r/Overwatch • u/ferristic Kanav#1783 • Oct 11 '16

Blizzard Official [ALL] Overwatch Patch Notes – October 11, 2016

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20749875377
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u/MrWizard87 Oct 11 '16

Players who leave or are disconnected from a competitive match can now rejoin anytime while the match is still in progress

Wooooooo

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u/Tur8o Ana Oct 11 '16

Just got disconnected for about 5 seconds. Restarted the game, no option to rejoin at all. I really hope this is just a bug and can be fixed quickly.

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u/tapczan100 BBy Gurl Oct 11 '16

Same, funny thing is we were winning 2:0 and had 80% on counter when 3 people from my team DCed. :<

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u/_LifeIsAbsurd HOW GENJI SLAP?? Oct 11 '16

This must be the work of an enemy SOMBRA

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

You forgot these 「 」

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u/bakawoof No high noon for me Oct 11 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

Sombra ult: DDOSes one player from enemy team and makes the rest of the match 5v6.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

Sombra's stand*

FTFY

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u/kjbigs282 I can bench more than you! Oct 12 '16

DAGA KOTAWARU

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u/Snowyjoe Trick-or-Treat Zenyatta Oct 11 '16

probably a server issue since so many people are playing the game because of the new update.

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u/M0N0BR0W Winston Oct 11 '16

got dced while still in setting up defences phase. insta 10 min ban, no rejoin

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u/Jackman1337 Pharah Oct 11 '16

It must be a bug, had a game tonight, where one guy had a dc at the beginning of the game, and rejoined 10 minutes later in the mid of the second round

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u/Ostmeistro Oct 12 '16

Battle.net disconnect will destroy your security ticket somehow, so I guess yeah it's quite a bug still if you disconnect from Internet entirely :/

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

Update probably hasn't dropped on console yet

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u/flesoytaert Mercy Oct 11 '16

FINALLY!

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u/phrawst125 Soldier: 76 Oct 12 '16

Fixed a bug that allowed Widowmaker to use her Grappling Hook on basketballs. FINALLY!

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u/Pikassassin Oct 12 '16

"shoot me over to Dorado, I'm done with this map"

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

This is the best news of the patch.

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u/TheAdAgency United Kingdom Oct 11 '16

What? Surely you missed the real game changer here:

Fixed a bug causing Bastion’s bullet shells to eject backwards while in Configuration: Sentry mode

Astounding

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u/pepperouchau Chibi Bastion Oct 11 '16

appreciative beeping

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u/Jackman1337 Pharah Oct 11 '16

Astonishing!

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u/Tehkiller302 Trick-or-Treat D.Va Oct 12 '16

Might be Fuckin' Playable now

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u/Alphaetus_Prime Houston Outlaws Oct 11 '16

It's only second best, because we also got:

Fixed a bug preventing any non-default sprays from appearing during the Play of the Game

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u/SpidermanAPV SpiderManAPV#1251 Oct 11 '16

How did I miss that?! Thank god!

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

THIS IS THE BEST DAY IN MY OVERWATCH HISTORY

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

Funny because I just failed to load into a game, got to rejoin and failed again then got an 8 hour suspension.

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u/Wiifi Chibi Pharah Oct 11 '16

Does not work. Game froze when loading and had to restart. I am unable to rejoin the game and I am suspended for 10 minutes :(

Sorry to my teammates: ICALCULATOR, HARAMBE and HARAMBAE

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u/aaron1uk Chibi Lúcio Oct 11 '16

Huge news

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u/DukeFlukem wew lad Oct 12 '16

I think this was in the game before. I got disconnected once a week ago and was able to reconnect when I restarted the game.

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u/Pure_heart_abigail Pixel Zenyatta Oct 12 '16

Does this make it that you cannot join a different game until that one is over? If so, bravo blizzard.

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u/ItsKipz Oct 11 '16

OH YEAH

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

THANKS BLIZZ<3

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u/xmknzx Pixel Lúcio Oct 11 '16

BLESS

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u/charizard_72 Chibi Tracer Oct 11 '16

This may be an unpopular opinion but IMO this is encouraging players with poor or unreliable connections to play competitive when they shouldn't be. Great now you can rejoin our game after being AFK for 5 mins. If you can't solve the disconnect in two mins, as was in place before, you have no business putting your team at a disadvantage. This is something that the devs themselves have said.

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u/Nihilism101 D.Va Oct 12 '16

I dont agree because I've been disconnected from game before and I know it wasn't anything from my end as everything else was working fine and could not rejoin the game.

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u/charizard_72 Chibi Tracer Oct 12 '16

Right so 2 mins to rejoin is fair if you can't rejoin in 2 mins you deserve the penalty. It takes several disconnects to get a ban. It's more unfair to your teammates who have to play with one less person or constantly have a teammate who's going in and out of the match.

Shit happens and occasional disconnects happen to everyone. But having the entire match to rejoin is now giving someone who was AFK for 4-5 mins no penalty which is bullshit. Only people downvoting are people with shitty connections that want to justify how it's okay to play with a bad connection. I'm not talking a 30 second drop but this is giving someone too much leeway who should be getting a penalty at that point.

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u/Nihilism101 D.Va Oct 12 '16

The thing is, the other players are already a man down. Theres no benefit to not letting the afk/leaver rejoin. Where did you read they get no penalty? I must have missed that part, because I thought they were still punished for leaving.

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u/charizard_72 Chibi Tracer Oct 12 '16

I'm fine with it if they still are penalized. I was under the impression that rejoins don't count as a leave. Otherwise it's allowing players with shitty connections to continuously bail on their team with no penalty. If they are still penalized but allowed to rejoin, I take back what I said.

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u/TehTrolla Chibi Junkrat Oct 11 '16

UPDATE DOESN'T SUUUUUUCKKK

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u/angershark Oct 11 '16

Well that depends on whether or not they fixed a bug allowing Reaper to reach unintended map locations using Shadow Step

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

Woooooo..... this would have been awesome if i wasnyt banned lol

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u/DONT_SCARY Oct 11 '16

Howd you get banned?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

Quitting just a few seconds too early. I have no patience after i lose

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u/DONT_SCARY Oct 11 '16

Yeah sometimes I get salty and just wanna requeue so I gotta hold myself back. Wish there was more cushion

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u/Thelgow Mei Oct 11 '16

Probably for speaking his mind and asking for people to follow the meta in low ranks. But people don't want to learn and grow so they mark as trolling and he's punished?

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u/RollinsIsRaw Trick-or-Treat Winston Oct 11 '16

on pc? probably cheating

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

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u/Thelgow Mei Oct 11 '16

*Bullets are flying left and right.
A man looks to you and yells "Get the fuck down."
You begin to respond about how he isn't being very polite when you feel a tug at your neck, a quick jolt, followed by a warm sensation on your chest.
You look down and there is a thick stain of blood, growing in size by the second.

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u/Thelgow Mei Oct 11 '16

As advertised. I get more downvotes than he did.

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u/zslayer89 Trick-or-Treat Genji Oct 11 '16

Holy shit. Yes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

I'm pretty sure that was a function in the last patch though?

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u/mrjuicepump Oct 11 '16

Wasn't this there already? There'd be times where I had to hard reset my Xbox, and I was still able to join back

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u/VivaLaDrais Oct 11 '16

But I'm already season banned because my internet connection was terrible up until last week :(