Aaron Keller
@aaronkellerOW
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We’re steadily making progress on server issues and stability, as well as working through a second DDoS attack. We’re all hands on deck and will continue to work throughout the night. Thank you for your patience - we’ll share more info as it becomes available.
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Lifeweaver controls update next week!
New controls:
• Alt fire will now fire Thorn Volley
• Platform replacing Dash on ability 1
• Platform also cancelable with the same button
• Dash moved to double jump
• Auto-reload of Thorns slowed to compensate (1/2)
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The team is looking into alternative control methods for Lifeweaver's dash and weapon swap in order to make the transition from healing to damage smoother. Additional details and timing coming soon.
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Hey all! Quick update on some changes coming to Season 2. After reviewing data for Season 1, we're moving Ramattra in to Tier 45 of the Battle Pass and making a few more weekly challenges easier to complete. Excited for you all to see everything new in Season 2 starting tomorrow!
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Hey all! 😊 Live balance is feeling pretty good so our midseason balance patch will be fairly minor. We’ll be looking at small number tweaks to heroes like Zarya, Genji and Dva, as well as a focus on Sombra and her hack. More details, as well as timing, coming soon.
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Hi everyone. For our current PC players, the pre download for Overwatch 2 should be online shortly. Our current estimates are that it should be available within the next few hours. Thanks for your patience and we can’t wait for launch next Tuesday! 😊
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Hi everyone! The hero team has been monitoring the latest
@overwatchleague
play, plus our own internal playtests, and have decided to bring the overall power of Junker Queen down. The change will roll out after Summer Showdown and will be included for
#Overwatch2
launch. 😊
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The team is looking at potential changes to Sojourn, Doomfist, Ramattra, Roadhog and Tracer with the planned balance changes coming later this week.
@PlayOverwatch
[4/5] We just used a hotfix earlier today to address a collision issue on Shambali and the team is also planning to use that system to make some quick hero balance changes later this week based on the early read of Season 2 hero performance.
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Today we not only revealed our newest hero, Kiriko, we also created our first build candidate for launch on Oct 4th! This is an amazing milestone for the dedicated people on this team, who are giving a huge effort and pouring themselves into a game that they love… 1/2
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When the community leads the way.
#OWDevAppreciation2023
I can't think of a better way to express the hope, optimism, and inclusivity of Overwatch. Today has been so deeply moving, and I've never been more grateful for all of you. Thank you!!! ❤️
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Earlier today we started rolling out fixes for an issue where players from a much lower skill tier would get pulled into higher skill games. We'll continue to monitor and make additional changes if needed. Thank you all for your patience! 🙏
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It's been a challenging week for us on Team 4, and for our community as well. We feel loss. But we are remaining focused on our players and our dedication for the future of the game we love. I'll begin releasing Director's Takes again next week.
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Due to a bug caused by our recent patch, we’re disabling Sigma temporarily in Competitive modes. We’ll provide an update as soon as we're able.
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Numbani was temporarily removed from the game while the team was investigating a crash bug. We've just reenabled it in Unranked and Ranked. Sorry for the mistake and thanks for your patience.
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The team will continue collecting Lifeweaver performance data over the weekend and should have details on balance changes (more than likely a buff) sometime next week. Info on coming control scheme changes should come next week as well.
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Working hard on reducing matches that have players with wide skill ranges. We made a change this morning and will make one tomorrow that should reduce these occurrences. Reports have been very helpful. If you continue to see these, let us know, so we can track down their causes.
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Lifeweaver healing buff coming day 1 of Season 4. Charge time for his primary heal will be reduced from 1.2 to 1.0 seconds.
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Going through my documents and found this early top down map of King’s Row. The control point used to be in the parking garage under an embassy…😅
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Today's balance patch is a bit lighter than usual because some of its planned changes were pulled forward to the mid December patch. Also, a friendly reminder that the scheduled changes to Roadhog are not part of today’s patch and are slated for mid to late January.
