Overwatch September 7 Update is Now Live

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Overwatch 2 might be far away, but you still have the original game to fill the time. The developer of the game, Blizzard, released a new update for the game yesterday. The patch brings new features, QoL changes, bug fixes, and more. It also starts the Season 4 of Competitive 3v3 Lockout Elimination.

From now on, you can filter Custom Game Browser by certain parameters. The filters you can use are Popularity, Favorites, Recent, and All Games. You can also filter via game mode to show only your desired modes in the browser.

The rest of the changes are nothing but bug fixes, which you can read below:

General
  • Fixed a bug that prevented console players from seeing their Top 500 prestige icons while in a match
  • Fixed a bug that caused match pool icons to appear missing from match replay listings
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Season 28 and Season 29 statistics to look the same in the career profile
  • Fixed a bug with the 2020 new year's hat player icon description that displayed 2021
  • Fixed a bug with the career profile that showed competitive CTF seasons in the incorrect order on the stats tab
Maps
Busan
  • Fixed a bug with the cow sign that caused the fork to not be attached properly
Lijiang Tower
  • Fixed a bug on the Control Center map that allowed players to use Junkrat's Riptire to clip through map geometry and reveal an enemy team's positioning
Temple of Anubis
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Junkrat to use his Riptire ultimate underneath map terrain
Heroes
Doomfist
  • Fixed a bug where Rocket Punch would sometimes not play impact effects or animations when hitting a wall
Mei
  • Fixed a bug with her Kneel emote that caused her eyes to not animate properly
Reaper
  • Fixed a bug that caused some of an enemy Reaper's visual effects to display as friendly instead of hostile when on low damage effects settings
Soldier: 76
  • Fixed a bug that caused his "Show Some Respect" voice line to not play properly if the Grillmaster skin was equipped
Symmetra
  • Fixed a bug that caused the player camera to briefly appear in unplayable space when traveling through her teleporter
Custom Games
  • The Description text box no longer converts newline characters to spaces

You can check out the complete patch notes on the official site.

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