Blizzard has released a new Overwatch 2 update 3.60 on PS4, PS5(1.000.024), PC, and Xbox One. According to the official OW2 patch notes, the latest update adds a new game mode – Hero Mastery as well as various changes to heroes, including damage adjustments, cooldown tweaks, and improvements to abilities. Apart from this, OW2 update 3.60 also includes several bug fixes, map improvements, and quality-of-life adjustments for better gameplay experiences.
Previously, a major Overwatch 2 update 3.58 (Season 6) introduced Suravasa map, featuring stunning water-based art, in Overwatch 2. Today’s Overwatch 2 version 3.60 will fix a few of these issues.
Read the full details below.
Overwatch 2 3.60 patch notes (version 1.000.024) – September 7, 2023
Overwatch 2 Anniversary 2023:
- Celebrating the first year of Overwatch 2.
- Returning event game modes, including Battle for Olympus, Catch-A-Mari, Starwatch, and Mischief and Magic.
- New challenges that reward Overwatch Credits, which can be spent on returning Legendary skins.
- Event starts on September 19.
New Game Mode – Hero Mastery:
- Hero Mastery is a single-player game mode that allows players to test their skills with individual heroes on custom courses.
- Each hero can be played on three unique courses of increasing difficulty.
- Courses are scored based on various factors, including time, eliminations, heals, and escorts.
- Exclusive rewards and limited-time event.
General Updates:
- Ping System Updates: Owned entities have a lower priority as ping targets than enemy heroes.
Hero Updates:
Tank:
- Junker Queen:
- Jagged Blade impact damage increased from 50 to 65.
- Orisa:
- Fortify cooldown begins when the ability is activated instead of when it ends.
- Fortify cooldown increased from 12 to 16.5 seconds.
- Overhealth bonus decreased from 125 to 100.
- Zarya:
- Projected Barrier health increased from 200 to 225.
- Projected Barrier cooldown decreased from 10 to 8 seconds.
- Projected Barrier size increased by 15%.
Damage:
- Ashe:
- The Viper reload time decreased from 0.25 to 0.2 seconds.
- Bastion:
- A-36 Tactical Grenade impact damage decreased from 30 to 15.
- Configuration: Artillery can no longer deal critical hits.
- Mei:
- Endothermic Blaster damage increased from 65 to 70 per second.
- Duration before slow falls off between primary fire hits increased from 0.5 to 0.6 seconds.
- Deep Chill bonus damage can now also be triggered with Mei’s quick melee.
Support:
- Support Passive: Duration until support passive activates increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds.
- Baptiste:
- Regenerative Burst instant healing decreased from 50 to 40.
- Heal over time decreased from 50 over 5 seconds to 40 over 4 seconds.
- Kiriko:
- Protection Suzu now passes through enemy heroes.
BUG FIXES
GENERAL
- Fixed an issue with the Daybreak challenge being reset to 0 and not receiving progress after completing games.
- The Save-a-Mari challenge now specifies the difficulty requirements for completion.
- Resolved an issue where the Progression Level badge wasn’t promoting. Players who have already reached levels where the badge should now be promoted to the correct badge now.
- Fixed a bug with the Option ‘Relative Aim Sensitivity’ not accepting a value of 0%.
- Fixed an instance where equipped Competitive Titles would reset after a relog.
- Fixed a bug with Matches Played showing as abandoned for matches played on another platform.
- Fixed gaps and other environment issues in Mischief and Magic.
- Fixed navigation issues that could occur with a controller in Winston’s Lab.
- Fixed the missing sound effects for Training Bots respawning.
- Fixed a bug on controller/gamepads that prevented some characters from flying diagonally.
- Resolved a bug with the Overtime bar not burning all the way down in Competitive, making it difficult to tell when the round is over.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from immediately equipping Golden weapons after purchase.
MAPS
Dorado
- Fixed a bug in the environment near the final point that sometimes allowed Mei’s Blizzard to go through the environment.
New Junk City
- Fixed areas on the map that players could become stuck in.
- Fixed lighting issues in specific areas on the map.
- Added the intro when loading into the map. You will now be greeted with ‘Welcome to New Junk City.’
Suravasa
- Fixed some fountains on the map that allowed some turrets to be hidden.
- Fixed a few areas that did not have correct lighting.
- Fixed areas on the map that players could become stuck on.
- Fixed areas on the map that allowed players to stand outside the playable space.
- Fixed gaps in the geometry in several areas across the map.
CO-OP MISSIONS
Rio
- Fixed a bug that could occur after the Artillery lands that resulted in your camera looking at the sky after regaining control of the camera.
Toronto
- Fixed an interaction with the train that could force players outside of the map boundaries.
- Fixed a bug with lighting that could occur on this map when changing graphics settings.
Gothenburg
- Fixed a location in spawn where players could become stuck.
HEROES
Bastion
- Fixed an error that resulted in the vertical knockback on Bastion’s Tactical Grenade being reduced.
Echo
- Fixed a bug with Duplicated Illari’s displaying the incorrect VFX colors when casting Captive Sun.
- Fixed an interaction with Duplicated Symmetra turrets persisting through the duration of Duplicate.
Illari
- Fixed an interaction with Genji’s Deflect and Illari’s Healing Pylon. Deflecting the pylon should now correctly heal Genji’s allies.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Stay Dead voice line from being equipped.
- Resolved an interaction that allowed Illari to see underneath the map if they were slept by an Ana Sleep Dart while using Captive Sun.
- Fixed an interaction with Illari’s Pylon indicator being disabled if it was Hacked by Sombra.
- Fixed an interaction with Symmetra’s Teleporter that allowed Illari to place a Pylon in mid-air.
- Fixed several instances that resulted in the Pylon being destroyed instantly after deploying.
Junker Queen
- Fixed a bug where Junker Queen recalling Jagged Blade in the same frame as it stuck in an object (by holding Secondary Fire and aiming at an object the same distance away as the Knife’s recall range) would cause a pingable knife to be stuck in the world.
Kiriko
- Fixed a bug that made it difficult to Swift Step to allies in rooms with low ceilings.
Lifeweaver
- Fixed a bug allowing friendly EMPs to destroy your Petal Platform.
Ramattra
- Resolved a bug that prevented the damage increase from Zenyatta’s Discord from being correctly applied while Ramattra was Blocking.
Download free Overwatch 2 update 3.60 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC and Xbox One.