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We're working on the ability for players to buy Golden Weapons with the new, 2024 Competitive Currency. Currently planning on releasing the change in Season 10, but feel free to save up for Golden Weapons in the meantime! We'll share more details on release timing as we get them.
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A new Director's Take blog from me. This has been an emotional week for all of us, and I wanted to share more on how we got here.
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Update on Sigma and more! Fixes are live for:
• Sigma flying bug
• Doomfist and Ramattra blocking beam damage inconsistently.
We're also investigating other fixes for a Kiriko teleport bug and a camera shake issue when firing. We'll share information on these when available.
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Hey all!
We've put a new post up on the OW website. I'll be diving into several topics related to maps and level design, including Map Pools😅 Check it out!
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Clarifying a few things with the self-heal. It's one part of a much larger set of changes coming to the game in S9. Internally we're talking about, and targeting some of these changes at damage spikiness in game, the role of DPS in securing kills, and the strength of healing.
Self-Healing passive for all roles?!? We're back with the first Director's Take of 2024. It's the first in a series going over our values and vision for the coming year… and there's a few juicy nuggets in it. Check it out!
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We are excited to expand all of the new Pride cosmetics and Midtown update to players in Poland & Romania. Thank you to those players for their patience and feedback. We’ll continue working to expand representation both in and out of OW2!
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…all with the hope that every last thing they do will make the game a little more polished, a little more stable and a little more fun for our players. I’m grateful to work with them, proud of everything they’ve accomplished, and can't wait to play this game with all of you! 2/2
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This will become the new default, with options to use the old style.
Details on coming balance changes for Lifeweaver will be posted later this week by our lead hero designer -
@GW_Alec
(2/2)
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I was so excited, I couldn’t sleep last night - it’s Invasion launch day!!! Just a few more hours to go🥳
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@dinoflask
I could never quite put a finger on what was missing, but today I finally feel like a true OW game director 😂😂😂
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We’ve been working to solve an issue for some players who received a lower final rank in Season 3 than they should have. We’ve identified a fix and plan to include it in the next patch later this month. Impacted players should receive their correct Season 3 ranking (1/2)
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Heads up everyone. Flashpoint is now enabled for Ranked! 🥳
Both Suravasa and New Junk City will be part of the Ranked map rotation.
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Our regular Director's Take is getting moved to next week. There has been a lot of talk around Ranked in Overwatch lately and we'd like to join in on the conversation with that piece. See you then!
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In case
@GW_Alec
's post wasn't clear enough. The Roadhog rework goes live next Tuesday, the 14th!
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Due to an older server configuration, Season 1 was removed from Competitive History in our most recent patch. We're bringing it back, with next Thursday as our target for the fix to go live. Sorry for the inconvenience and we appreciate the community's fast response! 😀
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Two skins planned to be given away during Season 5 to celebrate Summer Games were accidentally enabled for a short period of time today. We've since fixed the issue. Log in later in Season 5 to claim these skins… and if you were able to do it earlier… congratulations!
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@OWCavalry
Late reply, sorry! Faster respawn times was an example for short (i.e. limited time) experiments that we would like to run starting in S8. These would not be permanent and would not affect all areas of the game, especially comp.
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The team was so happy to see the excitement for Mauga. We’re already testing small changes based off of feedback this weekend!
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Self-Healing passive for all roles?!? We're back with the first Director's Take of 2024. It's the first in a series going over our values and vision for the coming year… and there's a few juicy nuggets in it. Check it out!
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Hey all! We just published a piece with some of our current thoughts as well as future direction for OW, most of it based on your feedback. Check it out and keep the comments coming! 😀
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Hi everyone! Just posted another blog piece with an update on the matchmaker and some of the improvements and issues we're working through. Plus, a summary on balance with stats on the most played/highest performing heroes.
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Our team is so excited to celebrate Pride in game this year! The world of Overwatch has always been envisioned as a bright and optimistic future, and we want players, as well as our own team, to feel represented and celebrated there.
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Happy (early) Lunar New Year! 🧨
We heard your feedback (👀 Mercy fans) and released Mystic Swan Mercy Bundle early in the shop - get it now!
