Alongside the new Uprising seasonal event, Blizzard also patched in some significant tweaks from PTR.
Patch 1.10 is here, bringing with it the Uprising event, new balance changes and bugfixes, and (as of writing this) connection errors.
The Public Test Realm has been the playground of one hero these last weeks: Lucio. Blizzard felt his kit was too powerful yet easy to play, and therefore a must-pick in a lot of games. To keep the meta healthy, they have been cooking up the following set of changes:
- Sonic Amplifier
- Damage increased by 25%
- Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50
- Alternate fire now considers vertical orientation when knocking targets back
- Crossfade
- Area of effect radius has been decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
- Heal Song
- Healing-per-second has been increased by 30% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
- Self-healing has been reduced by 25%
- Wall Ride
- Movement speed increased by 20% when wall riding
- Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall
So now, while playing with or as Lucio, promixity is much more important. His aura AoE has been reduced significantly, but his heal is a little bit stronger. The best Lucio players will soon learn how to make the most of his new Wall Ride capabilities.
Secondly, Eichenwalde has received the secondary route to the Capture Point as tested on PTR. This will help break through the natural choke point on that map, moving the action to the actual point right away.
Thirdly, the incremental tracking on Assault/Hybrid maps was also implemented, to make the chance of ties next to zero. Finally, a good number of bugs were also fixed:
General
- Fixed an issue preventing voice lines from being played on Control maps
Competitive Play
- Fixed an issue that was preventing Top 500 icons from appearing until after completing a competitive match
- Fixed a bug preventing achievements from being unlocked during off-season competitive matches
- Fixed a bug that forced Play of the Game highlights to be drawn from the last round of play
Custom Games and Game Browser
- Fixed an issue allowing empty player slots to be displayed even when disabled (e.g. in 6v1 games)
- Fixed a bug preventing the pause feature from working properly after the original host has left the match
- Fixed a bug that allowed extremely long team names
- Removed unnecessary customization options (e.g. cooldown options for abilities with no cooldown)
Heroes
- Ana no longer cocks her rifle after throwing a grenade
- The brightness on Bastion's golden gun has been toned down when the BlizzCon skin is equipped
- Fixed a bug causing Mei's pinky to bend awkwardly in some poses when her Chang'e and Luna skins were equipped
Maps
- Fixed a bug on Eichenwalde that allowed enemy player outlines to be seen through a pile of dirt at the castle gate
- Fixed an issue on Eichenwalde that allowed players to become trapped in the broken castle doors
- Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra to reach unintended locations on King's Row
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to reach unintended areas on the Capture the Flag version of Lijiang Tower
- Fixed a bug that allowed Symmetra to hide turrets in unintended locations on Oasis
The full patch notes can be found here.
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