arming time increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds
Fixed in last update- Trapped duration reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds

Sombra

Hack

Ability lockout duration reduced from 1.75 to 1.5 seconds
Hacked enemies are no longer valid targets for hacking for the duration of the 8-second effect
Hacked enemy damage multiplier reduced from 40 to 25%

Kiriko

Swift Step

Invulnerability duration reduced from 0.4 to 0.25 seconds

BUG FIXES In Overwatch 2 Patch Notes – Mid Season 1

GENERAL

PC Only – The Default setting for audio mix has been changed to “studio reference”
Resolved an issue where some players could be stuck in Bronze 5 even after several rank updates
Console Only – Fixed an issue where the PC interface was being forced on for some console players
Console Only – Fixed a bug on console where your game could freeze if you opened and closed a Hero cinematic
Console Only – Fixed an issue where ‘Capture Highlight’ could not be unbound from Left D-Pad
Addressed multiple leaderboard issues causing inaccurate placement and ordering
Players who getting healed will no longer see the healing status effect on their screen while they’re full health
Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be placed into an empty game
Resolved a bug that prevented players from rejoining their competitive game after being disconnected
Fixed a bug where typing in chat could purchase an item from the Hero Gallery
The ‘No Name Card’ selection in the Name Card interface is now selectable
Fixed a display issue where players were shown the incorrect amount of Overwatch League tokens, which made them unable to purchase items. The display now shows the correct amount of tokens a player owns
The ‘Avoid Teammates’ button is no longer hiding behind the Recent Players list
Fixed an issue with the Challenge ‘Farsighted’ not correctly tracking and/or completing
Fixed an issue with the Challenge ‘Damage Sponge’ not correctly tracking and/or completing
Resolved instances of the player’s screen becoming blurry/out of focus
Fixed an issue where some players were missing the Noire Widowmaker skin
Various visual improvements to the First Time User Experience
Fixed in last update – Practice bots now show up through walls correctly when you play a healer

MAPS

Junkertown

Fixed additional areas in the map that were causing performance issues in some cases

HEROES In Overwatch 2 Patch Notes – Mid Season 1

Brigitte

Fixed a bug where Brigitte’s shield could become invulnerable under certain conditions

Cassidy

Cassidy now correctly drops the flag during Combat Roll in the Capture the Flag game mode

Doomfist

Fixed in last update – Fixed a bug with Seismic Slam being stopped early by obstructions
Fixed in last update – Fixed a bug with being able to jump during Seismic Slam

Genji

Fixed an issue with the Genji Mythic Skin’s hit volumes
Fixed in last update – Fixed an issue where players could get infinite Dragonblade Custom Games

Hanzo

Fixed in last update – Jump/wall climb no longer destroys breakables

Junker Queen

Commanding Shout and Rampage now correctly drop the flag in the Capture the Flag game mode

Kiriko

Fixed an issue where Kiriko could escape map boundaries using Swift Step

Mei

Has been added back to the line-up
Fixed several issues with Mei’s Ice Wall that allowed players and projectiles to occasionally pass through it or slip off it

Mercy

Audio made a change to the sound of Mercy’s first-person glide to address frequencies that some players found uncomfortable

Reinhardt

Fixed in last update – Fixed an issue where quick melee did not swing Reinhardt’s hammer

Sojourn

Sojourn can no longer pick up the flag in Capture the Flag when using Power Slide

Sombra

Fixed in last update – EMP can no longer be damage boosted

Torbjorn

Fixed in last update – Fixed an issue where quick melee did not swing Torbjorn’s hammer

Wrecking Ball

Fixed an issue with Adaptive Shield that could cause you to lose health in some cases

Overwatch 2 Patch Notes – Mid Season 1

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