EVERY Tank is BUFFED | Overwatch 2 - MID SEASON 11 Patch

When power creep meets the Autobots and Decepticons...
Official patch notes (July 9, 2024)
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0:00 Intro & Transformers Collab
0:35 Armor Changes [BUFF]
1:20 Tank Role Passive [BUFF]
1:55 DVa [BUFF]
2:29 Doomfist [BUFF]
2:55 Junker Queen [BUFF]
3:22 Mauga [BUFF]
4:17 Orisa [BUFF]
4:38 Ramattra [BUFF]
4:56 Reinhardt [BUFF]
5:43 Roadhog [BUFF]
6:09 Sigma [BUFF]
6:43 Winston [BUFF]
7:19 Wrecking Ball [BUFF]
7:56 Zarya [BUFF]
8:20 DPS Passive [NERF]
8:56 Ashe [BUFF]
9:11 Cassidy [NERF]
9:52 Pharah [NERF]
10:27 Ana [NERF]
10:44 Illari [QOL]
11:01 Zenyatta [BUFF]
11:17 Audio Update
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[@KarQ]

On paper this patch looks pretty bad. I'll edit this comment in 12 hours after I play it and see if my mind is changed. Anyways - twitch drops on my stream from July 9 - 14 for Symmetra cosmetics: twitch.tv/karq Also sry for some audio bugs - I rush these things out ASAP when patch day hits (ow content creator rat race unfortunately) and some oversights happen mb yall. Edit 12 hrs later: Tanks are def good, mostly Zarya/Dva. I won't lie from a support pov the game mostly felt the same for me. This patch didn't move the needle in terms of addressing tanking pain points, but the patch itself isn't game breaking. Tanks are just kaiju's that duel the other kaiju and I'm in the back chucking anti's and nanoing my kaiju no 8 to beat their kaiju no 9

[@TheNyanDoge]

DVa was really happy with the buff 💀 2:11

[@shaquilleoatmeal5332]

What's the workshop code you using here?

[@Qaztar44]

Yo, I get oversights happen and honestly it's not a big deal, but at the same time I don't think anyone is gonna freak out if you take an extra half-hour to upload while you quickly watch the video through on 2x and fix the audio bugs and missing/wrong descriptions. Probably more worth it than not.

[@Bigworm699]

He has a monopoly or cap on ow youtube content he must be 1st

[@DauntlessBlade___]

That's ok, I was just caught off guard is all

[@FatMCSteve]

Ngl this patch is low-key genius, cause it's gonna create more 6v6 supporters than there ever were

[@alb791]

In what way ?

[@Daiyamaruu]

@@alb791 in the way that overwatch was designed to be played in 6v6 and almost two years of failed patches to balance 5v5 proves that. Forget that tanks were duos to one help with the weakness of the other, nah, make the schrodinger tank: almost impossible to kill and it's easily shut down.

[@MarvelousButter]

@@Daiyamaruu schrodingers tank might be the best explanation of ow2 tanks ive ever heard

[@felipez3115]

11 seasons already with 5x5, deal with it or don't play it.

[@Zathren]

Nah. Never 5v5 is a million times better. Should have been 2 tanks 2 DPS and 1 support

[@glpinho]

2:42 KarQ demonstrating Doomfist's overhealth gain from using his abilities by not hitting one single ability

[@KarQ]

lore accurate

[@runaway74]

​@@KarQDOOMFIST!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[@nablan518]

This feels like a "Quick Play hacked" balance patch

[@olegdusov4273]

Except almost all changes are raw fucking numbers, something no one asked for. Hacked, 1st april, content creators patch all had some creative and fun ideas, this patch has none. And none of it solves any problems, counterswaps are still here, tank has more agency/power = more free value from swapping to enemy's tank counter.

[@kenleyreyes]

​@@olegdusov4273 counterswapping doesn't mean anything it's all about how good you are

[@olegdusov4273]

@@kenleyreyes yeah yeah, everyone is bad, top500 are bad, owcs are bad You are good, you can make anything work in your metal rank, great job 🤓

[@kenleyreyes]

@@olegdusov4273 ?? I know it's sarcasm but I don't understand

[@kenleyreyes]

@@olegdusov4273 ?? I know its sarcasm but I don't understand

[@crossc1988]

Bob still has DPS passive! Bob will now have 25% headshot damage reduction, 40% boop resistance, 20% healing debuff to his targets and 1000 HP.

[@elbromas221]

Bob the best tank

[@sideeswipe]

He has 1000 hp wdym

[@crossc1988]

@@sideeswipe You are correct, was reading wiki wrong.

