THE TANK BUFFS ARE HERE!!! | Overwatch 2 Midseason Patch Notes 

Reaper is no longer Tank busting, he's Tank blanking. Talk to your doctor about ereaptile dysfunction today! 💀

"Make ult impactful" they made sigs ult omnipresent

I can already hear it now, “Out Kiri is 100% on a losing streak bro”

REAPER STAYING IN THE SHADOWS WITH THIS PATCH 🗣🔥🔥🗣💯💯

Now Sigma is lore accurate, lol

I wish they’d make brig bash sound like a heavy car door closing.

"Out of LOS" Suprised pikachu face when it works out of LOS.

Another patch, and the only thing my boy Genji is diving is the spawn room.

Loving how they upped the health pools for everyone to stop peoppe dying too fast and then keep upping damage for various heroes because they're not killing fast enough

Using shadow step to return to spawn quicker to switch hero 💪

Queen buff feels really good but I'm feeling the armor change and headshot reduction a lot more. You can't bully Dva anymore because your shotgun deals a grand total of zero damage against armor and against tank heads

Imagine having a good day queuing comp and then BLIZZARD decides to force the saltiest, most tilted player in the network onto your team.

I feel like nobody has mentioned that Rein's hammer now does 95 to armor instead of 70. Seems like a big deal

It seemed like a nice little thing that flux would always work if the foe was visibly in the circle. It's a whole other thing that it can work when the foe can't even visibly see the circle. Imagine, if you will, seeing literally nothing when Doomfist comes crashing down directly on top of you. It's like that.

"Ball has been performing much better after his recent update, heres a bunch of extra buffs"

Flats for several years: "Tank sucks" Flats once a patch buffs half the tanks: "Tank's been petty good for a while already, though"

10:11 Flats immediately remembering that no matter how much they buff Ball, you'll still be absolutely miserable as the entire enemy team swaps to hardcounter you and chain CC you into hell with Orisa, Sombra, Cass, Ana and Brig. But hey, you might get a kill now :)

Brig needed that change because Rally is a reactive-defensive ult, and like half of it's value is in the shield bash stun. So before this buff on Brig you were potentially punished pretty hard for using your main ability at all by losing a big chunk of your ult's value if anything you need to react to fast happens. Also, you're acting like a whole ult allowing you to barely kill one squishie while wasting your only movement ability is something crazy, not to mention it pretty much did that already if your team had at least half a brain left to shoot the stunned squishie in a teamfight. Yes, it provides overhealth to allies nearby, but it's still not nearly as enabling as other support ults. It's a life saving ult, not a teamfight-winning ult

Flats when the ult is a ultimate abilty that actually kills people or provides useful support.

I'm amazed they didn't give reinhardt a slight increase to movement and attack speeds when his shield is broken since mirrorwatch reinhardt was so much fun

Pure unadulterated power from sigmas ult fix.

Hanzo "buff" ends up being a nerf Im going to commit a crime

"Tank BUFFS" might be a bit misleading. After some testing from before to now against a Rein as the basis, this is what I found: (Body/Headshot) Dva (+8/+5) Doomfist (+3/+2) Junker Queen (+2/+1) Orisa (+4/+8) - unsure of this one tbh Rein (-1) - one less swing, which is big! Roadhog (0/0) - no difference Sigma (-1) - one less 2-rounded attack Winston/Zarya - ignores armor so big for them So as we can see, for the most part, it is not LESS VIABLE to shoot the tank as the tank - with a few exceptions. However, when it comes to DPS, that's when we see an interesting result. As for what I can tell, it appears that body shots require less bullets, ranging for 1-3, while headshots requires more bullets to kill, ranging from 1-3. While that may seem like nothing to some like Cass and Widow (who lost nothing as it was the same across), heroes like Ashe and Hanzo might want to do more body shots as the gap is far more closer than before. And of course, explosive and beam heroes benefit from this overall. They lost nothing, so expect more Junkrat, Sym, Pharah, and even Venture. However, the biggest issue I see is not DPS, with a few exceptions, it is the Support. Ana (-2) Bap (-3/+3) Brig (-2) Illari (-2/-1) Kirko (-2/0) Lucio (0/+4) Mercy (-1/+4) Zen (-2/0) Now while I do say that I am fine with a strong Support, this may be an issue as their power is slowing begininng to creep again, and I doubt we want to see that again. And when this was meant to be a patch for the tanks too! *Biggest losers not worth mentioning (those who require 10+ to kill, both in headshots and body) - Mauga (when not on fire), Ram, Wrecking Ball, Sojourn, Sombra, Tracer, and Lifeweaver

