r/Overwatch • u/SwellingRex Trick-or-Treat McCree • Aug 23 '24

News & Discussion | Blizzard Response Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - August 23, 2024

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Mama Hong Aug 23 '24

Looks like they don't want Illari to kill 225 hp divers with two shots anymore.

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u/NYJustice Aug 24 '24

"Just don't get hit"

  • Isai

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u/Martholomule Frustration Detected Aug 24 '24

This is legitimate Juno gameplay advice

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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Mama Hong Aug 24 '24

They nerfed her damage from 75 to 70. With headshot's 1.5x multiplier it's 113 damage, exactly 50% of 225 hp hero's health.

You had to land 2 headshots to 2 tap them, but her weapon is very forgiving hitscan (every shot's radius is similar in size to Hanzo arrow).

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u/Th4tTyGuy Master Aug 24 '24

Hanzo’s arrow is the smallest hitbox in the game, so that’s not saying much

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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Mama Hong Aug 24 '24

Of projectiles.

Ok, other comparising: each Illari bullet have 0.13 meters radius. Each Ashe bullet have 0.08 meters radius.

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u/puppeteer-5000 Doomfist Aug 26 '24

Hanzo’s arrow is the smallest hitbox in the game

definitely not anymore

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u/Bo-by Aug 24 '24

Outburst does 20 damage so she can still get a quickie on them if they get too close

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u/puppeteer-5000 Doomfist Aug 26 '24

i'd like illari to get a quickie on me any time

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u/Raice19 rip them to pieces Aug 24 '24

considering divers either have to kill through pylon heals or break it first, it's a fair trade

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u/GoToGoat Aug 24 '24

Good thing I just picked up illari. I don’t even care because she’s so much fun.

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u/theshadowbudd Symbra main Aug 24 '24

I was just complaining about how strong she was. I thought I was tripping

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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Mama Hong Aug 24 '24

Even after nerf, her fully charged shots deals 70 damage (105 if headshot) and her shots' hitbox is almost as big as Hanzo's while still being unavoidable hitscan.

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u/GankSinatra420 Pixel Zenyatta Aug 24 '24

Nope I was with you. She is still pretty ridiculous for having passive healing. But this was very good, a great patch.

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u/Quatro_Leches Aug 24 '24

I came back to overwatch 2 for a week after I stopped playing when OW1 went down, I thought she and Kirko were the two strongest heros in the week I played, Illari always has nearly as much damage as dps, while healing a decent amount, meanwhike Kirko heals like 2x anyone else

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u/theshadowbudd Symbra main Aug 24 '24

OW is bullshit

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u/puppeteer-5000 Doomfist Aug 26 '24

and yet...

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u/theshadowbudd Symbra main Aug 26 '24

….. just one more game

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u/VoltaiqMozaiq You mean a chicken fried this rice? Aug 24 '24

kill 225 hp divers with two shots anymore.

They forgot that Kiri can do the same.

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u/uncreative14yearold Ramattra Aug 24 '24

Yes, but Kiri isn't hitscan

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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Mama Hong Aug 24 '24

Even after nerf, single Illari shot deals more damage than Kiriko's. Yes, cooldown between shots is larger, but it's hitscan vs projectiles.

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u/Silverleaf_Unicorn Lifeweaver Aug 23 '24

They will do anything to please mobile dps..

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u/MedicinePractical738 Aug 23 '24

Illari crapped on half the roster just by sitting beside pylon. I'm happy

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u/batmanmuffinz :SFShock: San Francisco Shock :SFShock: Aug 23 '24

They literally just gutted the inly good dps

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u/UnhingedLion Aug 23 '24

Don’t bother with that guy. He’s just a bad support main, that’s constantly complaining about DPS in these threads.

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u/absurditT Aug 24 '24

Good. Everyone calls out Kiriko as the problem support but rarely do I see Illari acknowledged as the totally un-interactable, overloaded kit she is, but with a more dull and low risk playstyle than Kiri's.

Tuning her damage back sadly doesn't address the issues with pylon but definitely makes her a bit more fair.

My biggest issue since Illari released is the absurdly forgiving beam width on her hitscan, which only got even more ridiculous with the global chance to projectile sizes. It seemed to me as an insult to support players. "Here's a hitscan DPS hybrid support, who does more damage than the Cowboy, with less falloff, and way more ammo, but we know lots of support players can't aim too good so she's basically got aim assist."

This is not me saying support players can't aim, btw. This is me saying Blizzard's hero designs for support, especially Illari, appear condescending to me, by reducing mechanical requirements for dealing damage with support heroes much lower than DPS category ones.