Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes

Season 2 of Overwatch 2 is upon us, and with it comes new patch notes balancing the heroes’ abilities, changing the map pool, and introducing the brand-new tank hero Ramattra. Here is everything you need to know about the Overwatch 2 Season 2 patch notes.

Introducing Ramattra

Overwatch 2 Season 2 brings one major addition to Blizzard’s FPS: the new tank hero, Ramattra. Created as a war machine, Ramattra’s goal is to create a better future for omnics. He became the leader of Null Sector, a violent militant omnic liberation group that players faced during King’s Row Uprising.

Ramattra is the first Overwatch 2 hero able to swap forms in the middle of a fight. His omnic form allows him to protect his teammates, while his nemesis form turns the tank hero into a powerful threat able to crush down his enemies.

Ramattra will make his debut in Overwatch 2 with the launch of Season 2. This hero unlocks at level 45 of the free Battle Pass, or immediately for those who purchase the premium version.

New Map: Shambali Monastery

On top of unlocking a new tank hero, Overwatch 2 Season 2 brings a new Escort map. The Shambali Monastery is located deep in the Himalayas and served as a refuge for omnics after the Omnic Crisis. While Zenyatta and Ramattra are already familiar with this place, Overwatch 2 players will discover it at the beginning of Season 2.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes

Control Game Mode

• Whenever a point is captured on Control, the team losing control of the point counts as having contested the point for the purposes of Overtime even if they were not present.
  • For example, if Team A has 99% and Team B has current control of the point, but then Team A takes back control of the point, Overtime will automatically trigger and start to burn down unless Team B can touch again.
  • At lower capture percentages this change will have no impact on the game mode, as this new rule is only applied for the purposes of Overtime

Hero Unlocks and Challenges

• Additional challenges for unlocking Junker Queen, Sojourn, and Kiriko
• 70+ player icon rewards have been added to challenges with the release of Season 2

Shop Update

• New Hero purchase tab in the Shop

Competitive Play

• New, temporary competitive title rewards for name cards based on players’ end-of-season rank, unlocked at the end of the current competitive season. Players can only use them in the following season.
• Heroes that aren’t eligible for competitive play will have a lock icon in the Hero Gallery
• Implemented a group of matchmaking enhancements to improve match quality
• Minor polish improvements to the competitive play UI flow
• New hero, Ramattra, won’t be available in competitive for 2 weeks

Hero Updates

Damage Role Passive

• No longer provides a movement speed bonus
• Reload speed bonus increased from 25 to 35%

Doomfist

Rocket Punch:

• Impact damage range (minimum-maximum) increased from 15-30 to 25-50 damage
• Wall slam damage range (minimum-maximum) reduced from 20-40 to 10-30 damage
• Empowered Rocket Punch wall slam stun duration range reduced from 0.5-1 to 0.25-0.75 seconds
• Non-Empowered Rocket Punch now stuns for the minimum 0.25-second duration on wall slam
• Empowered Rocket Punch knockback radius reduced from 4 to 3 meters
• Minimum time before cancel option becomes available reduced from 0.25 to 0.12 seconds
• Cooldown reduced from 4 to 3 seconds (this has been in since his rework but was not previously mentioned)

Power Block:

• Cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds
• Duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
• Minimum damage mitigated required to empower Rocket Punch reduced from 90 to 80 damage

Meteor Strike:

• Now empowers Rocket Punch on landing
• Enemy slow duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

“The Best Defense…” Passive:

• Maximum temporary health increased from 150 to 200 health
• Temporary health gained per target hit with abilities increased from 30 to 40 health

 

Junker Queen

• Torso and head hit volume size increased 12%

Rampage:

• Wound duration reduced from 5 to 4.5 seconds
• Ultimate cost reduced by 10%

Commanding Shout:

• Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds

“Adrenaline” Passive:

• Adrenaline passive healing multiplier increased from 1 to 1.25x damage dealt by wounds

Bastion

Configuration Artillery:

• Delay before projectile drops reduced from 1 to 0.6 seconds
• Explosion damage reduced from 300 to 250
• No longer deals explosion damage to self
• Minimum delay between placing shots reduced by 20%

Reconfigure:

• Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds

Sojourn

Railgun:

• Energy delay before draining reduced from 8 to 5 seconds
• Secondary fire damage falloff starting range reduced from 70 to 40 meters
• Secondary fire critical damage multiplier reduced from 2 to 1.5
• Secondary fire damage now scales linearly with energy from 30 to 130 damage (1 energy converts to 1 damage added)
• Primary fire damage per projectile increased from 9 to 10
• Overclock energy charge rate increased by 20%

