Personally, this one isn’t that noticeable as someone who plays a lot of Orissa. Orissa’s Augmented Fusion Driver now damages less at 15 meters as opposed to 25. He feels good, even with these changes, he doesn’t feel much different if at all. His Earthshatter direct hit damage has been reduced to 170 while increasing the knockdown duration to 2.75 seconds. His charge cooldown has gone down to 7 seconds and his fire strike damage has increased to 100 from 90. Reinhardt also had some significant changes as well. She is, without a doubt, a lot easier to kill. I am not a Mercy player and I can feel these changes. These changes are meant to force her to heal others more instead of damage boosting as much as players have been doing. She will now self heal equal to 25% of her output. She’s also losing the ability to heal over time that all the other support heroes have. Mercy’s healing per second is being reduced to 45, but will also be increased 50% for teammates under half health. Her movement ability cooldown is going down a full second to 2.5 seconds. I haven’t personally played the new system, but less time between rank changes is a good idea. I think this is still too much and it should go back to Overwatch 1’s ranking system, but it is a step in the right direction. Season 3 is reducing the numbers to 5 wins or 15 losses. In seasons 1 and 2, you needed 7 wins or 20 losses to get an initial rank, then the same number to either rank up or down. There’s some big competitive changes as well. Also when playing game modes where you can have more than one tank, all tank health will be reduced. When changing heroes, your ultimate charge will be reduced to 25% as opposed to the 30% it previously was. These credits can be used to purchase skins that were available in Overwatch 1. Previously called Legacy Credits, these weren’t able to be earned in Overwatch 2 and were instead carried over from the previous game. Legacy credits are now earnable in the Battle Pass. Previously you couldn’t see the scoreboards unless you were playing back a game. Speaking of after games, you can now view scoreboards from your previous matches in the View Game Reports screen. This means that if you are in a full party, you still have thee option and ability to endorse and be endorsed after games. Players can now endorse members of the opposing team. All in all, this seems pretty useless compared to other games’ streamer mode. It is a client side option, so your name will not be hidden from other players, just hidden on your stream. This will hide yours and others’ names while streaming Overwatch. Players can activate streamer protect from the in-game settings. The map is pretty similar to the training area and if you spent a lot of time there, it will feel very familiar. The map features penguins and an area where you can attack water and have fish fly out of it. As its name implies, it takes place in the Antarctic. There is a new map called Antarctic Peninsula. Blizzard has also revealed that starting in season 4, they are removing the map pool and that all maps will be available going forward. Though there is no hero, there are map and other changes, including some pretty major Mercy changes. Season 3 of Overwatch 2 is here and it is the first one without a new hero.
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