The latest patch of Overwatch reduces Mercy’s chance for a “Play of the Game.” But there are more changes.
Playing as a healer is sometimes a rather thankless role in Overwatch. Either your team is just complaining because you “never heal” or you yourself are rolling from one puddle to the next because the team doesn’t care about the idea of “protecting the healer.” In any case, you’re always one thing: to blame.
To counteract this a bit, Blizzard turned the dials so that characters like Mercy would receive “Play of the Game” more often and thus get additional recognition. They obviously went overboard with that.
The latest patch, which has been active since yesterday (September 13, 2016), reduces the number of Mercy’s PotG moments, so there is now more variety again.
More changes in the latest Overwatch patch
However, some other things are also changing with the latest update:
The payload in Eichenwalde (the battering ram) now moves faster.
Reaper can now teleport to fewer “unintended” locations.
Aside from that, there is a fix intended to address that “some players received a skill rating that was significantly higher than their actual skill rating.” That is probably a pretty nice way to put it for some cases where someone with a skill rating of 0 was directly boosted to 5000.
Other bug fixes include display issues with Hanzo’s arrows, which were not displayed correctly. Additionally, an issue where Junkrat’s “Rip-Tire” (his ultimate) could not achieve statistical kills or awards was resolved.
You can find the full patch notes in the original English in our sources.
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