Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – Jan 23, 2020

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Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – Jan 23, 2020

A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform.

Damage reduced from 70 to 60

Base health increased from 200 to 250

Recovery time increased from 0.42 to 0.5 seconds

Firing Deadeye no longer locks the player’s aim

Healing amount reduced from 40% to 30% of damage dealt

Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds

Snare duration reduced from 1 to 0.65 seconds

Range reduced from 22 to 20 meters

Can now be interrupted before targets begin falling

Impact slow duration reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 seconds

Explosion damage reduced from 60 to 40

Recovery time increased from 0.36 to 0.45 sec

Gr4phix on January 23rd, 2020 at 23:52 UTC »

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PATCH IS 1.44, THE PATCH OWL IS ON

-MS-94- on January 23rd, 2020 at 23:46 UTC »

These are the faster balance updates that Jeff was talking about then. The dev update will shed more light on it.

MrMandolino on January 23rd, 2020 at 23:40 UTC »

Yo McCree to 250 HP what

Edit: dang those are some interesting Sigma nerfs

Edit edit: dang those are some interesting everything nerfs