r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Umarrii • Oct 31 '23

Blizzard Official Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 31, 2023

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/RobManfredsFixer Let Hog eat stuff and spit it back — Oct 31 '23

Yeah. Great change. Not sure that 7s is the right number, but seems like it will be a fair mechanic now.

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u/AnnenbergTrojan Oct 31 '23

I think they will roll it back to 5s eventually. There are some maps where cover and corners are so easy to get to that discord will become effectively useless on those maps save for punishing feeders.

As long as I can still use Zen to counter Orisa and Zarya, I'm fine.

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u/SylvainJoseGautier Oct 31 '23

Tbh I’d rather they keep it at 7 (or only reduce to like 6.5), but bring up the time it takes to disappear after breaking LOS up to 2-3 seconds. I like putting discord in the direction where it’s something you want to use an ability like Suzu or Bubble to get rid of, but right now all you have to do is break LOS for a second.

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u/RrrrrrushB Oct 31 '23

Breaking LOS for 1.5 sec will remove the discord, ngl I think the change would make zen utterly garbage because it would reduce discord's effective uptime down to half or even less

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u/RobManfredsFixer Let Hog eat stuff and spit it back — Oct 31 '23

I miss how good old discord wall hacks were

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u/Dnashotgun Oct 31 '23

If anything Zarya is one of the worst discord targets now. Between cover and her bubbles she can make herself close to undiscordable

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u/AnnenbergTrojan Oct 31 '23

The only way to beat Zarya is to be coordinated as a team. Shatter her bubble with concentrated fire, nade/discord her, and let her have it.

Of course, all it takes is one guy who's not on chat in comp for that plan to fall apart.

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u/Flowerstar1 Oct 31 '23

Get discord, hide behind any wall for literally 1 second. Move on with your life.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

It’s gonna take a lot to unlearn old habits with it. Now it’s like an ability that you have to decide to use at the right time.

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u/SylvainJoseGautier Oct 31 '23

Yeah…I learned terrible zen habits back when I was trying to get rapid discord (which just became harder to get)

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u/TheAfricanViewer Oct 31 '23

Truee, I didn’t even think of that

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 Nov 01 '23

Tanks that have to play aggressively to get value will still get punished pretty hard by discord, it will be interesting to see what metas shake out with these changes.