Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – July 20, 2021

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

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SUMMER GAMES 2021

It’s time for the 2021 Summer Games! Get wild with Lúcioball Remix, the craziest version of your favorite ball-based sport. Take on the cutthroat competition of Copa Lúcioball Season 5. Celebrate the summer with legendary skins including Poolside Ashe, Sprinkles Mei, and Mermaid Symmetra. Unlock these and more, along with Summer Games items from previous years!

Learn more about this year’s Summer Games Event on the Overwatch website.

GENERAL UPDATES

General

• Funky Baptiste’s Immortality Field device now resembles a disco ball

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed a bug that resulted in replay lists appearing empty
• Fixed a bug that causes players to receive an error message when whispering between different platforms
• Fixed a bug that caused the text chat scroll bar to not function on console
• Fixed a bug that prevented console players to report BattleTags
• [Affected Platforms] Fixed a bug that caused gyro sensitivity to be reduced when playing with PC players

Heroes

Mei

• Fixed a bug with Mei’s Blizzard that allowed it to fall into a small section of collision on King’s Row

Workshop

• Fixed server load problems that could result from moving players between teams
• Fixed rounding errors that could result in inaccurate coordinates for effect actions that have reevaluation disabled
• Fixed Evaluate Once values not evaluating as expected when part of consecutive Start Camera actions
• Fixed a bug in which Start Damage Over Time was unaffected by Start Damage Modification
• Fixed a bug which caused the Continue action to misbehave if an If action were between it and the enclosing loop

Developer Comments: We’re hard at work on an exciting new feature for Workshop users that will be coming in a later patch. In the meantime, a small number of bug fixes found their way into this patch!