Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – January 14, 2021

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 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform.

GENERAL UPDATES

Feature Update: Replay Viewer Fine-Grained Playback Controls

• We’ve introduced a new option that allows you to toggle between two different playback controls, the default playback controls and the “fine-grained” playback controls.
• These “fine-grained” controls will allow you to increase and decrease the replay playback speed in smaller increments than 0.25x, from 0.10x to 1.00x. You can also hold your “Move Slow” binding while increasing or decreasing speeds to change the playback speed acceleration. This can help you capture cool slow-motion shots and more!

General

• Added a “New” Ownership Filter to the Player Icon tab in the career profile
• Reorganized the layout of the escape menu while you are in a custom game
• Adjusted sound for boosted hit indicators to increase clarity

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed a bug that caused the chat feed to not properly indicate that a real ID friend request has been accepted

Heroes

Reaper

• Fixed a bug with his hit volume becoming out of sync if frozen during his ultimate ability

Zenyatta

• Fixed a bug with his Toybot skin that that caused an animation issue to occur when casting orbs

Woops - Put this in the wrong category! Now in the PTR Feedback. Feel free to share any feedback you may have.

You know, if I wasn’t busy with other things, this is the kind of PTR patch where I feel like I need to comb through every map inch by inch to see if there have been any new easter eggs planted.

On a side note, I would still love to one day get some sort of Gameplay Controls export option for PC. I recently did an overhaul on my sensitivities on all of my heroes on my live account (to adjust from a 1600 DPI to a 800 DPI mouse sensitivity setting), and the PTR account is still several patches outdated since the last data copy.

Historically, I have noticed relatively small PTR patches tend to have content stuffed in that is not mentioned in the patch notes, though not always. For example, I believe when they revamped the StarCraft II Nexus Experience “gift shop” into the Mike Morhaime tribute on BlizzardWorld, that PTR patch was relatively small upfront (though at the time we knew a new hero would be coming out at the time).