Summary
OneOverwatch 2player notices a frustrating bug with Tracer and her ultimate pulse bomb ability where she’s able to eliminate opponents like Brigitte who are blocking it with their shield. Bugs and other issues are expected inside of live service games when a new update or season arrives. While Season 6 is one of the biggest in franchise history, adding dedicated PvE Invasion missions intoOverwatch 2, it hasn’t always been a smooth ride. TheSteam version ofOverwatch 2was review bombedby many, quickly turning it into the lowest-rated game on Steam after fans criticized a number of different elements including its monetization practices.
Alongside the Invasion missions and newly added Flashpoint, Season 6 brought a new support hero named Illari and an extensive update that not only aimed to fix many issues, but brought about additional quality of life updates and character balancing as well.Support stalwarts Mercy and Kiriko were hit with a few nerfs, while Lifeweaver was buffed to enhance their survivability and healing effectiveness. Unfortunately, the Season 6 update may have also introduced a new bug into the game, one that largely renders shields useless against Tracer’s ultimate ability.
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Originally posted over on theOverwatchsubReddit, a user named P3runaama posted a short video in training mode featuring Tracer and Brigitte. With her shield raised and active, theTracer player activated their ultimate ability, launching a pulse bomb that stuck to Brigitte’s shield. While its easy to assume that this would simply block the explosion, the Brigitte player turned 90 degrees with the bomb still stuck to the shield, though instead of harmlessly exploding, Brigitte took the damage and was eliminated. A few additional tests showed that the bomb is able to deal damage if the shield user turns while the bomb is stuck, independant of turning speed. In fact, this also happens when Cassidy uses his mag grenade, almost as if the shield is canceled out resulting in the player taking the full effect.
The revelation was disappointing to manyOverwatch 2fans in the comments, again poking fun at the fact that a large company like Blizzard completely missed this issue during development and testing. Others took umbrage with the fact that P3runaama called the issue game breaking, when it is more situational at best since Tracer can’t spam the ability, and it only impacts shield users like Brigitte. To their credit though, P3runaama acknowledged that it may not be what many consider game breaking, but their main objective was to hopefully get more eyes on the issue resulting in a quicker fix.
The negativity that has arisen in Season 6, especially with the Stream review bombing, got theattention ofOverwatch 2game director Aaron Keller. Responding to the criticism, Keller shifted the focus to what’s to come and how Blizzard moves forward with more content and improvements to the overall experience.
Overwatch 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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