Attention, world—after three years away, we’re thrilled to announce that the Overwatch World Cup is returning for 2023, and the competition will be bigger than ever: new game, new players, and new ways of spotlighting your country and region on a global scale.
We’ll reveal additional program details as they’re ready, but here’s the big picture for the 2023 Overwatch World Cup…
In January, we’ll announce the 36 countries and regions competing in the 2023 Overwatch World Cup, and that’s also when competition committee applications will open. Each competition committee will be responsible for organizing tryouts for their country and region, following Blizzard guidelines.
Alongside regular tryouts, we’re introducing a new avenue for players to compete for a spot on their team. This comes in the form of an open tournament format: World Cup Trials. In February, the World Cup Trials competition will earn winning players a dire...
Read moreI would love to see ult status voice line to be allowed while dead since it helps mercy decide to whether to res. I'm saying this both as a mercy player and when I'm playing other roles. Of course, I can press TAB and check the ult charge but that's one extra thing to do in the midst of chaos.
This should be one of the ones that's allowed now. I'll double check.
Please consider removing the feature where sudden mouse movements bring up the ping menu, no matter what the delay is set to in settings. This throws off my aim so much when I attempt to ping an enemy I'm fighting, and results in unintentionally pinging "I'm attacking!" or "I am defending!" when it is not really the case.
Thanks for the feedback! I'd guess most players are not aware of this feature so that's really perceptive! We agree it was too aggressive in season 1, so we made it harder to shortcut into the ping wheel for season 2 through this method.
If it's still happening to you in season 2 in scenarios where you find it undesirable please let us know!
Thank you for the explanation! Really cool to see behind the scenes on stuff like this so thank you for braving reddit to tell us.
I always used "On my way" while I was dead to signify I'm not there yet. An option like "I'm not with you" could be really helpful in that context. I feel like the only dead comms that have been used toxically were "I need healing/help" and "Thanks!" for the most part.
Edit: "Nice Shot!" "Great pass!" and "Wow!" have also been used toxically ;)
Great ideas! We will keep developing this system and we'll be looking to make improvements like what you're suggesting here.
Hey all, I'll start by saying the issues you're seeing here are my fault and they are mostly not intentional. When I was building the Ping System I built it on top of the Comms system from OW1, and some of these issues are because of things I missed in that upgrade.
The most obviously unfortunate one is "Group Up" saying "I'm on my way". This was a feature in OW1 (it said "I'm with you" IIRC), but it only happened within 40 meters when you were aiming at an ally. I accidentally bypassed a check, and that distance defaulted to 500 meters instead of 40. This functionality is disabled entirely for the mid-season patch, but I'd like to bring back in a minor way in the future.
The other bug that this thread focuses on is harder to diagnose, but we have a bug in Season 2 right now where if you open the ping wheel and then cancel it (with right mouse or with B on xbox, circle on playstation), *then* use the comms wheel you fire a ping like "Going In". This is fixed in Seas...
Read moreIt's a holiday rumble in the Overwatch community! AverageJonas, LuluLuvely, will be joined by creators to compete in a community tournament on Tuesday, December 20. The tournament will have two groups of 4 teams compete in a round-robin to find the first two teams to get to two wins, and will then be followed by the top four teams competing in a single-elimination bracket with a $25,000 prize pool on the line!
Hello all - just a quick note to let you know we’re working with Intel on the Arc GPU crashes. I’ll post back here when we have more info.
We decided to give Orisa and Ramattra an adjustment in order to give them more competitive options to stand up to Roadhog. Originally we planned to adjust Roadhog in this patch, but we could not adjust him due to a technical issue with our hotfix today. We’ll keep an eye on all of these heroes and expect more updates in a future patch.
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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Hey everyone. I get that it can take a while to actually be selected as the Yeti in Mei’s Yeti Hunt, but here is a tip to keep in mind to make it easier. If you are playing on your own, remember to consistently queue for the Yeti and complete your games as Mei, this helps increase your chances every game.
The Winter Wonderland festivities have arrived! From now until January 4, join in special arcade game modes like Freeze Thaw elimination, Yeti Hunter, Snowball Deathmatch, and Mei's Snowball Offensive. Complete wintery challenges alongside these limited-time modes to earn weapon charms, player icons, sprays, and more—including the Ice Queen Epic Brigitte skin.
We’ve got some ice-cold arcade modes lined up for this year’s Winter Wonderland! First up is Mei’s Snowball Offensive, where Mei no longer fires a stream of frost or icicles but instead fires snowballs to instantly knock out her opponents in a 6v6 Elimination or an 8-player FFA Deathmatch ruleset.
Next is Mei’s Yeti Hunt, a unique 5v1 raid-boss brawl. A Yeti is stealing food f...
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