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.

Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes – December 15, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

Heroes

Tank

Doomfist

Rocket Punch

• Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 seconds

Power Block

• Minimum damage mitigated required to empower Rocket Punch increased from 80 to 100 damage

‘The Best Defense…’ passive

• Temporary health gained per target hit with abilities decreased from 40 to 35 health

Orisa

Terra Surge

• Now pierces through barriers upon impact

Augmented Fusion Drive

• Damage falloff range increased from 15 to 25 meters

Ramattra

Nemesis Form

• Movement speed increased by 20%
• Armor bonus increased from 150 to 225

Void Barrier

• Cooldown reduced from 15 to 13 seconds

Damage

Sojourn

Railgun

• Primary fire spread incr...

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.

Welcome to season 2 for Competitive Play in Overwatch 2!

Season 2 of Competitive Play is here!

Competitive Play is designed for those players who want to put their skills to the test, and offers a more serious experience than our Quick Play or Arcade Modes. Players new to Overwatch 2 will unlock access to Competitive Play when they complete the Competitive Play Qualification challenge by winning 50 unranked games.

GETTING STARTED

Before you can kick off your competitive career, every player will be required to win seven games to obtain their seasonal skill division in their choice of role in Role Queue or playing Open Queue. Within the standard Role Queue competitive mode, players will earn a separate skill division for each role in Competitive Play, for a total of three distinct skill divisions. There is a separate skill division for Open Queue as well. This skill division will be a tier—Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, or Grandmaster – followed by a number from 5 (l...

Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - December 6, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

OVERWATCH 2, SEASON 2

Ramattra storms the Season 2 Battle Pass, unlocking for free at Level 45 or immediately for the premium Battle Pass. As Overwatch’s first “tempo tank,” Ramattra can change between two forms moment to moment based on what his teammates need. With the tactical training of a lethal soldier and the discipline of a devout monk, Ramattra can be your greatest asset or your worst enemy.

Embark on a pilgrimage to our latest escort map, Shambali Monastery, where you can explore ancient temple grounds and traverse winding village streets. Follow in the footsteps of countless omnics–some who may be familiar to you...

Update November 21: We apologize for an error in the dates that we had initially posted. The next two log-in rewards will launch one day later than previously listed and we have updated our times above.

Starting today, we are offering free rewards for players by logging into Overwatch 2 through the end of the month. Log in on the following dates to collect all three!

• Log in from November 17 11:00 am PST to November 21 11:00 am PST and get the Sojourn "Optics” Highlight Intro
• Log in from November 22 11:00 am PST to November 27 11:00 am PST and get the Junker Queen “Five Fingers” Highlight Intro
• Log in from November 27 11:00 am PST to December 2 11:00 am PST and get the Kiriko “On The Wind” Highlight Intro

Update November 21: We apologize for an error in the dates that we had initially posted. The next two log-in rewards will launch one day later than previously listed and we have updated our times above.

The Overwatch League is still working to issue rewards for watching the Grand Finals weekend. While the actual rewards are now available to view in the game client, you should receive the drops once we can process your watch time. Continue to follow @OverwatchLeague on Twitter for updates.

Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - November 17, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

OVERWATCH LEAGUE TOURNAMENT CHAMPION LEGENDARY SKIN REMIXES

Celebrate the Overwatch League’s Tournament Champions with the Royal Gladiator, Dallas Summer, and Shanghai Summer Legendary Skins! These skins are purchasable for a limited time with Overwatch League Tokens.

GENERAL UPDATES

Competitive Play and Matchmaking

We’re continuing to monitor the health of competitive play and matchmaking across Overwatch 2, both for returning and new players. We’ve made numerous tuning adjustments on the server for both the initial and continued determination of a player’s skill tier and division, many of which will become even more no...

Today’s patch is delayed as we work to resolve a critical issue. We’ll provide an update here and set the patch live as soon as the problem is addressed.

This includes the upcoming balance changes, bug fixes, including those that affect Mei, and core content updates we have planned for this patch. This delay also impacts the delivery of Overwatch League Viewership Incentives & Perks from the Postseason matches during the period between Oct 30 - Nov 4, along with the rotation of cosmetics in the Overwatch League shop.

Daily and weekly challenges will reset today, as well as the standard shop refresh.

Thanks for your understanding, we’ll be working on releasing this patch as soon as possible. Follow our forums and socials at @PlayOverwatch for updates.

UPDATE 4:00 PM PST, 11/15 - We are now planning to release this mid-season patch on Thursday, November 17 at 11 AM PST. Thank you to our players for your patience as we addressed this issue.

Twitter Spaces Recap

Greetings heroes, last week, our lead hero designer, Alec Dawson joined Matt Morelo from the Overwatch League on Twitter Spaces to talk about our upcoming balance updates, which are now being played in the Overwatch League Playoffs and will be coming in a future patch. In case you missed it, here is the recap of everything that Matt and many of you asked Alec on Twitter.

Matt Morelo: What is the new balance philosophy with Overwatch 2 now being a live seasonal model?

Alec Dawson: So this is our first balance patch since Overwatch 2 has been out, and the way we’re approaching balancing the game is a minor and major cadence of patches. This upcoming patch would be considered one of those minor ones, and those are going to be usually in the mid-cycle patches. They’re going to be reactive, looking at the first two weeks of a meta, seeing what’s performing at the top, and seeing how we can make some adjustments along those lines. Any of these changes are going to be sl...

