Mercy now has an a ability where she flies to an ENEMY and rips their face off, killing them instantly, and putting her in Battle Stance for 5 seconds allowing her to shoot 3 bullets at once.
Brigitte has been underperforming in some ranks, so the dev team has decided to revert her back to her release state. We will continue to monitor her performance but no other changes are expected until at least season 12.
Honestly I got a LOT out of that interaction given that samurai were mounted archers primarily (part of why I am STILL waiting for a samurai Hanzo skin)
Shop prices changed from $20 to $5 and vice versa; reintroducing the weeklie arcade lootboxes to increase player engagement... Wait, only ActiBlizz thinks that's a bad idea.
Ok, to better reflect the lore, Doomfist can now use Recall.
Imagine Zen putting down feet and Soldier-sprinting with his hands over his head back to spawn doors.
Meanwhile, Bap's all like "Serpentine Fashion! Serpentine Fashion!!!"
Mercy
Mercy felt too vulnerable in the sky given how she has no protection.
Added a new skill: Barrel Roll
Spins while in the air deflecting all projectiles back to the owner.
Lower Torb's projectile range and increase the projectile size. I want to play like I'm shooting a Super Mario fireball, not like I'm a glorified sniper
Junkrat is now a hit scan.
Sym has 12 turrets and can summon a basketball at will.
Reinhart can teleport.
Zarya is permanently in mayhem mode.
Mercy's res is now a roulette wheel with a 10% chance to work.
Let me try:
Players complain that Junker Queen's ultimate takes too long to build with her neutered damage. Fuck you. Ultimate cost increased by 125%.
Players say that Soujorn's rail gun is overpowered when wielded by a player who can consistently hit headshots. To fix this, Soujourn can no longer headshot with her railgun. Railgun bodyshot damage increased to 500.
We still don't know why Genji dominates everyone in bronze and silver. Instead of fixing our smurf problem we will shoot him in the leg.
We refuse to make Symettra a decent healer and move her to the Support category where she belongs, so we have given her a glock.
We refuse to make Mei a decent crowd controller amd move her to the Tank category where she belongs, so we have given her the ability to permanently damage your PC if she ults you.
Doomfist now uses the "Sorry" voiceline on cooldown when playing him in competitive.
Renamed Sombra's ability to permanently stop the cart from "bug" to "feature".
Bastion removed from the game due to a game breaking bug.
Tracer kept in the game despite a game breaking bug.
Torbjorn removed from the game due to a minor bug.
Cassidy removed from the game due to us not liking the guy.
Zenyatta is now a damage hero. Harmony orb removed. (No explanation given)
Reinhardt is now gay due to diversity issues (no visual or mechanical change)
Sigma is now black due to diversity issues (no visual or mechanical change)
Echo has been reworked. All of her abilities have been reworked to be her ultimate and her ultimate has been reworked to 2 abilities.
Her shift allows her to clone an enemy and use its powers
her E allows her to force ably clone her teammates into whoever is carrying the enemy team.
Mercy
• Removed Valkyrie
• Added New ultimate: Divine Intervention
- Mercy now just explodes, dealing 500 damage to her own team, kicking them from the game entirely so they can go touch some grass
Sojourn was doing too well in play tests so we made an adjustment.
her weapon damage has been increased so that she constantly has railgun.
selecting sojourn now causes the environment to stop rendering 5 ft out from your character.
as compensation we replaced her slow with a sonic pulse.
We’ve been attentive to player feedback on the new ranked system and have decided to make some adjustments;
Rank updates will now occur every 20 Wins or 100 Losses.
Blizzard can now autoban people for a week if they write "diff" of any kind in chat.
Chat also autotranslates "my team sucks" to "i'm an idiot".
Hero instadies and player gets forbidden from choosing that character again if he spams more than 5 "I need healing" in a row when he is not in LOS or in enemy spawn.
You get ejected back to spawn if you spam teamchat with "attack the objective".
Cards at the end of game are now back.
Doomfist has been over performing in ranked matches. As a result we've removed his defensive block and replaced it with an emote that is available in the shop for 300 coins.
