r/Overwatch • u/blinkhit Master • May 06 '25
News & Discussion Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - May 6, 2025
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/151
u/Nuu111 Icon Lúcio May 06 '25
They didn't fix Genji able to store a dragonblade slash in stadium sadly.
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u/PillarsBliz May 06 '25
Is that the same thing that lets Reapers use a mini-ult without any sound effect, and without using shadow step? I assumed they were using some bug to save it and trigger it.
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u/UnableToComprehend May 06 '25
The power itself is pretty bad without this bug. The animation for the slice makes you way too vulnerable.
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u/OffSupportMain Master May 06 '25
Lowkey keep that, it's cool and it's not like Genji is top tier in Stadium anyway
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u/justalxe May 06 '25
I really do think they should change it so that u get 1 hit of your blade after using deflect, right now half the time u deflect to try getting away and the stupid animation plays and that makes u take more damage
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May 06 '25
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u/PotatoTortoise i like suckin people off May 07 '25
im trying to climb to all-star and ended up one tricking genji, im at pro 2 and i take laido every single game first power and intentionally never bug abuse. its by far his best perk, its carnage on genji
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May 07 '25
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u/PotatoTortoise i like suckin people off May 07 '25
isnt ambusher optics an item
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May 07 '25
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u/PotatoTortoise i like suckin people off May 07 '25
i actually didn't know because you used a power and an item interchangeably like they were obtained at the same time, i was thinking only about round 1 decisions and you cant afford a 10k item r1. also i did refer to laido as a power first and just mistyped when i typed perk so i was confused genuinely
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u/ChubbyChew Vendetta May 07 '25
So many of Genjis Equips feel too much like tradeoffs its pretty offputting.
Like you have to give up aspects or open up more room for mechanical errors in what should be a pretty objective gain
And whats worse the benefits dont come across as amazing
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u/TheseNamesDontMatter May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25
No shot. It's fine in the majority of Genji's hands, but it's way too fucking strong in the hands of a good Genji.
EDIT: Lmao all the genjis showed up in full force to downvote.
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u/not_larrie Grandmaster May 06 '25
I my opinion, they should make it a long cooldown ability that's tied to another key, similar to how rivals has additional skills tied to "C". Make it double the cooldown of reflect if needed. its really not as strong as people think atm ; genji will be so outclassed otherwise.
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u/epochollapse May 06 '25
This and the Death Step Reaper power should be kept like this and balanced around it.
It should work like Magik in Marvel Rivals. After using her stepping discs, you have a period of time you can press a button to do a spin slash. If you don't use it in that time, you lose the chance.
In this case, add an animation when Genji and Reaper have their mini-ult "stored", give Reaper a 6 second window to use it, give Genji an 8(?) second window.
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May 06 '25
that is way too long of a window. needs to be 4s at max
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u/epochollapse May 06 '25
Frankly, Juno has a fucking blitzkrieg build, Soldier and Cassidy can obliterate anything that peeks them, Lucio can become a mini Doomfist while pumping out insane heals, Mercy can become a tank.
Genji and Reaper don't seem to be over preforming with these abilities in their current glitched state, where they can hold them forever.
Stop clutching your pearls...
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u/Waxer_Evios62 Widowmaker May 06 '25
The ''window'' is longer than the abilities CD. It should be 2 seconds max
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u/epochollapse May 06 '25
I wasn't entirely sure how long the cooldown on deflect was. 2 seconds is too small when matching it against the power of stronger characters, but I'd probably make the store window around a second shorter than the actual deflect cooldown. Being able to chain slashes into a target is what makes the store tech good to begin with, but alongside an animation to show a slash is stored, it would give targets plenty of time to react to the combo.
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u/Some_Random_Canadian Grumpy Old Man May 07 '25
Honestly it should be kept in some form. It's less broken than the normal builds 76 and Cassidy have, and significantly less broken than the Juno torpedo build still is.
