Overwatch 2 Season 9 Patch Notes Reveal Big Balance Changes and More

Season 9 of Overwatch 2 is lastly right here. As you’d count on, Blizzard has supplied a rundown of all the brand new additions coming to the team-based shooter.

In a brand new weblog put up masking the patch notes, Blizzard reveals not solely that the brand new replace introduces season 9 but in addition a slew of enhancements to aggressive play. Most notably, the developer reworked aggressive updates — as a substitute of requiring a participant to win 5 matches or lose 15, they are going to obtain updates after each match. A brand new ability tier, Champion, above Grandmaster, has additionally been launched. Blizzard touted that “solely an exceedingly small proportion of gamers will ever occupy this echelon of Aggressive Play.”

Overwatch 2’s Season 9 replace additionally introduces a brand new co-op occasion referred to as Cosmic Criss. Gamers will group up with three others to restore their ship, fend off enemies, and attempt to escape the Ruins of Ecopoint Antarctica.

In our overview of Overwatch 2, we mentioned: “Overwatch 2’s change to a 5v5 format breathes new life into what was as soon as the sharpest shooter round. It simply hasn’t fairly recaptured all of that glory – but.”

You possibly can take a look at the total patch notes under.

Overwatch 2 Season 9 Patch Notes

NEW EVENT: COSMIC CRISIS

Face off in opposition to eldritch abominations within the twisted actuality of Cosmic Disaster, a brand-new co-op mission. Work with three different gamers to restore your ship and escape the ruins of Ecopoint Antarctica whereas combating off the monstrous Null Sector. However hold an eye fixed out in your teammates… an historic energy lurks within the shadows, ready for its probability to strike.

Talent Rank Reset

Given the numerous modifications to our heroes and the addition of a brand new ability tier, this reset is designed to offer all gamers an opportunity to climb increased than ever earlier than.
All roles in Position Queue and Open Queue in Aggressive Play have been reset to Unranked.

Placement Matches

Placements have been rebuilt from the bottom up. Your predicted rank might be displayed after every placement match.
You could full 10 matches in a task to obtain your Talent Rank for that function.
Successful your placements could have a major impression in your last rank.

Aggressive Updates

Aggressive Updates have been reworked. As an alternative of requiring 5 wins or 15 losses to get a Aggressive Replace, updates now occur after each match.
Going ahead, the Aggressive Updates web page now hosts details about your ranks in Position Queue and Open Queue, in addition to your progress towards Aggressive Level rewards.

Talent Modifiers

Modifiers now seem on the Aggressive Progress web page after every match.
Talent modifiers present info on how a lot a rank will acquire or lose progress after a match, together with win or loss streaks, rank instability, and match favorability.

New Talent Tier – Champion

A brand new rank has been added above Grandmaster, referred to as Champion, that’s extra unique than every other rank in Overwatch. Solely an exceedingly small proportion of gamers will ever occupy this echelon of Aggressive Play.

Versus Display

The vary of ranks for gamers in a match of Aggressive Play is now displayed on the identical display the place each groups are proven with their identify playing cards, participant icons, and titles.

New Grouping Necessities

Bronze via Diamond Gamers could group with different gamers inside 2 Talent Tiers of their very own Talent Rank.
Grasp gamers could group with different gamers inside 1 Talent Tier of their very own Talent Rank.
Grandmaster gamers could group with different gamers inside 3 Talent Divisions of their very own Talent Rank.
Champion gamers could group with just one different participant inside 3 Talent Divisions of their very own Talent Rank.

Artwork & UI Updates

Talent Tier and Talent Division artwork for rank icons have been redesigned for improved readability.
The Aggressive Talent Tier legend has been redesigned to incorporate up to date and new related info.

Aggressive Factors

Every win now grants 10 Aggressive Factors.
Every draw now grants 5 Aggressive Factors.
Every loss nonetheless grants 0 Aggressive Factors.

Aggressive Development

Aggressive Challenges that award further Aggressive Factors on the finish of the season have been changed with a brand new Aggressive Development system.
Each match grants progress towards your Aggressive Development meter, and after incomes 30 you’ll obtain a further 100 Aggressive Factors.
Wins award 3 progress towards your Aggressive Development meter. Attracts and Losses award 1 progress.

Aggressive Rewards

Jade Weapon Variants have been launched.
Every Jade Weapon Variant prices 3000 Aggressive Factors to buy.
All gamers will begin this season with a stability of 0 Aggressive Factors.
All present Aggressive Factors have been transformed into a brand new foreign money, Legacy Aggressive Factors.
Every Golden Weapon Variant now prices 3000 Legacy Aggressive Factors to buy.
On the finish of a Aggressive 12 months, any remaining stability of Aggressive Factors converts to Legacy Aggressive Factors.

