Overwatch 2 Update 3.73

A new update for Overwatch 2, known as Update 3.73, has recently been released. This update is accessible across all gaming platforms, as well as on PC. Players can now download this update, which introduces bug fixes, improvement updates, and patch notes for the game. It is worth noting that the file size of this update may differ depending on the gaming platform being used.

GENERAL UPDATES

NEW GAME MODE – HERO MASTERY: GAUNTLET

The Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is an exciting new co-op game mode that challenges players to work together and protect towers from enemy bots. In this mode, players must collect energy and purchase powerful upgrades to survive all ten rounds. The objective is to focus your skills and earn high scores to compete on the leaderboards. Are you ready to enter the Gauntlet?
Gauntlet teams can consist of up to three players and must successfully defend the towers throughout all ten rounds to emerge victorious. Each game is designed to randomize the upgrades, bots, and targeted towers, ensuring that each playthrough feels fresh and unique.
The Gauntlet game mode introduces four difficulty levels that significantly impact all aspects of gameplay, including the scoring system. Players can gradually work their way up to the Legendary difficulty and dominate the leaderboards.
Athena, the game’s AI, has upgraded the simulation with various new bots, including dangerous elite training bots that present an even greater challenge. Players must be on high alert and utilize their best strategies to overcome these formidable adversaries.
Additionally, a Play with AI mode is available for teams to practice with one to three players. Scores and Challenges are not recorded in this mode, allowing players to focus on honing their skills without any pressure.
The Hero Mastery: Gauntlet launches with a limited-time event that offers exclusive rewards and challenges. Players will have the opportunity to defend the towers and unlock all the exciting rewards available.

COMPETITIVE PLAY UPDATES

Competitive Placements and Overview will now be displayed before Hero Progression at the end of a Competitive Match. This change aims to provide players with a clear overview of their performance in the competitive match before diving into their Hero Progression.
A Competitive Rank Range has been added to the scoreboard, allowing players to view the rank range of a match at any time. This information provides players with a better understanding of the skill levels of their opponents and teammates.
Modifiers, which are unique features that impact gameplay, can now be viewed outside of the Competitive Overview. Players can access the rank info button on the Competitive Play menu to get more details about the modifiers in play during a match.
A new modifier called “Demotion Protection” has been introduced to the Competitive Overview. This modifier notifies players that if they lose another game, they will be demoted to the next lowest division. This addition aims to provide players with clearer information about their division standings and encourage them to strive for consistent performance.

HERO UPDATES

This patch primarily focuses on fine-tuning some of the systemic hero changes made in Season 9. Additionally, individual abilities are adjusted to make them feel more impactful, considering the larger health pools of the heroes.

PROJECTILE SIZE UPDATES

The global projectile size modifier for travel time projectiles with a speed greater than 50 meters per second has been reduced from 0.1 to 0.075 meters. This adjustment specifically targets the fastest travel time projectiles to reduce the frequency of these projectiles failing to headshot due to hitting the enemy’s chest hit volume first.

ROLE PASSIVES UPDATES

The Heal reduction applied by the damage role passive has been lowered from 20% to 15%. The Damage role passive is designed to reduce the potency of in-combat healing, creating a balance between burst and damage over time. However, the developers have decided to experiment with a lower value to alleviate some pressure on tank and support roles. They will closely monitor this change to ensure that the healing reduction remains noticeable.

OTHER HERO UPDATES

A new UI element has been added above the player’s first-person health bar to show all active healing status effects, including Anti-Heal, Amplified Healing, and Reduced Healing. This addition aims to provide players with better visibility and understanding of the healing effects currently affecting their hero.

TANK

DOOMFIST

Meteor Strike

The minimum damage of Doomfist’s Meteor Strike has been increased from 15 to 50. This adjustment aims to increase the impact of Doomfist’s ultimate ability, making it more formidable against enemies.

