I have a feeling this will go live for season 21 as they intend, but by having on the PTR we’ll be able to give initial feedback which will help them make better decisions on when to rotate heroes to make season 21 more consistent.
And I can safely say unlike my role queue fiasco last August, that PTR Competitive is not connected to your actual live hidden MMR. But please try not to throw too much though…
Thanks for such great feedback on feature requests for the Workshop! We’ve been listening and we hope you guys are excited about the new PTR!
Read moreI am glad to see that Hero Pools will be tested in the PTR prior to the start of Season 21.
Hey everyone, Zach and I have been hard at work on several new Workshop features for 1.45. Our focus for this patch has been quality-of-life features for creators as well as performance improvements. Many of these changes are based on user feedback, so keep those suggestions coming!
These Workshop changes are active right now on the 1.45 Public Test Realm (PTR). Because of several optimizations to the core Workshop execution engine, we’re particularly interested in cases where existing Workshop creations work differently (or not at all) in 1.45. For that reason, we encourage creators and players of Workshop modes to test as many existing game modes as possible on the PTR . Existing Workshop codes were copied from the live game to PTR this morning. Please let us know if there is anything we need to fix! The sooner you let us know, the more likely that we’ll be able to fix any bugs before 1.45 is released.
Of course, we’ve added a lot more than optimizat...
Read moreA 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 an...
Read more“We’re taking off the oven mitts,” says gameplay engineer Dan Reed.
“What?” says fellow gameplay engineer Zach Metcalf. “You mean like, the training wheels?”
“Like, now you can burn your hand, but you can also do things much more efficiently,” says Reed.
They’re talking about the new patch for Overwatch’s Workshop, the in-game scripting system that allows players to craft their own custom game modes. Along with adding new maps, tools, and quality-of-life improvements, the patch (available now on the ...
Read moreIt’s both. For PvE we add a full story arc told through story missions (even though it’s a linear story I am reluctant to all it a campaign because it’s co-op, not single player). We’ll also have Hero Missions (which are highly replayable PvE backed by a progression system). The closest analogy (although neither is quite accurate) is Adventure mode in Diablo III or World Quests in WoW (again, not a great analogy but indicative of the level of replay we’re hoping for).
For PvP we’re adding a completely new pool of PvP maps including a new game mode call...
Read moreWas I right with the off by 1 comment I made?
Hey there, the bug was not an off by one. The issue was introduced while making optimizations for lower spec hardware. In some cases sound occlusion wasn’t recalculated when it needed to be.
Cheers
hey /u/BillWarnecke not sure if you're still seeking examples of this missing sound bug, but i have one for you.
here is a clip from a live game where a tracer's ult line does not play:
https://gfycat.com/shadowyclumsyalaskanhusky (idk how familiar you are with gfycat but the sound is not on by default)
and here is a clip of the same moment in the replay where the ult line plays correctly:
https://gfycat.com/impressivemindlessamericanlobster
it seems like tracer plays a grunt that blocks the ult voiceline in the live version whereas the replay doesn't have the grunt for some reason.
This is fixed in the next patch, thanks for taking the time to report details here though, it is much appreciated. Cheers
Oooo an official!! I have a question: My game does not find me any competative games at all and the weekly rewards always say 1min left. Is there a way to fix thisnor could you input a word to look into this? (I play on switch and live in australia but all thr custom games are in korean I think so not sure what server am on). Also could there possibly be a way to change which server (e.g south america, europe...)
Hey there if you can send me a private message with your name as it shows up in game I can look into this.
For Nintendo Switch we matchmake players to where you get the best ping. It’s possible in your area or due to the times you play the best games are in the Korean data center.
Cheers, sorry for the hassle.
Hold up you’re the real blizzard in our console threads?! You care about us console players?!?
Of course! I post here pretty regularly :) cheers
Boba milk tea. It is his favorite.
going to go get some tea now. thanks for all of the great thoughts and thoughtful questions.
we’ll make changes as needed.
thanks again! <3
your feedback…
these are separate things that will not affect each other.
we’ve considered having the system only apply to players above a certain rank (diamond? masters?). it’s definitely on our minds.
Read moretotally. we’re so excited for this. we’ve wanted this for so long. it was a ton of work but it’s going to be really cool. plus i am super excited to get console players involved with testing changes (right now they cannot play the PTR)
By the ways, to make it look like you typed less than 20 characters follow this format (note the HTML comment tag just below the word), but technically you still have to type 20 characters if you think about it:
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this is a very hard problem to solve but we have some ideas. any solution is more long term, though. possibly OW2 or later. sorry i know that’s not the answer you wanted but it’s actually very complicated with the way consoles work and the rules regarding account creation.