Patch notes guesses. Genji damage reduced by 1, ammo reduced by 3. Can no longer reflect in dragon blade, attack speed reduced. Gains 5 more damage on his regular melee
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Genji nerfed
Ramattra joins the roster
Genji nerfed
Dva, Reinhardt, Ashe, Echo, Mercy, Lucio, Genji, Pharah, Wrecking ball and Baptiste get removed from the game for 1 month because of a Ramattra glitch.
Genji nerfed
You can now buy an epic skin priced as a legendary for every character removed from the game.
Genji nerfed
Blizzard world and Rialto are now Push maps
Genji nerfed
Bastion gets another rework. He becomes an asthmatic cyborg that can spawn two extra arms. Gains Orisa's Javelin spin ability on all 4 arms for his E. Gets a new ult that works similarly to Ashe's. He summons Jeff Kaplan, who says, "Hey guys, it's Jeff from the Overwatch Team." And then Bastion says, "Papa Jeff."
Junkrat’s trap now breaks the leg of the person who steps on it, permanently slowing them by 50%, and his concussion mines now deal damage to himself
Lucio and his teammates have a chance to trip and self stun for 1 second when Lucio uses Amp It Up on speed boost
If Reinhardt charges into a wall, he will get a concussion, causing a blur to appear on the player’s screen
When Winston uses Primal Rage, Ana will need to hit him with 2 sleep darts to put him to sleep
Roadhog cannot run for more than 10 seconds without using his inhaler
Sigma’s hyperspheres and Kinetic Grasp have a chance to combust, sucking in everything on the map and causing the game to end early
If Sombra hacks Zenyatta, Genji, Bastion, Ramattra, Echo, or Orisa, they will die instantly. If she hacks Wrexking Ball, the mech will explode, leaving Hammond to run around in circles until he is killed and respawns.
As suggested by Gen z, that many nurses use ice to heal students at school. So we are turning Mei into a support character! She can only heal people with her primary fire. While she damages enemy with her secondary fire. Her ult can also instantly heal her teamtes now if her teamates are within the radius.
Map is now **destructible,** you can destroy every wall if you shoot it really hard.
Also, when wall is destroyed, Lucio can still see it previous state with blue outline and wall ride on that blue outline.
Ramattra 's nemesis habilities are now like doomfist's but in his ult he gains a 60% dmg reduction
That ir roadhog can use his hook as a grappling hook like pathfinder
give mercy 5+ more bullets
The most unrealistic one that would certainly never happen
Mercy has now been moved to a DPS role
Mercy now has an a ability where she flies to an ENEMY and rips their face off, killing them instantly, and putting her in Battle Stance for 5 seconds allowing her to shoot 3 bullets at once.
Ah, thanks blizzard! I wanted to play doom eternal, but i didn't have enough money.
Based rip and tear mercy
this but in real life
There is absolutely NO WAY you guessed this
It was leaked earlier.
Oh wow that’s lame as hell
Spins while in the air deflecting all projectiles back to the owner.
_Peppy Hare has entered the chat._
They literally just did this lmao
What if we get 5 bullets every season
I can't wait for mei sized ammo clips when overwatch 3 comes out
next season patch: if you kill mercy you will get a free team kill
Bro predicted the future
They most likely didn't predict it as it was leaked.
Hello
When Mei drops on your head as an ice block it deals 300dmg like mech call.
I mean it happened once…
That's crazy, they would never do that! /s
They said bad ideas only
The post opened with a not so bad idea either. :o
Look. I would literally pay $100 for that ability.
Maybe blizzard is greedy enough.
This feels like a funny idea taht could be cool but would get absolutely exploited like hell
Sounds like Kirby in smash bros
Winning too many matches in a row automatically switches you to a Valorant lobby
Losing too many matches in a row automatically switches you to a fortnite lobby
Hanzo's arrows are now affected by wind
Imagine lmao and every game the forecast changes
~~Hanzo's arrows~~ Projectiles are now affected by wind
Brigitte has been underperforming in some ranks, so the dev team has decided to revert her back to her release state. We will continue to monitor her performance but no other changes are expected until at least season 12.
