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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – July 30, 2026

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For Quick Play Hacked and Open Queue throughout the Quick Play Hacked weekend, In-Combat Healing Reduction drops from 30% to 15% for all heroes, and Tank Role Passive ultimate charge reduction when damaging or healing tank targets increases from 20% to 40%.

Limited-Time Mode Specific Updates

The following patch notes are applicable only to a specific, limited-time game mode. The documented changes do not apply to pre-existing queues, unless otherwise noted.

Hero Updates

For the upcoming Quick Play Hacked, we're making several balance changes to test elements of 6v6 gameplay. The In-Combat Healing reduction has been lowered for all heroes to evaluate the impact of increased healing across the board while reducing the effectiveness of several self-sustaining sub-roles.

We're also reducing several Tank defensive cooldowns to improve gameplay flow for these heroes. To offset the increased availability of these abilities, their durations have been shortened where appropriate to avoid creating too many defensive cooldowns with two tanks available.

These changes will also be active within Open Queue throughout the Quick Play Hacked weekend.

General Changes

  • In-Combat Healing Reduction reduced from 30% to 15% for all heroes.

Tank Role Passive

  • Ultimate charge reduction when damaging or healing tank targets increased from 20% to 40%.

Subrole Passives

Bruiser

  • Movement speed buff reduced from 20% to 15%.

Initiator

  • Healing reduced from 50 to 40.
  • Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.

Flanker

  • Additional health from Health Packs reduced from 75 to 50.

Medic

  • Healing conversion reduced from 40% to 30%.

Tank

Domina


Barrier Array

  • Barrier Cooldown reduced from 17 to 15 seconds.
  • Barrier Duration reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.

Doomfist


The Best Defense

  • Shield gain increased from 25 to 30.

Hazard


Jagged Wall

  • Cooldown reduced from 15 to 13 seconds.

Mauga


Overrun

  • Cooldown reduced from 7 to 6 seconds.

Ramattra


Void Barrier

  • Cooldown reduced from 16 to 13 seconds.
  • Duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.

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