Ook heeft de patch het over nieuwe modi en fixes. Competitive play maakt zijn debuut in de game.

Hieronder vind je de gehele patch note :

GENERAL:

Progression Rewards

• Several new sprays, player icons, and voice lines have been added
• Some of the less popular sprays and voice lines have been removed
• New Legendary skins have been added for several heroes:
  • Gearbot” Bastion
  • “Junebug” D.Va
  • “Scavenger” D.Va
  • “Sparrow” Genji
  • “Fool” Junkrat
  • “Hayseed” Junkrat
  • “Scarecrow” Junkrat
  • “Breakaway” Lúcio
  • “Slapshot” Lúcio
  • “Abominable” Mei
  • “Yeti Hunter” Mei
  • “Raptorion” Pharah
  • “Thunderbird” Pharah
  • “Plague Doctor” Reaper
  • “Stonehardt” Reinhardt
  • “Islander” Roadhog
  • “Sharkbait” Roadhog
  • “Commando: 76” Solider:76
  • “Night Ops: 76” Soldier: 76
  • “Comtesse” Widowmaker
  • “Huntress” Widowmaker
  • “Arctic” Zarya
  • “Siberian Front” Zarya

Leaving Games

• Leaver Penalty
  • If a player’s game completion percentage falls below our required threshold, they will now receive a warning message (this percentage is calculated based on their 20 most recent games)
  • If that players continues to leave games after receiving this warning, they will incur a 75% XP penalty for future games
  • This penalty will be removed once the player raises their game completion percentage above our required threshold (again, this percentage is calculated based on their 20 most recent games)
• Play Interactivity
  • Players who are in the team spawn room and have selected a hero will no longer be removed for inactivity until 45 seconds after a game has started
  • Players actively browsing heroes in the “Assemble Heroes” selection screen will no longer be considered inactive
• Removed initial warning message displayed after leaving a game
• Note: Competitive Play will have additional rules and penalties for leaving games

Technical Updates

• Network Graph
  • You can now enable a network graph while in-game to help diagnose client networking issues
  • Hit CTRL+SHIFT+N to toggle the network graph on or off
• Network Quality Status Icons
  • The client will now pulse network status icons when packet loss or a network stream stall is detected
  • You can disable these icons from the Gameplay settings menu
• High Bandwidth Custom Game Option
  • You can now enable a high bandwidth mode for Custom Game, changing the client update rate from 20.8Hz to 62.5Hz
• Improved the regularity of player commands being sent from the client to the sever
• Reduced the maximum rewind time allowed on behalf of high-latency players
• Note: High-latency players will now extrapolate and potentially mispredict as a result

MAP BALANCE CHANGES:

Control Maps

• Each round now has a unique name
• Rounds are now shuffled in random order
• Ilios
  • Minor revisions to art and collision have been made throughout the map
• Lijiang Tower
  • The control point room in the Garden has been enlarged
  • The pillars in the Control Center have been removed and two new walls have been added
• Route 66
  • Revised first tunnel on the left outside of the starting attacker spawn
  • Removed ability for players to enter the hanging train above the starting attacker spawn
  • Further adjusted payload size to ensure all heroes can move around it in narrow locations
  • Significant revisions to collision have been made throughout the map

HERO BALANCE CHANGES:

Mei

• Ice Wall
  • Can now be destroyed early by activating the ability again

Developer comments: This is a simple quality-of-life change that helps Mei have better control of her Ice Wall.

Mercy

• Caduceus Blaster
  • Now automatically reloads when not in use
• Caduceus Staff
  • Players can now swap between healing beam and damage beam without losing the beam’s target
• Guardian Angel
  • Range increased slightly
  • Cooldown decreased from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds
  • Will now destroy environmental objects when you come in contact with them
  • Can now be cancelled by using the ability again

Developer comments: Some quality-of-life improvements for Mercy players, as well as overall improvements to Guardian Angel. We think the changes will help her reliability and survivability when she is the middle of a firefight.

Symmetra

• Photon Shield
  • Shield amount reduced from 50 to 25

Developer comments: We feel that Symmetra’s win rate is still too high at all levels of play. We want to do a pretty big swing here to see how it impacts her overall. This is a significant change that we’ll be monitoring closely.

Torbjörn

• Rivet Gun
  • Now automatically reloads when not in use

Developer comments: Similar to the pistol change for Mercy, this is a simple quality-of-life change that helps streamline using multiple weapons.

USER INTERFACE:

Career Overview

• Reorganized the statistics on the Main Overview, Hero Comparison, and Hero Statistics pages
• Averages shown are now per game averages, updated from per minute

Game Options

• An option to select custom crosshairs has been added
• The following hero-specific options are now available:
  • Genji
    • Automatically climb walls
  • Hanzo
    • Automatically climb walls
  • Junkrat
    • RIP-Tire: Automatically climb walls
  • Mercy
    • Toggle Beam Connection
  • Reinhardt
    • Toggle Barrier
  • Soldier: 76
    • Hold to Sprint
  • Widowmaker
    • Toggle Zoom
    • Mouse Sensitivity While Zoomed
• Mouse sensitivity scale has been reset and re-calibrated

Spectating

• Several polish updates have been made to Spectator Mode

BUG FIXES:

Maps

• Fixed an issue on Watchpoint: Gibraltar that allowed players to access out of map areas
• Fixed an issue where leaver penalties were being incorrectly applied to an account