Symmetra

Photon Projector:

• Beam charge rate and decay rate increased by 20%
• Primary fire ammo consumption rate increased from 7 to 10 per second
• Primary fire gains ammo from damaging barriers again

Tracer

Pulse Pistols:

• Damage increased from 5 to 6

Ana

Sleep Dart:

• Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds

Kiriko

• Arm hit volumes width reduced 15%
• Added an auto-wall climb hero option

Kitsune Rush:

• Ultimate cost increased by 10%
• Movement speed bonus reduced from 50 to 30%
• Cooldown rate reduced from 3 to 2 times faster

Protection Suzu:

• Cast time reduced from 0.15 to 0.1 second

Kunai:

• Ammo increased from 12 to 15

Swift Step:

• Ability input can now be held to activate

Mercy

• Weapon swap time reduced from 0.5 to 0.35 seconds

Caduceus Blaster:

• Ammo increased from 20 to 25

Overwatch 2 Season 2 Map Pool

Push

• New Queen Street – Morning
• Colosseo – Evening
• Esperança – Morning

Hybrid

• Blizzard World – Overcast (new)
• Eichenwalde – Evening
• King’s Row – Evening
• Midtown – Morning
• Paraíso – Morning

Escort

• Dorado – Evening
• Junkertown – Morning
• Circuit royal – Night
• Rialto – Morning
• Route 66 – Night
• Shambali Monastery – Night (new map)

Control

• Busan – Night
• Ilios – Evening
• Lijiang Tower – Dawn
• Nepal – Evening (new)
• Oasis – Morning (new)

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a bug that was causing Roadhog’s breaths to not be audible when viewing some animations in the Hero Gallery
• Fixed a bug that caused some players to lose competitive challenge progress
• Resolved an issue where several products couldn’t be unlocked from the Hero Gallery
• Fixed an issue with the Lifesaver Challenge not counting Mercy’s Resurrect as a ‘Save’
• Resolved an issue with purchases not immediately showing up after purchase
• Fixed a bug with Torbjörn and Symmetra’s turrets displaying hostile red overlays in Deathmatch for the player that placed them

Maps

Busan

• Fixed an area of the map where players could get stuck

Colosseo

• Fixed geometry that allowed some heroes to contest undetected

Esperança

• Fixed some areas that could be used to escape the playable space
• Fixed geometry that allowed some heroes to contest undetected

Gibraltar

• Fixed lighting issues across the map
• Fixed some areas where Torbjörn could place his turret in unreachable spots

Nepal

• Replaced some missing pillars on Sanctum

Rio

• Fixed a bug that allowed some heroes to get inside of the payload

Route 66

• Fixed lighting issues across the map

New Queen Street

• Fixed some issues with shadows across the map
• Fixed an area of the map where players could get stuck

Heroes

• Heroes no longer take damage from their own abilities if they’re on the other side of a friendly barrier
• Fixed an issue with the Damage Passive where sometimes a double reload animation could occur when the buff was active

Cassidy

• Resolved an issue with some skins using the wrong props in the ‘Flashbang’ victory pose

Doomfist

• Fixed an issue where Doomfist’s Power Block reduced the damage from some area of effect abilities
• Meteor Strike – You can no longer detect Sombra if the targeting reticle gets near her

D.Va

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to use Self-Destruct during their Mech’s destruction while Hacked

Junker Queen

• Jagged Blade can no longer be recalled while slept, stunned, hacked or frozen
• Fixed an issue with Jagged Blade being consumed by friendly abilities like Deflect, Defense Matrix, etc.
• Jagged Blade now takes a curved trajectory on return

Mercy

• Guardian Angel now correctly resets its cooldown if Valkyrie is used
• Guardian Angel ‘cancel boost’ is now disabled when Mercy is stunned

Moira

• Junkrat’s Trap no longer displays at chest height in first person when using Fade

Pharah

• Fixed a bug that reduced the ult cost of Rocket Barrage

Soldier 76

• Fixed an issue where Soldier 76 was unable to critical hit max range enemies during Tactical Visor

Symmetra

• Fixed a bug that resulted in all VO being cut out when taking the Teleporter

Tracer

• Fixed a big causing her Pulse Pistol damage falloff to not start until max range

Winston

• Resolved an issue with the Werewolf skin and the ‘Excuse me’ highlight intro turning Winston red in the Hero Gallery

Zenyatta

• Fixed an issue with melee not correctly animating if used to cancel alternate fire