Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – June 24, 2019

A new Overwatch patch is currently in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report and issue, 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 will 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.

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

New Feature: Subtitles

Choose between 3 additive levels of subtitling: Critical Gameplay, Critical Gameplay + Conversations, and Everything. This new feature was created to improve the gameplay experience for players that are deaf or hard of hearing, and also for players who enjoy reading closed captions.

WORKSHOP UPDATES

General

Added the ability for scripters to measure the server performance of the current game instance. Three new values make this possible: Server Load - Provides a percentage representing the CPU load of the current game instance. Server Load Average - Provides a percentage representing the average CPU load of the current game instance over the last two seconds. Server Load Peak - Provides a percentage representing the highest CPU load of the current game instance over the last two seconds. As these numbers approach or exceed 100, it becomes increasingly likely that the game instance will be shut down because it is consuming too many resources. A new preset example displays these values as HUD text in the upper-left corner of the screen. The rule in the preset can be copied into other scripts to help identify performance problem areas.

When a game instance shuts down due to excessive Workshop script load, a new error message is displayed in the chat window (instead of the “unexpected error” message).

Additional strings added.

BUG FIXES

General

Fixed a bug that could cause players who have selected a hero during the Hero Select Phase to have their hero deselected when the Setup Phase begins.

Workshop

Fixed a bug that caused "Set Invisible" to function incorrectly for Reinhardt when using secondary fire while viewing in 3P.

Custom Game: Fixed a bug that could cause AI bots to become stuck on their way to the capture point on the Oasis: University map

Heroes

Baptiste

Fixed a visual inconsistency with Baptiste’s head with his Spec Ops skin equipped.

Hanzo

Fixed a bug that could cause a dead Hanzo’s bow to appear floating above the ground, when that Hanzo had his Kabuki skin equipped.

Roadhog

Fixed a bug where Roadhog’s chain would sometimes not render in first person

Moira