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The biggest highlight for Season 10 is the introduction of Venture, the latest DPS hero, who has undergone adjustments since their initial preview in Season 9 of Overwatch 2.
Blizzard announced that Venture will be available to all players for free and accessible in competitive play immediately, unlike previous heroes. On the balance front, some tweaks have been made to their abilities, such as Drill Dash trading impact damage for increased damage over time, and a 30% reduction in Tectonic Shock's vertical knockback.
Developer Comments: "This is a pretty major change from past heroes, but we’ve always wanted to allow new heroes into Competitive when a new season for Overwatch 2 launches. In the past, we wanted to make sure new heroes were free of any bugs or outstanding balance issues, as well as giving players enough time to unlock a hero from the Battle Pass. Because of the recent hero trial, we’re confident Venture is ready to jump into the action right away."
All Buffs and Adjustments To Heroes on Overwatch 2 April 16, 2024 Patch
All Updates To Tank Heroes
Doomfist
- Doomfist's Rocket Punch's empowered punch is no longer consumed when the windup is canceled by using Seismic Slam or Power Block.
Developer's Comments: "Developer Comments: This quality-of-life improvement streamlines the transition between charging up an empowered Rocket Punch and another ability by removing the requirement of pressing the cancel input first."
Junker Queen
- Junker Queen's Carnage's impact damage increased from 90 to 105.
Reinhardt
- Reinhardt's Earthshatter knockdown duration increased from 2.75 seconds to 3 seconds.
- His Earthshatter's shockwave range increased from 20 to 25 meters.
Sigma
- Sigma's Experimental Barrier's movement speed increased from 16.5 to 20 meters per second.
Developer's Comments: "Developer Comments: This change will improve Sigma's ability to protect allies that are further away from him."
Wrecking Ball
- Wrecking Balls's Grappling Claw allows you to pull yourself towards the anchor point. Just hold the jump input while the Grappling Claw is attached to terrain to retract it.
- It now has a one second cooldown if Wrecking Ball never reaches ramming speed before canceling the ability. Interrupting him with Hack, Hinder, and stuns will still trigger the full cooldown.
- Grappling Claw's maximum duration timer no longer triggers unless he reaches ramming speed.
- His Adaptive Shield can now be reactivated to redistribute up to 300 overhealth to nearby allies, capping at 75 per person.
- His enemy and ally detection radius increased from 10 to 13 meters.
- His Minefield's health increased from 50 to 60.
Developer's Comments: "The general goals here are to add a direct way for Wrecking Ball to support his allies aside from purely enemy team disruption, make the hero more approachable while also adding more avenues for skill expression, and improve quality of life around the grapple."
All Updates To Damage Heroes
Sombra
- Sombra's Virus's total damage over time decreased from 100 to 90.
Tracer
- Tracer's Recall's cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds.
- Her Pulse Bomb's base projectile size decreased from 0.2 to 0.1 meters. The total projectile size is now 0.25 meters.
Developer's Comments: "There is now more downtime before Tracer can safely reengage after driving her away and Pulse Bomb will require more precision."
Venture
- Venture's Drill Dash's impact damage decreased from 60 to 40 and its damage over time increased from 40 to 60.
- Their Clobber's impact damage decreased from 40 to 30 and its damage over time increased from 30 to 40.
- Their Tectonic Shock's vertical knockback decreased by 30%.
Developer's Comments: "We are redistributing the damage on some of their abilities so that positioning relative to the enemy and tracking a target are more important for dealing maximum damage"
All Updates To Support Heroes
Illari
- Illari's Solar Rifle's primary fire recovery increased from 0.2 to 0.25 seconds.
- Its secondary fire heal-per-second increased from 105 to 115.
Lucio
- Lucio's Sonic Amplifier's damage per projectile decreased from 20 to 18.
- His Soundwave's damage increased from 35 to 45.
Lifeweaver
- Lifeweaver's Rejuvenating Dash's heal increased from 50 to 60.
- His Tree of Life's pulse healing increased from 75 to 90.
Moira
- Moira's Bioptic Grasp's damage per second decreased from 65 to 60.
- Her Coalescence's self-heal per second increased from 50 to 55.
All Adjustments Made to Heroes
Doomfist:
- Resolved an issue involving Mei's Ice Wall that permitted players to access areas beneath the map.
- Addressed a bug where Power Block sounds would activate even when not blocking damage.
Echo:
- Addressed a problem with Duplicate where deaths were not counted if Echo fell off the map while using the ability.
Illari:
- Resolved a problem where Captive Sun was affecting targets through floors and ceilings.
Junkrat:
- Addressed a bug where Riptire was receiving the self-healing passive.
Lifeweaver:
- Fixed an issue where some un-targetable heroes could be healed by Tree of Life.
Mauga:
- Corrected an interaction between Overrun and Brigitte's Shield Bash that caused Mauga to be knocked down with Overrun active.
Mercy:
- Fixed a bug with the Caduceus Staff not opening up with the Parasol emote and Pose.
Venture:
- Resolved an issue where activating Drill Dash while airborne and Burrowed prevented its activation underground.
- Addressed a bug causing Drill Dash to inflict multiple instances of damage upon impact, leading to excessive knockback or instant elimination.
- Corrected an issue where certain characters still experienced knockback effects after escaping Drill Dash.
- Fixed instances where using Drill Dash with the Venture ability from a ledge caused excessive launching.
- Rectified premature termination of the Burrow ability near ledges when attempting to emerge.
- Adjusted the camera transition from third-person to first-person upon Burrow's completion while airborne.
- Ensured visibility of UI prompts for emerging and using Drill Dash during the Burrow ability.
- Patched a bug allowing players to prevent footfall audio playback.
Additionally, Overwatch 2 introduces Clash, a new game mode, featuring a trial period with the debut of the Hanamura-inspired map, Hanaoka. Clash involves teams vying for control over five objectives and will remain available until April 29.
Furthermore, significant updates have been made to ranked play. Grouping Restrictions have been eliminated, with teams now categorized into narrow and wide groups based on the skill rating (SR) difference among players. The developers believe this adjustment will help combat smurfing by allowing players of varying skill levels to queue together.
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