A new patch is available on Overwatch! It introduces the Tracer Comic Challenge which will run until September 28, and adds more severe penalties for desertion in a competitive game.
OVERWATCH RETAIL PATCH NOTES – SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Tracer's Comic Challenge
Issue #1 of a 5-part comic book series, Tracer - London Calling, is now available! Blink into battle and celebrate to launch with unlockable in-game content! Wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, Arcade, or Experimental will earn you a themed player icon, spray, and an epic skin: Comic Book Tracer!
Overwatch has just released the Tracer's Comic Challenge. Win games and watch Twitch streamers to earn exclusive rewards. Be careful: this is a limited time event!
Competitive Updates
Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination
- Season 3 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination has begun!
Ranked Leaver Penalty Adjustment
- Adjusted ranked leaver penalties. Penalties are now more severe and will lead to a season ban more quickly.
Workshop Updated
The valid range for numbers stored in variables and used in mathematical expressions has been increased.
New Action
- Start Scaling Players.
- Stop Scaling Players.
- Start Scaling Barriers.
- Stop Scaling Barriers.
Bug Fixes
General
- Fixed a bug that caused training bots to not display buffs and debuffs on their health bars.
- Fixed a bug in Deathmatch that caused the Defeat string to potentially display for the winning player on the Victory screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused ping icons above player heads to subtly shake infrequently.
- Fixed a bug that caused placeable objects to clip into level geometry on specific maps.
- Fixed a bug in Career Profile that caused some UI elements within the Achievements tab to not display correctly.
- Fixed a bug with the Overwatch League Replay Viewer that caused incorrect team names to display.
- Fixed a bug that caused group invites to not appear properly if the invitation was sent to a friend logging into the game.
- Fixed a bug in Mystery Heroes that caused the Games Played statistic to not increment properly when backfilling and losing a match.
- Fixed a bug that caused inconsistent hitbox placement for heroes that are frozen while moving.
Maps
Blizzard World
- Fixed a bug that caused some voice over sounds to not playback properly in the Nexus Experience location.
Hanamura
- Fixed a bug that exposed a small gap in level geometry that allowed certain heroes to escape the map.
Route 66
- Fixed a bug that exposed a small gap in level geometry that allowed players to shoot through it.
Temple of Anubis
- Fixed a bug with level geometry that allowed players to stand on top of an unintended location.
Heroes
Ana
- Fixed a bug with the Vacation highlight intro not animating properly.
Brigitte
- Fixed a bug with the Feskarn skin that caused an element of Brigitte's shield to float into the air during emotes.
Doomfist
- Fixed a bug that caused primary attack sounds to play at a high volume.
D.Va
- Fixed a bug with the Sitting victory pose not displaying properly.
Echo
- Fixed a bug that caused players hit by Echo’s Focusing Beam to not hear the attack sound.
Genji
- Fixed a bug where canceling Genji's Dragonblade swings to Swift Strike could cause inconsistent application of damage at certain latencies.
- Fixed a bug where Genji would not move forward if using Swift Strike while aiming at a wall close in front of him.
- Fixed a bug where Genji could sometimes not immediately look around at the end of Swift Strike, which happened more often when dashing towards a wall or ground.
- Fixed a bug that caused Swift Strike to sometimes incorrectly display visual hit indicators.
Mei
- Fixed a bug that caused Ice Wall to break when in close proximity to Cryo-Freeze.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Ice Wall from moving when placed on the moving fan in Junkertown.
Orisa
- Fixed a bug with the Medal victory pose not displaying properly.
- Fixed a bug with Halt! that caused tether functionality to break when attempting to pull at max range.
Pharah
- Fixed a bug that caused the sound for rockets rotating on the ammo clip to not playback properly.
- Fixed a bug with the Barrage highlight intro not animating correctly if the Lifeguard skin is equipped.
Reinhardt
- Fixed a bug that could cause Reinhardt's shield to emerge at an angle exposing him to enemy attacks.
Sombra
- Fixed a bug that caused Sombra to not be healed by the payload under specific circumstances.
Tracer
- Fixed a bug that allowed Tracer to Blink into unintended areas in Temple of Anubis.
Workshop
- Fixed a bug that could cause the game to enter an endless match restart cycle if too many of certain actions were executed immediately on match start.
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to lose their bodies altogether when the "Start Forcing Player To Be Hero" action was combined with.
- Control maps or the "Spawn As Random Hero" setting.
- Fixed a bug preventing automatic reloads from being disabled when disabling reloading via Workshop.
- Fixed a bug preventing D.Va from properly handling ammo/reload related actions/values when out of mech.
- Fixed a bug where strings with unicode characters could be trimmed incorrectly when copy-pasting.
- Fixed a bug where certain values failed to export from inspector when copying as action text.
- Fixed a bug that caused issues with third person spectating when scaling.
- Fixed a bug that caused McCree's Flashbang to not hit targets when scaled up to 20 times.
- Fixed a bug that caused air and ground movement speeds to differ when setting a character's movement speed to very slow.
Cheers love! Tracer received an urgent call for help from London. Even though Overwatch has been disbanded for years, the heroine is still there to help. London Calling is the first comic book in a series of five and it will focus on Lena Oxton's adventure.
