PTR 1.39 : Le nouveau héros tank Sigma est désormais disponible !

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

New Hero: Sigma

Sigma is an eccentric astrophysicist and volatile tank who gained the power to control gravity in an orbital experiment gone wrong. Manipulated by Talon and deployed as a living weapon, Sigma’s presence on the battlefield cannot be ignored. Sigma launches two Hyperspheres (gravitic charges), which bounce off walls and implode after a short duration, damaging enemies within a sizable radius. Using Experimental Barrier, he propels a floating barrier to a location of his choosing and he can dismiss the barrier at any time. With Kinetic Grasp Sigma freezes incoming projectiles in midair, converting them into shields. Accretion allows Sigma to gather a mass of debris and flings it at an enemy to knock them down. Unleashing his full powers with Gravitic Flux, Sigma takes flight, lifts enemies in a targeted area, and launches them into the sky before slamming them back down. Learn more about Sigma on his hero page.

GENERAL UPDATES

Role Queue

• Updated the end of match screen so that players are sorted by role.
• Fixed a bug that made it difficult to see which Role Card was in focus when using a controller.
• Quick Play (with Role Queue Enabled)

Feature Update: Endorsements

• Players can now endorse each other in the following game modes:
  • Mystery Heroes
  • No Limits
  • Deathmatch
  • Total Mayhem
  • Low Grav
  • All the PVE Event game modes (Uprising, Retribution, Storm Rising)

Game Mode

• Mystery Heroes - On Control maps, Heroes are now reset between rounds.

Workshop

New Events:

• Player Dealt Healing
• Player Received Healing
• Player Joined Match
• Player Left Match

New Actions:

• Start Transforming Throttle
• Stop Transforming Throttle

New Values:

• Healer
• Healee
• Event Healing
• Host Player

Developer Comment: A commonly requested feature for the Workshop is the ability to track healing, so we’ve added two new Event types and three new Values to make this possible. We’ve also added Events to make it easier to detect players joining and leaving matches. To support the creation of admin-style privileges for custom games, the owner of the game can now be detected using Host Player. Finally, we’ve added the ability to scale, invert, and rotate a player’s input throttle to make controlling characters in third person easier.

BUG FIXES

General

• Custom Game: The Presets UI in Custom Game is now displayed in the proper order.

Heroes

Brigitte

• Fix for Brigitte heal throws that were too loud.

Zenyatta

• Fixed a delay in Zenyatta’s first person quick melee animation when interrupting primary fire.

Orisa

• Fixed a bug that caused some VFX to stop playing upon successive viewings of Orisa’s “Oh!” highlight intro in Hero Gallery.

Genji

• Fixed a bug where Genji could fail to deal damage if he rapidly used Swift Strike on a single target (PTR bug only).

Sombra

• Fixed an animation issue with EMP (PTR bug only).