Author: big_fisch

Owner and operator of Game Watch Today, est. 2016, making content daily about the video game Overwatch. Social Media content creator, Podcaster and more. Find me on instagram, twitter and YouTube at gamewatchtoday. Find me on tumblr and facebook at Overwatchtoday. Contact me at bigfisch@gamewatchtoday.com
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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – February 12, 2020

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Brigitte gets more nerfs

A new patch is now live on Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Read below to learn more about the latest changes.

Link https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/overwatch-retail-patch-notes-%E2%80%93-february-12-2020/458690

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion 73 forum
For a list of known issues, visit our Bug Report 15 forum.
For troubleshooting assistance, visit our Technical Support 6 forum.

HERO UPDATES

Brigitte

Repair Pack

  • Armor over-heal reduced from 75 armor to 50 armor
  • HPS decreased from 60 to 55

Developer Comment: On top of the high utility Brigitte brings to her team, she also dishes out a ton of healing and armor. We’re reducing some of this healing and armor to help keep her in line with the other healers.

Symmetra

  • Photon Projector (Secondary Fire)
  • Damage increased from 120 to 140

Developer Comment: Increasing Photon Projectors max damage allows Symmetra to play more effectively at a safer range when necessary.

Widowmaker

Widow’s Kiss

  • Full charge time for scoped shots increased from 0.75 sec to 0.9 sec

Developer Comment: Widowmaker has become stronger over time following changes to other heroes, such as power reductions to barriers. This change is intended to slow down her shots, reducing her overall DPS.

Wrecking Ball

Piledriver

  • Affected players’ loss of air control reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds

Developer Comment: This change allows Wrecking Ball’s enemies to regain control of their movement more quickly to try and avoid attacks, making Piledriver combos a bit less deadly.

Console-Only Changes

Ana

Biotic Rifle

  • Allied projectile size increased from 0.3 to 0.4

Symmetra

Sentry Turret

  • Turret DPS reduced from 34 to 30
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Top 10 Viewed Overwatch videos on YouTube

Here the the list counting down the top 10 most viewed Overwatch Videos on YouTube.

  1. No Mercy
    66 million views
    Mashed

2. Overwatch Rap Battle
53 million views
Squeezie

3. Overwatch Animated Short: Dragons
33 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

4. Overwatch Vs TF2 [SFM]
26 million views
The Winglet

5. Overwatch Song | The Reaper | #nerdout
26 million views
Nerdout

6. Overwatch Animated Short | “Infiltration”
20 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

7. Overwatch Animated Short | “The last Bastion”
19 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

8. Overwatch Animated Short | “Honor and Glory”
17 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

9. Overwatch Animated Short | “Hero”
16 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

10. Overwatch Cinematic Trailer
15 million views
Playoverwatch (official)

Most of the videos come from the official Overwatch channel but the ones at the top have captured memes and hearts alike as the official / unofficial music videos about Overwatch. I mean I would pick Tracer but I’m already Tracer…

~bigfisch
bigfisch@gamewatchtoday.com

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I Streamed Overwatch for 72 hours and here’s what I learned.

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Watch 31 hours of my 72 hour live stream.

So I didn’t really learn anything from my 72 hour live stream because it was the Overwatch logo from the login screen for about 70 hours of it. I was trying to test my laptop and my internet connection for streaming and learned that both are garbage, lol. I guess secondary take away is that not everyone wants to see nonsense from a live stream *shrug* although I thought it was funny most people didn’t stay for more than a few seconds to leave a comment like “when are you going to play” or “hello”.

If you are looking for live streaming tips tho, here’s some things I have actually learned from other “professional” streamers I have talked to.

  1. Get a face cam
  2. Get your voice on stream
  3. Interact with people watching your stream
  4. Get your friends to watch your stream (when you start out)
  5. Stream like you are putting on a show (even if no one is there)
  6. Choose a stream format (video games, asmr, just chatting, IRL, or something else)
  7. Choose your stream type (are you a variety streamer or do you always do the same thing)
  8. Be entertaining (even if it means making up a streaming persona)
  9. Get yourself out there (interact and find other streamers your size and slightly bigger this will get you friends and start your community building (networking))
  10. Get on social media (a lot of streamers post to twitter but branch out to as many sites as possible to get your stream out there).
  11. *bonus* wherever you stream from start a YouTube channel to post (well edited) clips from your stream.

Got more tips to add, comment below.

Will I do another nonsense stream again… Yes. I have another one planned for this week I am going to try using an external camera.

~bigfisch
bigfisch@gamewatchtoday.com

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New Overwatch AI hackers are terrifying players

A new threat emerges in Overwatch and it’s not an Overwatch League player… yet. Discovered by player RedshellOW and reported by ohnickel (videos below) there is a new AI controlled hacker in Overwatch murdering thousands.

https://youtu.be/xkyLHaVEZy4
Video explanation from ohnickel

The bot is easy enough to spot if you are watching for it. Because is is not human controlled you can clearly see it running into walls and auto aiming without even a flick.

https://twitter.com/RedshellOW/status/1223633320346390528?s=20
Here’s the original post from RedShellOW

The bot is controlled to follow a second “hacker” in this case Reinhardt. Noted that the Reinhardt was also using cheats or hacks as well.

The Overwatch team has stated last week they are working on “new” hacker or cheater solutions but it is clear the hackers are one step ahead of them.

Stay safe out there.

~bigfisch
bigfisch@gamewatchtoday.com

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Top 10 Overwatch Art posts on Reddit

Overwatch has some amazing fans and even more amazing fans that contribute art to the community. Here is the Top 10 fan Overwatch fan arts voted on https://www.reddit.com/r/overwatch_fanart/

1. Sombra

Talon Sombra Wallpaper – 4K
byu/SK_Jynx inoverwatch_fanart

2. Free Hong Kong Mei

i drew a free hong kong mei! [MINE/ IG- Hypoel]
byu/Hypoplasia inoverwatch_fanart

3.Tracer fan skin

Tracer – Icicle Fan Art Skin
byu/notokek inoverwatch_fanart

4. Summer Widowmaker

Summer Widowmaker fanart I made for this 2019 event…
byu/Sparrow_21 inoverwatch_fanart

5. Pirate Widowmaker

Pirate skin idea for Widow…
byu/Sparrow_21 inoverwatch_fanart

6. OW2 Tracer

I did a little tracer to celebrate OW 2! ♥♥
by inoverwatch_fanart

7. Overwatch wood carving

This Overwatch logo i made out of birch wood for my gf 🙂
byu/Faotuo inoverwatch_fanart

8. Brigitte Line Art

My first OVERWATCH fan art – BRIGITTE
byu/ekaaaans inoverwatch_fanart

9. Casual (Skater) Mercy

I drew a new casual skin for Mercy
byu/leakrosis inoverwatch_fanart

10. Neon D.Va

Neon D.VA
byu/JCuckles inoverwatch_fanart

Of course there is Overwatch art everywhere on the internet this is a tiny segment of it. Some is amazing and some is definitely NSFW. Which is your favorite art or who is your favorite Overwatch artist?

~bigfisch
bigfisch@gamewatchtoday.com

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