Overwatch Update Version 2.78 reveal Season 19 start
Blizzard has released Update 2.77 for Overwatch, Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Overwatch update 2.78 is available for download now for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Here are the full patch notes, including bug fixes for this update.
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COMPETITIVE PLAY UPDATES
General Updates
Starting with Season 19, we are moving the beginning (and end) of competitive play seasons from the 1st of every other month, to the first Thursday of every other month. We will also be starting the season later in the day to better correspond with developer availability during the day. Season 19 now starts on November 7, at 18:00 UTC (10:00 PST, 13:00 EST).
We will also be introducing a rotating, seasonal Map Pool to competitive play starting with Season 19. The initial map pool for Season 19 has 12 maps, with 3 of each game mode. Future competitive seasons will see maps rotating in and out of the pool, providing each season with a different experience and identity. Information about the current maps available in the map pool is available by opening the information panel of the Competitive Play card.
Season 19 Map Pool:
Assault: Hanamura, Temple of Anubis, Volskaya Industries
Hybrid: Hollywood, King’s Row, Eichenwald
Control: Nepal, Lijiang Tower, Busan
Escort: Dorado, Watchpoint: Gibraltar, Havana
WORKSHOP UPDATES
New Workshop Features:
Variable Renaming
Increased number of allowed variables up to 128
Autosave Preset
New Workshop Values:
Custom String
All Tank Heroes
All Support Heroes
All Damage Heroes
Map
Current Map
Overwatch HERO UPDATES
General
Mei’s Icewall, Baptiste’s Immortality Field, and Sigma’s Gravitic Flux will now more heavily prefer edges over placing as far away as possible
Baptiste
Biotic Launcher
Recovery decreased from 0.45 to 0.36 seconds
Random spread removed
Damage falloff range now begins at 25 meters, up from 20
Torbjörn
Molten Core
Cost reduced 10%
Overwatch Update BUG FIXES
General
Fixed a bug that made it not possible to bind Left-Click to forward movement
An appropriate error now appears when trying to accept a friend request after you have reached your limit
Fixed a bug with spectating that caused “Next Player” and “Previous Player” controls to be reversed when using a controller
Fixed a bug where sometimes explosion effects would not play for projectiles (like Pharah Rockets or Junkrat Grenades)
Workshop
Fixed an issue preventing the Balanced Mystery Heroes preset from including Sigma
Fixed issues preventing Dummy Bots from being used in Elimination
Fixed an issue preventing the Communicate action from working on Dummy Bots
“Is Dummy Bot” now returns the correct value when given an argument other than “Event Player”
Fixed an issue preventing ray casts from colliding with certain objects
Fixed issues with certain colors not working properly with HUD Text, In-World Text, and Create Icon
Fixed an issue preventing Set Objective Description from working
Fixed some discrepancies with Point Capture Percentage between certain modes
Fixed an issue preventing rules from being properly disabled if the player target was a hero
Fixed an issue preventing Soldier: 76 dummy bots from being able to Sprint
Fixed an issue preventing null entities returned from Ray Cast Hit Player from being equivalent to null
Fixed an issue preventing Disallow Button from disabling the Interact Button
Fixed a bug where accessing other menus while in the Workshop caused any recent unsaved changes to be lost
Maps
Volskaya – Removed a gap in the walls near point B that allowed D.Va bombs to kill players behind walls
Nepal: Sanctum – Removed a tiny gap in the windows near the capture point on Nepal: Sanctum that allowed D.Va bombs to kill players behind walls
Heroes
Ana
Fixed a bug that caused Ana’s legs to twitch when her Pharaoh skin is equipped
Fixed a bug where the syringe would be visually missing in her Sleep Dart pistol after the first use
Doomfist
Fixed a bug where Seismic Slam’s damage indicator was overlapping the reticle if a custom reticle was being used
D.Va
Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong icon to display in the kill feed when D.Va denies an enemy’s ultimate with her Defense Matrix
Moira
Fixed a bug that could cause Moira’s Right-Click sound to be behind you rather than in front
Roadhog
Fixed a bug where Chain Hook could sometimes incorrectly connect with Symmetra’s Teleporter, Ashe’s Dynamite, and Junkrat’s Steel Trap and Concussion Mine
Sombra
Fixed a bug where Sombra rarely would not properly translocate to a payload
Overwatch Update is available now for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
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