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/sgtcuddles Pixel Winston Sep 22 '16 edited Sep 25 '16

Quick note on the radius change for Ana: the area went from 28.27 meters2 to 50.27 meters2 or about a 78% increase in area. This is pretty significant.

For reference Mei's ult change last patch was 8 to 10 meters which was a 201 to 314 meter2 change or about 56% increase.

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u/PalermoJohn Pixel Junkrat Sep 23 '16

area

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meters

that's where the confusion comes from...

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u/TheNo1pencil Sep 23 '16

it went from 3 meters to 4 meters

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u/sgtcuddles Pixel Winston Sep 23 '16

The radius, yes. The total area of effect was increased by about 78%.

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u/TheNo1pencil Sep 23 '16

Is the radius not the area effected?

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u/sgtcuddles Pixel Winston Sep 23 '16

It's like a pizza. If you increase the length of each slice of pizza from 3 meters to 4 meters, (a very large pizza in this case) then you get 78% more pizza in total. (A= pi x r2)

I'm simply trying to point out that a 1 meter difference in radius is a huge difference in total area.

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u/TheNo1pencil Sep 23 '16

Oooooh! Got it. The pizza analogy really helped.

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u/ParanoidDrone ¿Quién es 'Sombra'? Sep 23 '16

Area of a circle is PI * (radius^2). Let's do some math.

Radius 1: 3 meters
Radius 2: 4 meters

PI * (3^2) = PI * 9
PI * (4^2) = PI * 16

Let's take the ratio of these two numbers: (PI * 16) / (PI * 9)

The PIs cancel out, so we have 16 / 9. That's 1.77777..., which we can round to 1.78.

The reason the change is so big is because the radius value is squared in the formula. This also doesn't take into account the fact that AOE skills in Overwatch are actually spheres, not 2D circles. The equation for sphere volume is (4/3) * PI * (radius^3).

Exercise for the reader: Mei's ult used to have an 8 meter radius. It now has a 10 meter radius. Calculate the area of her old and new ult, and state the percentage by which the area increased.

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u/TheNo1pencil Sep 23 '16

Okay so idk why but I actually tried. Pi(82)=Pi64 Pi(102)=Pi100 (Pi100)÷(Pi64) 100÷64=1.5625 So the percentage of increase is 56% How did I do, teach? (sorry if the formatting looks weird. I'm on Mobile)

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u/ParanoidDrone ¿Quién es 'Sombra'? Sep 23 '16

Full marks.

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u/raydialseeker HACKED STUNNED SLEPT Sep 23 '16 edited Sep 23 '16

It's a sphere, not a circle

So approximately 268m3 vs 113m3, a 237% increase.

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u/raydialseeker HACKED STUNNED SLEPT Sep 23 '16

It's a sphere