Matchmaking Ranking

Firstly of this season solely, the inner Matchmaking Rankings for all gamers have been adjusted to push gamers nearer to the normalized common (roughly at Gold 3).
Matchmaking Rankings have been decayed. The upper the rank, the extra it has been decayed.
Most gamers will begin at a decrease ability rank and division than their most up-to-date rank.

Aggressive Challenges

Aggressive challenges eliminated. Rewards and progress for Aggressive Play are actually displayed on the Aggressive Progress web page and titles are rewarded on the finish of the season.

GENERAL UPDATESPLAYER PROGRESSION

Added a brand new set of visible upgrades. Hero/Recreation Mode badge upgrades begin at Degree 500. Development Degree badge upgrades begin at Degree 2500.
Wrecking Ball title rewards are renamed from “Champion” to “Champ” to align with Junker Queen’s utilization of the title (and to keep away from confusion with the brand new Champion rank).
Adjusted quantity wanted to stage up sure sub-badges for Mauga and Illari.

FRIEND ENDORSEMENTS

The endorsement is just eligible should you’re within the match for a set length.
Endorsements are topic to the configured cooldown interval of 12 hours.
Endorsements are topic to cooldown even should you unfriend the recipient.

SETTINGS

Added a function for controller/keyboard customers that remembers what you had focus when backing out of screens.

CROSSHAIR UPDATE

New Reticle Sorts have been added.

Sq.
Field
Line
Triwing
Falloff

New Reticle Dots have been added.

Ring
Sq.
Triangle
Cross
Coronary heart

New Reticle shade choices have been added.

Brown
Darkish Purple
Mild Purple
Mild Purple
Grey
Teal

HERO UPDATES

Most damage-dealing projectile sizes have been elevated by a brand new international modifier added to their base measurement.

+0.05 meters for hitscan projectiles with a excessive charge of fireside or unfold (e.g., Tracer’s Pulse Pistols or Reaper’s Hellfire Shotguns).
+0.08 meters for hitscan projectiles which might be extra exact (e.g., Cassidy’s Peacekeeper or Soldier:76’s Heavy Pulse Rifle).
+0.05 meters for journey time projectiles which might be shotguns or have a really excessive charge of fireside (e.g., Roadhog’s Scrap Gun or Ramattra’s Void Accelerator).
+0.10 meters for journey time projectile with a velocity larger than 50 meters per second (e.g., Zenyatta’s Destruction Orb).
+0.15 meters for journey time projectile with a velocity lower than or equal to 50 meters per second (e.g., Pharah’s Rocket Launcher).
Very massive projectiles with a base measurement larger than 0.5 meters have been excluded from these will increase (e.g., Orisa’s Power Javelin or Reinhardt’s Fireplace Strike).

Hero mixed HP (base well being/armor/shields) elevated by 15-25%.

150-175 HP heroes elevated by 25 HP.
200-300 HP heroes elevated by 50 HP.
300+ HP (Tanks) elevated by 75-100 HP.
Every hero’s exact well being will increase are listed of their patch notes under.

Final Cost

All Final capability prices elevated by 10%.

Regenerative Passive for All Heroes

All heroes now regenerate 20 well being per second after 5 seconds of not taking injury.

Help Position Passive

Now reduces the delay earlier than regeneration begins by half (2.5 seconds).

Harm Position Passive

Reload velocity bonus on elimination has been eliminated.
New function passive: Dealing injury reduces enemy therapeutic acquired by 20% for two seconds.

Fast Melee

Harm elevated from 30 to 40.

D.Va

Pilot well being elevated from 150 to 175.
Mech armor elevated from 300 to 375.

Self Destruct

Explosion most injury elevated from 900 to 1000.
Internal explosion radius (vary for max injury earlier than falloff begins) elevated from 4 to six meters.

Doomfist

Well being elevated from 300 to 375.

Rocket Punch

Max impression injury elevated from 50 to 75.
Max wall slam injury elevated from 30 to 40.

Junker Queen

Well being elevated from 300 to 375.

Rampage

Wound injury over time elevated from 60 to 90.

Mauga

Well being elevated from 300 to 400.

Orisa

Armor elevated from 275 to 350.

Ramattra

Well being elevated from 200 to 275.

Reinhardt

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.
Armor elevated from 250 to 275.

Rocket Hammer

Harm elevated from 85 to 100.

Cost

Wall impression injury elevated from 225 to 275.

Roadhog

Well being elevated from 550 to 650.

Sigma

Shields elevated from 200 to 275.

Winston

Well being elevated from 200 to 225.
Armor elevated from 200 to 250.

Tesla Cannon

Harm elevated from 60 to 75 injury per second.

Primal Rage

Punch injury elevated from 40 to 50.

Wrecking Ball

Armor elevated from 100 to 175.

Zarya

Well being elevated from 100 to 175.

Particle Cannon

Main fireplace beam width elevated from 0.15 to 0.2 meters.

DAMAGE

Ashe

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

B.O.B.

B.O.B.’s weapon injury elevated from 14 to 17.

