Overwatch 2 nerfs designed to protect supports, Blizzard says

As predicted earlier this month, a spherical of Overwatch 2 nerfs are inbound with the following replace, due out November 15, Blizzard says. The hero stability adjustments are primarily geared toward serving to hold the FPS sport’s help characters alive, with nerfs to high-impact heroes like Sombra, Genji, and D.Va that may make it more durable for them to get on the opposing crew’s again line.

The adjustments within the November 15 replace embody:

Sombra

• Hack skill lockout period decreased from 1.75 to 1.5 seconds
• Hacked enemies are not legitimate targets for hacking in the course of the impact
• Hacked harm multiplier decreased from 40% to 25%

Genji

• Most ammo decreased from 30 to 24
• Shuriken harm decreased from 29 to 27

Zarya

• Barrier period decreased from 2.5 to 2 seconds
• Barrier cooldown elevated from 10 to 11 seconds

D.Va

• Fusion cannon unfold elevated from 3.5 to three.75
• Boosters affect harm decreased from 25 to fifteen

Kiriko

• Swift step invulnerability period decreased from 0.4 to 0.25 seconds

Lead hero designer Alec Dawson defined the design crew’s strategy to every of the adjustments in a Twitter Space held October 28.

Sombra, he defined, has been lethally efficient at attending to the again strains of opposing groups the place she will be able to wreak havoc on their helps. The crew additionally needed to chop again on her skill to “chain hacking”, and thus have prevented hacked targets from being re-targetable in the course of the hack.

The design crew has seen “just a bit bit an excessive amount of burst harm” out of Genji currently, which has additionally had the impact of creating life powerful on help gamers.

“We wish to convey him in step with the opposite flankers,” Dawson mentioned. “I believe these numbers ought to try this – convey him extra in step with the Reapers of the world.”

The nerf to new hero Kiriko’s invulnerability window after utilizing her swift step skill is extra about stopping confusion than rebalancing the character. Dawson says gamers have been a bit confused seeing the flexibility in motion:”Hey, Kiriko teleported right into a Reaper ult, after which didn’t die, what occurred there?” he mentioned.

Kiriko’s invulnerability window is staying round to forestall gamers from teleporting into as a substitute demise in somebody’s final, Dawson says, however the discount ought to make it really feel (and look) extra pure.

Dawson says the crew is at the moment taking a look at Doomfist and Sojourn for attainable changes primarily based on each participant suggestions and match knowledge.

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