Overwatch Update 2.04

New Seasonal Event: Year of the Rooster

Grab your friends, family, and loved ones and get ready to ring in the Year of the Rooster.

Overwatch’s Lunar New Year celebrations have begun and, for the next three weeks, we hope this seasonal event brings you happiness, prosperity, and (most importantly) lots of fun! Collect more than 100 seasonal cosmetic items from our special Lunar Loot Boxes, enjoy a festive fireworks display on Lijiang Tower, and get ready to capture the flag in Overwatch’s newest brawl. To learn more, click here.

General Updates

General

The “Stay as Team” button now lights up when anyone on your team clicks it

Players can now join Team Chat from the Hero Select screen (Push “RB” on the Xbox One controller and push “R1” on the PlayStation 4 controller)

Crouch now has a very small cooldown between uses

Communication Wheel

Players can now equip up to 4 emotes, sprays, and voice lines from within the hero gallery

Voice line and emote submenus can be accessed from within the Communication wheel

Players can now bind individual sprays, emotes, and voice lines to mouse buttons, unique keys, or controller buttons

Kill Feed

Hero ability icons are now displayed in the Kill Feed

Headshot eliminations are now indicated with a red icon

Hero Balance Updates

D.Va

Health increased from 200 to 400

Armor decreased from 400 to 200

Fusion Cannons: Bullet damage decreased from 3 to 2, Number of bullets per shot has been increased from 8 to 11

Lucio

New Hero Option: Allow Backwards Wall Ride – When enabled, allows Lucio to start wall riding while moving backwards.

Roadhog

Chain Hook

Targets are now pulled directly in front of Roadhog (rather than straight to him), except in cases where Roadhog drastically rotates

Hooked targets are now released if they leave Roadhog’s line of sight before being pulled

Line of sight checks (which determines if targets are hit by the hook) are now done from Roadhog’s position, rather than the hook’s position

Bug Fixes

General

Fixed a bug allowing spectators to utilize the “Stay as Team” button during the end of a game

Fixed a bug that caused the “Stay as Team” button to overlap with the Back button on the Social menu

Fixed a bug preventing the Social menu from not correctly displaying World of Warcraft zones that have an apostrophe in the name

Fixed a bug causing heroes to display a T-pose on the victory screen after a Mystery Heroes brawl

Fixed a bug preventing Simple Checkout from being navigated by a controller on PC

Fixed a bug preventing Alt+Tab from properly minimizing the game client while in fullscreen mode

Fixed a bug preventing the Kill Feed from displaying the destruction of Teleporters, Shield Generators, and Turrets

Heroes

Fixed a visual bug with Ana’s “Toast” victory pose, causing her cup to appear blurry on the right side of the screen

Fixed a bug causing a graphics issue with McCree’s “Hat Trick” emote

Fixed a bug preventing the countdown timer from appearing on Mei’s Cryo-Freeze ability

Fixed a bug with the placement of Mercy’s wings on her Valkyrie and Sigrún skins

Fixed a bug preventing Symmetra’s Photon Barrier from playing its destruction sound effect when it is destroyed

Fixed a bug causing Tracer’s “You Got It” voice line to play an incorrect line

Fixed a bug preventing Widowmaker’s Venom Mine from attaching to walls

Fixed a bug preventing Zenyatta’s Nutcracker skin from receiving a golden glow while using his Transcendence ultimate ability

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Overwatch Update 2.04