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OVERWATCH EXPERIMENTAL PATCH NOTES – AUGUST 24, 2020[]

EXPERIMENTAL HERO UPDATES[]

The next experiment begins! This time we’re hoping to get your feedback on some balance updates that lean toward reducing some heroes’ damage and healing outputs. We’re using the 2-2-2 Role Queue ruleset so that you can get a feel for how these balance changes might affect the live game.

Armor

  • Beam-type damage reduction against Armor health pools increased from 20% to 30%
Icon-Ana

Ana

Ability-ana1 Biotic Rifle

General

  • Ammo reduced from 14 to 12
Icon-Ashe

Ashe

Ability-ashe1 The Viper

General

  • Max ammo reduced from 15 to 12

Secondary Fire

  • Aim-down sights damage reduced from 85 to 80
Icon-Baptiste

Baptiste

Baptiste-ability1 Biotic Launcher

Secondary Fire

  • Grenade ammo reduced from 12 to 10

Baptiste-ability2 Regenerative Burst

  • Total healing reduced from 150 to 75
  • Baptiste now receives twice as much healing from Regenerative Burst
Icon-Junkrat

Junkrat

Ability-Junkrat1 Frag Launcher

  • Impact damage reduced from 50 to 40 (Total 130 to 120)
Icon-Cassidy

Cassidy

Ability-mccree1 Peacekeeper

Primary Fire

  • Recovery increased from 0.42 to 0.50
Icon-Moira

Moira

Ability Moira Biotic Grasp Biotic Grasp

Healing

  • Lingering heal reduced from 4 seconds to 2 seconds (Total healing from 65 down to 35)
  • Healing per second increased from 65 to 70
  • Healing resource consumption rate increased from 11 to 14 (27%)

Damage

  • Attach angle reduced by 37%
  • Healing resource gain rate increased by 50%
Icon-Orisa

Orisa

Ability Orisa Halt! Halt!

  • Radius increased from 4 to 5
  • Projectile speed reduced from 30 to 25
Icon-Pharah

Pharah

Ability-parah1 Rocket Launcher

  • Recovery increased from 0.75 to 0.85
Icon-Symmetra

Symmetra

Ability-symmetra1 Photon Projector

Secondary Fire

  • Max damage reduced from 140 to 120
Icon-Widowmaker

Widowmaker

Ability-widowmaker1 Widow's Kiss

General

  • Max ammo increased from 30 to 35

Secondary Fire

  • Scoped ammo cost increased from 3 to 5
  • Scoped shots now have up to 50% damage falloff from 60-85 meters
Icon-Zarya

Zarya

Ability-zarya1 Particle Cannon

Secondary Fire

  • Ammo cost increased from 20 to 25