Geoff, what do you think was the most overpowered balance change the team has made?

Thanks!

Overwatch is certainly a challenging game to both tune and continually add new/interesting content. When I think back to how the game was in beta, or even launch, I feel like we’ve come a long way since then. Remember, there was a time when McCree’s fan the hammer did full damage per bullet, Zenyatta had 150 health, Pharah’s Conc Blast did 700 damage to shields/barriers (poor Zen…), Reinhardt’s charge had no “wind up”, it would just come out instantly and pin/kill anyone in front of him.

That said we’re committed to continue to update and tune the game. Although there will always be some changes that will not be popular with some players, know that the the goal is always to keep every hero unique and powerful for everyone.

While I’m here i might as well clear up a couple minor misconceptions I see occasionally about my history at Blizzard. Previous to the Overwatch team I worked on World of Warcraft as an encounter designer. I made a ton of different con...

I’m locking this topic as it’s taking a negative turn.

Self-knockbacks specifically have not been changed, so they should all work as they used to.

Thanks for the report! This has been added to our known issues list.

Thanks for the report! We will pass this along accordingly.

Thanks for the report! This bug also affects Brigitte’s shield not regenerating properly, and has been fixed.

I’m locking this topic since its purpose is solely to incite unrest and troll.

Topics like these aren’t constructive to the community.

Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – March 6, 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 and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform.

HERO UPDATES

Baptiste

• Biotic Launcher
  • Can now be stopped from automatically reloading by switching the Automatic Reload option to OFF. This option defaults to ON
• Immortality Field
  • Made significant changes to its visual appearance and sounds

Junkrat

• Frag Launcher
  • Impact damage changed from 60 to 50
• RIP-Tire
  ...

Yes and no. The original Project Titan was to be a MMO with gameplay and role playing mechanics that I think you could compare to that of Destiny. When Titan was scraped Team 4 was given six weeks to try and come up with a new project. One of the concepts they came up with was a StarCraft first-person action spinoff game.

Ok, shoot! What are they?

Problem there is that SCII put a good amount of closure on the existing characters (Jim and Sarah going into who knows where, the Protoss are a (mostly) unified race, Zaraga controls the zerg.) So a new StarCraft game would have an entirely new story if anything.

The regular Warcraft series is very different from World of Warcraft. They are real time strategy games similar to that of StarCraft, where as World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

WarCraft III Reforged

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/

I believe Diablo 3 is next on the list.

The BlizzCon forums are for discussing everything about BlizzCon including questions about the convention, setting up meet and greets, and more…

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzcon/

The knockback interaction w/ RP has also been fixed to be as it has been.

With the Exo Boots, Baptiste has the best vertical mobility for all the support heroes in the game. What was the inspiration for wanting him to have such an ability?

Thank you for continuing to make a great game.

The city of love awaits.

Today Paris joins the map rotation in Overwatch Competitive Play.

Good luck and have fun, heroes!

Good day all,

Over the next few days, our developers will be taking some time to address questions surrounding gameplay design and lore revolving around Overwatch’s 30th Hero, Baptiste.

If you have any questions related to this subject, starting NOW please reply to this thread below. Additionally, please remember to Favorite/Like your favorite questions. Answers will be posted at a later time.

Thank you.

This is a bug and will be fixed, thanks for the report!