Bastion

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Cassidy

Well being elevated from 225 to 275.

Deadeye

Preliminary injury charge elevated from 130 to 150.
Harm charge elevated from 260 to 300.

Echo

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Focusing Beam

Width elevated from 0.2 to 0.25 meters.

Duplicate

Most mixed well being worth elevated from 300 to 350.

Genji

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Dragonblade

Swing restoration decreased from 0.9 to 0.7 seconds.

Hanzo

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Storm Arrows

Harm elevated from 65 to 75.
Cooldown decreased from 10 to eight seconds.

Junkrat

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Frag Launcher

Base projectile measurement decreased from 0.25 to 0.2 meters.

Mei

Well being elevated from 250 to 300.

Pharah

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Rocket Launcher

Restoration decreased from 0.85 to 0.80 seconds.
Projectile velocity elevated from 35 to 40 meters per second.
Explosion self-damage decreased from 50% to 25%.

Jet Sprint

New Secondary Fireplace Potential.
Offers a fast horizontal increase within the course Pharah is shifting.
8-second cooldown.
Added a setting to activate Jet Sprint on Double Leap as a substitute.

Leap Jet

Now restores 50% of Hover Jets gasoline and may briefly overfill the utmost gasoline quantity.
Vertical increase peak decreased by 20%.
Cooldown elevated from 10 to 14 seconds.

Concussive Blast

Cooldown decreased from 9 to 7 seconds.
Explosion now offers 30 injury to enemy targets.
Explosion radius decreased from 8 to six meters.
Knockback decreased by 10%.

Barrage

Now immediately refills Hover Jets gasoline.

Hover Jets

Pace increase elevated from 20% to 40%.
Now requires touchdown to recharge gasoline.
Can now be activated with out gasoline to gradual your descent.

Developer Feedback: Pharah has a major replace that empowers extra particular person performs and shifting her motion capabilities from excessive up within the air to extra horizontal motion that may cowl distance rapidly.

Reaper

Well being elevated from 250 to 300.

Sojourn

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Railgun

Secondary Fireplace base projectile measurement decreased from 0.1 to 0.07 meters.

Soldier: 76

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Sombra

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Symmetra

Shields elevated from 100 to 150.

Photon Projector

Main fireplace beam width elevated from 0.2 to 0.25 meters.

Torbjörn

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Tracer

Well being elevated from 150 to 175.

Widowmaker

Well being elevated from 175 to 200.

SUPPORT

Ana

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Baptiste

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Brigitte

Well being elevated from 150 to 200.

Rocket Flail

Harm elevated from 35 to 45.

Illari

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Kiriko

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Kunai

Base projectile measurement decreased from 0.18 to 0.15 meters.

Lifeweaver

Well being elevated from 175 to 225.

Lúcio

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Soundwave

Harm elevated from 25 to 35.
Knockback elevated 12%.
Motion lockout length elevated from 0.3 to 0.45 seconds.

Mercy

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Guardian Angel

Energetic length on leap/crouch cancel decreased from 1.5 to 1 second.

Sympathetic Restoration passive

Well being recovered elevated from 25% to 40% of therapeutic dealt.

Moira

Well being elevated from 200 to 250.

Biotic Grasp

Secondary fireplace injury elevated from 50 to 65 injury per second.
Secondary fireplace goal acquisition radius elevated from 0.6 to 0.7 meters.

Zenyatta

Well being elevated from 75 to 100.
Shields elevated from 150 to 175.

JUNKERTOWN UPDATE

New nighttime lighting theme.
New constructing close to the primary level to offer extra cowl & block lengthy sightlines.
Added a water tower close to the primary level to dam sightlines from higher choke positions.
Added extra automobiles close to the cliff to offer further cowl & block lengthy sightlines.
Lowered the cliffside path to tighten the house and scale back the general footprint of the world.
Eliminated a small well being pack on the second space balcony that was straightforward for defenders to overuse.
Added vertical beam at second choke level to advertise motion out of the higher ground & make the choke simpler to defend.
Widened and added cowl in a hallway within the third space to make shut quarter fights simpler to maneuver.

BUG FIXES GENERAL

Fastened a difficulty with some shadows that might seem jagged when on any setting under Extremely.
Fastened a bug that prevented your pores and skin from altering when utilizing the Change Pores and skin possibility in Hero Choose should you had a Loadout chosen.
Fastened a bug with Golden Weapons being marked as unspecified and never being purchasable.
Fastened a bug with some callouts for pushing the payload enjoying at incorrect moments.
Fastened a difficulty with Wall Climb failing in some conditions.
Extra bug fixes for basic stability and efficiency.

MAPS

Antarctic Peninsula

Fastened lighting in some areas of the map.

King’s Row

Fastened areas of the map that had been lacking collision.

Midtown

Fastened some places that might trigger some heroes to grow to be caught

Shambali Monastery

Fastened a location of the map that displayed incorrect textures.

HEROES