[@koto2211]

The ultimate lifeform

[@cheyennewhoops191]

@@crossc1988 Eh, I still feel like he'll get shredded if you just send him in alone

[@abyssangel76]

next patch: were buffing the dps role passive because tanks where unkillable

[@bobsimpson1857]

Where?

[@cooler5827]

​@@bobsimpson1857 it's a joke...

[@augusthelton]

@@cooler5827he used the wrong where, he meant were

[@abyssangel76]

​@@augustheltonsorry I'm not natal English speaker

[@William256]

​@@augustheltonI'm pretty sure he meant where, as in "where was this stated?"

[@overlordalfredo]

10:30 oh yeah that pesky Sleep dart explosion DMG is going away finally 😂

[@elbromas221]

I hated when the sleep dart exploded and killed me instantly, I'm so glad it's gone now 😁

[@SteampunkCorvus]

10:31 "Sleep dart - Explosion Damage reduced from 30 to 0" By far the most egregious change.

[@Denobambino814]

Worlds longest april fools prank

[@kingis_dingis8103]

Bro😂

[@davidj135]

They're really committed to this 5v5 prank, hopefully they'll realize the rest of us stopped laughing during the first beta though.

[@njxwolverine2493]

No tanks needed a buff

[@MrLuc237]

I feel like the amount of times we've seen zarya bubble go from 2 to 2.5 to 2 is insane.

[@EpicMel0ns]

I was just thinking about like fr they need to make up their mind

[@undeny]

Make it 2.25 already and call it a day devs!!

[@armando5994]

and every time they change zarya i don’t feel any difference when i play her 💀

Guys I don't think the ow2 team has the same ideas as ow1 devs. Ow1 devs wanted to make the perfect game and said they would NEVER revert changes. This isn't about making the game perfect - it's about changing the meta and adjusting for newly released or overpowered or underpowered heroes.

[@i2seven]

yeap

[@Misciagna31]

FYI the explanation of the Adaptation shields change is wrong. Allies still receive 75 HP but it now only costs Ball 50 of his own HP per ally.

[@MrSting-fz2sn]

Thanks

What do you mean by cost?

[@ImHaise]

It's a ratio, 2:3. If ball has, say, 200 adaptive shields, he can give out 75 individual per 50. 75x4 = 300, so if he had 200 shield, he'd be able to give out 300. I'm pretty sure that's how it works

[@Antonio-ys5zd]

Still a fairly stupid "buff". Most of the time it isn't practical

[@guinea_horn]

Jump scare around 2:15 Edit: it's been fixed

[@guinea_horn]

Missing commentary around 6:10 too

[@Lyra_dragonal]

Ow that just hurts my ears!!

[@GunieaPig]

Wtf @KarQ

[@Hera3.14]

My manic laughter is almost palpable through the comment 😈😈

[@Hera3.14]

OH THE SOUND ERROR 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀

[@andrewwood1364]

Season 9 health buff becoming obsolete if we just raise all the damage numbers

[@timce9220]

Slowly becoming paladins hp bars

[@MarvelousButter]

@@andrewwood1364 you have just learned what power creep is

[@alfredocaceres4680]

Exactly what I was thinking, what was the point of that patch

[@RealEllenDeGeneres]

@@alfredocaceres4680 It's basically the same thing Apple does with their product design. They legit just swap back and forth between the same design every few generations. From flat, to rounded, then flat again. Because it just creates a sense of "new". The Blizzard team isn't trying to make the game perfectly balanced, they're just buffing certain aspects every once in a while to make it feel new and then buffing other aspects later to bring them back up to par.

[@DDoig1]

I knew that would happen.

[@dg-dm1rr]

Every tank player rn: Suffer As I Have!

[@jasonh6312]

I feel like the "Enemy health bars now display when they are at their Low Health threshold" change is one of the most notable ones of this patch, but I don't see a lot of folks talking abou tit

[@sebastianrodriguez8992]

Plus a bunch of little audio and visual changes honestly it's been a decent patch so far for me anyways not sure about the Champion sweat lords experience tho but for me on average I'm having fun in qp and arcade and all that with occasional comp matches

[@notsosaltygator]

Love the audio

[@_V.Va_]

Because everyone would rather voice their skill issue than talk about anything worthwhile.

[@agletuser6738]

Lifeweaver found dead in a dumpster

[@scumknight6074]

And Mercy’s the lid

[@brown9671]

This patch might be better for Lifeweaver, just healbot your gigatank and if he’s better then the enemies tank you just roll them, we’ll see tho

[@rfewer]

@@brown9671what a fun way to play

[@masterfy24]

GOOD!!!

