NEWS

Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes

December 6, 2022

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