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Overwatch 2 patch completely revamps heroes for a limited time event

Abiad Hasib

Published: 09:36, 03 April 2024

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Overwatch 2 patch completely revamps heroes for a limited time event

Mercy from Overwatch 2

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Overwatch 2 has completely turned the game upside down, changing everything about the meta.
Blizzard, the developers, stated that they are aware of all the issues and that these changes are only reflected in a game mode that appears in the arcade.
They are offering some limited-time rewards as well and have stated that these changes will last until April 8th, 2024.

Mercy from Overwatch 2

The latest patch for Overwatch 2 quite literally flipped the game and completely revamped all the heroes for a limited time event which will last till April 8, 2024 with unique and rare rewards.

Overwatch 2 quite literally turned the entire game upside down, changing everything about the meta. Blizzard, the developers are calling it “Balanced Overwatch” for now. They are offering some limited-time rewards as well and have stated that these changes will last till April 8th, 2024

They further stated: "Due to technical difficulties, a significant portion of the balance tweaks we intended to include in the S9 Competitive update were left out. To remedy this, we are releasing them now. We understand that players will want to try all these exciting changes, so we have made it easier than ever to switch heroes mid-game."

So let's take a look at all the changes.

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All Updates To Tank Heroes

Here are all the changes made to tank heroes:

D.Va

D.Va's boosters can now move backwards
Her boosters can be cancelled by using Crouch
Crouching to cancel the booster ability reduces cooldown from 0.4 seconds to 1.5 seconds

Developer's Comments: "Mech go zoom and D.Va bomb go boom."

Doomfist

Doomfist's power block and meteor strike will now empower his next quick melee.
His Powerblock movement speed modifier got increased from .65x to 1.25x

Developer's Comments: "Doomfist is a mobility hero, so there’s no reason he should be slowing down while blocking, right?"

Junker Queen

Junker Queen's Jagged Blade now magnetises Junker Queen to Gracie when pressing secondary fire while the ability is active.
Its cooldown now starts when blade starts returning to Junker Queen
Jagged Blade's cooldown decreased from 6 to 4 seconds

Developer's Comments: "Leave it to Junker Queen to cut her way towards new heights."

Mauga

Mauga's base health decreased from 350 to 25.
Mauga’s scale has been reduced by 50%.
Hitting enemies with his Incendiary Chain Gun who are ‘On Fire’ will ignite them.

Developer's Comments: "Smallga"

Orisa

Orisa's Energy Javelin now ricochets only once
Her Energy Javelin now explodes when it sticks

Developer's Comments: "Efi has made some changes to Orisa’s technology inspired by a completely hypothetical scenario where a certain archer rides her into battle."

Blizzard

Ramattra received a bunch of changes this patch

Ramattra

Ramattra's Annihilation is now his Ability 1.
It no longer pauses when it is dealing damage
Its movement speed was increased by 20%
its duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds
Its damage per second decreased from 30 to 20.
Its radius is now 9 metres.
His Nemesis form is now his ultimate.
Annihilation will always remain active while he uses his ultimate
It now heals him completely
Pummelling damage is now 75 and range is now 15

Developer's Comments: "We heard Ramattra wasn’t suffering enough, so we’ve increased his suffering so that when he causes suffering, his enemies will suffer as much as he has suffered."

Reinhardt

You can now press Primary Fire to reflect projectiles
His health decreases by 20% each second when reflecting
His barrier size becomes half when reflecting

Developer's Comments: "HAHA! THIS IS JUST LIKE PING PONG! WATCH THIS, BRIGITTE! I WILL BE ENTERING THE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR!"

Roadhog

Roadhog's Pig Pen projectile speed is now 80 from 26
Its projectile damage was increased from 0 to 40

Developer's Comments: "Much to the chagrin of his enemies, Roadhog has recently discovered baseball."

Blizzard

Sigma is going to Rock this game, quite literally

Sigma

Sigma's Accretion projectile speed was decreased from 37 to 30
His accretion projectile gravity decreased from 18 to 2.
Pressing the Accretion ability button while it is active will make the rocks crash into the ground. It will also deal 50 extra points of damage along a 4-metre radius and stun all damaged individuals.

Developer's Comments: "Danger! Falling rocks."

