Year Of The Rooster Event

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Will post here as more information comes out. Basically confirmed coming today -




Look at an animated comic thing HERE.

Emotes, Skins, Victory poses, CTF on Lijang Tower looks like the event.

Updated post with official trailer.

Patch Notes:

Here are the patch notes:


New Seasonal Event: Year of the Rooster

Grab your friends, family, and loved ones and get ready to ring in the Year of the Rooster.

Overwatch's Lunar New Year celebrations have begun and, for the next three weeks, we hope this seasonal event brings you happiness, prosperity, and (most importantly) lots of fun! Collect more than 100 seasonal cosmetic items from our special Lunar Loot Boxes, enjoy a festive fireworks display on Lijiang Tower, and get ready to capture the flag in Overwatch's newest brawl.
To learn more, click here.

GENERAL UPDATES

General
  • The “Stay as Team” button now lights up when anyone on your team clicks it
  • Players can now join Team Chat from the Hero Select screen (Push “RB” on the Xbox One controller and push “R1” on the PlayStation 4 controller)
  • Crouch now has a very small cooldown between uses


Communication Wheel
  • Players can now equip up to 4 emotes, sprays, and voice lines from within the hero gallery
  • Voice line and emote submenus can be accessed from within the Communication wheel
  • Players can now bind individual sprays, emotes, and voice lines to mouse buttons, unique keys, or controller buttons

Kill Feed
  • Hero ability icons are now displayed in the Kill Feed
  • Headshot eliminations are now indicated with a red icon

HERO BALANCE UPDATES

Ana

Biotic Grenade

  • Effect duration has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds
  • Healing boost on allies has been decreased by 50%


Developer Comments: The healing boost from Ana’s Biotic Grenade was providing too much healing, especially when used on targets with large health pools.

D.Va
  • Health increased from 200 to 400
  • Armor decreased from 400 to 200
Fusion Cannons
  • Bullet damage decreased from 3 to 2
  • Number of bullets per shot has been increased from 8 to 11


Developer Comments: D.Va’s armor often made her feel like she had no weaknesses, even against heroes that are typically effective against bigger targets (like Reaper). The changes to her primary fire will result in a small overall decrease in damage, but her Fusion Cannons should feel more consistent now.

L?cio

New Hero Option: Allow Backwards Wall Ride

  • When enabled, allows Lucio to start wall riding while moving backwards.

Roadhog


Chain Hook

  • Targets are now pulled directly in front of Roadhog (rather than straight to him), except in cases where Roadhog drastically rotates
  • Hooked targets are now released if they leave Roadhog’s line of sight before being pulled
  • Line of sight checks (which determines if targets are hit by the hook) are now done from Roadhog’s position, rather than the hook’s position

Developer Comments: The hook should now feel more consistent for Roadhog players, but it should also feel more reasonable to his enemies, as they cannot be hooked or pulled around corners anymore.

Sombra

Hack

  • Cooldown has been reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds
  • Time it takes to hack a target has been decreased from 1 second to 0.8 seconds

Developer Comments: Sombra often had difficulty hacking enemies, even when she surprised the target. This change should help her execute hacks more easily.

BUG FIXES

General

  • Fixed a bug allowing spectators to utilize the “Stay as Team” button during the end of a game
  • Fixed a bug that caused the “Stay as Team” button to overlap with the Back button on the Social menu
  • Fixed a bug preventing the Social menu from not correctly displaying World of Warcraft zones that have an apostrophe in the name
  • Fixed a bug causing heroes to display a T-pose on the victory screen after a Mystery Heroes brawl
  • Fixed a bug preventing Simple Checkout from being navigated by a controller on PC
  • Fixed a bug preventing Alt+Tab from properly minimizing the game client while in fullscreen mode
  • Fixed a bug preventing the Kill Feed from displaying the destruction of Teleporters, Shield Generators, and Turrets

AI

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Roadhog bot from being able to hook players through Reinhardt’s shield
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the Sombra bot to hack through barriers
  • Fixed a bug that made the Torbj?rn bot unresponsive after placing a turret

Competitive Play

  • Fixed a bug preventing players from receiving XP for playing offseason games

Heroes

  • Fixed a visual bug with Ana’s “Toast” victory pose, causing her cup to appear blurry on the right side of the screen
  • Fixed a bug causing a graphics issue with McCree’s “Hat Trick” emote
  • Fixed a bug preventing the countdown timer from appearing on Mei’s Cryo-Freeze ability
  • Fixed a bug with the placement of Mercy’s wings on her Valkyrie and Sigr?n skins
  • Fixed a bug preventing Symmetra’s Photon Barrier from playing its destruction sound effect when it is destroyed
  • Fixed a bug causing Tracer’s “You Got It” voice line to play an incorrect line
  • Fixed a bug preventing Widowmaker’s Venom Mine from attaching to walls
  • Fixed a bug preventing Zenyatta’s Nutcracker skin from receiving a golden glow while using his Transcendence ultimate ability

Maps

  • Fixed a bug preventing Pharah from being able to refuel while standing in some planters in Oasis
  • Fixed a bug that caused Sombra to get stuck under the bridge in Eichenwalde
  • Fixed a bug that caused Sombra to get stuck behind rocks in Route 66
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Symmetra to place her Shield Generator in unintended locations in Watchpoint: Gibraltar
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Widowmaker to perch on an unintended location in Eichenwalde
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Widowmaker to reach unintended locations in Ecopoint: Antarctica
  • Fixed several visual artifacts on the Practice Range
  • Fixed a bug preventing some projectiles from destroying the pi?atas in Dorado
  • Fixed a bug with the size of the capture point on the garden tier in Oasis
  • Fixed an issue preventing the glass railings in Oasis from being easily broken by a melee attack
 
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The event should be live now. Will post update notes when they show up.
 
Sym:

Dev notes: She's fine you plebs learn to counter her HUEHUEHUEHUE
 
They added new portraits for the people who have gone above 1800:

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Event skins are to sell Loot Boxes. Period. That they actually made limited-Event skins purchasable with currency is a concession, but they aren't going to make it so you can consistently get everything you want that way. If they did, they wouldn't sell more Loot Boxes.

It's an effective monetization technique that isn't as screw-you as the Summer Games system, which was pure gambling with no other avenue to get that one skin for your main you didn't open for the whole event.
 
Sombra incoming, super excited about that. Event is fun. Skins are expensive, as rogue said, because it's a way to not screw over players with bad rng. They simply tripled the price of what it would have been if not a special "this box only" skin.

CTR is fun because it's a new mode, but stale in the sense most matches I played ended in draw. I'm sure as I post this people are starting to figure out the good comps/strategies.

New HUD is amazing, specifically the kill feed. I've seen less people using Roadhog, so not much of a chance to see it from the other end, but overall feels better. Just sad I can't cheese the hook anymore. Haven't felt much change with the D.va change yet, probably will feel it more in QP/comp. Wall riding backwards is amazingly fun.

TL;DR - This is amazing.
 
Ugh, such a freaking troll these boxes... Got 3 tonight (1 level, 1 CTR box, 1 3x arcade wins) and one opens to that familiar "ZOMG LEGENDARY" yellow screaming up into the air, just as you see what it is annnnnd...



It's a Mako Hog skin.
 
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