[@swiftypopty1102]

Wiveleaver

[@gravityhacks1879]

2:10 Jumpscare

[@KarQ]

my bad, patch came out 2pm my time and I was rushing to get it out ASAP - got it done in 2 hours (4pm) and missed a few of the audio glitches

[@crazytiger7015]

@@KarQyour good KarQ we still love you

[@user-eo4it2rn1f]

what was the jumpscare?

[@lighter9692]

“Winston is currently very strong so we’re gonna buff him cuz his secondary fire isn’t that ‘satisfying’. We also wanna make him killable when he ults so we’re going to increase his health” … What?

[@kenleyreyes]

The secondary fire is not the strong aspect of Winston bro and they buff his primal health so he has a better chance to survive in moments he could die quickly

[@daviddiett2168]

BOB had the DPS passive like other turrets right? And they give him the Tank passives as well? What the hell are these people thinking?

[@HmongHeroo]

Does it have both or just the tank passive now?

[@daviddiett2168]

@@HmongHeroo I might be wrong since Sym and Torb turrets apply them (which is dumb imo) but a lot of things in this patch weren't needed and the issues people had don't feel like they've been addressed

[@Az-ecim]

Do you play Ashe? Have you ever pressed Q just to see your Butler Omnic death in the top right corner of the screen in 2 seconds? This ultimate is much less strong than you may think of it. If there's Ana or Sombra(which is pretty often seen pick vs Ashe) you can just throw away your Q button you'll not need it. In most cases opponents tank needs only to keep BOB busy for 2-3 secs so that his team may kill it freely. I didn't even mention this ultimate's cost. It's super huge, you won't be able to use it more than 3 times in a game unless you're good as fck yet not good enough to win the game in few minutes

[@daviddiett2168]

@@Az-ecim No, I'm not much of an Ashe player, I do need to practice more but I have seen both sides of BOB either being melted or used to pressure an exposed backline. It doesn't need to be the strongest ult if it used correctly, I just don't understand why they need to apply passives to him instead of just tweaking his damage and health. There's a lot this patch I don't agree with put this felt like a random choice to me.

[@Az-ecim]

@@daviddiett2168 Than you understand that still is an ultimate. Strongest Ashe's ability which is supposed to bring at least some profit considering it is to be used 3 times in the whole game tops If Ashe uses it correctly it just have to bring some profit. If opponents can just melt it in seconds, ok but make it keep em busy for a little bit more. Cause BOB is static no one struggles to headshot him. This patch make him survive that shots for a lil bit longer and that's good. He can still be hacked, sleeped, booped or pushed down the cliffs or into some close space rooms from where he doesn't do anything. But now these pushes aren't That hardly efficient and that's also good. Still doesn't make him any disbalanced. Anyway u still have hide option so he couldn't kill you

[@DaDomBoi]

4:51 Bro..... That hurt my soul a bit to watch, poor Rein got yoinked from glory

[@black7594]

lifeweaver is a fucking joke

[@Churrros]

I'm glad someone is talking about it

[@emma6648]

@@black7594why? It’s fun to troll

[@TamWam_]

​@@black7594seen good plays with countering zarya, Orisa, etc with his petal or even tree

[@serantos]

"Look how they massacred my boy" patch :(

[@Afrodoodle]

Who? Mcree? Deserved

[@TamWam_]

​​@@Afrodoodlenah the whole game

[@Afrodoodle]

@@TamWam_ so true, so true. 👌🏾

[@offbrandcereals]

2:11 super loud noise

[@DauntlessBlade___]

2:10 That was very loud ouch

[@tokiikane9118]

???

[@kaiserrat70]

What the hell is Blizzard even doing now

[@RealEllenDeGeneres]

You're just asking this question now? They've been lost since all the way back when the OW1 content drought started. They've done everything wrong since that point.

[@elder218]

Trying to officially kill the game

[@bulletbro4745]

They’re trying so hard to make 5v5 work. I was with 5v5 until later on in ow2. They’re just making me want 6v6 more and more now

[@Alex_Aramayo]

Smoking that good shit

[@Arthur-jf9nj]

making tank have more power since everyone blames tank at the end of every game (i’m a tank main that consistently does the best on all of my teams)(i consistently get blamed, it’s at least half of my games)

[@guyincognito7518]

Well open queues cooked, it already was throwing if you didn’t pick all tanks and heals, now they might aswell delete dps as an option

[@onelongwordable]

Well that's why they made role queue like what do you even want? "Open queue but I get to play DPS" Why?

