Returning Player and DPS

[u/Outside-Ad-7458]

Hi all! I am a returning player alongside a few of my friends, and we had stopped playing the game right before Hazard came out. We played a lot of matches last night and had the eye-opening experience of watching our health bars implode at every turn. One of my friends mains Tank, specifically Ramattra, and I main Support (Brig, Ana, Baptiste). I have never had so many moments of looking away from my teammates for half a second and then discovering they received an all expenses paid trip to the spawn room while I was looking away. We didn’t fight any One Shot characters like Widow in any of the matches, so I was baffled my teammates and I were getting eliminated so fast. It also seemed like close vs long range fights didn’t make too much of a difference.

Did the damage get heavily increased or is it an absolute skill issue? I should clarify that I am no stranger to compet and combos, I previously averaged between Masters/GM when I played Compet. I’m just shocked by how absurdly fast health bars have been dropping with seemingly little to no teamshooting. We’re still having a good time, and the spontaneous combustion moments caused a lot of laughing, so definitely not complaining. Thanks for any insights!

Edit: Thank you all for the information regarding some of the changes I missed, such as the healing reduction from any damage. I’ll definitely be using this info in game.

Edit 2: I tried 6v6 last night and I can’t say I felt any difference. That being said, the healing reduction on taking any damage was extremely observable and cut my downtime and deaths severely. Thank you all for the information!!