MAUGA

Overrun

The stomp damage of Mauga’s Overrun ability has been increased from 45 to 60. This change enhances Mauga’s ability to deal damage with his close-quarters attacks.

Cardiac Overdrive

The duration of Cardiac Overdrive has been reduced from 5 to 4 seconds, while the cooldown has been decreased from 12 to 10 seconds. Additionally, Cardiac Overdrive now fills Mauga’s passive overhealth by 100. These adjustments aim to make Cardiac Overdrive more forgiving when used for self-defense, especially when Mauga is low on health.

ORISA

Terra Surge

The charge rate for the first 2.5 seconds of Orisa’s Terra Surge ability has been increased by 25%. This change enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of Orisa’s ability to provide shields to her teammates.

RAMATTRA

Ravenous Vortex

The total damage of Ramattra’s Ravenous Vortex ability has been increased from 45 to 70. Additionally, the cooldown has been decreased from 12 to 11 seconds. These adjustments aim to make Ravenous Vortex a more impactful ability in Ramattra’s kit.

REINHARDT

Reinhardt’s armor has been increased from 275 to 300, enhancing his overall durability and ability to withstand damage.

Fire Strike

The damage of Reinhardt’s Fire Strike ability has been increased from 100 to 120. This adjustment aims to make Fire Strike a more significant threat, allowing Reinhardt to deal more damage to enemies.

ROADHOG

Chain Hook

The distance that enemies are pulled towards Roadhog after being hooked has been decreased from 4 to 3 meters. This change improves the consistency of the Hook combo, making it easier for Roadhog to follow up with a Scrap Gun shot.

Pig Pen

The vertical knockback on activation of Roadhog’s Pig Pen ability has been decreased by 43%. This adjustment reduces the height at which enemies are launched when Pig Pen is activated, making the follow-up Scrap Gun shot more consistent.

DAMAGE

HANZO

The base projectile sizes of Hanzo’s arrows have been increased from 0.075 to 0.1 meters. This change, combined with the general global reduction in projectile size for travel time projectiles with a speed greater than 50 meters per second, maintains Hanzo’s arrow projectile size at a total of 0.175 meters.

MEI

Endothermic Blaster

The ammo of Mei’s Endothermic Blaster has been increased from 120 to 140. This change provides Mei with more ammunition, allowing her to sustain her freezing abilities for longer durations.

Cryofreeze

The heal per second of Mei’s Cryofreeze ability has been increased from 50 to 62.5, enhancing her survivability during this ability.

REAPER

Death Blossom

The damage per second of Reaper’s Death Blossom ability has been increased from 170 to 185. Additionally, the ultimate cost of Death Blossom has been decreased by 12%. These adjustments aim to make Death Blossom a more impactful ultimate ability for Reaper, rewarding skilled and strategic play.

SOMBRA

Virus

The impact damage of Sombra’s Virus ability has been increased from 10 to 25. This change makes using Virus as a follow-up more compelling, providing greater potential for burst damage.

Translocator

Sombra’s Translocator now destroys breakable objects while in flight. This change prevents Sombra from teleporting a shorter distance than expected in scenarios where breakable objects obstruct her path.

EMP

The ultimate cost of Sombra’s EMP ability has been reduced by 8%, allowing her to utilize her ultimate ability more frequently.

SYMMETRA

Photon Projector

The primary fire damage per second of Symmetra’s Photon Projector has been increased from 60 to 65, scaling with each stage. The new maximum damage per second for the Photon Projector is now 195.

Sentry Turret

The health of Symmetra’s Sentry Turret has been increased from 30 to 50. Additionally, the damage per second has been increased from 25 to 30. These adjustments enhance the effectiveness of Symmetra’s turrets, making them more resilient and damaging.

Teleporter

The health of Symmetra’s Teleporter has been increased from 50 to 100, and the shields have been increased from 150 to 200. These changes make Symmetra’s Teleporter more durable, allowing her team to utilize it more effectively.