[@LampDoesVideogame]

So, I thought this patch was going to be used as an exaggeration of tank issues so they could go "This is why we should go back to 6v6"... They might even use it as an excuse to get rid of open queue, so that everyone's forced into Role Queue.

[@Javano_]

Local area man chooses to play open queue and complains about the inherent concepts that make open queue open queue.

[@revenge3265]

The game has never been balanced for Open Queue, but this is also flat out wrong. Nearly every game I've played in Open Queue GM last season was 2-1-2

[@cobrakaachi]

There’s a secret nerf for ramattra as his nemesis form cooldown is 11 seconds as it used to be 7 seconds

[@aidenmeislitzer7774]

I think it’s a bug as all his cooldowns are at 11 seconds

[@sebastianrodriguez8992]

I saw this too but when I go into an actual game it's 7 again it's just the testing range it looks like

[@thecanadiandefender1451]

Careful at 2:10 folks, audio bug jumpscare

[@lunasmileyy]

this is like the third time its happened lol his editor needs to rewatch his renders

[@sayahhx8300]

I read this, went back to listen to it and still got scared. No ear phones either 😂😢😅

[@willwunsche6940]

This is the craziest patch since like the 2016 bastion patch that made him 100% pickrate meta for 3 days and I am here for the chaos. It's gonna be wild

[@--Glory--]

It’s miraculous that they have somehow made the strongest and most impactful role the worst and most miserable to play, while gaslighting themselves into thinking it needs further buffs without addressing any of the actual issues tank players have. This game is so cooked unless some serious changes in the team’s approach happen.

[@grizzegrizz]

I always see how people complain about the issues that tanks have but never see what those issues are specifically or any suggestions to fix those said issues. I don’t play tank so im not aware of what they are and just want to be educated on what they are and suggestions to fix them?

[@woof7611]

@@grizzegrizz player opinion does not matter the dev team never knew and will never learn how to balance the game :/

[@Arin-3]

@@grizzegrizzmost people just talk about “tank issues” because they think 6v6 will be better, not that they actually care to learn what they are.

[@--Glory--]

@@grizzegrizzThe issue is that the tank player on a team is as strong as two players (due to the power of the two tanks in 6v6 being put in the hands of one tank in 5v5) making the gameplay asymmetrical and the tank player by far the most valuable person on a team. If one player is that strong, they are also the most valuable to kill, resulting in most games becoming “focus down the tank to win.” Due to tanks being so powerful and hard to kill though, a lot of the time instead of playing strategically and catching the tank out of position (which they don’t really get punished for as hard as the other roles due to their insane survivability) the most effective tactic is to counter-swap the tank. This cycle is boring and unskillful in most peoples eyes, and forces DPS and support players to swap off the characters they actually want to play in order to win, and just makes the tank experience an overall miserable game of rock paper scissors. I’m no game designer so I can’t offer a perfect solution, and I doubt anyone truly can, but I can tell you this patch definitely isn’t the way to go. Tanks are already insanely powerful, and making them even stronger and more impactful will only force players to counter-swap to hard focus them even more. Obviously a lot of people propose 6v6, which I do think would fix a lot of issues, but I don’t have much faith that the dev team would ever go back to that because in a way it would be them admitting defeat. Unless they do 6v6 though, they really need to look at each individual character (including DPS and supports) and look at how they interact, synergize, and counter tanks and change it on a character by character basis. Big sweeping buffs to an already powerful role will NOT help, yet they continue to do stuff like this.

[@gamist8166]

@@grizzegrizz 6v6 and 5v5 debates will get you up to speed. Literally any of them. The point of 5v5 was queue times, no if's and's or butt's, and it definitely did not solve those, top 500 tank is diamond 1 lmao nobody is playing the role even by a worse margin than when we needed 2 tanks for every game. Then there's endless reasons 6v6 was better for gameplay. A tank's weakness could be mitigated by their counterpart, like dva helping winston or sigma helping orisa even if they were a lil broken back when they could play together. Since they can't now, the entire game is counterswap the enemy tank. AND the tank gets 100% of the blame, in 90% of the games. Whether it truly was their fault or not.

[@klonewess9736]

So they nerf Cassidy and revert Pharah…after Pharah has an over 50% win rate and reverting Cassidy to ow1

[@joelfernando6914]

And pharah doesn't get big nerfs

[@Novin.S]

Nerfed his left click, right click, and made his grenade really bad. His damage fall off was nerfed so many times that I lost count.

