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March 2022 Balance Changes and Hero Adjustments

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The 2022-03-15 patch includes a new Overwatch League skin, NVIDIA Reflex update, Competitive 6v6 Lockout Elimination Season 5, map rotations, and bug fixes.

  • New: Overwatch League Grand Finals Championship Skin for Sombra (Zhulong) available for 200 Tokens.
  • Updated: NVIDIA Reflex trigger flash option removed; driver 511.79+ and GeForce Experience 3.25+ required.
  • Updated: Horizon Lunar Colony and Paris removed from Quick Play and Quick Play related modes.
  • Fixed: Various bug fixes including Contenders skin resolution, chat spam, friends on recent players, microphone distortion on PC, Echo D.Va re-mech ultimate charge, and Watchpoint: Gibraltar geometry exploit.

MARCH 15, 2022

GENERAL

Overwatch League Grand Finals Championship Skin

The Shanghai Dragons' victory in the 2021 Overwatch League is commemorated by the new Sombra Skin "Zhulong." For a brief period, the skin may be purchased for 200 Overwatch League Tokens.

NVIDIA Reflex

The settings panel no longer offers the trigger flash option. Please update to driver version 511.79 or later and GeForce Experience to version 3.25 or later if you want to use the trigger flash display for your Reflex Analyzer monitor. Visit https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/reflex-latency-analyzer-360hz-g-sync-monitors/ for more information about Reflex Analyzer.

COMPETITIVE: 6V6 LOCKOUT ELIMINATION

Season 5 of Competitive 6v6 Lockout Elimination has begun!

MAPS

Horizon Lunar Colony and Paris have been removed from Quick Play and related modes.

BUG FIXES

General
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Contenders logo to be low resolution on Contenders skins
  • Fixed a bug that caused "Ban list is full" to appear in the chat repeatedly
  • Fixed a bug that caused friends to be visible on the "Recent Players" list
  • Fixed a bug on PC that caused microphone sound distortion
Heroes

Echo

  • Fixed a bug that caused re-meching as a duplicated D.Va to grant too much Ultimate charge
Maps

Watchpoint: Gibraltar

  • Addressed a geometry exploit

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