Hello everyone,

We are temporarily disabling Mei to address a bug with her Ice Wall ability that allowed heroes to reach unintended locations when used with their abilities. We are working to address these issues as quickly as possible and aim to bring Mei back in our next upcoming patch which is set for November 15. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

As a reminder, our Blizzard In-Game Code of Conduct specifies that exploiting in-game bugs to gain an unfair advantage is considered cheating and should be reported using our reporting tool in-game. Thank you for helping us keep a fun and fair experience for all players.

UPDATE: Mei will be re-enabled when we release our patch, which has been delayed. Click here for more details.

Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 25, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

HALLOWEEN TERROR 2022

It’s time to celebrate another year of fear: Halloween Terror is returning to Overwatch! Get ready for a shock, because this event introduces the next chapter in the saga of the devious Dr. Junkenstein through our completely revamped, limited time co-op mission, Junkenstein’s Revenge: Wrath of the Bride.

Dr. Junkenstein himself will also be making a grand reappearance in the original Junkenstein’s Revenge co-op Brawl, returning for a limited time to Halloween Terror 2022. From now until November 9, join your fellow heroes to confront a host of haunting horrors as you seek to safeguard Eichenwalde— or...

Shortly after the launch of Overwatch 2, we discovered a bug that was causing console-specific career profile stats to be reset for players each time they played a game of Overwatch on console. This bug was due to the statistics data initially using any PC pool stats to build on instead of console pool stats, even if a player does not play on the PC platform. We have deployed a fix to this bug, and games completed on console platforms after the fix will correctly store statistics on career profiles. We are now working on restoring stats from Overwatch to all Overwatch 2 console accounts and will do that for all console players. Unfortunately, due to the nature of this bug, any stats from matches played since October 4 through October 18, 2022 will not be recoverable and will not be reflected in your current career profile. Here are a few questions and answers to understand how this will affect players.

Q. What data has been lost?
Any console-specific match stats, including win record, ...

Double XP Weekends are here! Starting today, your accumulated match XP from each match played will be doubled during eligible weekends. Please note any XP rewarded for completing challenges, bonus XP for participating in flex queue or impacted roles in Role Queue, and any XP rewards from endorsements are not doubled during double XP weekends. You can earn double XP for matches played on these dates:

• October 21 – 11:00 AM PDT to October 24 – 11:00 AM PDT
• October 28 – 11:00 AM PDT to October 31 – 11:00 AM PDT
• November 24 – 11:00 AM PDT to November 28 – 11:00 AM PDT

When you receive double XP for your matches played, you should see the total number of XP after each match be higher than normal. However, during our first two double XP weekends, no direct in-game messaging will indicate XP has been doubled. We will be adding messaging in-game coming in future double XP weekends.

Greetings Heroes,

Get your kunai blades ready because you can now play Kiriko in Competitive Play starting today. Also, based on what we’ve seen so far with our challenge system and feedback from players, we have made some adjustments to make the team kills based challenges easier to complete. The “Cleaning House” weekly challenge will reduce the number of team kills required from 20 to 10. The “Finish Them” daily challenge will reduce the number of team kills from 3 to 1. Thank you, everyone, for your continued feedback, and we will continue to iterate on your Overwatch 2 gameplay experience.

Greeting Heroes!

In a previous update, we mentioned that we would be allowing forum access for new players following a game update once they reach certain progress in the game. That update is now live and new players who complete ten tiers in any Battle Pass season will be granted access to our General Discussion forum along with most other discussion channels. You can track the progress of your Battle Pass in-game. To join the conversation in the Competitive Discussion forum, you must win fifty games of Quick Play and be qualified to play Competitive Play in Overwatch. You can track your progress by checking the “Competitive Play Qualification” challenge in the Competitive section of your Challenges. Anyone with a valid Battle.net account may post in the Technical Support and Bug Report forums.

Please remember to review the Blizzard Forum Code of Conduct and the Overwatch Forum Posting Guidelines before participating in the forums. If you have your milestones required but find you are...

Greetings Heroes!

The Competitive Discussion forum is available for competitive players of Overwatch to discuss game-winning strategies and meta-game discussions. In order to participate, you must win fifty games of Quick Play and be qualified to play Competitive Play in Overwatch. You can track your progress by checking the “Competitive Play Qualification” challenge in the Competitive section of your Challenges.

Please remember to review the Blizzard Forum Code of Conduct and the Overwatch Forum Posting Guidelines before participating on the forums. If you have met your milestones required but find you are still not finding access to the forums, please refer to this troubleshooting guide in our Technical Support forum.

Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 13, 2022

A new patch is now live on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.
For a list of known issues, visit the Bug Report forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit the Technical Support forum.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed an issue with the Report interface on console
• Fixed a bug on PlayStation involving the inability to purchase other items in the store after a refund of another item
• Fixed an issue where Legacy credits were not the default currency selected for purchases in the Hero Gallery
• Fixed a bug where some Heroic emotes/poses were incorrectly locked and priced
• Fixed items in the Hero Gallery that were not able to be purchased
• Fixed an issue with the Spectator Options and made clicking in that menu more responsive
• Resolved a bug with low resolution shop images displaying small on some platforms
• Fixed an issue t...

Going to be locking this topic as we have a primary thread in our #technical-support forum tracking this problem.