[@clarkkent1616]

@@Novin.Sthey just really don't like him in that long range role

[@agustinnarvaez5251]

its weird because cassidy to be fair over performs in close range now. Couple head shots as you close in, flashbang, barrage, roll, barrage and as long as he got aim most people are gone. However cassidy imo was a great idea of pseudo-sniper for those that dont like characters like widow or ashe. So i would've touched flashbang in a way where it was usable long range, like making an ACTUAL flashbang without range limit that makes blind enemies more vulnerable to headshots, something like that.

[@usagibnuuy2070]

Are we gonna complain about pharah nerfs????? And her 59% wineate????!??

[@Skyrdr]

I’ve been optimistic about this game. I thought all the Doomers were doing more harm to the game than anything else. This patch is so bad, I think it finally validated the doomers

[@KILLOXY]

exactly 💀

[@jaydinthegod]

Ofc. Our character is shit

[@runaway74]

DOOMFIST!!!!!!! BWAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

[@TwilightWolf285]

This patch is great, are you okay? Tanks are finally playable again.

[@runaway74]

@@TwilightWolf285 yeah! This patch is great! You know, for two of the ten players in the lobby!!

[@kidkonundrum4592]

Ya know, as a Cass main, I ain’t even mad at this point. Happens every time he’s meta. He’s good for a season, then they nerf him into the ground. Welp bois, looks like it’s back to the ranch for us. YEEEEHHAAAAWWW🤠

[@runaway74]

YEEEEHAWWWWWW!!! See you there partner!!

[@revenge3265]

Nerfing him doesn't even make sense considering Pharah is meta

[@kidkonundrum4592]

@@revenge3265 it makes sense in the sense that Blizz will never allow Cass to be even slightly meta for more then one second. On a more serious note though he wasn’t even oppressive this meta. Sure he was S tier for sure, but he’s easily counter able and has a ton of weaknesses. But no sure let’s take away a ton of his right click damage and nerf his already poor range into the ground.

[@fugonee]

This feels like a really petty overbuffing of tanks due to their complaints...

[@loball-dz6ui]

😊The only 😮😮

[@Ashkanman]

Overbuffing? What a joke it's been the most punishing role to play since ow2 launched. They can exist alongside their team now

[@Nicholas_4641]

@@Ashkanmanthen just increase the health not nerf the damage role wth

[@revenge3265]

​​@@Ashkanman Literally every high level Tank player says Tanks are strong balance wise but just feel miserable to play. Buffs aren't the answer unless you're trash at the game. The answer is reducing the stress of Tank and unfun it is to eat basically every ability from the enemy team.

[@whitecollargraffiti8348]

They hate ball

[@nogunk147]

The patch before this they said we dont want cassidy to be so tanky as a dps hitscan so they removed or decreased the damage reduction components to his kit. Now theyre saying we want him to be a tanky hitscan so were nerfing his range but not reverting any of the damage reduction changes. Lmao what? Is this hero the new Nerf Genji meme or what

[@ljb5163]

This is their last attempt at trying to force 5v5. There’s no way this is real otherwise.

[@BuffNesquikBunny]

I’ve been an “just play 5v5 and shut up” advocate for all of ow2 but this patch is a fucking joke. The end is nigh, it has to be.

[@regularwaterfowl1749]

It wasn't any better with 6v6. Heroes have been getting powercrept and over-buffed since 2016.

[@Kiddos77]

@@regularwaterfowl1749 you can atleast win a 1v1 against roadhog as reaper in ow1, now you need dmg boost, and nano boost to atleast drop him to half health

[@user-zr4er6zy9v]

@@regularwaterfowl1749not really, overwatch 1 had wayy more even balancing. here the devs are just throwing random changes in hope they will work.

[@panzerschiff9805]

Honestly I can't blame the OW team because 6v6 still made tanks miserable to play with and against. The tank role in this game is, no matter what, horribly designed.

[@Skycube100]

As a Tank player, I don't need to be more unkillable, Tanks are already good at Tanking damage. Tanks are bad at Tanking CCs and bad at making cover for teammates while also taking space. Just a suggestion: - Maybe add CC reduction/mitigation on Armor health - A passive that reduces the CC effect by half after getting CCd means if you get naded and then get sleep darted you take half less of the sleep dart effect. - Introduce new abilities to Tank in the form of Barriers. Yes, Bunker and Goats comps were a traumatic experience, however, that is because two tanks with shields, a busted op Brig, and Bap were allowed back then in OW1. With only one tank now, having a deployable shield or support kit like Rammattra/MirrorWatch Widow Barrier, a mini Dva succ, or a Soldier Heal pad could help. Tanks shouldn't be good at tanking damage in OW, they should also be CC mitigators/denials.

