Hey AgentTatsu, thanks a lot for the suggestions.

Adding an additional input for aim direction will be a significant change for the game mode. Perhaps the mouse input could be used instead of the A and D buttons, allowing free control of the aim direction rather than the fixed facing direction we currently have. This might be something to experiment with later. However, 2D Overwatch is intended to be a very 'simple' game mode with very easy controls, so I will need to consider it carefully.

Locking the facing direction while holding primary or secondary fire could be a nice feature and gameplay improvement. I might explore this idea later.

Shame. I still don't know what to do against that. All I know is that it started after an update by Blizzard a few weeks ago. :/

If I don't use this condition, the player that gets "stunned" by Reinhardt's charge becomes very glitchy (camera gets stuck on one position or the stunned player disappears until the charge is completed). This started to happen since the release of OW2, probably the stunned player gets pushed into the border and this condition seems to solve it. I haven't seen any issues with other frozen/stunned players, if it is a problem then I might have to look for a different solution. Not sure if the recently added rule for Reinhardt's charge also solves this problem, I haven't tried that yet.

Kind of intended. I made several versions before the release, with the fast charge but also respawning as Echo again when the duplicate gets 1 HP.. but it felt way too overpowered when I tried it during test. For example: 1. spawn as Echo, 2. fly up in the air and safely wait for ult to be charged, 3. use ultimate and do your thing and perhaps die, 4. respawn as Echo again, 5. fly up safely and wait for ult... it became an endless loop which could get out of control for this game mode. The 500% increased charge was just too strong within that loop. I might still reconsider to make her ultimate charge faster during her "duplicate" ultimate if she doesn't respawn as Echo anymore after being killed.

EDIT: I made a few improvements. When her duplicate gets killed, she won't spawn at the edge of the map anymore. I also noticed that the Echo effects on the duplicate didn't always show up (or remained visible after being killed) for high latency players, I hope it's fixed now. It's uploaded to the same game code version, but only tested by myself on a closed server so let me know if you see anything wrong with her.

That's not intentional and I'm aware of the bug. It can indeed happen with high latency. I will make a fix in the next update that will hopefully prevent this.

High latency usually screws around with the code causing that

Thank you, I will look into this and get it fixed.

I do already have a new feature that will automatically reset the facing if a player doesn't look "left" or "right". It will be implemented in the next update.

Also in the next update: Echo will be able to use all custom and modified abilities of other heroes when she uses ultimate.

EDIT:

• I made a change to Roadhog so that he can't turn around while using his hook. Hopefully, this will prevent players who are hooked from getting glitched.
• I made a few changes to Mei's wall ability. Since I couldn't reproduce the glitch you saw, I'm not sure if it has been fixed.
• I also couldn't reproduce the glitch you mentioned with Mercy. I couldn't find anything wrong with the script, but I still made some changes in the hope that it would fix the issue.
• It appears that Reinhardt is still able to change direction by curving during his charge ability. The existing scripts that should prevent this seem to be ignored by the ability. Unfortunately, I haven't found a fix for this yet. I've reached out to the workshop community for a solution.

The above changes are not yet released. Once I'm done with a few other things, they will be added in the next update (version 3.7).

Oops, gotta fix that lol.

Edit: It's now fixed and uploaded to the same version. Thanks for letting me know!

Nice! :)
Let's grow the playerbase.

I made the changes as requested but I'm still working on Junkrat, which is almost done but I'm still struggling with a new bug that popped up... hopefully I get it right soon.
I might have also have fixed or reduced an issue were some players are not faced to the correct direction after spawning and become "glitchy" in some cases (probably due to higher latency). I still need to verify it.

I'll combine it all for update 3.4

Thanks for the feedback.

Lifeweaver: Yes, that's possible. I'll make the change and if it feels alright it will be changed in a future update.
Sigma: I can change that too in a future update. There is also a bug where the shield doesn't always work anymore after using ult, I'll look into that as well.
Junkrat: I'm aware of the glitch and I'll need to do some rework on the existing script or find an alternative way for a better ult cam.

I do want to add the day version of the island. I might also investigate and consider other maps as well, but only if all the conditions are perfect: enough room (not too small but also not too large), symmetrical areas, either suitable boundaries or abysses which lead to environmental kills, no exploitable structures or spaces, suitable space for flying, suitable for the camera distance as used in the standard 2D OW map and a decent view of all the surroundings (no texture clipping, missing textures, blocking views, etc.).

Yea I couldnt believe that pathetic loser's "i win" version got popular by luck which completely ruins any balance. The kid puts me in spectate when I shut him down on the HA7M4 version, suicides on good characters when about to die, etc.. Hes the actual reason why I prefer some more changes like force hero change because he uses all possible scumbag tactics. No surprise at all he makes a version that gives him the most versatile character, it also keeps his ult charge and scales rein to a small version. Easy to grief back playing genji spamming reflect constantly killing host's team and suiciding if youre about to die, but boring

I think it can also be abused as people could just suicide over and over again to get a "better" hero. Although Blizzard already redesigned it before to prevent this, I think it should be possible to write something to overrule this. I'll think about it, but I'm afraid it will be abused as well so I'm not very eager about it.

It's still experimental and in test but it was never intended to impact game play that much. The reason why it has been introduced is to reduce high server load which can cause server crashes. I also made some other modifications to avoid this, but these are not noticeable in game play.
I made some new changes so the slow motion (anti-crash) mode should now occur less frequently. Please let me know if it feels better now or if it's still annoying. Also give me feedback if the server crashes start to occur again.

Ramattra has been fixed.
Mercy's ultimate generation is now much slower, which will force her to be on the ground more often. Let's see how this works out.
Lifeweaver's ultimate will now be placed after manual confirmation. (P.S. You can always destroy the tree by pressing Q again if it unintentionally blocks other players.)