Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – October 13, 2020
Halloween Terror 2020
During this pulse-pounding in-game event, expand your collection with spooky new cosmetics and experience new twists in the chilling tale of Junkenstein’s Revenge. Plus, overcome weekly challenges with wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade to earn a series of unique rewards!
General updates
Feature Update: Improved Profanity Filter
Overwatch's developers are making changes to how the profanity filter works to give players more control over the types of words they see. Instead of a simple on/off profanity filter, there are now three levels of profanity filtering provided — friendly, mature, and unfiltered.
Different profanity filter settings for each communication channel. These channels include general chat, match chat, team chat, party chat, and whisper.
Feature Update: Elevator Adjustments
Elevators will now wait at the bottom of their track until a player boards the platform. After a short delay, the platform rises rapidly upward. Once the elevator reaches the top, it pauses briefly before returning to the bottom.
Hero updates
Concerning heroes, Widowmaker suffers a nerf. From now on, when you pull your grappling hook on a surface located less than two meters away from you, it bounces the hook and not costing any cooldown.
As for Soldier 76, his bullet spread has been removed while a constant recoil has been added. His bullet damage has suffered a nerf (20 → 19 points) and to compensate he can now carry more ammo (25 → 30).
These were the major changes. Besides that, some bugs were fixed and Reinhardt has a new voiceline when using his ultimate. For the most competitive among you, you also have to know that the third season of Competitive Team Deathmatch has begun!
Overwatch Halloween Terror 2020 has been deployed. This event marks the return of Junkenstein and his zomnics, ready to take over Adlersbrunn.