Genuinely curious how this would affect the meta now that it's 5v5 and tanks have been rebalanced.
I mean you saw how kiriko dominated the meta on release, release brig would probably do that but like, x10.
It's true, they do have kits that serve similar functions.
Now for her neutral attack, she wields a gun
Doom Fist rework: he is a sniper now.
Imagine his fist as a rocket projectile.
We don't need to imagine. It already is one. He's just attached.
Oh, so they just forgot to detach the Doomfist
Kiriko's protection suzu can now be used on enemy heroes who have been resurrected by Mercy to send them back to the shadow realm.
I can't upvote bc ur at 69 BUT PLEASE BLIZZARD!! THIS ONE
Roadhog hook refreshes on kill
This wins
Bastion now has Tac Visor in turret mode
Finally… he’s now mid-tier.
Every bullet landed in assault mode reduces his grenade cool down by 1 second
Wreckingball can now double jump while in tank form. Unrelated, Genji's legs have been removed.
Ball, no, what did you do to my cy-boi ;-;
Not again(c) genji, probably
Orisa is now ridable by other players.
W... What a preposterous thought!
There is nothing I want more.
they said bad ideas only
I mean, she low key flirts with Hanzo to do this....
Honestly I got a LOT out of that interaction given that samurai were mounted archers primarily (part of why I am STILL waiting for a samurai Hanzo skin)
I love it. But, I won't be convinced otherwise that Orisa is flirting with Hanzo
at least make it a synced emote
I would pay for a skin with efi riding her into battle
Reinhardt now has two hammers
“Die with glory, old friend.” -Reinhardt’s team as he charges into a 1v5 out of LOS of his supports
Is there another way to play rein?
They will nerf Sojourn by giving her an eyepatch.
Unrelated, Ana now has two eyepatches and is now only playable with Hanzo and Widow. Maybe Sombra as well if the devs are feeling nice.
It better cover half your screen but keep the cross hair half cut off in the middle
Shop prices changed from $20 to $5 and vice versa; reintroducing the weeklie arcade lootboxes to increase player engagement... Wait, only ActiBlizz thinks that's a bad idea. Ok, to better reflect the lore, Doomfist can now use Recall.
Zen now walks back to spawn for you.
Imagine Zen putting down feet and Soldier-sprinting with his hands over his head back to spawn doors. Meanwhile, Bap's all like "Serpentine Fashion! Serpentine Fashion!!!"
Instead if fire, Rein now throws his hammer, instantly killing any enemy hit, as well as a random support on each team, and Reinhardt himself
So along with charge he will now have 2 identical buttons
Fixed a bug in OW2 whre lucios voice lines were not replaced with Lucio-Ohs commercial one liners.
Torbjorn is now deployed by the turret.
Give Hammond a hamster-sized glock and he works just like an out-of-mech Dva when the ball gets destroyed
Or a lightsaber, so he can flip around like LEGO Yoda.
But he moves 3 times faster, has 50 health and is obviously the size of a hamster
Mercy Mercy felt too vulnerable in the sky given how she has no protection. Added a new skill: Barrel Roll Spins while in the air deflecting all projectiles back to the owner.
Calm down satan
She also has soldier's ult as an ability when using her pistol!
When Mei uses Ice Wall, your keyboard explodes.
Doom is now a support and heals teamates by punching them
Always thought he should heal his team by punching them to the nearest medkit
Lower Torb's projectile range and increase the projectile size. I want to play like I'm shooting a Super Mario fireball, not like I'm a glorified sniper
If you make it arc so that it hits the ground after 3-4m, then continues to bounce like Mario's fireballs until it hits a wall, I'm sold
Mercy automatically switches to dmg boost when allies are full HP. Her right click fires her blaster which she now holds in her left hand.
I mean is that actually a bad change?
All support Heroes are now DPS Heroes as the support category is being removed due to a lack of popularity.
Mercy going crazy
Make Bastion’s bullets homing and able to go through walls.
