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12 Jan 19:00 Aaron Keller, Blizzard Entertainment on News - Thread - Direct

Hello everyone… and happy 2024!!!

We're at the start of the new year, I thought it would be a great idea to talk about our view of 2024.

This Director's Take will be one part of a series where we frame up the year according to a set of values we’re using to develop the game. These values translate into goals and specific additions and changes to the game. There’s a lot of different things coming up this year that I want to share, so think of this as the first in a series of topics to cover.

One of the biggest values of the team is to improve Overwatch's individual and team focused gameplay to meet the needs of our core audience. When I look at the future of Overwatch, a year or two out, I don't see the exact same game that we're playing now, but with a few more heroes and maps added to it. The game should always evolve with new systems and features that serve our players. Some of these features could live just outside of a match, such as a map voti...

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11 Jan 19:34 Kaedi on Forums - Thread - Direct

Changes for your reference. We look forward to your feedback.

Respawning times are now 75% of their original time.
Payloads in Escort and Hybrid maps will move 60% faster.
Taking control of the Objective Point in Hybrid is 40% faster than normal.
Taking control of the objective point in Control is 40% faster than normal, and scoring the capture progress percentage is 80% faster.
Taking control of the objective point in Flashpoint is 20% faster than normal, and scoring the capture progress percentage is 40% faster.
When you play an Escort, Hybrid, or Push map, the initial match time has been reduced to 70% of the original time, and any time extensions are also reduced to 70% of the total time added.
These changes only apply to all players who play in Role Queue and Open Queue Quick Play modes during the duration of the event and will return to normal after January 14. Competitive Play and Arcade modes are not affected...

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11 Jan 19:00 Blizzard Entertainment on News - Thread - Direct

This weekend only, Sombra is changing up the rules for Quick Play. Enjoy Quick Play: Hacked – Quicker Play - a fun, new way to play with faster capture speeds, payloads, and respawn times. Experience more team fights, more games, and new strategies. Here are the changes:

Respawning times are now 75% of their original time.
Payloads in Escort and Hybrid maps will move 60% faster.
Taking control of the Objective Point in Hybrid is 40% faster than normal.
Taking control of the objective point in Control is 40% faster than normal, and scoring the capture progress percentage is 80% faster.
Taking control of the objective point in Flashpoint is 20% faster than normal, and scoring the capture progress percentage is 40% faster.
When you play an Escort, Hybrid, or Push map, the initial match time has been reduced to 70% of the original time, and any time extensions are also reduced to 70% of the total time added.

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02 Jan 19:00 Blizzard Entertainment on News - Thread - Direct

Are you a wall-riding legend? Can you use Ice Wall to reach new heights? Does the kill feed light up when you use Self-Destruct or Dragonblade? Prove your skills with all new Hero Mastery courses! Lucio’s course launches today, and courses for Echo, Genji, Mei, and D.Va will be premiering each week for the next four weeks. You’ll also be able to earn new cosmetic rewards in a limited-time five-week event.

Hero Mastery is an always-available, single-player mode for honing a hero’s skills and abilities. Reach for the highest scores when you complete for fast times, defeat challenging training bots, and collect emblems throughout the course. You can already play Hero Mastery courses for Sojourn, Tracer, Mercy, Reinhardt, and Winston, along with Lucio’s course launching today. As mentioned at the start of the season, we’ve made improvements to scoring in each Hero Mastery course, and we’re resetting the leaderboards, giving everyone a chance to prove ...

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22 Dec 01:40 Kaedi on Forums - Thread - Direct

We are aware of an issue that purchasing the Winter Fair Shop Bundle on the Nintendo^® Switch will not grant the 575 Event Tickets to unlock the cosmetics in the Winter Fair. We are working to resolve this issue and will grant the tickets to everyone affected at a later date. Note the Winter Fair will remain open through January 15 to redeem items for all platforms. This issue should not affect those who only purchase the Premium Event Pass or only earn tickets on the Free Event Pass.

If you’d rather not wait to receive the 575 tickets from your Winter Fair Bundle purchase, for a limited time, you may request an Overwatch Coin refund by starting a ticket with Blizzard Customer Service. Refunding the bundle will remove all other items, including the Formalwear Legen...

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19 Dec 23:23 Kaedi on Forums - Thread - Direct

Following up to let all of you know that we have fixed the bug with equipping default weapons and have brought the Hard Light Weapon Skins back to the in-game shop. Cheers!

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Seasons Greetings, heroes. We encountered an issue where Hard Light weapon skins for Mercy, Reinhardt, and Reaper cannot be unequipped. We are looking to fix this issue in a future update, but for now, we have taken the Hard Light Weapon Skins off of the in-game shop and will bring them back for purchase at a later date.

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19 Dec 17:00 Kaedi on Forums - Thread - Direct

Happy Holidays Heroes! Now is your chance to get decked out in festive holiday swag with all new Twitch Drops! You can earn fun rewards when you watch your favorite Overwatch 2 content creators and influencers on Twitch! Link your Battle.net account today and earn these new rewards, available starting today and going through January 2.

Watch a total of 2 hours to earn the Ice Fishing for Reinhardt
Watch a total of 5 hours to earn the Snowball Fight Highlight Intro for Reinhardt
Watch a total of 9 hours to earn the Epic Festive Reinhardt skin.

Earning Twitch drops for Overwatch 2 is easy! Simply connect your Battle.net account with your Twitch account, then tune into any eligible channel in the Overwatch 2 category on Twitch. Remember, when you earn any drops, you must claim...

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18 Dec 22:07 /u/blizz_winter on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Thank you so much for bringing this forged version of a real customer service ticket to our attention! Given that there is a real customer service ticket number with the same digits used in this fake ticket, we think it's pretty likely that this post was written with the intent to hurt faith in the reporting system by someone that didn't learn their lesson. This type of forgery is new for us on OW2, so we'll be watching more carefully for this type of thing going forward!

For any real players reading this that have seen messages similar to these, we're working to improve our process for what chat is included in the chat history section. We know we can do better here when it comes to showing the most disruptive language that was used that resulted in the account action.

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18 Dec 20:36 PlayOverwatch on YouTube - Thread - Direct