Some of Overwatch 2’s most frustrating heroes to play against have had their effectiveness tuned down a notch.
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Kiriko is the only other hero to receive changes.
Competitive is the only mode where aim assist will still be disabled when in a cross-play group.
Blizzard notes that it will be monitoring the change closely and “making changes quickly if needed.”
Audio transcription and recording is not enabled for party chat.
The full Overwatch 2patch notescan be found below.
We’ve increased the precision of our queue time estimates for each individual role in role queue.
Defense Matrix
The audio transcription feature has been added with a limited rollout for PC players in select countries.
see to it you report as close to when disruptive behavior occurred to maximize this features effectiveness.
Once reported, a temporary audio recording will be used to make a text file transcript through speech-to-text programs.
No one listens to the temporary audio recording, which is quickly deleted after being transcribed.
Crossplay and Aim Assist
We made a change to Aim Assist in Crossplay (PC+ Console) lobbies.
If you play in a Crossplay game now, Aim Assist is enabled in all matches except Competitive.
In our data, we found many groups were crossplay groups between PC and console players.
We’d like to reiterateat this point Aim Assist exists only on console platforms.
We’ll be monitoring the deployment of this change carefully and making changes quickly if needed.
Particle Barrier
Projected Barrier
Genji has greatly benefited from the move to 5v5.
Changing to a single Tank and the reduction of crowd control has removed a lot of obstacles for Genji.
These changes will bring Genji more in line with the other flanking damage heroes like Tracer and Reaper.
