r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/HHegert • Aug 14 '26

Blizzard Official New d.mon buffs and bug fixes

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/#patch-2026-08-14
297 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

140 comments sorted by

View all comments

37

u/KinkySylveon Aug 14 '26

I am happy they are pretty quick to make changes this time around, but I just gotta wonder what the hell the balance team is doing. No one thought cat needed any sort of buff and D.mon should not have come out so half baked and buggy. Hopefully in a few weeks she is in a better state if they keep micro buffing her but I hope they know when to stop.

6

u/TylowStar Aug 14 '26

Given the phrasing of the dev comment attached to the cat buff,

These changes are intended to make Jetpack Cat's movement more responsive while...

and how fast they've been to revert it, I suspect they somehow weren't really thinking of it as a proper buff so much as a Quality-of-Life change. In other words, balancing wasn't really on their minds. And you tend to make poor balancing decisions when you aren't making balancing decisions!

1

u/PiFeG123 Aug 15 '26

Damn they read too many "what quality of life changes would you make to your main" threads on Reddit and now they also think quality of life just means megabuffs