Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes REVEALED

Published: Dec 06, 2022, 7:09 pm Updated: Dec 07, 2022, 3:19 pm

The official Overwatch 2 Season 2 patch notes have been revealed.

From the addition of Ramattra and changes to a number of heroes to bug fixes and additions to the map rotation, there's a lot to sift through.

Here are the Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes Revealed.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 Patch Notes Revealed

General Game Updates

Control maps

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.

Heroes and cosmetics

Hero Challenges added for Junker Queen, Sojourn, and Kiriko
More than 70 player icons added as Challenge rewards
Hero purchase tab added to the in-game shop

Competitive

Rewards for name cards added based on end-of-season rank, can only be used in the following season
Heroes not eligible to be played in Competitive will appear with a lock in the Hero Gallery
Changes to matchmaking to improved match quality
Minor polish improvements to the competitive play UI flow
Ramattra unavailable to be picked in Competitive for two weeks

Competitive Play

Season 2 competitive play begins now! Here are some updates we’re introducing to competitive:

There are new, temporary Competitive title rewards for name cards based on your end of season rank
You can only earn these titles at the end of the current Competitive season and can only use them in the season following
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 Balance Changes

Tank

Ramattra

Void Accelerator (Omnic Form)

Primary: Fire a stream of projectiles in a fixed pattern
Secondary: Create a barrier at the targeted location

Nemesis Form

Transform into Nemesis Form, changing your attacks and gaining bonus armor

Pummel (Nemesis Form)

Primary: Punch forward, creating a wave of piercing energy with every swing
Secondary: Significantly reduces damage taken from the front and reduces movement speed

Ravenous Vortex

Fire a nano ball, which explodes when it hits the ground, spreading a damaging field. Affected enemies are slowed and pulled downward

Annihilation

Enter Nemesis Form and create an energy swarm surrounding yourself. This swarm will lash out towards nearby enemies, dealing damage and pausing the duration when damage is dealt.

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 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...

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

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 Rush

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

Damage

Damage Role Passive

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

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

Proton 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

Support

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

Season 2 Map Pools

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