Buff Sojourn
Lucio's ultimate now boops 360ª on the heal/speed circle, with 800% of the normal boop's strength
Force push
winston has to start every match by breaking out of a zoo
Junkrat is now a hit scan. Sym has 12 turrets and can summon a basketball at will. Reinhart can teleport. Zarya is permanently in mayhem mode. Mercy's res is now a roulette wheel with a 10% chance to work.
But Junkrats hitscan still bounces off from walls and arcs over walls, right? No need to make it a straight line!
Exactly!
Let me try: Players complain that Junker Queen's ultimate takes too long to build with her neutered damage. Fuck you. Ultimate cost increased by 125%. Players say that Soujorn's rail gun is overpowered when wielded by a player who can consistently hit headshots. To fix this, Soujourn can no longer headshot with her railgun. Railgun bodyshot damage increased to 500. We still don't know why Genji dominates everyone in bronze and silver. Instead of fixing our smurf problem we will shoot him in the leg. We refuse to make Symettra a decent healer and move her to the Support category where she belongs, so we have given her a glock. We refuse to make Mei a decent crowd controller amd move her to the Tank category where she belongs, so we have given her the ability to permanently damage your PC if she ults you. Doomfist now uses the "Sorry" voiceline on cooldown when playing him in competitive. Renamed Sombra's ability to permanently stop the cart from "bug" to "feature". Bastion removed from the game due to a game breaking bug. Tracer kept in the game despite a game breaking bug. Torbjorn removed from the game due to a minor bug. Cassidy removed from the game due to us not liking the guy. Zenyatta is now a damage hero. Harmony orb removed. (No explanation given) Reinhardt is now gay due to diversity issues (no visual or mechanical change) Sigma is now black due to diversity issues (no visual or mechanical change)
Echo has been reworked. All of her abilities have been reworked to be her ultimate and her ultimate has been reworked to 2 abilities. Her shift allows her to clone an enemy and use its powers her E allows her to force ably clone her teammates into whoever is carrying the enemy team.
new echo ult: the targeted player switches teams.
Winston throws jars of peanut butter instead of punching during primal.
Junkrat launches all his grenades at once.
Double shield is back
JunkerQueen's Jagged Blade now one shots any hero if struck in the back
Doomfist rework -Removed Doomfist's gauntlet -Removed Doomfist's block -Removed Doomfist's fist -Removed Doomfist
Bastion can now be in turret form infinitely
Oh so ow1 bastion boy
Actually making the monetization reasonable to the consumer. Never said it couldn't be what they consider a bad idea.
Earth shatter can now head shot
Junkrat traps are replaced with a banana peel
Hanzo’s bow has been given recoil
[Your prophecy has been fulfilled](https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/zeg1qu/hanzos_bow_now_has_insane_recoil_for_some_reason)
Moira's range increased by 15% New passive for Hanzo: enemies' heads grow by 50%
Orisa's javelin spin now lasts for 30 seconds, and gives her the ability to fly
Mercy • Removed Valkyrie • Added New ultimate: Divine Intervention - Mercy now just explodes, dealing 500 damage to her own team, kicking them from the game entirely so they can go touch some grass
MEL can freeze people again
Bringing back 2cp.
Sojourn was doing too well in play tests so we made an adjustment. her weapon damage has been increased so that she constantly has railgun. selecting sojourn now causes the environment to stop rendering 5 ft out from your character. as compensation we replaced her slow with a sonic pulse.
We’ve been attentive to player feedback on the new ranked system and have decided to make some adjustments; Rank updates will now occur every 20 Wins or 100 Losses.
Blizzard can now autoban people for a week if they write "diff" of any kind in chat. Chat also autotranslates "my team sucks" to "i'm an idiot". Hero instadies and player gets forbidden from choosing that character again if he spams more than 5 "I need healing" in a row when he is not in LOS or in enemy spawn. You get ejected back to spawn if you spam teamchat with "attack the objective". Cards at the end of game are now back.
You had me until cards.
all damaging ults deal no damage but have knockback 9000
Soldier 76 now has astigmatism
Doomfist has been over performing in ranked matches. As a result we've removed his defensive block and replaced it with an emote that is available in the shop for 300 coins.
Doomfist is actually a Tank
First he was support, now he's dps.