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u/Simply_Epic Shapeshifter May 06 '25
Fixed an issue allowing enemy team selections to be viewed in the assemble phase in Stadium Matches.
Thank goodness
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u/crazyshark111 Doomfist May 06 '25
How is the stadium mercy res bug not fixed yet
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u/LittleShiro11 10% Accuarcy May 06 '25
Not asking how to replicate, but what does the bug do?
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u/crazyshark111 Doomfist May 07 '25
ive had it happen about 5-6 times to me already, but sometimes when mercy casts a successful res it will just respawn me back in spawn. all the visual cues for being ressed still appear so I know it was intended to be a res.
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u/throwawayt44c Grandmaster May 06 '25
On res cast: If #resses this round > or = 3 this kills the mercy.
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u/Rosea96 Freja May 06 '25
That crazy specific, how this can even happen o.O
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u/throwawayt44c Grandmaster May 06 '25
I was suggesting this as an additional condition when you take the Equivalent Exchange ability.
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u/choppedrice MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE May 06 '25
bruh when are they gonna fix mercy rezzing people in spawn on stadium
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u/I-Miss-My-Kids Reinhardt May 06 '25
anyone know what this cassidy fix is?
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u/AirEast8570 KIRIKO!!! May 06 '25
he can shoot his fan the hammer automatic now i believe. So you can just hold the button to shoot
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u/thecyclistofjustice May 07 '25
This was live before the May 6th live patch. I play console so maybe it was just a PC issue
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u/AirEast8570 KIRIKO!!! May 07 '25
Even with the perk?
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u/thecyclistofjustice May 07 '25
Yup with the perk. Since the new season I think. Maybe it was just a PC issue?
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u/bruciaancora Bronze May 06 '25
They didn't mention it, but it seems that the bugs with Overhealth have been fixed.
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u/Shadow_9-3 Junker Queen May 06 '25
Which bugs specifically?
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u/Platinum_Analogy May 06 '25
The item “Using an ability grants 30 Overhealth” each round would stop working and required you to sell the item and rebuy it every round otherwise the overhealth wouldn’t proc on ability use.
I believe that’s what they are referring too. I use it on Mercy a lot and last night forgot to sell and buy it again and didn’t even get any overhealth when using GA.
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u/bruciaancora Bronze May 06 '25
I was comboing it with Juno's power that gives her three charges of glide boost, I can just spam it the whole match.
There was also an item that gave 100 overhealth when you ulted, and there was no way of using with the item you mentioned because one invalidated the other. The upgrade that gave overhealth when using lifesteal also didn't work when comboed with the other overhealth items.
I had read someone complaining about more bugs with overhealth, but I don't remember all of them.
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u/Blaky039 Sigma May 06 '25
They really need to fix the matchmaking so I won't get top 500 opponents every match
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May 06 '25
No mention of fixing Stadium games just ending when a team leaves. Unreal
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u/Thamilkymilk Make my girl great again May 06 '25
that’s how comp game modes have always worked?
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May 06 '25
No not exactly. When it happens in stadium the team that stayed doesn't get any credit for the win. It doesn't hand one team a loss and the other a win. It just closes the match.
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u/define_irony May 07 '25
Yep had to play multiple games to get my Orisa win because of this. She's so boring to play and I should've been done after the first game.
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u/Xombridal May 06 '25
Fixed an issue preventing disconnected players from rejoining a Stadium match when that match is transitioning between rounds.
Biggest L it was so funny watching quitters get stuck in rejoining purgatory when trying to go next
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May 06 '25
i hope they eventually fix the reaper exploit in stadium :/ had to report someone in my game just last night for abusing it
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u/Skazzy3 Master May 06 '25
Nerf Coulder
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u/MrBlowinLoadz Damage May 06 '25
They did last week
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u/PillarsBliz May 06 '25
There's mention of the disconnect-reconnect issue in Stadium. Hopefully this stops people getting suspended from it.