This week Andres and Rob get Blevins and DeathBlow back on from High Noon Productions to hang out and talk about all things pre-blizzcon, news, new PTR, and more!

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• Con Before the Storm - Overwatch Panel Nov. 1, 10pm-11pm (4th Floor, Anaheim Hilton)

  • IcySorrow, Blevins, BlazzinBob, TotemlyDrunk, iPlaiGames, notrob

Overwatch News:

• New Torb is Live in Comp to finish our season! Thoughts?

  • Kit Refresher:

  • Molten Core: New Ult LAVA

  • Overload: 150 armor, faster movement & shooting/reloading 30% for 5s

  • Deploy Turret: Lv. 2 Always, self-builds, throwable, targets enemies you shoot

  • Rivet Gun: Single Faster Projectile & reload speed

  • Rivet Gun: Shotgun Lower dmg but faster speed & recovery, new spread

• Season 12 is over!! Oct. 29th at 00:00 UTC (5:00pm PDT)

• Season 13 kickoff is Nov. 1 at 00:00 UTC (5:00pm PDT Oct. 31)

• Rewards reminders:

  • SR 1-1499 (Bronze): 65 CP

  • SR 1500-1999 (Silver): 125 CP

  • SR 2000-2499 (Gold): 250 CP

  • SR 2500-2999 (Platinum): 500 CP

  • SR 3000-3499 (Diamond): 750 CP

  • SR 3500-3999 (Master): 1200 CP

  • SR 4000-5000 (Grandmaster): 1750 CP

• Comp Team Death-Match returns for the offseason!

  • First to 30 kills with 4v4 teams

• The new Story Discussion Forum section has released, people going nuts

  • Speculations abound: New Story mode? New events? Single-player content?

• World Cup Predictions

  • UK vs USA

  • AUS vs SKR

  • Winners faceoff (loser to 3rd place)

  • CN vs FIN

  • CAN vs FR

  • Winners faceoff (loser to 3rd place)

Discussion Points: PTR 10/23/18 HERO UPDATES

• General - All

  • Made jump height consistent across hero roster

• Mercy - Valkyrie

  • Ultimate cost reduced 15%

  • Healing per second increased from 50 to 60

• Dev Comments: Mercy’s ultimate was charging a bit too slowly after her base healing was reduced in a previous update. These changes should restore some of her ultimate’s strength and let it build up more quickly.

• Reaper

  • Hellfire Shotguns - Spread randomization reduced by 50%

  • NOTE: This is currently a nerf, and Jeff said they’re updating PTR with an adjustment

  • The Reaping (Passive) - Life steal increased from 20% to 30% of damage dealt

• Dev Comments: Reaper’s specialty is fighting at a very close range. The more consistent spread pattern and increase in healing from his passive ability will make him more capable of standing toe-to-toe with his enemies.

• Roadhog

  • Chain Hook

    • Decreased the delay before pulling a hooked target from 0.5 seconds to 0.3 seconds

    • Now greatly reduces the target’s momentum upon being hooked

    • Cooldown now begins immediately, instead of after the target has been pulled

  • Scrap Gun

    • Spread pattern adjusted for both primary and secondary fire

    • Spread randomization reduced by 50%

  • Whole Hog

    • Knockback maximum velocity increased by 25% (from 8 to 10 meters per second)

    • Horizontal recoil decreased slightly

  • Dev Comments: Roadhog is receiving several large changes to make his abilities more consistent. His Chain Hook had issues with breaking when enemy targets jumped or fell behind environment collision. It will now slow them down in the air more when the hook lands, and wait less time before it starts reeling them in. Since Chain Hook’s cooldown now begins immediately upon use, so it no longer varies based on Roadhog’s distance to the hook target. We’ve also moved some of the projectiles closer to the center of the spread pattern on his Scrap Gun, which gives him a more consistent damage output for its primary and alternate fire. Previously, there was a long-standing bug that caused close-range targets to fly much further than expected. After this bug was fixed, we still wanted to keep some of the knockback burst it provided, so we’ve increased the overall velocity cap to maintain some of that functionality.

• Symmetra - Photon Projector

  • Primary fire beam charges up 20% faster

  • Dev Comments: It’s still difficult to use Symmetra’s Photon Projector beam effectively, even after its range was increased. By speeding up the primary fire charge rate, it takes less time to ramp up to its full damage potential and will be a stronger option when she’s presented with targets to charge up on.

BUG FIXES

• Doomfist

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Doomfist’s Rising Uppercut from damaging enemies

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Doomist’s Seismic Slam from dealing damage if he hit by a knockback ability the moment he landed

• Orisa

  • Fixed bug that prevented Orisa’s Fortify from canceling Doomfist’s Rising Uppercut air control effects

• Roadhog

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Chain Hook from going on cooldown if it was interrupted before the chain retracted

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Chain Hook from destroying breakable objects when pulling the target backward

  • Fixed a bug that caused Roadhog’s Whole Hog visual effects to cover a wider area than the spread of projectiles

• Symmetra

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Symmetra to charge up her primary weapon on enemy ice walls

• Zarya

  • Fixed a bug that allowed heroes to charge through a Graviton Surge without getting trapped

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