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September 2021 Balance Changes and Bug Fixes

Patch2021-09-28
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September 28 2021 (version 2021-09-28) brings general updates and bug fixes.

  • New: Custom Games Browser quality of life improvements with new tabs (Popular, Favorites, Recent, All Games) and Mode Name setting.
  • New: Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination Season 4 begins.
  • Fixed: Various bugs including Top 500 prestige icons, match pool icons, season stats display, ping message, controller support, and career profile ordering.
  • Fixed: Map-specific bugs on Busan, Lijiang Tower, and Temple of Anubis.
  • Fixed: Hero bugs for Doomfist, Mei, Reaper, Soldier: 76, and Symmetra.
  • Fixed: Custom Games description text box newline conversion.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

GENERAL UPDATES

Feature Update: Custom Games Browser – Quality of Life Improvements

New Features

New Custom Game Browser tabs

  • Popular
  • Favorites
  • Recent
  • All Games

New Custom Game setting

  • Mode Name
Competitive: 3v3 Lockout Elimination – Season 4

Season 4 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination has begun!

BUG FIXES

General
  • Fixed a bug that prevented console players from seeing their Top 500 prestige icons while in a match
  • Fixed a bug that caused match pool icons to appear missing from match replay listings
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Season 28 and Season 29 statistics to look the same in career profile
  • Fixed a bug with the 2020 new year's hat player icon description that displayed 2021
  • Fixed a bug that caused the "We need a healer" ping message to appear in a role queue match despite having two healers on the team
  • Fixed a bug with the custom game browser that prevented Game Mode options from being selected when using a controller
  • Fixed a bug with the career profile that showed competitive CTF seasons in the incorrect order on the stats tab
Maps

Busan

  • Fixed a bug with the cow sign that caused the fork to not be attached properly

Lijiang Tower

  • Fixed a bug on the Control Center map that allowed players to use Junkrat's Riptire to clip through map geometry and reveal an enemy team's positioning

Temple of Anubis

  • Fixed a bug that allowed Junkrat to use his Riptire ultimate underneath map terrain
Heroes

Doomfist

  • Fixed a bug where Rocket Punch would sometimes not play impact effects or animations when hitting a wall

Mei

  • Fixed a bug with her Kneel emote that caused her eyes to not animate properly

Reaper

  • Fixed a bug that caused some of an enemy Reaper's visual effects to display as friendly instead of hostile when on low damage effects settings

Soldier: 76

  • Fixed a bug that caused his "Show Some Respect" voice line to not play properly if the Grillmaster skin was equipped

Symmetra

  • Fixed a bug that caused the player camera to briefly appear in unplayable space when traveling through her teleporter
Custom Games
  • The Description text box no longer converts newline characters to spaces

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