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Based off of the OW2 Community Patch and other Workshops, this iteration of speculative Overwatch 2 Workshops by the Florida Mayhem is currently being used by Overwatch League teams to prepare for Overwatch 2 (source).

The purpose of these patch notes is to present the changes in a more readable manner than the patch notes linked in the original Tweet.

You can find the original patch notes here.

General
Tanks
- Doomfist
- D.Va
- Reinhardt
- Winston
Damage
- Bastion
- Echo
- Hanzo
- Junkrat
- Mei
- Sombra
- Torbjörn
Supports
- Ana
- Brigitte
- Mercy
- Moira
- Zenyatta

General

Note: Roles are locked by slot. The slots are arranged as follows:
1. Tank
2. Damage
3. Damage
4. Support
5. Support
2CP/Assault game mode disabled
Respawn timers reduced by 20%
Tanks per team reduced from 2 to 1 (total player count per team reduced from 6 to 5)
Hero bans available in Workshop Settings
List of banned heroes (if any) displayed in-game

Tanks

Some of these tank bonuses are speculative from a Blizzard Reddit AMA.

Tanks have reduced knockback from all sources
Damaging tanks grants 25% less ult charge
Tanks have 100 more base health (compared to OW1)
Tanks receive 15% more healing from supports

Per developer interviews, these changes are a speculation on what Doomfist as a tank might look like.

General

Reassigned to the Tank role
Scale increased by 12%
Base health increased from 250 to 400 (500 including tank bonus)
Damage dealt decreased by 25%

Seismic Slam

Cooldown increased from 6 to 8 seconds

Rising Uppercut

Cooldown increased from 6 to 8 seconds
Grants Doomfist 30% damage resistance for 4 seconds

Rocket Punch

Cooldown increased from 4 to 8 seconds
Connecting a punch with an enemy now also cleaves other enemies within 7 meters of the victim in front of Doomfist

General

Tank health bonus reduced from 100 to 25 when D.Va is out of mech

Fusion Cannons

Movement penalty while firing reduced from 40% to 20%
Reduced spread by 20% (emulated with reverse falloff damage)

Defense Matrix

Maximum duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds
Recharge rate increased by 25%

General

Health reduced from 300 to 250 (excluding tank role bonus)
Armor increased from 200 to 300
Health/armor total increased from 500 to 650 (including tank role bonus)

Charge

Can now be cancelled by pressing the button again
Horizontal charge movement can be better controlled
Cooldown reduced from 10 to 8 seconds

Fire Strike

Fire Strike can now store up to 2 charges - 8 seconds per charge

Barrier Field

Barrier health reduced from 1600 to 1200

Steadfast

Removed (tank bonus knockback resistance is stronger)

Secondary Fire: New Ability - Railgun

Winston can now hold down secondary fire to charge up a longer-range attack capable of hitting enemies up to 25 meters away.
This attack takes 1.2 seconds to charge up to 50 damage, and may be held indefinitely after reaching maximum charge.
Firing this attack costs up to 25 ammo, scaling with charge.

Barrier Projector

Barrier health reduced from 700 to 600
Cooldown reduced from 13 to 12 seconds

Note that some of the showcased changes so far are impossible to implement. This includes extending the duration of Zarya's bubbles to 2.5 seconds.

Particle Barrier / Projected Barrier

Now shares a single pool of charges
Now stores up to 2 charges

Damage

Damage heroes now move 8% faster (stacking with any existing passives)

Slight number tweaks to the showcased Bastion rework

Configuration: Recon

Rate of fire lowered from 8 to 4.2 rounds per second
Ammo decreased from 35 to 20
Damage falloff removed

Configuration: Sentry

Can now move while Configuration: Sentry is active
Now has unlimited ammo
Now has a duration meter of up to 10 seconds
Regain 1 second of duration per second of not using Configuration: Sentry

Self-Repair

Removed
Replaced with new ability: Bouncing Grenade
Single projectile which bounces off walls and sticks to players. Affected by gravity.
Deals up to 100 damage with falloff
Cooldown of 10 seconds

Configuration: Tank

Reworked into top-down artillery strike
Fire 3 shots from a top-down view
Each shot does up to 600 damage

The Focusing Beam change against tank heroes is speculative based on a Reddit AMA held with the Blizzard developers.

Focusing Beam

Damage against non-tanks reduced by 12.5%
Damage against tanks reduced by 15%

Duplicate

Grants all relevant hero changes from duplicated target

A small speculative change based on Hanzo's Storm Arrows being perceived as too strong against tanks.

Storm Arrows

Deals 15% less damage against tanks

The changes provided are speculative, but in service of an overarching philosophy of reducing crowd control.

Steel Trap

No longer roots enemies
Now slows victims by 50% for 3 seconds

Endothermic Blaster - Primary Fire

No longer freezes or slows enemies
Damage increased from 55 to 90

Some changes to EMP and Hack deviate from the playtests shown at the OWL 2021 Grand Finals

Machine Pistol

Spread reduced by 20% (emulated with reverse falloff)
Base damage reduced from 8 to 7

Stealth

Detection radius is now 4 meters (up from 2 meters). Due to Workshop limitations, at 2 to 4 meters, the detection manifests as an icon rather than the normal detection mechanic.

Hack

Hack now applies an 8 second debuff which reveals the hacked target to the enemy team and grants 50% more damage to Sombra against the hacked target
Hacking to break Stealth now resets Stealth cooldown (mimicking hacking from Stealth due to Workshop limitations)
Hack ability-disabling duration reduced 5 to 1 seconds
Hack cooldown decreased from 8 to 4 seconds

EMP

No longer deletes shield health or barriers
Reduces current health of all targets hit by 30%
Hacks all targets within its radius

Overload

Temporary armor replaced with temporary health

Supports

Regenerate 10 health per second after 3 seconds of taking no damage (can stack with Mercy's Regeneration)

Sleep Dart

Cooldown increased from 12 to 15 seconds

Biotic Grenade

Healing reduced from 100 to 60

Inspire

Healing reduced from 15 to 12.5 per second

Shield Bash

Stun reduced from 0.5 seconds to 0.016 seconds (Workshop limitation)
Range increased by roughly 200%
Damage increased from 5 to 50
Cooldown decreased from 7 to 4.9 seconds
Now deals damage through shields

Caduceus Staff

Healing reduced by 10%, from 55 to 49.5 health per second

General

All healing dealt reduced by 10%

Transcendence

Now displays a ring on the ground to indicates its maximum range

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