OVERWATCH-PATCHNOTES – 21.5.2019

A new patch is now live for Windows PC. Learn more about the latest changes here.

If you want to share your feedback, please post it in the General forum.
A list of known bugs can be found in the Forum Bug Report.
If you have any technical problems, you can visit our technical support forum.

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

New – Season al Event: Overwatch Anniversary 2019

To celebrate Overwatch’s third birthday, expect brand new extras including legendary and epic skins like Riot Police for Brigitte, Academy for D.Va, Carbon Fiber for Doomfist, Honeydew Melon for Mei, Orbital Suit for Pharah, Gargoyle for Winston, and many more! Did you miss the Overwatch celebrations of the last few years? Don’t worry, you can unlock the extras from past events with credits or get them from Lootboxes! Jump back into exciting – Season al brawls from the past in the Arcade. During the Anniversary Event, a different Brawl will be available each day.

Thank you for playing Overwatch with us for the past three years! Your continued support and passion continue to spur us on. We look forward to celebrating with you in-game!

Workshop

We are pleased to introduce a new feature for the game: the Workshop! With the Workshop, we are adding to the already available ways to customize the game in the game browser by making a simplified scripting system available for the game. You can customize your favorite Overwatch game modes with new game rules, victory conditions, custom hero moves and abilities, and much more. Once you’ve created a great new game mode, you can share it with your friends and the entire community via code*! For information on how to use the workshop, check out our workshop blog post. We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

(* Codes created in China cannot be shared with the rest of the world. Codes created outside of China cannot be used by Chinese players).

Please note that the workshop is a complex feature that we are still working on. So we may need to make changes to it or disable it during testing to make improvements. If you have any questions, please post them in the English Workshop Forum

GENERAL UPDATES

Highlights of the game

• Improved the killcam during game highlights to make it easier to follow the action.

HEROUPDATES

Baptiste

• Life support field
• When the field lands on a moving platform, it now moves with the platform.

Wrecking Ball

• Minefield
• When a mine lands on a moving platform, it now moves with the platform.

CORRECTED ERRORS

General

• Fixed a bug where the highlight of the game was displayed shaky when playing at a frame rate above 60.
• General stability has been improved.

Heroes

Baptiste

• Fixed a bug where the life support field could get stuck under some objects.
• Fixed a bug that caused the life support field to not behave as intended when placed on a moving platform.
• Fixed a bug that caused a healing grenade to appear in the bio-thrower when it ran out of ammo.
• Fixed a bug where healing grenades from the biotic launcher could not hit team members if they were bounced back by Genji’s reflect.

D.Va

• Fixed a bug where D.Va’s speed with active boosters was greatly reduced when flying over some platforms.

Doomfist

• Fixed a bug where Seismic Strike sometimes failed to damage enemies.

Genji

• Fixed a bug that prevented Genji from climbing certain pillars on the Havana map.

Hanzo

• Fixed a bug that prevented Hanzo from climbing certain pillars on the Havana map.

Junkrat

• Fixed a bug that caused Junkrat to slide off moving platforms when using his ultimate ability.

Moira

• Fixed a bug where the Moira’s Scientist skin lab coat would overlap with other parts of the lab coat during the Erlenmeyer Flask victory pose.

Orisa

• Fixed a bug where damage boosts from teammates’ abilities (such as Baptiste’s Boost Matrix) were counting towards Orisa’s Damage Boosted stat when her Super Booster was active.

Wrecking Ball

• Fixed a bug where Wrecking Ball could sometimes use Collision Course even though the cooldown was not yet complete.

KNOWN ISSUES

Overwatch Anniversary

• Some event rewards (skins, icons, etc.) do not have Japanese translation. We are working on completing it as soon as possible. It will be added in an upcoming update.

Workshop

• The in-game link to the Workshop forum currently directs players to the English, Chinese, or Korean forum depending on their region. This will be fixed in an upcoming update.
• The Japanese translation for the workshop is not complete. We are working to complete it as soon as possible. It will be added in an upcoming update.

OVERWATCH

Overwatch is a team-based 6vs6 shooter that was released on May 24, 2016. Overwatch stays true to the true style of Blizzard’s previous titles. It was developed by Jeff Kaplan and is considered a “new concept” shooter in the FPS genre. The game was officially unveiled at BlizzCon along with 12 heroes on November 7, 2014.

The story of Overwatch is set on a highly fictionalized future version of Earth. In a time where humans and robots, which are called Omnics, live together (Chris Metzen hinted that the story deals with this very robot race). 30 years before the time when Overwatch takes place, the so-called “Omnic Crisis ” occurred. The robots, once helpers of humans, rebelled against their creators for reasons as yet unknown and triggered a worldwide chaos. Faced with the imminent destruction of human civilization, the best soldiers of all nations came together to form a program called “Overwatch”.

Their job was to protect the world from the Omnics, which they succeeded in doing. For the next 25 years, they were the protectors of the planet, united in an international coalition. Some agents stayed, some were replaced, but at some point something changed: the Overwatch disintegrated. However, 5 years later after this event, incidents with Omnics are again accumulating, a worldwide terrorist organization also seems interested in destabilizing the world order. A new crisis is looming. At this point, your career as an Overwatch agent begins.