Overwatch update 2.73 patch notes released for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to the official Overwatch 2.73 patch notes, the latest update comes with new features and various bug fixes. Apart from this, the new Overwatch 2.73 also includes stability and performance improvements.
Previously, a major update was released with a new feature Role Queue, new hero Sigma (Tank) as well as various bug fixes and gameplay changes. Unfortunately, since the last patch, many players are still experiencing several issues when trying to play the game online. Today’s Overwatch update 2.73 is expected to fix a few of these issues. Check out more details below.
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Overwatch 2.73 Patch Notes
OVERWATCH 2 X COWBOY BEBOP
Celebrate the legendary crew of Bebop in Overwatch 2! Immerse yourself in the iconic saga of Cowboy Bebop with an array of new skins found exclusively in the Overwatch 2 shop. From now until March 25, you can also tackle in-game challenges to answer the call of the bounty hunter and snatch up cosmic cosmetic rewards.
GENERAL UPDATES
Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is a new co-op game mode where players work together to protect towers from enemy bots. Collect energy and buy powerful upgrades to survive all ten rounds! Focus your skills to earn high scores and compete on the leaderboards. Are you ready to enter the Gauntlet?
- Gauntlet teams can have up to three players and must survive all ten rounds to win. Each game randomizes the upgrades, bots, and targeted towers to keep things fresh.
- The Gauntlet has four difficulties that vary all aspects of gameplay, including score. Work your way up to Legendary and dominate the leaderboards.
- Athena has upgraded the simulation with many new bots for this mode. Be on the lookout for dangerous elite training bots.
- Play with AI mode is available for teams to practice with 1-3 players. Scores and Challenges are not recorded in this mode.
Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is launching with a limited-time event that includes exclusive rewards and challenges. Can you defend the towers and unlock them all?
- Competitive Placements and Overview will now be displayed before Hero Progression at the end of a Competitive Match.
- Competitive Rank Range has been added to the scoreboard so players can view the rank range of a match at any time.
- Modifiers can now be viewed outside of the Competitive Overview with a rank info button found on the Competitive Play menu.
- A new modifier called “Demotion Protection” has been added to the Competitive Overview to notify players that if they lose another game, they will be demoted to the next lowest division.
HERO UPDATES
Developer Comments: This patch is focused on fine-tuning some of the systemic hero changes made in Season 9. In addition, we’re adjusting individual abilities to make them feel more impactful due to heroes having larger health pools.
- Global projectile size modifier for travel time projectiles with a speed greater than 50 meters per second reduced from 0.1 to 0.075 meters.
Developer Comments: We are decreasing the size of the fastest travel time projectiles because it reduces the frequency of these projectiles failing to headshot due to hitting the enemy’s chest hit volume first.
- Heal reduction applied by the damage role passive lowered from 20% to 15%.
Developer Comments: The Damage role passive reduces the potency of in-combat healing and helps equalize the effectiveness between burst and damage over time. Nevertheless, we are going to experiment with a lower value to relieve some of the pressure on tank and support roles. We’ll be keeping a close eye on this change as we want the healing reduction to still be noticeable.
- Added a new UI element above the player’s first-person health bar to show all active healing status effects (Anti-Heal, Amplified Healing, Reduced Healing).
TANK
DOOMFIST
- Minimum damage increased from 15 to 50.
MAUGA
Developer Comments: We are changing Cardiac Overdrive to make it more forgiving when used for yourself especially when Mauga is low health.
- Stomp damage increased from 45 to 60.
- Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.
- Now fills his passive overhealth by 100.
ORISA
- Charge rate for the first 2.5 seconds increased by 25%.
RAMATTRA
- Total damage increased from 45 to 70.
- Cooldown decreased from 12 to 11 seconds.
REINHARDT
- Armor increased from 275 to 300.
- Damage increased from 100 to 120.
ROADHOG
Developer Comments: We’re improving the consistency of the Hook combo. Enemies are pulled closer to Roadhog and aren’t launched as high when Pig Pen activates, making the Scrap Gun follow-up shot more consistent.
- The enemy final position distance from Roadhog after being pulled decreased from 4 to 3 meters.
- Vertical knockback on activation decreased by 43%
DAMAGE
HANZO
Developer Comments: We’re reverting the previous change to the base projectile size of Hanzo’s arrows and replacing it with the general global reduction, which affects all travel time projectiles with a speed greater than 50 meters per second, resulting in Hanzo’s arrow projectile staying the same total size as before this patch.
- Base projectile sizes increased from 0.075 to 0.1 meters. The total projectile size, when combined with the general hero change, is still 0.175 meters.
MEI
- Ammo increased from 120 to 140.
- Heal per second increased from 50 to 62.5.
REAPER
- Damage per second increased from 170 to 185.
- Ultimate cost decreased by 12%.
