Following the Destiny 2 gameplay reveal, attendees were able to preview the first level of the game as well as grab first looks at all the skills for each new subclass. As announced during the live stream, these subclasses feature all-new Supers and skills. What’s more, the existing subclasses received heavy changes coming into Destiny 2 with some abilities being reworked or replaced altogether.
For the Titan Striker subclass, the available grenades, Increased Height, Increased Control, Catapult, and Shoulder Charge all remain the same in Destiny 2. That said, there are new skill changes, such as Reversal, Frontal Assault, and the increased options for your Fists of Havoc Super, that refresh the Titan subclass and provide more ways to utilize the character.
Here are all the skills for the Titan Striker subclass:
Super Ability
Fists of Havoc: While Fists of Havoc is active, press R2 to slam the ground with the force of a maelstrom, and press R1 to smash shoulder-first into your enemies.
Super Ability Modifiers
Reversal: Melee kills immediately trigger health regeneration.
Frontal Assault: A powerful Melee punch that grants you increased weapon stability.
Trample: Fist of Havoc lasts longer while Sprinting. Killing enemies with Fist of Havoc extends its duration.
Knockout: Breaking enemy shields increases your melee range.
Subclass Abilities
Shoulder Charge: After sprinting for a short time, press R1 to slam shoulder-first into your target.
Aftermath: Fist of Havoc disorients enemies and leaves a damage-dealing field in its wake.
Aerial Strike: Fist of Havoc deals more damage the longer it’s in the air.
Magnitude: Increases the duration of Pulse Grenades, Lightning Grenades, and Aftermath.
Grenades
Flashbang Grenade: An explosive grenade that disorients the enemies it damages.
Lightning Grenade: A grenade that sticks to any surface and emits bolts of lightning.
Pulse Grenade: A grenade that periodically damages enemies inside its explosion radius.
Class Abilities
Towering Barricade: A large barrier that can be used for cover or to seal off dangerous areas for a short time.
Rally Barricade: A small barrier that allows you to peek over it while aiming down sights and instantly reloads your equipped weapon when you take cover.
Jump Modifiers
Increased Height: Upgrades Lift to travel to greater heights.
Increased Control: Upgrades Lift for better directional control while in the air.
Catapult: Upgrades Lift to provide a strong initial burst of momentum.
Bear in mind that these Titan Striker subclass skills were available during an early playtest of Destiny 2 and are subject to change before the game launches on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
New gameplay footage and design details dropped for Destiny 2’s Titan Sentinel subclass, showing off its new Super and multiple functionalities. Instead of making the Sentinel a slow tank that lacks maneuverability, Bungie strayed away from that archetype, creating the new class as one with both mobile offensive and defensive capabilities.
You can get the first looks at Destiny 2’s Titan Sentinel subclass in the IGN First video below:
As stated earlier, the Destiny 2 developers wanted to take their new Titan class in a different direction from the traditional bulky and sluggish meat-shield. “In Destiny 1, your guard was more impeding on your motion,” Bungie’s senior sandbox designer Claude Jerome stated in the video above. “You couldn’t move very fast, you couldn’t lift. And now we just kind of said, since his Super is all about guarding, his guard isn’t going to impede most of his motion.”
To do that, the Sentinel’s Super has mechanics to influence more fluid gameplay. When you activate your Super, you are equipped with a Void shield, but you can still deal plenty of damage. “You’re the vanguard,” Jerome said. “You’re the aggressor that starts the fight. Just toss the shield in from the other room.”
Aside from the shield toss, you can perform a Shield Bash to smash into enemies, which is the replacement for Destiny’s original Shoulder Charge. But you can also create a defensive bubble for your team in lieu of summoning your shield.
If you press and hold the buttons to activate your Super, you’ll form a large defensive bubble around you, called the Ward of Dawn. Destiny 2’sreveal trailer showcased the Ward of Dawn as the city was first under attack.
It’s important to note, however, that you are not locked in place as you create the bubble. You can still fight after you activate it.