Hanzo's is 100% a nerf. I main him and have for years, and the fact that it goes faster but does the same damage means it's just even easier to get out of it. We are tired. #fixhanzo

Junkrat buff gives back 2 tap on his gun. Hanzo's buff is speedy dragons. Nice. His dragons were never meant for damage, so instead of helping his normal play style they went and tried to change it by changing his ult. I've been using dragons for zoning for 8 years. Really guys?

The question isn't if tank is saved It's which role is going to get screwed over in compensation for it. Tank started the game dominating, and that led to dps/support feeling weak. Tanks got nerfed, orisa is the only one that feels really good and the rest are sucking ass while supports reign supreme. Too much healing now, lets give dps an antiheal ability and oh boy now tank just went from bad to insufferable. Now tanks are bulkier... But how does this impact the other roles? Are supports/dps having an impact by shooting the tanks? Are all tanks improved or does this only help like 2 or 3 while the rest still suffer? The biggest problem with 5v5 is that we went from balancing heroes to now balancing each role specifically, and no patch has left all roles feeling good. Tanks have to be OP since there's only 1, but tip that scale too far and now the other roles are terrible too.

I guess reaper and genji will be even less existent now

I will say it: nothing has really changed. Tanks that used to explode still do so. The only difference is the characters causing the explosion. Instead of tank busters it's characters dealing big damage in one hit (Cass, Ashe, Junk, etc.). Tanks with huge hitboxes are going to suffer from this the most. On the other hand, JQ and Zarya will be A+ tier because they're more difficult to hit, received buffs and weren't affected by the armor nerf.

When we getting that Genji one shot back and that peak nanoblade

That hanzo change is going to hit harder than most people think 15m/s That thing is silent when traveling through walls, if it catches you in a tight space its over Bronze killer for sure.

the runescape music in flats videos makes me happy

Saw ball in the thumbnail and read "tank buffs" and clicked faster than light

Gonna be interesting to see if tanks are gonna be deleted quicker or slower.

This patch is huge jeez

it was fun cancelling sig ult with lifeweaver while it lasted 😔

Last point Gibraltar sigma ulting from spawn like old mercy rez! This will be funny

Lore accurate sigma ultimate

I haven't played in a few days, but I'm excited about the way Zarya is gonna feel now. Her existing shields along with the improved self healing is gonna make her regen so nice and quick, you love to see it

Already saw a video of KarQ using the ult on the first training bots under the gym room in the training area map and it goes through it, interesting.

For Hanzo out change I think they should just decrease the time it takes for him to say his voice line and actually shoot the arrow

Time to become a rein player

I love when developers put in their comments in patches. I really think it needs to become a normal thing as it helps people see where they were coming from and why they would do something. Them talking about the Hanzo “buff” makes a bit more sense when they say why they did it instead of just showing the numbers and having people guess

also eveyrones mythic skins don't show up in hero gallery anymore , something broke lol

Most matches are for sure going to be whoever has the best tank

U can full combo with brig : Melee => Bash => Rally Bash => Melee => Flail 40 => 50 => 50 => 40 => 70. That's 250 neat.

Wait so they're just fully admitting that they will be beginning to lowkey rig matches in favor of those on lose streaks? How many losses does it take for the system to begin putting you in i guess...."pity que?"

