TANKS BUFFED THROUGH THE ROOF - Overwatch 2 Mid-Season Patch Notes

mannnn the concussive blast kills were so fun thoooo

Mercy still gets ignored. 🙃 thats fine. Its not like she's gotten any spotlight these past 2 seasons or anything.

Great vid! I wonder if Samito agrees about Mauga!

What was team 4 smoking wtf

I love how even the most positive OW player is like "Guys... What're you doin?"
Dude, how do you make Emongg groan when he gets to Rein buffs? Lol.

thats fuckin great... i got banned till august the day before my boy Ball and ramattra got buffed

Rein idea. Reduce barrier health. Add a passive that covers damage dealt to barrier health. And like many suggested, a speed increase relative to barrier health.

Am I only one to be interested in the effects of this patch and not really hating it? I just on and played this patched played a few tanks, dps, and support, and got to say the feel and vibe is really different, not the gameplay loop but just vibe of the games. When playing tank, counterwatch felt less pervasive. My main reaper is complete shit, while pharaoh is terrifying, and I was actually allowed to be able to heal and support the dps, instead of babysitting the tanks as support.

Overall, my games were pretty good, maybe I haven't felt the full effects of the patch yet, just lucky, or maybe the patch has unintentionally put overwatch in a different place on the map, not really fix but not really making things worse.

Tank players tap in —>

If Ram gets played then he'll be countered by Mauga/Hog.
If Winston gets played he'll get countered by Hog/Mauga.
If Zarya gets played, she'll get countered by Winston and maybe Dva.
If Sig gets played, he'll get countered by Sig.
If Hog gets played, he'll get countered by Mauga.
If Dva gets played, she'll get countered by Zarya and quite probably Mauga.
If Rein gets played, he'll get countered by basically everyone.
If Ball gets played, he'll get countered by basically everyone.
Oh... and Orisa will get countered by everyone that's been powercreeped.
And Queen, I mean who plays her with everything being better than her.

ggs tank diff but in a different way this time

This patch is trash and the game is getting worse with each patch. Bring back 6v6!

isn't that mei in the pic? assuming space ranger and mei are friends

I feel the the 30 dmg ranged melee like boop did a lot for pharah. You fire one rocket hit a direct and then fired the boop instantly after the second rocket effectively 2 shotting your target. The boop makes it more of a skill shot in a 1v1 situation

Tanks are finally fun to play. But mauga got buffed to much

This is so bad

Characters like Dva and Reaper aren’t affected by this armor change. This affects heroes like Soldier 76 and Sojourn.

Why do people get excited about 100-400ms time differences, i get 500ms and above as its kind of noticeable but below that its almost not noticeable for your average gamer to react and use that as an advantage, these feel like developers ocd, just keeps changing between 0.1 to 0.5 over and over again, as a developer i can tell you that's common.

I was just thinking about playing some Overwatch…. Iiiiiiii think I’ll hold out.

Overwatch 2 literally has no clue which direction it’s going anymore at this point. At this point I’m just gonna climb with support alone. Ana mains hear me!

Just played a few games. HORRIBLE! Tanks are virtually unkillable now!

Emongg's expression slowly morphing from intrigue to concern with every tank buff. Wild.

Just realized the only thing holding me to this fucking game is skins.. 😐

I’m out

6v6 or this game dies in the next 2 years

Microsoft lay off these devs immediately!!

These notes are basically a hog nerf. Everyone got super buffed except hog.

I love the DPS passive being reduced for tanks, and also Ana being less effective against tanks, these types of changes are GOOD.
However buffing tanks that are ALREADY PERFORMING VERY WELL makes literally no sense, especially maugas rework it just changes the time-in of him getting all of his HP back.
Cassidy’s nerf is meh, I main him so I may sound biased but they aren’t targeting the right thing.
He doesn’t need 275 HP, that’s what they should have changed not nerf his abilities to fight heroes at range (especially with how dominant echo and pharah are).
The pharah nerfs are inconsequential, she will still dominate most of the ladder.
I fucking hate sounding so negative but the rest of this season is going to be rough.

This just seems like the same kind of freak out people had about game wide self-heal or projectiles size increases. There will likely need some balance changes but the new team will address it quickly if needed.

Overall tanks needed to be more self-reliant and not instantly blow up. The ability changes allow takes to do that. The effectiveness of tank counters still needed to be address but that would be too big of a patch if they added that too, especially with the communities reaction to a bigger patch like this one. Clearly they arent trying to do everything at once and will likely do more to change tanks later

As a tank main I think this patch is way too much

When you see emongg and flats vids and about to mauga they both have a heart attack while reading it. And then the cherry on top being zaria.

Infinite bubbles...?

It amazes me that they're willing introduce really stupid rules into the game just to fix the problems caused by going to 5v5. Why go back to that when you can make 100 changes/reworks just to make 5v5 work?

my reaction to these buffs are normal in my rank it only means that my tanks are gonna rush even more so either way they gonna find a way to die

After seeing this patch, how do people believe 5v5 is good for the game? ESPECIALLY people who played overwatch one? 6v6 was never the issue. It was the fact supports were strong and it just needed more balancing

They should’ve just buffed Winston’s bubble health by 100-150 or something instead of that primal rage buff my man’s bubble gets shredded as soon as a DPS looks at it

There's a couple commenters that I agree with. Having stronger tanks means I don't have to focus on healing them the entire game. The last couple games I've played I've actually had fun. And being that this is OverWatch it's been a while. As tank I could actually kill things. I didn't have to freak out and hide behind the corners anytime I took a single damage. It was nice

Can you hear that? It almost sounds like... A bunch of 6v6'ers coming out of the closet after this horrible patch.

Its ok, we welcome you with open arms and cookies. Now lets queue rein/zarya :)

2 tanks is officially back in the game with this patch…just have a BOB

This patch actually made me 6v6-er

He missed that tanks' knockback resistance got reduced

I like how they said "we're gonna individually buff each tank respectively" and then everyone is like "woah this came out of nowhere"

OMG MEI HAS A FRIEND THAT ISN'T A POPSICLE LETS GOOOOO

Its Mauga time 🐮🐮🐮🤣

You can now see sombra when she’s next to HER teammate and Orisas spear can headshot now. Guessing these are bugs.

I watch my favority streamer play on GM 4 after this patch.... nothing change

He picks Dva, won the first fight, the enemy team pick Zarya, Sym, Brig, he pick Winton, the enemy team pick Mauga, Reaper....

Good job Aron Killer you and your team are ass

The fact that Optimus Rein does not transform into the truck when he charges is a huge miss for me.

The Overwatch classification should be one in the open format, but it would be like this:
You chose 2 tanks and you can't choose more or 2 dps or 2 healers, it would be 5 against 5 but with a limit of two heroes for each role, that is, you could have different compositions with balanced tanks, you could play 2 tanks, 2 dps and a healer, or 1 tank, 2 dps and 2 heals or 2 tanks, 1 dps and 2 heals, this would be a general rank avoiding trolling like the game in such a role I will troll and also the game would have the balance of the old combos in a balanced and intelligent way. Only Blizzard would do this to reduce the queue time because it would be one thing and it would also continue 5v5
•When I say balanced tank it is in the open queue format with less life, because by function since there can only be one tank as mandatory they have to be acquired with exaggerated life and exaggerated damage, and the way I said it wouldn't work To have 3 of each hero making a break like 3 tanks and two heals or some role left out, because there would necessarily have to be at least 1 of each role and a maximum of 2 of each role.

i need to see how you feel about tank changes a week in. i am a support and dps player so ik my opinion is biased but even my friend who plays tank is hating these changes