TORBJÖRN

Deploy Turret

The damage of Torbjörn’s Deploy Turret has been increased from 11 to 13. This adjustment makes Torbjörn’s turret more threatening to enemies.

SUPPORT

ANA

Biotic Grenade

The explosion damage and healing of Ana’s Biotic Grenade have been increased from 60 to 90. This change enhances the impact of Ana’s Biotic Grenade, making it a more potent tool for healing and area denial.

BAPTISTE

Immortality Field

The minimum health threshold for Baptiste’s Immortality Field has been decreased from 25% to 20%. This change allows Baptiste to deploy his Immortality Field at a slightly lower health threshold, providing more opportunities to save teammates from near-fatal damage.

BRIGITTE

Repair Pack

The cooldown of Brigitte’s Repair Pack ability has been reduced from 6 to 5 seconds. This adjustment allows Brigitte to provide more frequent burst healing to her teammates.

Rally

The ultimate cost of Brigitte’s Rally has been reduced by 8%. This change enables Brigitte to build her ultimate ability more quickly, allowing her to use Rally more often during matches.

ILLARI

Solar Rifle

The primary fire recovery time of Illari’s Solar Rifle has been reduced from 0.3 to 0.2 seconds. Additionally, the maximum charge time has been reduced from 0.7 to 0.65 seconds. These adjustments improve the responsiveness of the Solar Rifle, making it more efficient to use. The changes also increase the damage per second of the Solar Rifle without affecting its burst damage.

LIFEWEAVER

Heal Blossom

The maximum heal amount of Lifeweaver’s Heal Blossom has been increased from 70 to 80. Additionally, the maximum charge time has been increased from 1 to 1.15 seconds. These adjustments increase the burst potential of Heal Blossom, reinforcing Lifeweaver’s role as a high-healing throughput support. Despite these changes, the heal per second remains roughly the same as before, but individual Heal Blossoms can be charged further, providing stronger bursts of healing.

BUG FIXES

GENERAL

Fixed an issue where the B button on gamepads would close a Replay instead of opening the Bookmarks.
Fixed a bug that caused all Souvenirs to face backward when previewing them in the Battlepass.
Fixed a bug with the “more items in shop” button in the Event Hub, which was leading players to a blank screen.
Fixed a bug that caused the Progression Screen of the player to display when viewing another player’s Progression Screen.
Fixed a display issue that sometimes caused the Rank Update Progress Bar to show incorrect values.
Fixed an issue that prevented the “Ring” dot reticle from displaying correctly for all heroes.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from opening the Options menu while a Deathmatch game was ending.
Fixed a bug in Mystery Heroes that could disable jump pads for players.
Leaves now correctly count as a loss during Competitive Placements Matches.

HERO MASTERY

Fixed a bug that granted Echo full Ultimate charge after restarting a run.

MAPS

Junkertown

Fixed some spots where the lighting was incorrect.

King’s Row

Fixed an area of the map that allowed players to escape the playable space.

Samoa

Fixed some areas that allowed Torbjorn’s turret to be almost fully obfuscated by the environment.

HEROES

Fixed a bug that caused the DPS Passive to not be applied by: Symmetra and Torbjorn Turrets, Riptire, and B.O.B.

Lifeweaver

Fixed an interaction with Tree of Life and Mauga that could launch Cage Fight into the sky.
Fixed a specific instance that allowed Life Grip to pull allies to their death.

These patch notes cover the Overwatch 2 Update 3.73, which introduces the new co-op game mode, Hero Mastery: Gauntlet, along with various updates, hero adjustments, and bug fixes. The Hero Mastery: Gauntlet challenges players to protect towers from enemy bots, collect energy, and purchase upgrades. The Competitive Play updates include changes to placements and rank range visibility. Hero updates focus on fine-tuning previous changes and making abilities more impactful due to larger health pools. Bug fixes address various issues in different aspects of the game.