SOMBRA
Developer Comments: Virus deals critical impact damage when it hits Hacked targets, and this change makes using it as a follow-up more compelling. The Translocator now destroys breakable objects, preventing Sombra from teleporting a shorter distance than expected.
- Impact damage increased from 10 to 25.
- Destroys breakables while in flight.
- Ultimate cost reduced by 8%.
SYMMETRA
- Primary fire damage per second increased from 60 to 65, scaling with each stage. The new maximum damage per second is 195.
- Health increased from 30 to 50.
- Damage per second increased from 25 to 30.
- Health increased from 50 to 100.
- Shields increased from 150 to 200.
TORBJÖRN
- Turret damage increased from 11 to 13.
SUPPORT
ANA
- Explosion damage and healing increased from 60 to 90.
BRIGITTE
- Cooldown reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
- Cost reduced 8%.
ILLARI
Developer Comments: We are adjusting the firing cadence of the Solar Rifle, making it more responsive to use and increasing the damage per second but not the burst damage.
- Primary fire recovery time reduced from 0.3 to 0.2 seconds.
- Maximum charge time reduced from 0.7 to 0.65 seconds.
LIFEWEAVER
Developer Comments: We’re increasing the burst potential of the Heal Blossom to reinforce Lifeweaver’s role as a high healing throughput support. The heal per second is roughly the same as before, but individual Heal Blossoms can be charged further.
- Maximum heal amount increased from 70 to 80.
- Maximum charge time increased from 1 to 1.15 seconds.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed an issue that caused the B button on gamepads to close a Replay instead of opening the Bookmarks.
- Fixed a bug that made all Souvenirs face backward when previewing them in the Battlepass.
- Fixed a bug with the ‘more items in shop’ button in the Event Hub, taking players to a blank screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused your own Progression Screen to display when viewing another player’s Progression Screen.
- Fixed a display issue that sometimes caused the Rank Update Progress Bar to display incorrect values.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the ‘Ring’ dot reticle from displaying correctly for all heroes.
- Fixed an issue that prevented you from opening the Options menu while a Deathmatch game was ending.
- Fixed a bug in Mystery Heroes that could cause jump pads to be disabled for players.
- Leaves now correctly count as a loss during Competitive Placements Matches.
Hero Mastery
- Fixed a bug that gave Echo full Ultimate charge after restarting a run.
Junkertown
- Fixed some spots where the lighting was incorrect.
King’s Row
- Fixed an area of the map that allowed players to escape the playable space.
Samoa
- Fixed some areas that allowed Torbjorn’s turret to be almost fully obfuscated by the environment.
- Fixed a bug that caused the DPS Passive to not be applied by: Symettra and Torbjorn Turrets, Riptire, and B.O.B.
Lifeweaver
- Fixed an interaction with Tree of Life and Mauga that could launch Cage Fight into the sky.
- Fixed a specific instance that allowed Life Grip to pull allies to their death.
The following changes were added previously.
With this patch, the Overwatch client on all platforms can now automatically receive minor updates (hotfixes) without needing to be restarted. Hotfixes require online connectivity, access to disk, and sufficient disk space.
NEW FEATURE: SHARED INSTALL
The PTR and Live Overwatch PC clients can now share storage when installed to the same file path on disk. This should reduce the disk space required to install and update multiple clients. As a result, today’s PTR client should require only ~1.2GB of additional disk storage. Players with previous Overwatch PTR clients installed can uninstall and reinstall to a common disk location to benefit from this feature.
Heroes
Brigitte
- Fixed a bug with Brigitte’s Repair Pack granting defensive assist credit anytime after a target was healed
- Fixed a bug with Brigitte’s Repair Pack not playing a sound effect for the receiving player
Bug Fixes in Overwatch update 2.73
General
- Custom Game – Fixed an issue where presets saved with Symmetra’s “Teleportation Duration” were being flagged as invalid
- Role Queue Beta Season – Fixed a bug that prevented players from earning achievements when playing in the Role Queue Beta
- Role Queue Beta Season – Fixed a bug that could cause players not to receive an SR update when the entire opposing team left the match
- Overwatch version 2.73 fixed a bug that incorrectly applied Role Queue restrictions to vs. A.I. games
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from selecting roles in Quick Play LFGs
- Workshop – fixed an issue with “unknown error” preventing players from loading certain Custom Game presets
- Fixed a bug that could cause status effect toasts (stunned, slept, resurrected, hacked, detected, etc.) to get stuck on screen
- Overwatch 2.73 added fixes for crashing issues.
- Added fixes for framerate drop and freezing issues.
- Addressed stuttering/lag issues.
- Added performance improvements in some areas.
- Added stability improvements with Overwatch 2.73.
- Fixed minor audio issues.
- Various under the hood improvements.
Overwatch update 2.73 for PS4 is now available for download.
