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Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – October 23, 2019

A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only an...

Patch 1.41.1 Known Issues

Disclaimer: This is not a complete list of all currently tracked issues affecting this build of Overwatch, rather this is a targeted list of some known specific issues with this release.

REPLAY VIEWER

Viewing Games

• If you attempt to spectate a match within the first ~30 seconds or so of being marked live, you will receive an error message. After the assemble heroes phase has ended and the match is beginning, you should be able to begin viewing the replay.

HEROES

Bastion

• The “Ganymede” Highlight Intro is a little choppy.
• When watching the “Ganymede” Highlight Intro while equipped with the “Brick” skin, the circle around Ganymede’s head is not aligned.

Doomfist

• Se...

Thanks for helping us test the game! We are now concluding the 1.41 Public Test.

The Public Test Region will not be accessible until we update it with new content in the future. As usual, we will leave the PTR Forums active so you can continue to provide any additional feedback and bug reports.

Thank you for participating!

Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – September 24, 2019

A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only ...

Hey y’all,

As some of you have already identified, this is in fact a bug with a mismatch in game languages. To work around it for now while we fix the bug, please set your game spoken and text languages to the same language. You can do that by:

1. Opening the Battle.net Application
2. Clicking Options above the news widget and selecting Game Settings
3. Under Overwatch set the Text Language and Spoken Language dropdowns to the same language.

Thanks again for all the reports!

Thanks for the report. We are actively looking into this issue.

Patch 1.40 Known Issues

Disclaimer: This is not a complete list of all currently tracked issues affecting this build of Overwatch, rather this is a targeted list of some known specific issues with this release.

MAPS

Paris

• UPDATE: The issue affecting the Paris map spawn doors has been fixed and the map has been re-enabled.

HEROES

• UPDATE: The issue affecting ground-targeting abilities has been resolved and is planned to go out with a hotfix today (9/19).

Ana

• Ana’s Sleep Dart vial doesn’t reappear in her gun after being fired.

Bastion

• Bastion’s footstep sounds play after reloading.

Hanzo

• Hanzo’s Storm Arr...

Thanks for helping us test the game! We are now concluding the 1.40 Public Test where a lot of Dummy Bots were bravely obliterated in the Workshop for the greater good.

The Public Test Region will not be accessible until we update it with new content in the future. As usual, we will leave the PTR Forums active so you can continue to provide any additional feedback and bug reports.

Thank you for participating!

Hey there,

Balance changes take time and there will of course be more to come. We’ve just barely entered into 2-2-2 role queue and released a new hero at the same time. It’s important to collect statistics/data, as well as feedback to make informed decisions.

Reverting all balance changes over the last year is unlikely to happen. Any hero change could potentially affect a meta to some degree, but not all changes are directly targeted at the current meta, if that makes sense.

For some transparency, we’ve known for awhile that we would be moving to a 2-2-2 format (it required a long time to implement) and not all changes over the last year were directly targeted at affecting the 3-3 GOATS meta (eg. Soldier, McCree, Junkrat buffs).

The goal of the changes that actually were aimed at GOATS was not to kill it entirely but to weaken it enough, without destroying the individual heroes, that other new comps could arise to compete with it. Though it took a long ti...

Confirming this is an intended change for 1.40.

Hey everyone,

We’ve identified a bug that prevents Competitive Season 18 stats from being shown in the Career Profile until placement matches are finished in any role or playing one match in each role. We’re actively investigating solutions and will update with more information when we have a fix.

Thanks for the reports!

Just reached Platinum on the Damage role last night. Now to see if I can keep that momentum up with Placements tonight!

Hey everyone,

Season 18 of Competitive Play is here – and with it, Role Queue!

Unlocked at level 25, Competitive Play is designed for those players who want to put their skills to the test, and offers a more serious experience than our Quick Play or Arcade Modes.

GETTING STARTED

Before you can kick off your competitive career, every player wi...

Now that we’ve brought competitive back I’m closing this topic to avoid confusion. Feel free to continue discussions around matchmaking and role queue in other appropriate threads.

The Role Queue Beta season has ended and Season 18 did start but due to reported issues of players getting placed in severely different SRs than normal, they disabled Competitive to investigate.

Hey everyone, when Season 18 went live matchmaking values from prior seasons weren’t being respected. We’re extending the Role Queue Beta Season while we work on a fix for this bug, we expect to be ready for Season 18 early next week.

(A side effect of extending the beta season, the competitive card will say the season is ending in less than a minute.)

Hey everyone, when Season 18 went live matchmaking values from prior seasons weren’t being respected. We’re extending the Role Queue Beta Season while we work on a fix for this bug, we expect to be ready for Season 18 early next week.

(A side effect of extending the beta season, the competitive card will say the season is ending in less than a minute.)

Hey everyone, we’re looking into a bug with competitive matchmaking. We’ve temporarily disabled competitive play while we dig into the issue.