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We're constantly looking for ways to make Overwatch as fair for everyone as possible. In the latest Director's Take we'll take a look at the use of unapproved peripherals on console and how we're planning to address them.
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Hi everyone. There's no Director's Take this week, and as we head into the holidays it will be on a short hiatus until early next year. See you in game!
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We learned a ton from the first Quick Play: Hacked. While we still want to try new things in QPH to make the game more fun, we won't be running the Quicker Play version again this season. Based on feedback we'll make changes to the format before we bring it back next season.
Thank you all so much for trying out Quick Play: Hacked with us 👾
What were your thoughts on this past weekend’s Quicker Play? ✨
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That was sooooo much fun! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped us build our underwater, Talon base, in the ruins of Atlantis, off the coast of the Galapagos, map. Whoever thought of the jump pad through the waterfall is a genius 😎
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This issue was reproducible in multiple locations and could be used to get behind map geo. Working hard to get it resolved soon.
[
#OW2
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And receive competitive points and titles based on where they ended once the patch goes live. To help make up for it, competitive points will be granted again. So these players will get both the correct CP gain, but they also get to keep the original grant we gave them. (2/2)
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Interesting footnote with this concept. The team was deciding whether to release Space Ranger or our next tank in S12. This concept was sooooo cool that we quickly made the decision to release her first. This helps our support ratio too! 🥳
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Question: What do you get when you collect every hot take on Twitter, assign it to an intern and accidentally check it in to the Live Branch?
Answer: Today's patch.
Enjoy!
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We're working on a change to scoring in Hero Mastery aiming to go live next week. To avoid ties from players with a perfect score, time will be tracked to 0.1 per second and used to adjust scores for players finishing the course in the gold timing band.
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Lifeweaver buffs… Queen nerf… Mei and Cassidy changes?!? We'll be talking about these updates and more coming to Season 5 in this week's Director's Take.
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We're back with our latest Director's Take. With more of our thoughts on changes coming to Season 9. Can't wait for you all to jump in and check it out next Tuesday!!!
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OW: Invasion is getting a pretty hefty balance patch - nearly half the heroes are getting touched in some way. Read more about it in the latest Director's Take here. Full patch notes coming with season launch on Aug 10th.
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Details on Lifeweaver balance changes from Alec!
Lifeweaver updates, coming 4/25
Healing Blossom
- Ammo up to 20 (from 12)
- Slow during charge now kicks in 1 second after fully charging
Thorn Volley
- Spread tightened
Tree of Life
- Health up to 1200 (from 1000)
- Per pulse healing up to 75 (from 50)
Parting Gift
- Removed
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Check out all this stuff Aaron wrote about Season 8 balance before I (your buddy Mauga) took over everything. Coming for you next,
@OhReallyJared
!
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How about a tease?
Image related to our next Support hero, plus Flashpoint details, balance updates, and more, in our latest blog piece.
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This was a really interesting conversation that got to the heart of why we're talking to our players more and why we revealed a lot more of what the team is working on at Blizzcon. I also couldn't pronounce Jared's last name in it.... so there's that😆
.
@aaronkellerOW
Game Director of
#Overwatch2
, spoke with IGN at
#BlizzCon
about ushering in a new era of transparency with the fans 👇
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It was a mistake to talk about this lone change out of context, since its a part of a much bigger set coming to Season 9. Sorry for that, and I look forward to more discussion around S9 balance changes when we drop more details.
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Season 3 started this week! 🥳
We've put a lot of effort into keeping you all informed, and we've just published another update on our blog. I talk a bit more about map frequency as well as values around the arcade and collaborations. Check it out!
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Changes to grouping restrictions in S10 are causing a subset of players to get abnormally long queue times. We're aware of the situation and investigating a fix.
Also, our known issue list can be found here.