[@Thrillhouse89]

Or we could have 2 tanks again like in ow1 but just reduce the shield damage absorbed when 2 shields play together

[@kenleyreyes]

Bro what? The game is already like this

[@Takemura77]

Sped found

[@njxwolverine2493]

There is no way you’re a legit tank player, I’m diamond-master tank and I’ll tell you now tanks needed a buff… you’re talking your ass if you say tanks didn’t need to be more unkillable, who are you trying to impress here? Sitting and lying that tanks are already tanky enough???

[@WunderWulfe]

the wrecking ball shield patch was misread. it takes 50 overhealth from wrecking ball and gives an ally 75, 2:3** ratio rather than 1:1 also, i want my lucioball skin back 🐹

[@keeganbate8935]

I'm just mad porcelain left the shop for ball

[@WunderWulfe]

@@keeganbate8935 it doesnt leave forever. it rotates in the shop as a bundle every now and then. ive seen it three or four times

[@JamesJackel]

that would be 2:3 not 3:4

[@WunderWulfe]

@@JamesJackel yea, thats correct. my bad

[@JAxz5]

As a tank main, this is horrible, i wanted to be able to pick more tanks whenever i want, this only means i need to counters swap more often

[@Catbeans99]

Stop trying to fight the enemy tank 🤦‍♂️

[@ronramen5827]

Played before reading the patch notes, and honestly counter swapping didn't matter. Maybe it's just how low ranks play, but I went through several games on Doomfist, the enemy swapped to Orisa or Roadhog, and it wasn't really impactful.

[@pocolocoheyya3375]

@@Catbeans99 This isn't about tank vs tank it's about tank vs literally everyone else on the other team. You go Doom and you have to deal with Ana, Zen, Sombra, Pharah. And that's not including all the other characters they could be running to counter you or the other tank.

[@pocolocoheyya3375]

@@ronramen5827 It does depend on ranking but the it's not the fact if you can do it or not, it's more of the fact the DIFFICULTY and patience to even deal with that.

[@Catbeans99]

@@pocolocoheyya3375 welcome to online gaming, do you need to be shown around? You seem to be having a difficult time figuring out for yourself.

[@rouge_blackjack161]

So the support for 6v6 is gonna be at an all time high, with manual feedback from the community the devs will be under more pressure than ever

[@krazyjoker720]

I love your patch notes videos! Clean and informative :) I look forward to them each patch

[@poroplaysow1701]

also a little hidden nerf to ram the cooldown of his form is increase to 11 second this is not written in the patch notes however it is in game

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

Boy it's not a nerf! It's a bug causing all of his cooldowns to be 11 secs. His nemesis only had 7 secs cooldown. If they really made it 11, literally nobody would play Ram!

[@aaronbarragan8339]

Thanks for making content for all these years. I always wait for your updates because you explain very well and right to the point 💯/💯

[@SirTriton]

I love how the overwatch devs are just making the tanks invincible, Surely this won’t have any negative effects on the game

[@mofoman1239]

What was that jump scare!

[@toraow]

All publicity is good publicity? Right? RIGHT???

[@moonchester6854]

new patch is crazy cleared 50gb from my storage

[@niallmoseley6760]

Bro 5 v 5 is getting so dumb now. Its like doing CPR on a mummy at this point.

[@violist833]

Buffing tank doesn’t actually fix the core issues of the role in 5v5

[@Az-ecim]

Which ones?

[@putterz]

@@Az-ecimthe game just becomes feed the tank and shoot the tank. tank instantly becomes the most valuable thing to attack so everyone applies their abilities and focus to it. makes it super unfun to play and not fun to play with.

[@yvbtxbysvyscbu7647]

​@@Az-ecimthe main issue is counterswapping by making each tank stronger it will make counterswapping even more prominent and nessecary. This will make playing tank even more miserable to play.

[@Az-ecim]

@@putterz Why? I see no changes that make you prioritize tank as target. They didn't buff their dmg, they did buff tanks survivability. So it's actually more easy and valuable for you to kill supports and damage guys first

[@Az-ecim]

@@yvbtxbysvyscbu7647 Probably now that counters of yours won't be that hard for tank thanks to buffs

[@Lyra_dragonal]

What is this insane power creep of HP and survival!!?!!?

[@gravecompanion]

thank you cactuspuppy for putting this together for the community!

