Overwatch Patch Notes - March 29, Skipping End of Match, Seasonal Event, Fan Art

[chaud]

Overwatch Patch Notes - March 29

General

• Turrets no longer target barriers directly, but will still target enemies behind them

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects to be absorbed into surfaces

Heroes

• Fixed a bug that caused turrets to target Brigitte’s Barrier Shield while facing them when the shield wasn’t deployed
• Fixed a bug that allowed Reaper to reach unintended locations

Skipping End of Match to Save Time

Fun fact: you don’t actually get into a match faster when skipping the end of round flow (victory poses, POTG, cards, stats etc.). You don’t get entered into the matchmaking queue until your previous match resolves completely. Most people leave at “Victory/Defeat” because they think they are “speeding up” getting into the next match.

Overwatch Twitter Hints at Next Seasonal Event
Reddit user DocterrificDoc posted an analysis on PlayOverwatch's latest tweet revealing a video likely to be hinting at this year's Overwatch Uprising Event.

Initiating archive declassification…
Mission files unlock: April 11

RETWEET to confirm.

Initiating archive declassification…
Mission files unlock: April 11

RETWEET to confirm. pic.twitter.com/GUvthyskCm

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 3, 2017

Fan Art - French Revolution Widowmaker
LuleMT created a nice French Revolution Widowmaker skin!

[A-sayo]

Two weeks before the event ! Woohoo ! Also props toLuleMT for this skin. Lacroix is beautiful in this outfit. :3

[DeadmanWalking]

I dont care if I get into the next match faster, I'm going to get out, hit the button and go back to surfing the web or continuing what ever I was watching while waiting for queue to pop.

[Evolixe]

Havn't been around here for ages. But you guys were always fast on wow stuff. Guess I might come back as a frequent visitor

[nakigara]

Will there be a Blue Tracker for the Overwatch forums?

[Deleted]

I was banned from their forum becuase I had a different opinion with this post:

Skipping End of Match

Fun fact: you don’t actually get into a match faster when skipping the end of round flow (victory poses, POTG, cards, stats etc.). You don’t get entered into the matchmaking queue until your previous match resolves completely. Most people leave at “Victory/Defeat” because they think they are “speeding up” getting into the next match.

Well warning us about this after almost two years is just evil! But I guess from now on I have to alt+f4 and restart at the end of the matches. It seems the old WoW devs try to push their agenda about wasting others time.

I don't understand why you are forced to watch a smurf destroying your useless team. It is the devs of the match maker fault.

Almost all of my friends play this game with "all chat/voice chat off" (when you hit P).

[Ombree]

I'm so happy you guys do overwatch news now

[Sky High]

second fav event after the Halloween one, looking forward to it.

[Deleted]

love that you are doing overwatch news agian.
I just hope the Teaser on April 11, turns out to be more Like, Well any other Teaser then sombra that took like 7 Months.

[chaud]

Will there be a Blue Tracker for the Overwatch forums?

If we see a significant demand and traffic to the Overwatch section it is something we'll look at for sure!

[Kaleredar]

I was banned from their forum becuase I had a different opinion with this post:

Skipping End of Match

Well warning us about this after almost two years is just evil! But I guess from now on I have to alt+f4 and restart at the end of the matches. It seems the old WoW devs try to push their agenda about wasting others time.

I don't understand why you are forced to watch a smurf destroying your useless team. It is the devs of the match maker fault.

Almost all of my friends play this game with "all chat/voice chat off" (when you hit P).

lolwut?

If you don't want to see the pointless fluff that follows a match then you can still leave it and sit on the menu screen, seeing as that extra portion takes all of 40 seconds. I severely doubt that shutting down Overwatch and then reloading it and having it reconnect to the server would save you any time whatsoever.

[Twinrovawastaken]

looks cool!

[NightZero88]

What I'm curious about is do you get XP if you leave the match before XP is given out. I'm inclined to think you do as if you level up your box will be granted even if you leave the match. Also, the quote from dev seems to imply you do but I've never been 100% certain one way or the other.

[Battlebeard]

Sometimes I skip the POTG and vote cards, if I am in a group and the others wanna "speed it up" or at least that's what we thought we did. When I queue solo, I always watch it. POTG is one of the very best things in Overwatch getting it, even if it's a fairly bad play that wins, is always fun, I don't wanna skip that (even if I don't win).

The vote cards can be fun BUT they should have more importance and possibly give some kind of extra rewards, like Experience or Credits, it would encourage people more and actually make the cards and votes matter.

[DeadmanWalking]

I was banned from their forum becuase I had a different opinion with this post:

Skipping End of Match

Well warning us about this after almost two years is just evil! But I guess from now on I have to alt+f4 and restart at the end of the matches. It seems the old WoW devs try to push their agenda about wasting others time.

I don't understand why you are forced to watch a smurf destroying your useless team. It is the devs of the match maker fault.

Almost all of my friends play this game with "all chat/voice chat off" (when you hit P).

Way to exaggerate the meaning of evil to the point that it means nothing. If this is evil then there is some serious sheltering going on. Blizzard didn’t know you didn’t know, now they are clarifying. It wasn’t some secret agenda to force you to not drink from a whites only drinking fountain or to wipe your people from the planet after putting you in a concentration camp.

I don’t care if it speeds up games or not. I don’t want to watch strangers play of the game anymore and I would rather spend my time in the next queue while browsing the internet, watching OWL or some streaming movie I paused during my game.

[Ninjavitis]

Faster or not, I leave when the match ends to skip all the post match chat garbage. "gg" No it wasn't, the match was a steamroll.