Overwatch 2 Season 2 update patch notes: New Hero Ramattra, new map, Battle Pass & more

❘ Published: 2022-12-06T20:30:23

A brand-new season of Overwatch 2 brings a ton of content for players. For those interested in what the Overwatch 2 Season 2 update has brought, here’s everything you need to know, including the new Hero Ramattra and the patch notes.

As Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play live-service title, the game will be receiving seasonal updates and content with a Battle Pass.

Overwatch 2 Season 1 kicked things off with a bang, introducing three new characters to the game in Sojourn, Junker Queen, and Kiriko, who could be unlocked through the Season 1 Battle Pass.

Despite all the new content and changes to the Heroes which shifted the meta, Overwatch 2 players are now diving into Season 2.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 continues the content, bringing a new Hero, map, and more, so let’s get into the details.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 release date

Blizzard Entertainment have confirmed that Overwatch 2 Season 2 officially started on December 6, which is also the end of the game’s first season.

Each season will last nine weeks, and so Overwatch 2 Season 2 is expected to end on February 7, 2023, and signal the turnover to Season 3 at that point.

When the official confirmation of Overwatch 2 Season 2’s end date is announced by Blizzard, we’ll be sure to update this section, so stay tuned.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 new Tank Hero Ramattra

Announced at Overwatch League 2022, Ramattra is a brand-new Tank Hero set to bring more hard-hitting, damage-absorbing options for players to select.

We know that he will primarily have an emphasis on transformative abilities, namely his Omnic and Nemesis Form which offers the player different ways to go about their gameplay.

Players will be able to unlock the new Hero through the Overwatch 2 Season 2 Battle Pass, as they will unlock at Tier 45 of the free Battle Pass, while those who pay for the premium version will get the Hero immediately.

The devs stated in their blog that after Season 2’s Hero, they are planning to release new characters in “Season Four and Season Six.” If you miss out on obtaining a Hero through the Battle Pass, have no fear, as you can unlock them through “special new challenges, or you can directly acquire them in the shop with Overwatch Coins” after the season’s end.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 new map: Shambali Monastery

Blizzard state that typically, a new season will bring “either a new hero or a new map, alternating each season.” However, it seems Season 2 will be getting both.

The new map is called Shambali Monastery, and it’s a new map for the Escort mode which takes place on the Omnic home of Zenyatta and new Hero Ramattra.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 new Battle Pass, skins & Mythic Skin

Every new season of Overwatch 2 will bring a Battle Pass, and Season 2 is no exception. Players will have a new 80-tier Battle Pass filled with cosmetics and rewards for players to obtain while they level up through the season.

This means that players will be unlocking over “30+ new skins” for Heros, including a new Mythic Skin for Junker Queen as the final Battle Pass tier, which is extremely customizable.

Overwatch 2 Season 2 patch notes

GENERAL UPDATES

Control Game Mode

We fixed a bug regarding overtime on control maps, however, that fix led to other bugs we had to resolve. Ultimately, this led to some anticlimactic game play results that we weren’t happy with. After hearing player feedback, we’ve made the following change:

Whenever a point is captured on Control, the team losing control of the point counts as having contested the point for the purposes of Overtime even if they were not present.

For example, if Team A has 99% and Team B has current control of the point, but then Team A take back control of the point, Overtime will automatically trigger and start to burn down unless Team B can touch again.
At lower capture percentages this change will have no impact on the game mode, as this new rule is only applied for the purposes of Overtime

Hero Updates and Challenges

We’ve added Challenges for unlocking Junker Queen, Sojourn, and Kiriko
70+ player icon rewards have been added to challenges with the release of Season 2

Shop Update

We’ve added a Hero purchase tab in the Shop

COMPETITIVE PLAY

Season 2 competitive play begins now! Here are some updates we’re introducing to competitive:

There are new, temporary Competitive title rewards for name cards based on your end of season rank
You can only earn these titles at the end of the current Competitive season and can only use them in the season following
Heroes that aren’t eligible for competitive play will have a lock icon in the Hero Gallery
Implemented a group of matchmaking enhancements to improve match quality
Minor polish improvements to the competitive play UI flow
New hero, Ramattra, won’t be available in competitive for 2 weeks

HERO UPDATES

Damage Role Passive

No longer provides a movement speed bonus
Reload speed bonus increased from 25 to 35%

Developer comments: We’ve decided to remove increased movement speed from the Damage role passive and, in turn, make the reload speed more significant. While the additional movement speed was a helpful indicator that the passive was active, we saw change in speed negatively affecting the ability to aim precisely.

Doomfist

Rocket Punch

Impact damage range (minimum-maximum) increased from 15-30 to 25-50 damage
Wall slam damage range (minimum-maximum) reduced from 20-40 to 10-30 damage
Empowered Rocket Punch wall slam stun duration range reduced from 0.5-1 to 0.25-0.75 seconds
Non-Empowered Rocket Punch now stuns for the minimum 0.25 second duration on wall slam
Empowered Rocket Punch knockback radius reduced from 4 to 3 meters
Minimum time before cancel option becomes available reduced from 0.25 to 0.12 seconds
Cooldown reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
This has been in since his rework but was not mentioned

Power Block

Cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds
Duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
Minimum damage mitigated required to empower Rocket Punch reduced from 90 to 80 damage

Meteor Strike

Now empowers Rocket Punch on landing
Enemy slow duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds

The Best Defense…

Maximum temporary health increased from 150 to 200 health
Temporary health gained per target hit with abilities increased from 30 to 40 health