[@kavidudesilva2414]

4:50 that rein is so pissed omg

[@Dude-X-Perfect]

1:05 as a genji main player I shouldn’t report to the principal office. But instead I should speak up to blizzard until they stops nerfing genji and brings back 6v6

[@infochan6776]

Surely blizzard doesnt think that making huge changes all at once wont have any repercussions at all right? They really need to go back to making weekly/biweekly balance patches...

[@danielmcguiness2745]

KarQ! the sound goes during the start of sigmas changes btw

[@DragonEngineer_]

Good thing to note because Bob now has Tank passive, Bob is also resistant to Ana's sleep dart (3s duration instead of 5s)

[@1019Freedom]

Winton needs a Optimus Primal skin

[@noahs.stupid44]

I gave up on the game after season 9. Honestly no point in playing a game that keeps changing and getting worse each change

[@krus-t1791]

It’s not the tanks that need to be buffed it’s the factor of counter picking that needs to be debuffed

[@FrostReach66]

They cooked in the wrong kitchen and that kitchen still exploded

[@bridgetopeace7449]

No Lifeweaver buffs :( Man, I wish they'd transfer that 15 second lifegrip from Community Crafted, really felt good without it being too strong

[@MythicMint]

So tanks are still miserable but people will hate us even more! Depression my old friend so nice to see you.

[@marcuscyl6653]

its like we are in a perpetual clown fiesta and a full speed clown car

[@ninthfriend3347]

This patch has pushed tanks to be more raid bosses. Looks like I'm bringing out my good ole Gally!

[@CaseyGumball]

Hey karq around 10:30 it says explosive damage reduced instead of sleep dart duration reduced

[@M4SKED2001]

So Tank is going to be even more oppressive? Got it, very cool Blizzard Also KarQ at 2:11 with the sudden cut, there's a loud screeching just so you know The start of the Sigma segment your mic is cut out a bit as well

[@psychonut348]

more oppressive lol

[@Taylorperchasemccarthy]

@@psychonut348Tank is individually a very oppressive role the problem is they aren’t fun to play because of DPS being also oppressive and support being garbage. Each tank individually was broken, the role as a whole was the problem.

[@psychonut348]

@@Taylorperchasemccarthy support being garbage hahah, they were tankier than tanks

[@Taylorperchasemccarthy]

@@psychonut348 support was good for like two seasons before tanks started whining, they blanket nerfed the entire role, we went into Mauga meta for half a season, the second half of season 8 was actually pretty fun, and then season 9 pretty much exclusively ruined supports and since they’ve double downed on it with keeping cauterize at 20%, somehow managing to nerf awful supports like Weaver, managing to buff the only good one in Lucio, not addressing the fact that Mercy has been pretty awful for 3 straight seasons, or the fact that it literally doesn’t have a role passive anymore. Support hasn’t really been fun since that Ram Queen Orisa meta at the end of season 8, and I am of the hot take opinion that honestly support needs to be good for tank to feel good. If we can do our job, you can do yours. Tanks complained supports out of the game and now complain that they aren’t able to work well because they die too fast (because there’s next to no notable healing), and now each of them is at their individual strongest so it’s less fun to play into on any role. Support was strong in seasons 6 and 7, I’ll give you that, but I honestly think tanks in 8 and 11 and DPS in 9 and 10 have been stronger than support ever was. Support needs SOMETHING right now.

[@Terror-Gene]

6:07, editor been dropping the ball!

[@kokushibo1014]

I love how they buffed already broken characters like mauga and zarya

[@stillmamo]

W Illari Change 😭

[@jamesfaloon4831]

hoping for a LW buff.

[@SlayCC]

The sleep dart explosion damage nerf is crazy

[@samasaurus6]

The silent Sigma rock throw made be chuckle

[@anderskjr1964]

This patch feels terrible to play.

[@koalakobe7899]

I physically can’t watch anyone’s patch notes expect yours bro

[@jerbsherb4391]

I was not excepting you to say that

[@Zephyrius8]

@@jerbsherb4391i dont know how to feel about this comment, other than disappointment, but i excepted more from both of you

[@raiiyqu1832]

i need the voice chat volume meter baaaack, i don't want to change the overall volume to hear my mates

[@burstmistakes]

so it’s not just me thank you it’s so obnoxious since I have really sensitive hearing and usually have vc quite quiet

[@raiiyqu1832]

@@burstmistakes yeah idk why they took it out.. it's such a important setting. In other games u can even change the volume for every player individually and in ow u can't even change the overall vc volume now.. crazy

[@pandasg645]

That short silence on Sigmar part made me laugh. I thought you were just gonna show him throwing rocks and not talk about it further and moved on but instead it was just a sound delay😂

[@Andrewstown]

Do you guys hear… INFLATION!

