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Today Blizzard dropped the latest Buffs and Nerfs on the PTR.
And it seems as though McCree gets the latest DPS testing patch with more health and a crazy buff to his Ultimate ability Dead EYE.

link – https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/overwatch-ptr-patch-notes-%E2%80%93-jan-23-2020/450285/1

Overwatch PTR Patch Notes Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Jan 23, 2020

A new Overwatch patch is in development and now available for testing! To share your feedback or report any issues, please post in the PTR Feedback or PTR Bug Report forums.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes currently available for testing on the PTR. While many of these changes may also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a future patch, the PTR is PC-only and only reflects changes coming specifically to that platform. HERO UPDATES

Hanzo
Storm Arrows

Damage reduced from 70 to 60

McCree
General

Base health increased from 200 to 250

Peacekeeper (Primary Fire)

Recovery time increased from 0.42 to 0.5 seconds

Deadeye

Firing Deadeye no longer locks the playerÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s aim

Reaper
The Reaping (Passive)

Healing amount reduced from 40% to 30% of damage dealt

Orisa
Fusion Driver (Primary Fire)

Damage reduced from 11 to 9

Fortify

Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds

Halt!

Snare duration reduced from 1 to 0.65 seconds

Sigma
Hyperspheres (Primary Fire)

Range reduced from 22 to 20 meters

Gravitic Flux

Can now be interrupted before targets begin falling
Impact slow duration reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 seconds

Accretion

Explosion damage reduced from 60 to 40

Baptiste
Biotic Launcher (Primary Fire)

Recovery time increased from 0.36 to 0.45 sec

Biotic Launcher (Secondary Fire)

Heal explosion reduced from 60 to 50

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Yesterday we got the news that the Overwatch dev team is working on something big. That Ã¢â‚¬Å“somethingÃ¢â‚¬Â could be hero bans. And today the internet has spoken.

http://gamewatchtoday.com/blog/2020/01/20/hero-bans-coming-to-overwatch/

Check out the previous article about this.

Basically hero bans in a game like Overwatch could be presented a few different ways (for those of you that have never played games with them before). The idea is that when you play a game certain heroes durrIng that particular game or series of games you play that day are banned or locked out of play and you will not be allowed to play those heroes. It could be just for that game or a day or a whole season it depends on how itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s implemented. Most people refer to the League of Legends way of Champion selection and ban where it only lasts that match and you vote what hero gets banned that game however you get to see who everyone is picking beforehand (itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a little more involved but thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s the easy explanation).

The people have spoken, some for it and some against and some are just confused.

FROM TWITTER

I've been reading a lot of interesting takes on hero bans in Overwatch. Good arguments to be made for both camps. My thoughts? I personally think that the game would need a good bunch more heroes to reap the benefits and strategic depth such a system brings with it.
— Soe Gschwind (@Soembie) January 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/johngalt/status/1219506708344643585?s=21

My thoughts on hero bans:

NO MORE ONE TRICKS?? Is ranked saved???

Depending on how you can ban/protect heroes we could see a brand new overwatch. Looks like the Devs are trying to get very aggressive with the foundation of the game pre OW2!! 💪👍🏻

Anyone wanna add on? pic.twitter.com/6pwg43z9WC
— Samito (@SamitoFPS) January 21, 2020

Bans are just another mask for power hungry gamers that'll just lead to a ban meta.

Not only does Overwatch not currently have enough heroes, but also stream sniping abuse since all names are loaded on game start.

Who bans? How many bans? Are bans team based or game wide?
😪
— Violet (@VibinWithViolet) January 21, 2020

I'm banning doomfist every game even if there are no doom players and you can't change my mind
— Holiwhirl (@holiwhirl) January 21, 2020

Bans should not be a thing if you can see the enemy players before picking. I really hope that's obvious to the devs, unless they know something we don't in regards to that I guess. https://t.co/AXV1NE5iCG
— EeveeA (@EeveeA) January 21, 2020

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