I feel like with dragon if people are out of the way of the end of it they are living regardless, so might as well let it get to them faster, even if it doesn't hold them back as long, might be worth catching them in it sooner, have to see how it goes

My hot take/ramble is. With the 5v5 vs 6v6 debate I really hate the reasoning of "no one played tank" because to me that just means the dev team were so incompetent of making tanking fun that they basically said "Since we can't do our jobs correctly let's just punish the off-tank players by deleting that role and force all tank players to relearn the whole game" So they went down that road only to then make tanking worse in 5v5. Sick of people giving devs excuses and saying the little crumbs they give tanks are enough. Tanking hasn't been totally fun since ow2 came out and idc if u say oh tanking was fun for this season and then this season. Tank players shouldn't have to go months between fun tank seasons. It's not fair that they have to keep guessing when they can have fun again then worry that it will only last a few weeks. I want 6v6 back not because I think it's better but because in OW1 I didn't go a Dat without wanting to least play a few tank games but now I could go days or even a week without playing. 6v6 I knew I could at least deal with bad tank metas and have a little bit of fun but in 5v5 Im slowly losing my desire to play and that sucks because ive loved OW since 2016. The only reason I havent completely given up on OW is because there isnt another game like this and the potential to be amazing again is there. So if this patch doesn't make tanking better than devs need to suck it up and realize they don't know how to fix tanking. So instead of only doing it themselves they need to get together with well respected tank streamers and let them every month or 2 make a tank patch and throw in the game for a hack weekend and see how it does. Do it until something works.

the piledriver change is MASSIVE for ball.

I'll wait 20 minutes to get a game for 6v6 anyday

Was Reaper not ruined enough? We have to nerf his tank busting ability even further?! Somebody save this man!

I didn't play OW for a couple years and when I came back Junkrat, my main damage hero, felt like actual shit. I get nerfing the mine combo since that was easy and quick, but 3 direct hits to be lethal was ridiculous.

7:18 - October of 2020 patch - Ow2 isn't behind a paywall anymore so means more players are gonna willingly try tank and its synergies - Ow1 had content drought and wasn't getting updates = player decline = less tanks - Game is being updated now with newer heroes which means more fun tanks to try - Ow1 tanking was boring and ow1 dev team heavily wanted ppl to play poke comp - Ow1 balance team was worse than the balance team we have now. And if this balance team were to try and balance 6v6, they can really make it work. - Ow2 5v5 format is the problem and nothing the dev team can do will be able to fix tank as an issue. - Ow2 5v5 open queue sees a lot of 2 to even 3 tanks nearly every single game which means im sure yk what this means. Ppl love more than 1 tank. - A lot of new players never got to try Ow2 so they will be more incline to try it out (this is prob irrelevant)

Wait, so if you drop flux on the corner of the stairs above the patrolling bots, do you think those bits get lifted twice as high as normal? I know we didn't see it in Flats's clip, but that's because they had a little bit of a roof above them.

Flux was LOS based? I feel dumb but satisfied in knowing why certain flux attempts missed. Its not like I was going for none LOS flux though so lol. I just thought it covered the outside of objects. Edit: oh no indeed

I wish it told you how much ppl u picked up for sig

3:49 so real, sometimes i just start lagging for no reason once I start doing good. Ping at 500 til the end of the game, on the DEFEAT screen ping goes back down to 85. Usually happens after a couple of wins too.

My friend and I were duo queuing ranked placement matches for 22 minutes straight and we just gave up on finding a match so I hope that got fixed

Did something happen to the mythic skins? Because the ones I have are now gone and the shop says unavailable is it a glitch or are they doing something?

sig ult is a lifeweaver nerf?

Damm that loss streak thing would be nice went on a tilt que from D1 all the way down to P5 ended the season at P3 and haven’t played since will be cool to play again with these new updates and new hero’s.

I was cackling at that sigma shenanigans. He is so busted now. I love it

I’m gonna eat good with the Junkrat, Echo, Junker Queen changes

To be fair tank ques were actually even in 6v6 when the game was balanced confirmed by the devs

Oh cool now junk can go from the depths of -F tier to normal F tier

People most use hanzo ult as zoning tool So devs thought, here's a bright idea- lets make it get out of the way faster🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Doomposters go crazy in the comments every time there's balance changes, huh?

just ganna say how hanzo has been shafted this whole time, he loses his 1 shots, his ult going faster is so you cant use it to clear point as effectively, and he gains less ult charge then before since he cant 1 shot people and his headshots on the tank will do less.

At first I didn't mind the Sigma buff because from the way they described it, I thought they meant the direct center of the flux area. But no, it's the flux in general. And that terrifies me.

if u revert to 6v6, with balance patches every other week like OW 2, u can make Tank Fun again and have a healthy population to fill queues more fast just like October 2020

Imagine buffing sigma (an A/S tier hero), making old brig kinda back, meanwhile genji is genji (you can play perfectly as genji and get rolled by a gold mccree XD)

*Ooooh,* So that's why I was rolling that Reinhard with Junkrat..