Winston

Winston's Tesla Cannon's secondary fire now chains in between enemies
His Primal Rage punches now makes lightning chain among enemies

Developer's Comments: "Empowering the “no aim” playstyle."

Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Balls sideways movement speed got increased by 55%
His quad cannons now deal more damage when you walk sideways

Developer's Comments: "We're preparing to retcon Wrecking Ball into a crab. I hope these changes are sufficiently immersive."

Zarya

Zarya's Particle Barrier and Projected Barrier now increase the bubbled target's size by 1.75 times.

Developer's Comments: "Please don’t burst Zarya’s bubble, no matter how big it gets."

All Updates To Damage Heroes

Here are all the changes made to damage heroes:

Ashe

Ashe's F.R.E.D now offers new ability when used on mouse scroll
It acts as a weapon swap
You can call in F.R.E.D before leaving for it to charge for a while

Developer's Comments: "B.O.B.’s upset from being called the wrong name, so F.R.E.D.’s picking up the slack."

Bastion

Bastion's Configuration is now Assault on default
Its movement speed penalty has been removed
Assault mode now has 150 ammo
It now deals 1.5 times regular damage for critical hits
Its damage per bullet was lowered from 12 to 5
His Reconfigure now transforms him into Configuration : Recon
It also grants him extra movement speed
His configuration now causes sentry fire and shotgun blasts

Developer's Comments: "Yeah, we’ve switched up his configurations a little. So anyway, start blastin'."

Cassidy

Cassidy's Wanted ability now has a new Passive
You can kill the marked enemy to gain 50 health until your next death. After 5 kills, you will regenerate 1 health

Developer's Comments: "Extra survivability is every cowboy’s dream—just don’t die."

Echo

Echo's Focusing means targets within 8 metres of Echo take damage as if they’re under half health.
Her Duplicate ability cannot automatically choose whom to duplicate
Her duplicate's health no longer has a 300 health cap
It now gains extra 100 shells
His Ult charge gain rate increased from 4 to 6.5

Developer's Comments: "Now bringing Mystery Heroes into other modes."

Blizzard

Echo's entire kit was changed this patch

Genji

Genji's Deflect agility's primary fire can deflect projectiles when initiated perfectly

Developer's Comments: "Parry this! *Not exclusive to casual players."

Hanzo

Hanzo's Storm Arrows' total number of ricochets increased to 3 from 1
It's number of projectiles per shot increased from 1 to 5
Its damage for per projectile decreased by 78%

Developer's Comments: "Hanzo has always struggled to overcome his past, so it’s hard for him not to bounce back to old habits."

Junkrat

Junkrat's Frag Launcher now allows you to donate projectiles with secondary fires

Developer's Comments: "Junkrat put bombs on his bombs. I'm not sure why this would surprise anybody."

Mei

Mei's Avalanche Launch is her new ability
You can press Jump while you are in the air to activate it
It now produces a large Ice Pillar underneath Mei
You can cancel it with the Interact option

Developer's Comments: "Definitely do not use this to get to spots on the map you’re not supposed to get to, thanks."

Pharah

Pharah's Jet Land is her new ability
You can activate it by pressing Crouch while in the air
It makes you dash down to the ground

Developer's Comments: "You’ve used hover jets. You’ve used jump jets. You’ve used Jet Dash. But have you tried Jet Land?"

Reaper

Reaper's Hellfire Shotgun now only shoots 1 shot at once with primary fire
It's damage per bullet was lowered from 5.4 to 2.8
Its ammo capacity was doubled
His secondary fire now shoots another shotgun

Developer's Comments: "Someone’s taken a page out of Mauga’s book."

Sojourn

Sojourn's Disruptive Shot now pulls enemies in when deployed
It can now be deployed earlier by pressing E again

Developer's Comments: "Vivian Chase? More like Vivian Pull."

Soldier: 76

Soldier: 76's Heavy Pulse Rifle can now be used while sprinting
Using it while you are sprinting is now 2 movement speed

Developer's Comments: "Run and gun? It sounds like fun!"

Sombra

Sombra's virus now spreads to a nearby enemy when an enemy infected with the virus dies or is killed.

Developer's Comments: "To keep fights fair, let the enemy team know that they should update their network anti-virus and firewalls as soon as possible."

