Overwatch 2 April Fools Patch Notes: Heroes Go Wild with Buffs

Boosters

• Can now move backwards.
• Can now be canceled with Crouch.
• Canceling the ability with Crouch in the first .4 seconds reduces the cooldown to 1.5 seconds.

Self Destruct

• Knockback increased by 900%.

Power Block

• Movement Speed Modifier increased from .65x to 1.25x.

Jagged Blade

• Pressing Secondary Fire while the ability is active now magnetizes Junker Queen to Gracie.
• Cooldown now starts when blade starts returning to Junker Queen.
• Cooldown decreased from 6 to 4 seconds.

Incendiary Chain Gun

• Hitting enemies who are ‘On Fire’ will Ignite them.

Energy Javelin

• Ricochets once.
• Explodes when it sticks.

Barrier Field

• You can now press Primary Fire to reflects projectiles.
• Health decreases by 20% every second while reflecting.
• Barrier size decreased to 50% while Reflecting.
• Camera Lock input now bound to Quick Melee.

Pig Pen

• Projectile Speed increased from 26 to 80.
• Projectile Damage increased from 0 to 40.

Accretion

• Projectile Speed decreased from 37 to 30.
• Projectile Gravity decreased from 18 to 2.
• Pressing the ability button while Accretion is active will cause the rock to crash into the ground. When crashed, it will deal 50 damage in a 4-meter radius and stun anyone damaged.

Tesla Cannon

• Secondary Fire now chains between enemies.

Primal Rage

• Punches also cause lightning to chain between enemies.

Particle Barrier and Projected Barrier

• Increases the size of the bubbled target by 1.75x.

F.R.E.D.

• New Ability on mouse scroll.
• Weapon Swap.
• Call in F.R.E.D. to charge for a short duration before leaving.

Configuration: Assault

• Configuration: Assault is now the default form.
• Movement speed penalty has been removed.
• Configuration: Assault now has 150 Ammo.
• Damage per bullet decreased from 12 to 5.
• Now deals 1.5x damage for critical hits.

Reconfigure

• Now transforms Bastion into Configuration: Recon.
• Grants a movement speed bonus of 35%.
• Configuration: Sentry now fires shotgun blasts.

Wanted!

• New Passive
• One enemy is marked. Kill them to gain 50 health until the next time you die. After 5 kills, you gain 1 health each time.

Focusing Beam

• Changes

Duplicate

• Can no longer choose who you duplicate.
• Can now duplicate allies.
• Duplicate’s Health no longer capped at 300 health.
• Duplicate now gains an extra 100 Shields.
• Bonus Ult Charge Gain Rate increased from 4 to 6.5.

Deflect

• Press Primary Fire with perfect timing to critically deflect a projectile.

Storm Arrows

• Number of ricochets increased from 1 to 3.
• Number of projectiles per shot increased from 1 to 5.
• Damage of each projectile decreased by 78%.

Frag Launcher

• You can now detonate Frag Launcher projectiles with Secondary Fire.

Avalanche Launch

• New Ability.
• Press Jump in the Air to activate.
• Creates a large Ice Pillar under Mei.
• Can be canceled with Interact.

Jet Land

• New Ability.
• Press Crouch in the Air to activate.
• Dash downwards towards the ground.

Hellfire Shotguns

• Primary Fire now only shoots one shotgun.
• Damage per bullet reduced from 5.4 to 2.8.
• Ammo increased from 8 to 16.
• Secondary Fire now shoots the other shotgun.

Disruptor Shot

• Disruptor Shot now pulls enemies in on deploy.
• You can deploy Disruptor Shot early by pressing E again.

Heavy Pulse Rifle

• Can now be used during Sprint.
• Using Heavy Pulse Rifle while sprinting has a spread of 2.

Biotic Grenade

• Killing an enemy infected with Virus, it attempts to spread to a nearby enemy.

Teleporter

• Only places exit Teleporter.
• Any ally can use Teleporter regardless of their location.
• Teleporter duration decreased from 10 to 4 seconds.

Biotic Grenade

• The turret now sticks to walls, ceilings, and allies.

Recall

• Randomly sends you to the past or future, changing how your Pulse Pistols work.

Grappling Hook

• Now has 3 charges.
• Getting a critical hit with Widow’s Kiss’s secondary fire replenishes one charge of the ability.

Sleep Dart

• Slept enemies slowly rise while Sleeping.
• Enemies take fall damage when they land.

Exo-Boots

• Now launches you forward rather than upward.

Amplification Matrix

• Increases speed of projectiles shot through it by 200%.

Shield Barrier

• Health increased from 250 to 700.
• Always uses bigger size.

Rally

• Resets your Shield Bash cooldown.
• Movement Speed bonus increased from 1.15x to 1.3x.

Captive Sun

• After using Captive Sun, Illari becomes Solar Installed. She moves faster and charges her Solar Rifle Faster, her rifle always charges to full damage power.
• Movement speed bonus 1.2x.
• Attack charge time reduced by 40%.
• Healing recharge bonus 1.2x.

Solar Powered

• New Passive.
• Illari is always Solar Installed when the sun is out.

Protection Suzu

• Now also grants allies a 10% damage boost, 10% healing boost, 50% movement speed boost, and 700% increased jump height.
• Increased duration from .65 to 1 second.

Vulpine Agility

• New Passive
• Kiriko can jump an extra time in the air.

Petal Platform

• Now raises 20m (up from 8m).

Sonic Amplifier

• Ammo increased from 20 to 30.
• Recovery decreased from .14 seconds per bullet to .125 seconds per bullet.
• Now Shoots 3 bullets per volley during Speed Boost and 5 bullets per volley during Healing Boost.

Sound Barrier

• Knocks up enemies the sound waves hit.

Caduceus Staff

• Damage boost from Secondary Fire removed.
• Secondary Fire is now Damage Staff. (Ability 2 on Controller.)
• Damage Staff Fires Caduceus Blaster projectiles.
• Projectiles have a smaller size.
• Size gets bigger during ult.
• 2 more damage.
• Projectiles reload automatically while not firing.
• Projectiles reload at twice the speed while healing or after 4 seconds without firing.
• Can fire projectiles at a reduced firing speed if healing beam is active.
• Healing beam can heal at a reduced rate if Damage Staff is active.

Caduceus Blaster

• Knocks up enemies the sound waves hit.

Biotic Grasp (Primary Fire)

• Now deals damage instead of healing.

Biotic Grasp (Secondary Fire)

• Now heals instead of doing damage.

Orb of Destruction

• Ammo increased from 25 to 32.
• Secondary Fire charge time per projectile decreased from .52 to .47.
• Secondary Fire projectiles fire 33% faster.
• Secondary Fire damage decreased by 30%.
• You can now charge up to 8 Orbs with Secondary Fire.
• Zenyatta accelerates upward while charging Secondary Fire.