Overwatch 2 May 14 2024 Patch Notes - Overwatch 2 Guide - IGN (2024)

The May 14th, 2024 Patch for Overwatch 2 has arrived, bringing with it a Porsche collaboration, Competitive changes, and various Hero updates.

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of the May 14 Patch for Overwatch 2, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

Overwatch x Porsche

This collaboration runs from May 14th to June 3rd. In this collaboration, you'll find Legendary Porsche D.Va and Porsche Pharah skins in the Premium Shop, alongside several other Porsche-themed cosmetics that you'll be able to earn for free by completing different event challenges.

Competitive Play Updates

• Demotion Protection Modifier
  • The Demotion Protection modifier has been moved from below the Rank Progress bar into the bar itself to improve visibility when a player is in a Demotion Protection state
  • When Demotion Protection occurs, you will not be told when your progress is below that skill division’s range. If you lose your Demotion match, the Skill Rank adjustment will show only the adjustment from that match, instead of the net total of that match and the adjustment of the previous match
• Pressure Competitive Modifier
  • This rank modifier appears for players who are at the far ends of the overall skill distribution
  • For players who are very high ranked (like Champion), this modifier will show when you don’t earn as much progress from winning a match or drop more progress for losing a match
  • For players who are very low ranked (like low Bronze), this modifier will show when you earn more progress for winning a match or drop less progress for losing a match
• Grouping Restrictions
  • Grand Master can now group within 3 divisions to be considered a narrow group
  • Champion can now group within 1 division to be considered a narrow group

Matchmaking Updates

• When a player is currently on a loss streak, the matchmaker will try to avoid putting the player on a team that is statistically calculated to have a lower chance of winning

Hero Updates

• Armor health has been reverted to provide a flat damage reduction of 5 per projectile, up to a maximum of 50% damage reduction
• Out-of-combat health regeneration changed from 20 health per second to 10 health per second + 5% of maximum health

Tanks

• Role Passive
  • Tanks now have 25% damage reduction against critical headshot damage
  • Knockback resistance increased from 30% to 50%
• Junker Queen
  • Commanding Shout
    • Can now be activated while using other abilities
    • Cooldown reduced from 14 to 12 seconds
• Sigma
  • Gravitic Flux
    • No longer requires line of sight to the center of the effect
• Wrecking Ball
  • Grappling Claw
    • Impact damage increased from 50 to 60
  • Piledriver
    • Movement lockout duration for enemies increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds
  • Minefield
    • Damage increased from 130 to 165
    • Explosion knockback increased from 5 to 10
• Zarya
  • Graviton Surge
    • Radius increased from 6 to 7 meters
    • Duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds

Damage

• Junkrat
  • Frag Launcher
    • Impact damage increased from 40 to 45 (Total damage increased from 120 to 125)
• Echo
  • Duplicate
    • Ultimate gain multiplier while transformed increased from 4 to 4.5
• Hanzo
  • Dragonstrike
    • Speed increased from 12 to 15 meters per second

Support

• Brigitte
  • Rally
    • Now resets Shield Bash cooldown upon activation

Bug Fixes

• General
  • Fixed a bug with Mirrorwatch not generating stats in Game Reports
  • Fixed a bug with Competitive Progress not incrementing correctly
• Maps
  • General bug fixes and improvements were performed on multiple maps
  • Eichenwalde
    • Fixed an area that could cause players to temporarily become stuck
  • Samoa
    • Fixed a spot on the map that players could become temporarily stuck in
  • Shambali
    • Fixed a location where players could become stuck for a period of time
• Heroes
  • Mercy
    • Vengeance Skin - Fixed a bug with the feathers on the skin not being properly aligned
  • Venture
    • Fixed a bug with Tectonic Shock that counted turrets and other non-player targets as valid for the Excavation Annihilation challenge
    • Fixed an issue that could occur with Burrow where Venture could remain burrowed above the ground

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, you can do so via the official Overwatch 2 websites May 14 Patch Notes blog post.