Blizzard

Symmetra can now only make Exit portals

Symmetra

Symmetra's Teleporter can be used by allies regardless of their current location
She now only places exit portals
Its duration decreased from 10 seconds to 4 seconds

Developer's Comments: "Symmetra can’t troll you if you don’t press Teleport."

Torbjörn

Torbjörn's Deploy Turret now sticks to walls and even allies

Developer's Comments: "Everyone deserves a pet turret."

Tracer

Tracer's Recall now randomly sends you either to the future or the past and changes how your pulse pistol works

Developer's Comments: "krow slotsiP esluP ruoy woh gnignahc, erutuf ro tsap eht ot uoy sdnes ylmodnaR"

Widowmaker

Widowmaker's Grappling Hook now has 3 charges
Her Widow's Kiss's secondary fire regenerates one charge of the ability when you get a critical hit with it

Developer's Comments: "Hooks + Headshot = Parkour"

All Updates To Support Heroes

Here are all the changes made to support heroes:

Ana

Ana's Sleep Dart now makes sleeping enemies wake up slowly
Sleep Dart makes enemies take fall damage

Developer's comments: "Rise and shine! How’s this for a rude awakening?"

Baptiste

Baptiste's Exo-Boots now launch you forward instead of upwards
His Amplification Matrix now doubles the speed of projectiles shot through it

Developer's Comment: "Someone once advised Baptiste to keep moving forward. He’s really taken that advice to heart."

Blizzard

Briggite is now bigger and bolder

Brigette

Brigette's scale increased by 1.5 times
Her armour increased from 50 to 150
Her Shield Barrier's health increased from 250 to 700
Her Rally now resets her Shield Bash's cooldown
Its movement speed increased from 1.15x to 1.3x

Developer's comments: "Bigitte"

Illari

Illari's Captive Sun's movement speed bonus is now 1.2x
It's attack charge time was reduced by 40%
It's healing recharge bonus is now 1.2x
Using it makes Illari Solar; she moves faster and her Solar Rifle charges faster and always charges to full damage power
She has a new passive called Solar Power
Illari is always Solar is installed when the Sun is out

Developer's Comments: "Fixing a longstanding Illari bug, her solar powers are now fully functional."

Kiriko

Kiriko's Protection Suzu grants allies 10% damage boost, 10% healing boost, 50% movement speed, and 700 jump height
Its duration is now 1 second
Her Vulpine Agility is her new passive and makes her jump one extra time while in the air

Developer's Comments: "You should see her on her trampoline."

Lifeweaver

Lifeweaver's Petal Platform now raises 20 million

Developer's Comments: "Reach new heights with Lifeweaver through the power of photosynthesis"

Lucio

Lucio's Sonic Amplifier's ammo is now 30 instead of 20
Its recovery decreased from 0.14 to 0.125 seconds per bullet
It now shoots 3 bullets per volley and 5 bullets per volley during healing boot.
His Sound Barrier now knocks up enemies hit by the waves

Developer's Comments: "Lucio’s gun is now keepin’ it in time."

Mercy

Mercy's Caduceus Staff now does 2 more damage
It's projectiles are smaller and get bigger during the
Her damage staff fires Caduceus Blaster projectiles
Her Secondary Fire is now Damage staff; it is now ability 2 on controllers
Its projectiles are reloaded automatically
They reload twice as fast when you are healing or don't fire for 4 seconds
Healing beams can now heal at a slower rate if Damage Staff is active.
Her Caducus Blasters has been removed

Developer's Comments: "Goodbye, 0 damage numbers!"

Blizzard

Moira from Overwatch 2

Moira

Moira's Bioptic Grasp's primary fire now deals damage instead of healing
Her Biotic Grasp's secondary fire now heals instead of doing damage

Developer's Comments: "Moira’s right arm is starting to melt from all the experimentation, so she’s switching it up."

Zenyatta

Zenyatta's Orb of Destruction now has more ammo, from 25 to 32
The secondary fire projectiles are 33% faster and their damage was decreased by 30%
Its charge time per projectile also decreased from 0.52 to 0.47
She now accelerates upward when charging Secondary Fire shots
She can now store upto 8 orbs with her Secondary fire

Developer's Comments: "“Let Zen walk?” Not sure about that one."