There. There. It will be alright.

Let’s do this!!!

Thanks to everyone that has been participating in our Role Queue Beta Season! We’ve been reading all your feedback and we look forward to officially launching Role Queue to Competitive Play and Quick Play soon.

As you may have read previously, we’ve been planning to enable Role Queue for Competitive Play and Quick Play simultaneously. However, Role Queue is a huge change to Overwatch gameplay and we want to ensure a smooth launch for both Competitive and Quick Play. To this end, we’ve decided to separate the launch times and delay Role Queue for Quick Play until September 3rd at 11:00 PST. This will allow us to fully support and respond to any issues that may arise for both Competitive Play and Quick Play.

Please reference below for Role Queue official launch times:

• Competitive Play: August 31st @ 5PM PST (September 1st 00:00 UTC)

• Quick Play: September 3rd @ 11AM PST

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The results of your matches in the Role Queue Beta are not being thrown out and will be used by the matchmaking systems to help determine your skill in season 18.

What the blog post was trying to explain is that the Role Queue Beta season’s stats in your player profile will only be available for a limited time, and they will not be added to your career competitive totals that you can see when you choose “ALL COMPETITIVE SEASONS” in your career stats.

Scott, can you 100% clarify if the accumulated matchmaking rating from Role Queue Beta will be or not be passed over to season 18? I have been going off of the news blog post that all stats from the beta will not count, but the community is still concerned about this aspect.

Answered below:

We’re now over halfway into the Role Queue Beta Season, and the introduction of Role Queue into Quickplay and Season 18 are just around the corner on September 1. We wanted to take the opportunity to address feedback we’ve been reading on our forums and other social media, as well as provide some insights into how these systems work.

The primary goal of this feature has always been to increase the quality of Overwatch matches, and it’s been great to see so much positive feedback about match quality in a role queue world. Creating high quality online multiplayer games of Overwatch has multiple components and Role Queue has helped us do this in several important ways.

We believe the most exciting, fun games are between players of similar skill. Role Queue allows us to track your skill with the three roles separately. So, when you play as a 2100 SR Tank we try to match you with 2100 SR Damage and Support players, both on your team and on the enemy team. We can’t guarantee...

If you’ve been playing Custom Games on PTR, you may have noticed that seasonal maps were enabled for Custom Games. Unfortunately, we caught a few bugs that we’d like to fix before adding these into the selection pool. We’ll be temporarily disabling the seasonal maps from Custom Games until they are all ready to go.

As always, thank you for the feedback and keep an eye open for updates!

Hi folks, it’s good to see everyone enjoying dummy bots and the other new Workshop features! We’ve fixed a few of the issues that you all have discovered, and they will be getting pushed to PTR next week (hopefully Monday, possibly later):

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Create Dummy Bot to spawn nothing.
• Fixed a bug that caused D.Va, Bob, turrets, barriers, and other “pets” to fail to spawn when using Create Dummy Bot.
• Fixed a bug that caused previously-stored presets containing the Create HUD Text or Create In-World Text actions to fail to convert to text properly (for the purposes of copying to clipboard and displaying the action summary in the action list) after being loaded.

We’ll continue to monitor these forums and push out fixes when we can. Happy scripting!

Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – August 22, 2019

A new Overwatch patch is currently in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report and issue, 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 will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is P...

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.

WORKSHOP

• D.Va bots spawned in using Workshop rules are invisible and do not start off in their mechs.

HEROES

Hanzo

• Hanzo’s bow may flicker when switched to Sonic Arrow.

Mei

• Mei’s Cryostasis can block teammate line of sight.

Reaper

• Using Reaper’s Shadowstep on Mei’s Ice Wall as it is destroyed may cause him to teleport elsewhere.

Winston

• Winston’s animation doesn’t transition smoothly ...

Hello everyone,

Our network engineers continue to investigate the connectivity issues and we would like to request some fresh traceroutes using a different IP address.

Please feel free to run a new traceroute to 24.105.62.129 and post the results.

The more information we gather here the better, so it is very much appreciated. Thanks to everyone who has already helped out so far.

Thanks for all of the information here, it’s been very useful during our troubleshooting. Our network engineers are working to isolate the problem and we’ll provide more updates as we get them, sorry for the disruption.

Thanks for posting this Ziegler, also appreciate the very clear video showing the problem. We’ll get this fixed.

Feel free to reply with steps and delete the post. We have the ability to examine deleted posts on our side.

Thank you for the report.

Hey Eggkookoo, we are aware Vs AI is still affected. We’re targeting a fix for that mode in an upcoming bug fix patch, but I don’t have an ETA for that update yet.

Hi there! The issues causing role limits to be placed on Quick Play today have been resolved. Reminder: Role Queue will be enabled for Quick Play on September 1st. Full details here: https://playoverwatch.com/news/23060961/

Obviously, no game client update for something like this correct? They should just see it in their next queued game right (once it goes live)?

Edit: Sounds like in other threads it just happened live. No update needed.

Thanks for the update!

Hey folks, we’re rolling out a server side bug fix now to all regions and platforms which will remove the unintended role limits from Quick Play.

As Molly mentioned above, Role Queue will be fully available in Quick Play beginning on September 1.

Cheers!

I obviously don’t know how they will be calibrating the overall ladder, but for Overwatch, the win/loss ratio of each player generally contributes to their skill rating (its more complicated than that, but that is the ke...

On September 1st. See the official blog post for details.