patch notes, competative rewards reveal and more!

[LeviTheDegu]

Patch notes:

GENERAL
Disabled "Avoid This Player" functionality
Note: The game UI option is still active, but will be removed in a future patch


Developer comments: The "Prefer"/"Avoid" player system was designed with the best intentions; however, it's not currently performing in a way that we feel is healthy for the game. While the "Prefer This Player" option is more or less working as intended (and is thus still enabled), the "Avoid This Player" option has impacted the matchmaker in negative way and led to some very poor player experiences. Although we like the idea of being able to say "hey, I'd prefer not to play with this player," the implementation of this mechanic is not where it needs to be, so we've disabled it and will be removing the UI option in a future patch.

BUG FIXES
Fixed even more bugs that allowed Reaper to Shadow Step to unintended locations on certain maps
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause projectiles to hit Reinhardt instead of his Barrier Field in "High Bandwidth" Custom Games
Fixed several client crashes

Like to test things out before everyone else gets them?

A new Overwatch patch is currently in development and now available for testing on the Public Test Region. For information on how to participate and what changes are included in the upcoming patch, read on below.

Check it out: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20157263

And what are those "golden guns" they were talking about for competative rewards? here's a sneak peak
http://masteroverwatch.com/news/19-preview-of-gold-weapons-competitive-mode-rewards-from-ptr

 

[Mister36]

Just a reminder this isn't in the full game yet. It's kinda like the CTE in Battlefield 4

 

[BlackDragon008]

I was trying out the competitive mode. I went 3-10 solo que and got a rating of 42