Junker Queen

Torso and head hit volume size increased 12%

Rampage

Wound duration reduced from 5 to 4.5 seconds
Ultimate cost reduced by 10%

Commanding Shout

Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds

Adrenaline Rush

Adrenaline passive healing multiplier increased from 1 to 1.25x damage dealt by wounds

Bastion

Configuration Artillery

Delay before projectile drops reduced from 1 to 0.6 seconds
Explosion damage reduced from 300 to 250
No longer deals explosion damage to self
Minimum delay between placing shots reduced by 20%

Reconfigure

Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds

Sojourn

Railgun

Energy delay before draining reduced from 8 to 5 seconds
Secondary fire damage falloff starting range reduced from 70 to 40 meters
Secondary fire critical damage multiplier reduced from 2 to 1.5
Secondary fire damage now scales linearly with energy from 30 to 130 damage (1 energy converts to 1 damage added)
Primary fire damage per projectile increased from 9 to 10
Overclock energy charge rate increased by 20%

Symmetra

Proton Projector

Beam charge rate and decay rate increased by 20%
Primary fire ammo consumption rate increased from 7 to 10 per second
Primary fire gains ammo from damaging barriers again

Tracer

Pulse Pistols

Damage increased from 5 to 6

Ana

Sleep Dart

Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds

Kiriko

Arm hit volumes width reduced 15%
Added an auto-wall climb hero option

Kitsune Rush

Ultimate cost increased by 10%
Movement speed bonus reduced from 50 to 30%
Cooldown rate reduced from 3 to 2 times faster

Protection Suzu

Cast time reduced from 0.15 to 0.1 second

Kunai

Ammo increased from 12 to 15

Swift Step

Ability input can now be held to activate

Mercy

Weapon swap time reduced from 0.5 to 0.35 seconds

Caduceus Blaster

Ammo increased from 20 to 25

SEASON 2 MAP POOLS

Push

New Queen Street – Morning
Colosseo – Evening
Esperança – Morning

Hybrid

Blizzard World – Overcast (NEW)
Eichenwalde – Evening
King’s Row – Evening
Midtown – Morning
Paraíso – Morning

ESCORT

Dorado – Evening
Junkertown – Morning
Circuit royal – Night
Rialto – Morning
Route 66 – Night
Shambali Monastery – Night (NEW MAP)

Control

Busan – Night
Ilios – Evening
Lijiang Tower – Dawn
Nepal – Evening (NEW)
Oasis – Morning (NEW)

BUG FIXES

General

Fixed a bug that was causing Roadhog’s breaths to not be audible when viewing some animations in the Hero Gallery
Fixed a bug that caused some players to lose competitive challenge progress
Resolved an issue where several products couldn’t be unlocked from the Hero Gallery
Fixed an issue with the Lifesaver Challenge not counting Mercy’s Resurrect as a ‘Save’
Resolved an issue with purchases not immediately showing up after purchase
Fixed a bug with Torbjörn and Symmetra’s turrets displaying hostile red overlays in Deathmatch for the player that placed them

Maps

Busan

Fixed an area of the map where players could get stuck

Colosseo

Fixed geometry that allowed some heroes to contest undetected

Esperança

Fixed some areas that could be used to escape the playable space
Fixed geometry that allowed some heroes to contest undetected

Gibraltar

Fixed lighting issues across the map
Fixed some areas where Torbjörn could place his turret in unreachable spots

Nepal

Replaced some missing pillars on Sanctum

Rio

Fixed a bug that allowed some heroes to get inside of the payload

Route 66

Fixed lighting issues across the map

New Queen Street

Fixed some issues with shadows across the map
Fixed an area of the map where players could get stuck

Heroes

Heroes no longer take damage from their own abilities if they’re on the other side of a friendly barrier
Fixed an issue with the Damage Passive where sometimes a double reload animation could occur when the buff was active

Cassidy

Resolved an issue with some skins using the wrong props in the ‘Flashbang’ victory pose

Doomfist

Fixed an issue where Doomfist’s Power Block reduced the damage from some area of effect abilities
Meteor Strike – You can no longer detect Sombra if the targeting reticle gets near her

D.Va

Fixed a bug that allowed players to use Self-Destruct during their Mech’s destruction while Hacked

Junker Queen

Jagged Blade can no longer be recalled while slept, stunned, hacked or frozen
Fixed an issue with Jagged Blade being consumed by friendly abilities like Deflect, Defense Matrix, etc.
Jagged Blade now takes a curved trajectory on return

Mercy

Guardian Angel now correctly resets its cooldown if Valkyrie is used
Guardian Angel ‘cancel boost’ is now disabled when Mercy is stunned

Moira

Junkrat’s Trap no longer displays at chest height in first person when using Fade

Pharah

Fixed a bug that reduced the ult cost of Rocket Barrage

Soldier 76

Fixed an issue where Soldier 76 was unable to critical hit max range enemies during Tactical Visor

Symmetra

Fixed a bug that resulted in all VO being cut out when taking the Teleporter

Tracer

Fixed a big causing her Pulse Pistol damage falloff to not start until max range

Winston

Resolved an issue with the Werewolf skin and the ‘Excuse me’ highlight intro turning Winston red in the Hero Gallery

Zenyatta

Fixed an issue with melee not correctly animating if used to cancel alternate fire

That’s all for Overwatch 2 Season 2, but the devs have said that they “already have new core game modes and a set of new maps in development,” planning to release them in 2023, along with the PvE Overwatch 2 story mode.

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Source: Overwatch blog

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