[@ytk3797]

They really gonna die on the 5v5 hill huh

[@kobebeeftv7448]

I wish they’d try reworking tank role to where they have similar health pools as other roles, while retaining their defensive abilities and upping their dps. Tank focus defense abilities, dps focus mobility, and support focus healing abilities. Tank just has too much weight in its current state.

[@TIoerSoec]

I understand that BOB had a passive DPS like other turrets. And they also grant him the Tank passives? How on earth can these folks think?

[@travis_ow]

i laugh so god damn hard on 2:10

[@Reve42]

They buffed defense matrix ???? Ok I’m not playing this season. See you whenever they nerf it.

[@erikpastenes5095]

Have I played this game at all this year? No. Will I always watch a video KarQ uploads? Yes.

[@maxxlawrence3910]

Shocked they did the armor buff along with all the other ones. I like the individual buffs more than further improving armor.

[@christsolos]

they so scared of 6v6 man lmao, wtf is this

[@sparrowilan7418]

Ow2 is too much complicated 😮‍💨

[@SmutGrrl]

Thank you Cactus Puppy!

[@0nics]

Idk what they smoked to nerf McCree again and kinda buff Pharah but I want that stuff too cuz clearly this stuff hits like a truck

[@MonalisaS]

They really wanna die on the 5v5 is better hill eh

[@farhatu1542]

Yeah open queue is just completely dead now

[@MohnadBs]

Dude i LOVE THE INTRO

[@monday7352]

my favorite role just got gigabuffed (The Ramm and Mauga changes made the most sense imo) Feels really good man. Indirect Bastion buff with the armor change though. Might see that guy more often.

[@darcidious99]

I keep saying that this game can't get any worse, and my god the devs sure know how to test that fucking statement. At this point I'm not even mad anymore, it's genuinely hilarious to see just how incompetent they are. Those mauga buffs are especially hysterical, can't just let him and the horse die for a couple of seasons like they did to rein and ball huh?

[@liane4276]

Mauga isn't impossible to counter play as a rein player. Literally just counter charge him when he charges and shield when he over drives. Maybe learn the counter play dynamics instead of complaining all the time.

[@BeastMode-bw2ry]

@liane4276 😂😂😂

[@toazel8679]

​@@liane4276No way, a silver spotted in the wild!

[@mat_gage5185]

@@liane4276u can’t counter charge him

[@elbromas221]

​@@mat_gage5185 I think it means when a Mauga charges at you but he doesn't stun you, you charge at him or something like that

[@djsac2513]

Ok but that sigma buff was so unnecessary, I personally believe sigma should NEVER be buffed or nerfed

[@Ace-zm9nf]

he doesnt profit from the armour buff so i guess blizzard thought they needed to. Still shit changes overall. (except for the dps passiv)

[@KellySteam]

boy am I glad I have an audio equalizer for 2:10, I hardly noticed it

[@mannie6827]

I love your patch videos way better than just checking the Overwatch Calvary on twitter.

[@iiballisticpanda]

jesus karq you rushed this video and it kinda shows lol also orisa can headshot with her javelin now

[@pericovd929]

they will do anything but return to 6v6 because the 2 of overwatch 2 branding Now they are trying to lazily addresss the issues season 9 brought

[@raphaelkishimoto870]

The Overwatch classification should be one in the open format, but it would be like this: You chose 2 tanks and you can't choose more or 2 dps or 2 healers, it would be 5 against 5 but with a limit of two heroes for each role, that is, you could have different compositions with balanced tanks, you could play 2 tanks, 2 dps and a healer, or 1 tank, 2 dps and 2 heals or 2 tanks, 1 dps and 2 heals, this would be a general rank avoiding trolling like the game in such a role I will troll and also the game would have the balance of the old combos in a balanced and intelligent way. Only Blizzard would do this to reduce the queue time because it would be one thing and it would also continue 5v5 •When I say balanced tank it is in the open queue format with less life, because by function since there can only be one tank as mandatory they have to be acquired with exaggerated life and exaggerated damage, and the way I said it wouldn't work To have 3 of each hero making a break like 3 tanks and two heals or some role left out, because there would necessarily have to be at least 1 of each role and a maximum of 2 of each role.

[@Chorongy-]

Press F for Mystery heroes, tanks were already horribly unbalanced in there.

[@theconman5540]

woooo yeah! keep making super tanks instead of going to 6v6 and balancing them out! yeahhhh!