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Overwatch 2 Beta Update 1.04 Dishes Out Major Hero Balancing

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Blizzard Entertainment has unwrapped the full list of Overwatch 2 Beta update 1.04 patch notes, which comes packing range of balance updates for its various heroes.

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HEROES

TANKS

DOOMFIST

Power Block

  • Minimum damage mitigated required to empower Rocket Punch reduced from 100 to 90 damage
  • Movement speed penalty while blocking reduced from 50 to 35%

Rocket Punch

  • Now deals damage to all enemies knocked back instead of only the first target impacted

JUNKER QUEEN

Commanding Shout

  • Radius reduced from 20 to 15 meters
  • Allied bonus health now decays over its duration
  • Maximum duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds

Rampage

  • Radius reduced from 6 to 5 meters

ORISA

Fortify

  • Now disables critical damage

Javelin Spin

  • Bonus movement speed increased from 40 to 50%

DAMAGE

SOJOURN

Railgun

  • Fire rate reduced from 15 to 14 shots per second

Railgun Alt Fire

  • Projectile radius now scales with energy level from 0 up to the previous 0.1 meters
  • The higher the energy level, the bigger the projectile radius

SYMMETRA

Photon Projector Alt Fire

  • Charge time reduced from 1.2 seconds to 1 second
  • Projectile radius increased from 0.4 to 0.5 meters

Teleporter

  • Cooldown reduced from 16 to 12 seconds

SUPPORT

ZENYATTA

  • Shield health reduced from 175 to 150 (225 to 200 total max HP)

BUG FIXES

GENERAL

  • Fixed a crash affecting some Xbox consoles
  • Fixed a crash affecting players launching the “Portuguese (Brazil)” language on PS5

MAPS

Rio de Janeiro

  • Fixed bug that affected spawn doors

HEROES

Soldier 76

  • Fixed an issue that caused Sprint to give 40% movement speed instead of 50%

Genji

  • Fixed an issue where Dragon Blade could sometimes get stuck as active after the duration ended

Junker Queen

  • Fixed an issue that caused wounds to apply to invalid targets (Barriers/Ice Wall/Turrets/etc.)
  • Fixed an issue that caused her ability icons to not appear in the kill feed
  • Fixed an issue where Carnage also applied a Jagged Blade wound effect

[Source – Overwatch Official Website]