I am a little concerned because every mythic skin i owned is now gone and now i am wondering why

13:11 I’d say both, because yes it lasts a slight bit less time it works better fired out of spawn and can’t be ignored too much

tank still feels awful lol...

Hanzo still ass

Ok, that sigma ult change is really menacing to me now XD

I have a question. When I queue in Quick Play, I get bonus XP for picking all roles or support. So that says to me, that support is in high demand. They have shorter queue times and grant you bonus XP for the Battle Pass. So if tank is really the class that is played the least, than why not apply the bonus XP there? I would play way more tank in that case. Also when I select All Roles, most of the times I would still end up playing support and rarely a tank and even rarer a dps. Wouldn't it kinda help to solve the problem, or is there a hidden mechanic I don't know about? Like because I'm best at support, because I play support the most, because it's the one I get to play in all roles quick play, the game automatically assigns me to play more support? Have a good day. Love your content.

The idea of moving Junkrats power to his primary and keeping his mines for movement or booping enemies would be such a good way to balance him imo. They did it to a small extent here but I would be willing to let junkrat get his mines faster or a 3rd if dmg wasn't so high. Raises skill ceiling while keeping character identity.

Samito is right samito is right samito is right

The losing streak change is very nice. At it's worst I deranked as I lost 12 games in a row, playing well or really well in each of those games, every game was just such an uphill battle that I couldn't be enough of a carry. I was the best player in my team in most of those games so it was really frustrating to keep deranking because of the loss streak multiplier.

I wanna see Flats Wrecking Ball gameplay now!

WE DRAGONBLADING TO THE SPAWN WITH THIS ONE🗣️💯💯🤑

People do want to play tank, they're just tired of being counterpicked brainlessly the whole game which is what happens in OW2..........

One thing to mention is that tanks always get the raw end of the stick when it comes to toxicity, despite 90% of people being toxic being unable to actually play tank. I dont want to constantly have to play orisa last patch, but if i picked, say, junker queen, i would be told "change or report" in the spawn doors like it was insane

Junkrat damage has been increased, and with the armor change makes him a better armor buster. So i think junk will be good in lower ranks

As a Reaper main, this patch makes me cry and rage

How long until we all accept it's a format issue and we go back to 6v6? No matter how many reworks and number merry go rounds we go through, none of it will fundamentally change. Bring back 6v6. Save Overwatch.

I wonder if the tank headshot reduction works for mauga crits

Don’t mind the changes but it still feels like tanks don’t die or just explode but there’s other problems within dps like diffing the dps and they instantly go som , tracer or reaper and get their ult in like 40 seconds

all these buffs to tanks that don't need it. zero buffs for rein. thanks blizzard.

I still blow up on tank

Question, does armor still have a separate resistance to beams? and follow up, does the -5 dmg per projectile affect beams or DoT at all?

Whaaa mid season patch feels like I just watched the new season update video 😂

I speak for all the Reaper enjoyers when I say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

No mercy buffs when she has a mythic skin…. No Ana buffs….. no Illari buffs but yes let’s keep playing brigg kiri and bap that’ll be fun 😵‍💫

Remember when he said he’d rather have orisa than the dps passive buff? Guess he ate his words. even if the changes end up being broken it doesn’t matter too much because MOM SAID ITS OUR TURN TO HAVE FUN! Also the armor buff helps torb, bastion, and brig so the other roles got presents too. I don’t think the echo buff is gonna be that bad. Because there’s still that level of skill required for you to play a completely different character for 10 seconds even with the increased ult charge. I didn’t even know that JQ couldn’t use her shout while doing other stuff, probably because I always pop the shout before using her other abilities anyway but that’s just me. I know I’m writing a paragraph long comment to a RU-vid video but I think everyone’s done it at some point. Pray with me everyone for a fun time for tanks this half of the season!

Genuinely tank feels fun again. This could work in a 6v6

ah yes, the worst heroes in the game carry shotguns (Reaper) Let's NERF shotguns further!

14:30 like fucking clockwork. Every good patch gets ruined by the most braindead and unnecessary powercreep buff that will ripple effect as patches go on...