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People have reached out looking for individual downloads of our Pride Cosmetics. We're grateful for the feedback and passion, and you can now download all of this year's namecards here! 🤩
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Super excited to be doing this with all of you and Dion! We're hoping to use your input to design and build a map, in our editor, and to just have fun. Who knows? Maybe its something we'll be able to play together in the future! 🤩
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Competitive systems are a hot topic with our players and we're jumping into the conversation with today's Director's Take.
Check it out here!
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So excited for Blizzcon and opening ceremony today!!! So grateful for the energy and support of those here and watching at home😊
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For context we made several changes to matchmaking in S3. We'll cover these and their impact(generally, really positive) in the next blog update. A byproduct of these changes was pulling gold players into GM lobbies. That's what these fixes are targeted at.
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Just published an update to matchmaking on the OW blog. It's a little bit technical, but it's because we're trying to be as transparent with the system and the work that's going into it. More updates as we make progress, first one in the replies.
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New Director's Take is live. Looking at the launch of Invasion, Illari, Flashpoint and our release on Steam.
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The matchmaker had some configuration issues that caused an increase in these matches over the past week. We think these have been addressed and tomorrow's changes should improve it more. Sorry for the trouble and thanks again for all the reports and feedback! 🙏
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Want a sneak peek at a few things coming to Competitive in the near future? Check them out, along with an early look at Season 9, in today’s Director’s Take!
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This is our off-week from a Director's Take blog, but I have some thoughts to put out in front of players, so doing that on Twitter today!🧵
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A bug caused some players to not receive their season 4 comp titles. We're going through the final process of testing and certifying a build with a fix, and are targeting a release for some time next week.
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With the US holiday this week, we'll be delaying the latest Director's Take - a look at balance in Season 4 and the subsequent changes coming to Season 5 - till early next week. Have a great weekend! 😁
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Can't wait for Venture's release next week! Our newest Director's Take is out with an update on the hero, as well as some other balance changes coming in Season 10.
Check it out here:
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We're taking a look at Season 9 balance and a few of the changes coming to next Tuesday's patch, as well as the next Quick Play: Hacked event in this week's Director's Take. Check it out!
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So excited for people to see this piece! It's one of my favorites 🤩
The good fight is never truly over for Sojourn 💥
"Calling", an Overwatch Animated Short, is out now 🥐
Jump into the game to watch it in full 🎥
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@JuzuOW
@PlayOverwatch
We're looking into this currently. Should have more information later today.
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Patch is live this morning with:
Fixes to S4 ranked titles
Balance changes to Mei, Cassidy and Lifeweaver
Bug fixes for maps and heroes.
Patch notes can be found here
Midseason balance patch still to come in several weeks.
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It’s amazing to me that just a year ago we were talking about launching Overwatch 2 and now we’re coming to the end of Season 3! Check out our newest blog post with a look back at the last 6 months.
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If you’d like to read more of our perspective on balance for Season 1 you can find it below. We’re planning more significant changes to Season 2.
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The Director's Take is back following Blizzcon! Let's take a look back at the show and a look forward to balance changes coming for Mauga. Check it out here.
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@OWCavalry
@ZenofyMedia
Was so great to meet you! And why am I not surprised that this was posted minutes after we met?!?
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Some players were experiencing a bug that made them unable to complete the Illiari Event Challenges after playing Total Mayhem. The challenges might not show as completed but the cosmetic rewards should now be available in Hero Gallery. Thanks for your patience!
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Summary of Lifeweaver changes in the latest Director's Take. If you're reading this, you're probably up to date, but there's additional commentary on him as well as philosophy around hero design. Check it out here!
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Has it been 2 weeks already? Newest Director's Take is up now. A deeper look at Lifeweaver and his recent performance as well as thoughts on future changes for the hero. Check it out here!
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@ImPureShield
@OWCavalry
Player levels are a part of this system as well. The sum total of your hero levels will contribute to your total player level. It was an oversight of me to not mention it on today's stream. I get nervous sometimes!☺️
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Catch some additional details on Season 4 in our latest Director's take. We cover Lifeweaver, Starwatch and our Pride celebration. Have a great weekend; can't wait to see you all in Season 4 next week!!! 🥳
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