Overwatch 2 Season 5 Mid Season Update- Soldier: 76 Becomes A SOLDIER: 76

• Fixed a bug that caused players to gain On Fire at the start of a new round in Competitive Play when playing any game mode or in Quick Play when playing Control.
• On Fire and Blazing are more difficult to attain early in a round.
• On Fire’s cooldown was reduced to 3 seconds. This should prevent most of the cases where a hero gained On Fire with a delay after a positive contribution.
• On Fire, the score decays slightly more quickly when a hero is not On Fire.
• Maintaining On Fire for long periods is more difficult.

A new centralized location for Event information is now available from the main menu, where all Event Challenges, Rewards, and Modes are listed here.

Team Queue is an all-new Competitive mode for Overwatch 2, requiring everyone to play in a full group of five players. Team Queue has no ranking restrictions and will be available through the end of Season 5. Other important rules for the mode are:

• Players can group up regardless of how far apart they are in rank.
• Grandmaster players can play, even with up to four other Grandmaster players.
• Team Queue is limited to 1 Tank, 2 Damage, and 2 Support.
• Players do not queue for specific roles, instead choosing their roles within each match.
• Platform pool restrictions remain, meaning players on the console must still only group up with other players on the console, not those on the PC.

Ping System

• Fixed pinging opponent’s owned objects through walls as Sombra. This includes objects like Torbjörn’s Turret, Soldier 76’s Biotic Field, and Sombra’s Translocator, etc.
• Fixed cases where Junker Queen’s knife would remain pingable if she died while the knife was not in her hand.
• Fixed Lifeweaver Petal Platform pings using ping stems when the platform is mid-air.
• Fixed cases where ping stems would be used incorrectly on midair Last Seen pings or not used on grounded Last Seen pings.
• Fixed training bots block the ability to share your ultimate status.
• Fixed D.Va incorrectly giving her ultimate status for Call Mech instead of Self-Destruct when she was inside her mech and targeting an ally by pressing the Ultimate Status button.

Other Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused some players to see the Unranked map loading screen instead of the Competitive Play team lineup and map loading screen.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from selecting the ‘No Title’ option.
• Fixed an issue with the Questwatch background being incorrectly placed if you entered a match during a conversation.
• Fixed a bug with the Role Mastery Challenge not appearing during the end-of-round flow in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where Hero Icons were missing from Highlights when viewed on a 21:9 ratio.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Career Profiles of friends sometimes appearing blank or missing items.
• Fixed Mystery Hero Game reports lacking information.
• Fixed a bug in the Options menu where values such as ‘100.0%’ were cut off for some languages.
• Resolved several localization issues.
• Fixed several crashes.

Blizzard World

• Fixed lighting in multiple locations around the map.

Circuit Royale

• Fixed lighting in multiple locations around the map.

Watchpoint Gibraltar

• Fixed gaps in the map that could affect gameplay elements.

Illios

• Fixed lighting in multiple locations around the map.

Numbani

• Fixed areas on the map that allowed some heroes to escape the playable area.

Oasis

• Fixed gaps in the map that could affect gameplay elements.

Ashe

• Fixed an issue with the aim-down sight animation not matching the firing of the gun when used after a melee.

Baptiste

• Fixed a bug with Immortality Field not protecting Mei for a small window of time after she leaves Cryo-Freeze.

Cassidy

• Fix a bug where Cassidy’s Magnetic Grenade did not disable the following: Baptiste’s Exo Boost and Flight for both Sigma’s Gravitic Flux and Mercy’s Valkyrie.

Echo

• Fixed a condition where Echo would fail to play any voice lines after Duplicating a hero.

Junkrat

• Fixed an interaction with Lifeweaver’s Petal platform that assisted Junkrat in leaving the playable space.

Kiriko

• Fixed the melee animation not playing if used right after Protection Suzu.

Lifeweaver

• Fixed a bug with Lifeweaver’s Hero Icon challenges not correctly progressing.
• Fixed an issue with the Petal Platform that prevented the jump boost from being applied when jumping from some areas of the platform.
• Fixed a bug that gave Lifeweaver high damage mitigation numbers for environmental kills.
• Fixed a condition that allowed Life Gripped teammates to die to the boundary of a pitfall.

Orisa

• Fixed an issue with overheating effects not playing correctly on some skins.

Ramattra

• Fixed a bug where stunning Ramattra and interrupting Ravenous Vortex allowed the ability to be cast again immediately.

Reaper

• Fixed an interaction with Petal Platform that allowed players to escape the playable space.

Reinhardt

• Fixed an issue with Reinhardt’s beard appearing distorted for select skins in Hero Select.
• Fixed an interaction with the Hold to Charge option breaking animations when used on a controller.

Soldier: 76

• Fixed a bug with the animation of the Heavy Pulse Rifle that could occur when Tactical Visor was used while under the effect of Kitsune Rush.

Sombra

• Fixed the lighting on several skins being too bright.
• Fixed a bug with Primary Fire not having priority over a pending Hack if the Toggle Hack option is enabled.

Symmetra

• Fixed an interaction with Petal Platform and Teleporter, allowing players to escape the playable space.

Tracer

• Fixed an interaction with Lifeweaver’s Petal Platform that allowed Tracer to contest the objective from outside the playable space on some maps.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Hero Select sound effects of the Mythic Tracer skin to keep playing after switching heroes.