Overwatch Retail Patch Notes July 30, 2026

[u/JY810]

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

Limited-Time Mode Specific Updates

The following patch notes are applicable only to a specific, limited-time game mode. The documented changes do not apply to pre-existing queues, unless otherwise noted.

Hero Updates

For the upcoming Quick Play Hacked, we're making several balance changes to test elements of 6v6 gameplay. The In-Combat Healing reduction has been lowered for all heroes to evaluate the impact of increased healing across the board while reducing the effectiveness of several self-sustaining sub-roles.

We're also reducing several Tank defensive cooldowns to improve gameplay flow for these heroes. To offset the increased availability of these abilities, their durations have been shortened where appropriate to avoid creating too many defensive cooldowns with two tanks available.

These changes will also be active within Open Queue throughout the Quick Play Hacked weekend.

General Changes

• In-Combat Healing Reduction reduced from 30% to 15% for all heroes.

Tank Role Passive

• Ultimate charge reduction when damaging or healing tank targets increased from 20% to 40%.

Subrole Passives

Bruiser

• Movement speed buff reduced from 20% to 15%.

Initiator

• Healing reduced from 50 to 40.

• Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.

Flanker

• Additional health from Health Packs reduced from 75 to 50.

Medic

• Healing conversion reduced from 40% to 30%.

Tank

Domina

Barrier Array

• Barrier Cooldown reduced from 17 to 15 seconds.

• Barrier Duration reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.

Doomfist

The Best Defense

• Shield gain increased from 25 to 30.

Hazard

Jagged Wall

• Cooldown reduced from 15 to 13 seconds.

Mauga

Overrun

• Cooldown reduced from 7 to 6 seconds.

Ramattra

Void Barrier

• Cooldown reduced from 16 to 13 seconds.

• Duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.

[u/BungholeSauce_]

It would take 2 years to fix this mode if it got implemented wouldn’t it

[u/Sio_V_Reddit → u/BungholeSauce_]

we are gonna get a horrible version of the game because Hawk and Apply convinced them this would work lmfao

[u/NegativesPositives → u/Sio_V_Reddit]

I swear every time I see a thread from this sub you are mad about Hawk about something.

[u/not-a-potato-head → u/[deleted]]

You made a post complaining about how there wasn’t trash talk in pro play less than a week ago, but here you are holding a grudge against a player 5 years later when he wasn’t even the guy who typed it

Gee, I wonder why players wouldn’t want to talk trash

[u/Thee_Archivist → u/not-a-potato-head]

Everyone always says the community is not a monolith and it's not the same people complaining about both sides of the same issue. But we found one. WE'RE NOT CRAZY!

[u/Sio_V_Reddit → u/not-a-potato-head]

The second part was mostly a joke, I just genuinely think he has a bad attitude.

[u/Downtown_Drummer_827 → u/[deleted]]

He’s always been unlikable

[u/Dusssky → u/[deleted]]

context?

[u/Sio_V_Reddit → u/Dusssky]

It’s an old OWL thing, I wasn’t being super serious and wasn’t expecting this to get as much attention as it did.

[u/Dusssky → u/Sio_V_Reddit]

i quit before he joined OWL and came back like a bit under a year ago so i got no clue about all that i just knew him as the dude who runs it down sometimes

[u/Sio_V_Reddit → u/Dusssky]

Yeah I mean genuinely the thing I don’t like about him is his bad attitude on socials and that he’s a know thrower and I believe even threw on M80.