For anyone who downloaded the Overwatch patch last night, you would have noticed that it’s biggest addition was Doomfist.
“Doomfist’s cybernetics make him a highly-mobile, powerful frontline fighter,” the official description explains.
“In addition to dealing ranged damage with his Hand Cannon, Doomfist can slam the ground, knock enemies into the air and off balance, or charge into the fray with his Rocket Punch.
“When facing a tightly packed group, Doomfist leaps out of view, then crashes down to earth with a spectacular Meteor Strike.”
But while Doomifst was a pretty major change to the game, there was another big tweak that wasn’t advertised quite as much.
There was a line in the patch notes supplied by Blizzard, which reads: “Adjusted the respawn timing to limit defensive stalling strategies when the offensive team has a clear advantage and plays aggressively.”
And now the development team have explained what has changed in much more detail.
Principal designer Scott Mercer has now revealed that the reset timer for defenders has been dropped, which could lead to some much different outcomes.
Here’s the full explanation from Mercer: “There was an existing system that slowly increased the defender respawn time in the case where there are more attackers than defenders on an objective for 30 seconds.
“The defender respawn time then increased in a linear fashion up to a maximum when the attackers held an advantage for 90 seconds.
“We simply returned the timing so that the increased defender respawn time starts after 15 seconds of attacker advantage, and also reaches the maximum possible increase of defender spawn time at 75 seconds.
“Note that this timer doesn’t immediately reset to 0 if the attackers temporarily leave the objective area due to something like avoiding a D.Va Self-Destruct or Mei Blizzard or otherwise no longer have a numerical advantage on the objective. The “attacker advantage timer” instead reverses and counts back down to 0.
“Example: If attackers have an advantage for 10 seconds, then defenders regain it for 5 seconds, the “attacker advantage timer” is now at 5 seconds.
“If the attackers then get a few kills to regain advantage then after 10 more seconds the “attacker advantage timer” reaches 15 seconds and defender respawn time begins to slowly increase.
“The end result is that stalling tactics involving defenders trickling in one at a time into the waiting weaponry of an entire enemy team on the objective should be less effective than before.”
Other changes that were made part of the new Overwatch patch also included a drop in Loot Box duplicates, as well as new highlight options.
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