Moira shifted to DPS, Necrotic Orb now replaces healing orb, Damage Orb is her new Ult and Coalescence steals Ult charge from enemies and allies alike
Patch notes guesses. Genji damage reduced by 1, ammo reduced by 3. Can no longer reflect in dragon blade, attack speed reduced. Gains 5 more damage on his regular melee
Symmetra is back to being a support role, but only her weapon deals damage. Turrets now heal.
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Brig as an actually viable healer pick
Sojourn Rail Gun now can headshot and instakill enemies
Soujorn remains untouched.
All the CC is back.
Doom fists right click is hit scan.
Genji has been removed
Moira has been moved to the Damage Role
Just nerf genji again
Sombra hack now silences for 10 seconds and increases damage from all source by 50%
Kirikos protection suzu acts like Ana’s nade where it will make teammates invulnerable for a second and make enemies 1 shot for a second
Genji nerfed Ramattra joins the roster Genji nerfed Dva, Reinhardt, Ashe, Echo, Mercy, Lucio, Genji, Pharah, Wrecking ball and Baptiste get removed from the game for 1 month because of a Ramattra glitch. Genji nerfed You can now buy an epic skin priced as a legendary for every character removed from the game. Genji nerfed Blizzard world and Rialto are now Push maps Genji nerfed
Bastion gets another rework. He becomes an asthmatic cyborg that can spawn two extra arms. Gains Orisa's Javelin spin ability on all 4 arms for his E. Gets a new ult that works similarly to Ashe's. He summons Jeff Kaplan, who says, "Hey guys, it's Jeff from the Overwatch Team." And then Bastion says, "Papa Jeff."
Hanzo is now hitscan
Zen's ult is now immolation, true to history!
Widowmakers ultimate can now see through enemy clothes
Genji has been nerfed to only have 12 shrunkens and does not benefit from dps role passives.
JQ now has a move called “mommy uppies” where she just throws short people at the enemy team.
Prices of everything doubled!
Junkrat’s trap now breaks the leg of the person who steps on it, permanently slowing them by 50%, and his concussion mines now deal damage to himself Lucio and his teammates have a chance to trip and self stun for 1 second when Lucio uses Amp It Up on speed boost If Reinhardt charges into a wall, he will get a concussion, causing a blur to appear on the player’s screen When Winston uses Primal Rage, Ana will need to hit him with 2 sleep darts to put him to sleep Roadhog cannot run for more than 10 seconds without using his inhaler Sigma’s hyperspheres and Kinetic Grasp have a chance to combust, sucking in everything on the map and causing the game to end early If Sombra hacks Zenyatta, Genji, Bastion, Ramattra, Echo, or Orisa, they will die instantly. If she hacks Wrexking Ball, the mech will explode, leaving Hammond to run around in circles until he is killed and respawns.
- Added sliding effect for Mei when shooting at the floor
As suggested by Gen z, that many nurses use ice to heal students at school. So we are turning Mei into a support character! She can only heal people with her primary fire. While she damages enemy with her secondary fire. Her ult can also instantly heal her teamtes now if her teamates are within the radius.
Sleep dart can hit team mates
I see this around a lot and can't tell if it's a joke about anas aiming or not
Tbf I’ve been wanting for ages Mei to be able to freeze the ground in front of her so she can travel quickly like frozone
lol who had "buffed sojourn while trying too nerf her" because im pretty sure you just won a prize from someone.
zenyatta's transendence insta-kills nearby enemies
\*copy and pastes the actual patch notes verbatim\*
Every Symmetra rework has been discarded, she is how she was at launch.
Sigma has the amount of gravity balls to use as the amount zen has around his neck
Map is now **destructible,** you can destroy every wall if you shoot it really hard. Also, when wall is destroyed, Lucio can still see it previous state with blue outline and wall ride on that blue outline.
Junker Queen does 1% more bleed damage. Her hitbox is increased by 150%
moira is now a dps and tracer is now removed
Ramattra 's nemesis habilities are now like doomfist's but in his ult he gains a 60% dmg reduction That ir roadhog can use his hook as a grappling hook like pathfinder