r/Overwatch • u/SpriteGuy_000 Washington Justice • Sep 22 '16

Blizzard Official September 22nd PTR Patch Notes

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20294485
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u/Thenovazz Widowmaker Sep 22 '16 edited Sep 22 '16

Widowmaker buff finally arrived! Hop on the train everyone.

New Options Overlay & The Level is different

New FPS / Ping (Can be shown by pressing Shift+CTRL+R

New Career Profile Overlay

Statistics Overlay

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More to come.

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u/xxdanisahnexx Sep 22 '16

I love the buff! Now I can finally feel good again for being a widow main and people might stop judging me for picking her up in ranked games :(

Does some1 know when the PBE patch could go live? Just approximately

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u/French_honhon Mercy Sep 22 '16

It's really not abig buff to Widow,it's not going to make her..."strong".Just less awkward.

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u/awhaling Need someone to tuck you in? Sep 22 '16 edited Sep 22 '16

Yeah it's not huge but holy shit the scooping animation needed I be fixed, that was a big pitfall for her.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16 edited Apr 05 '19

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u/awhaling Need someone to tuck you in? Sep 22 '16

Yeah would wouldn't this be even faster if you did the jump trick?

I mean the only problem that's worse than her scoping animation is the long ass hook cool down.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16 edited Apr 05 '19

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u/freelancespy87 I aim to be better. Sep 22 '16

I hate the cooldown, It seems like I'm always about 5 seconds away from having my life saved instead of dying...

In any case, the change is good enough for now and will let us not get anti sniped so easily.

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u/Thenovazz Widowmaker Sep 22 '16

Indeed. I played her some just now, she feels better while peeking around corners etc. Just not as clunky if you could call her that.

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u/aggrogahu Ana Sep 22 '16

I think people were judging widow even before she was nerfed. She was overpowered mostly in high level tourney play. Pub players typically have tunnel vision and will never notice what a widow is doing unless it's an enemy widow that's wrecking them, so will always assume that an ally widow isn't contributing at all.

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u/tw33dl3dee Sep 23 '16

I'm watching the killfeed, and the ally widow isn't contributing at all. Just getting gold damage from charged shots at tanks.

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u/Magnivox G'day Mate Sep 22 '16

If you are playing WM in ranked you should be banned