Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – Dec 11, 2019

A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform.

INTRODUCING: PARTY FLEX FOR ROLE QUEUE

Unsure of which role you want to play? Now, party members who queue for any game mode with Role Queue enabled can select multiple roles, indicating what they’re willing to play in the next game.

Your other party members’ role choices and Competitive Play skill ratings may affect which roles you are eligible to choose, or which role you can play. For example, if you selected all three roles (Tank, Damage, Healing) to indicate your willingness to play any of them, and then two other party members choose Support, you will not get to play Support in the next game.

SPECTATE AND REPLAY UPDATES

Added a new hotkey, “Spectate toggle 3P camera side”, which changes the shoulder you’re looking over for the player you’re spectating while using the simple third-person spectator camera option

Added a new hotkey, "Toggle normal / simple 3P spectator camera", which toggles between the two third-person camera modes while spectating

Updated the death camera to quickly shift from where you were looking to where your killer is, to make it easier to see if you were killed by someone behind you or to your side

Updated the simple third-person spectator camera position for several heroes to have them cover less of the screen

Fixed an issue that caused zooming in and out while in the simple third-person camera to appear choppy

Transitioning into or out of first person no longer causes the camera to clip inside the hero’s head

Fixed several camera smoothness and popping issues

BUG FIXES

General

Fixed a bug that caused toggle crouch to work inconsistently when high precision mouse input is enabled

Workshop

Fixed an issue preventing Go To Assemble Heroes from working in Assault and Hybrid

Fixed an issue preventing Sombra Dummy Bots from being able to hack health packs

Maps

Temple of Anubis - Fixed a bug where some heroes could get stuck behind one of the rocks outside of point B

Eichenwalde - Fixed a bug that could cause Wrecking Ball to become temporarily stuck when using his Piledriver in a specific location

Junkertown - Fixed a bug that allowed some players to stand on a wall near the final checkpoint

Junkertown - Fixed a bug that allowed Sombra’s Translocator and Baptiste’s Immortality Field to land in an unintended place between the stairs and wall near point A

Dorado - Fixed a bug that caused the ivy growing on the wall between points A and B to block projectiles

Rialto - Fixed a bug that could cause Winston and Sigma to become stuck between the wall, bridge, and gondola outside of Point A

Watchpoint: Gibraltor - Fixed a bug that caused Baptiste’s Immortality Field to disappear when thrown in a specific spot outside of the first Attacker’s spawn

Heroes

Baptiste

Fixed a bug that could cause Immortality Field to not deploy or get destroyed while deploying in some situations

Mercy

Fixed a bug that caused Mercy’s gold staff and pistol to disappear while using Valkyrie when viewing in 3rd person

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