Overwatch Update 2.99 patch notes
Halloween Terror 2020
- Halloween Terror 2020
- During this thrilling in-game event, expand your collection with spooky new cosmetics and experience new twists and turns in the spooky story of Junkenstein's Revenge, our limited-time PvE brawl. Prepare for a shock with Junkenstein's revenge challenges, evil twists and turns on Dr. Junkenstein's sordid plans. Two will be available each week, for a total of six. Plus, overcome weekly challenges with Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade wins to earn a series of unique rewards!
General Updates
- Feature Update: Improved Profanity Filter
- We're 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, three levels of profanity filtering are now provided.
- FRIENDLY - We will do our best to filter out any words currently identified by our constantly updated list as obscene, vulgar or offensive. It is the most family setting.
- MATURE - You may see obscene or vulgar words with this setting, but we will filter language identified as extremely offensive.
- NOT FILTERED - Nothing will be filtered. Please note that you may see some extremely offensive material. This setting is not recommended.
- In addition to the three new filtering levels, we will now allow players to have different profanity filtering settings for each communication channel. These channels include:
- GENERAL CHAT
- MATCH CHAT
- TEAM CHAT
- PARTY CHAT
- CHUCHOTEMENT
- We're 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, three levels of profanity filtering are now provided.
- Feature Update: Elevator Adjustments
- Elevators will now wait at the bottom of their track until a player climbs onto the platform. After a short delay, the platform rises rapidly. Once the elevator reaches the top, it stops briefly before returning to the bottom.
Competitive updates
- Competitive team deathmatch
- Competitive Tag Team Deathmatch Season 3 has begun!
Hero Updates
- Reinhardt
- Earth breaker
- Added a vocal line stating “For the Crusaders!” Which allies will hear when Reinhardt uses Earthshatter
- Earth breaker
- Soldier: 76
- Heavy pulse rifle
- Ball gap removed
- Constant recoil added
- Ball damage reduced from 20 to 19
- Ammo increased from 25 to 30
- Heavy pulse rifle
- Shade
- Translator
- Improved smoothness of Sombra's first person camera when translocating short distances to a translocator in sight
- Translator
- Widower
- Grappin
- The grapple will now bounce off a surface if the distance between you and the hook is less than 2 yards, negating the hook and costing no cooldown.
- Grappin
Bug fixes
- General
- Fixed a bug that prevented Highlights recorded in Experimental Games from loading properly
- Fixed a bug that caused heroes to load slowly when switching heroes from the hero selection screen
- Fixed a bug with skill ratings not appearing in the career profile for competitive arcade seasons
- Fixed a bug with the “All Seasons” option not appearing in the Career Profile menu
- Hero
- Baptiste
- Fixed a bug that prevented Baptiste's eyes from blinking during his idle animation
- D.Va
- Fixed a bug where the spray menu would display “Empty” in the top slot when a spray was equipped
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed the Korean flag on the Taegeukgi skin
- Echo
- Fixed bug with Echo duplicate voice lines not playing in correct language
- Lucio
- Fixed a bug that caused Lúcio's legs to unintentionally stretch when landing on rough terrain
- Pharah
- Fixed a bug with the Lifeguard skin template not displaying correctly on low texture quality settings
- Fixed a bug that prevented Pharah's eyes from animating correctly when equipping the Lifeguard skin
- combine
- Fixed a bug that caused Reaper's shotgun model to always be affected by random rotation
- Reinhardt
- Fixed a bug that prevented the "Storm, Earth and Fire" achievement from triggering
- Zarya
- Fixed a bug that caused the beam effects to be displayed incorrectly on barriers
- Baptiste
- Custom games
- Fixed an issue with the Door Health Scalar custom game setting for Junkenstein
- Fixed an issue with the Custom Games difficulty setting for Junkenstein
- workshop
- Fixed a bug with Ashe's Dynamite in hand to not adapt to the size of the projectile
- Fixed a bug with Brigitte's Boost not displaying correctly when triggered quickly without a cooldown
- Fixed a bug that prevented Reinhardt's dirt break from consistently hitting targets when the model scale was increased
- Fixed a bug where Ashe's BOB would not gradually scale with Ashe
- Fixed a bug where Call Mech incorrectly placed the location of the new mech at different scales
For more information on this update, visit the official Overwatch website. If you're playing on Nintendo Switch, Overwatch is currently free for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers for the entire week.
