Overwatch PTR Update Live, Symmetra and Others Nerfed

Recently, Blizzard has released an update for PTR users in Overwatch that brought some Hero nerfs (and buffs) and other Workshop features. You can find every mentioned hero’s patch notes below

PTR Update Now Live in Overwatch

Bastion

Self-repair

  • Self-repair no longer consumes resource while Bastion is at full health.
  • Bastion now correctly initiates .25 sec of recovery time when canceling Self-repair with weapon fire.

Symmetra

Primary Fire

  • Beam width lowered from 0.3 meters to 0.15
  • Beam DPS per level lowered from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180

Zarya

Primary Fire

  • Beam width no longer scales with energy (from 0.1 to 0.2) and is now always 0.15.
  • Max Beam DPS lowered from 190 to 170

Sigma

Hyper Spheres

  • Explosion damaged reduced from 35 to 30

Experimental Barrier

  • Added a toggle option for deploying Sigma’s Experimental Barrier

Accretion

  • Explosion damage increased from 50 to 60

Gravitic Flux

  • Intro cast time increased from 0.4 seconds to 0.6
Overwatch PTR Update Live

Ashe

  • Improved the ability for Bob to get through doorways and more consistently make it to where he was launched towards

D.Va

  • Fixed a bug that allowed D.Va’s mech to block Earthshatter briefly during the destruction animation

Orisa

  • Fixed a bug that caused players to be thrown further than intended when escaping the pulling effect of Orisa’s Halt

Sigma

  • Fixed a bug that caused the first-person animations for Kinetic Grasp, Accretion, Experimental Barrier return/retract, and primary fire not to play correctly when used immediately after being frozen
  • Fixed a bug that caused Hyperspheres to appear without any VFX or animation after letting the cast timer on Gravitic Flux expire
  • Fixed a bug that incorrectly allowed Sigma to gain shields after absorbing a healing orb from Moira with his Kinetic Grasp
  • Corrected various Sigma team color visual effects

Wrecking Ball

  • Fixed an issue preventing Wrecking Ball specific stats from showing up in the Career Profile

Zenyatta

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Zenyatta from using a Teleporter while Transcendence is active

You can read the complete patch notes here. Overwatch was released on May 24, 2016, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.