In addition, Bungie also improved the bubble significantly. Instead of wondering how long your shield is going to last, there are now visual cues that will tell you how much health the bubble has left.
“The communication of the health of the bubble was one of the most important things, rather than the length of the bubble,” Bungie senior effects artist David Samuel explained. “You start off with a nice pristine bubble and its got these particles swirling around it, but as it’s getting damaged, it starts to really deteriorate. Holes start forming on it, and all the little particles going around it start getting agitated, you can really see like ‘oh, this thing is about to go down.'”
You can get your first looks at Destiny 2 and the Titan Sentinel subclass during the beta, which begins on July 18 for PlayStation 4 and July 19 for Xbox One.
The majority of high school students are confused about their career paths. There are several different options, and everybody wants to be different. With many options, there is a lot of confusion in the decision-making process. The medical field is the most diverse, and you get the most choices in it. For example, dentistry, physiotherapy, and nursing, etc.
Nursing has become a popular choice for students these days. Unfortunately, a lot of students choose fields without research and analysis. If you want to be a nurse, read this blog first, and then look at nursing prerequisites online. You must be aware of all the pros and cons of being a registered nurse so that you can choose your career path wisely.
There are several benefits of becoming a registered nurse. Here are the top five pros of becoming a nurse.
1. DIVERSE JOB AREAS
Nursing isn’t restricted to hospitals only; you get many other job opportunities. Moreover, you can practice it individually, as well. You can work for NGOs, clinics, integrated healthcare industry, home-health, public health, or legal nurse consultancy. Also, you can be a teacher at college or university because you are a medical professional and can teach others as well.
2. HANDSOME SALARY PACKAGE
You don’t have to worry about the salary or job security. The need for nurses is increasing every day and you can expect the same in the near future. Handsome salary packages are offered, and you get job security as well. Salaries offered to nurses are approximately $100,000 annually, according to the bureau of labor statistics.
3. EASE OF PURSUING STUDIES
The most important benefit of pursuing nursing as your career is that you can excel greatly in the field. The other fields demand compromise on different levels to excel in them. For example, you have to give up a few hours of a job to complete your master’s program. In another case, you can give up your master’s degree for the sake of earning a handsome salary.
If you choose nursing as your career, you can pursue advanced degree levels through online courses. Several universities are now facilitating freshmen with nursing certifications for new grads online as well.
4. SEVERAL JOB BENEFITS
Nursing is full of job benefits. You get paid holidays, PTOs, sick leaves, traveling expenses, tax saving plans, and many more perks. The job brings you closer to humanity and brings a lot of positive changes in your life. The job benefits are more like rewards for you.
Now, you are aware of the pros, you must be well-aware of the cons as well. You have to choose your career path carefully, and your choice shouldn’t rely on the benefits only.
5. HEMOPHOBICS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THIS
Every day, you have to encounter situations with blood. You are also exposed to several different pathogens during your service hours. If you are scared of blood or you have a weak immune system, it is better to stay away from nursing. You cannot avoid contact with blood and pathogen in this field.
6. WORKING SHIFTS MAY BE INCONVENIENT AT TIMES
Sometimes, one or two nurses may not be around and you have to take their place too. The working hours may be variable at times. You must keep this in mind that the working hours aren’t always flexible. You have to be sure that you can handle back to back inconvenient shifts for a few days. Choose nursing as a career accordingly.
7. STRESS EVERY DAY
Nursing is a stressful job and if someone says that nursing is easy, you must know that it isn’t. It is a very hectic job because there are people with different problems who need your attention at once. You aren’t working as 9 to 5 employees, but as a nurse who may have 12-hour shifts often.
8. NOT EVERYONE APPRECIATES YOU
Everybody expects appreciation, and being a nurse; you might expect more. You must know that everyone will not appreciate your efforts. Be it the organization you are working for, or the patients you are serving, some people will not recognize what you have sacrificed for them. Some irritated patients might take their issues out on you. You have to bear with a lot of different emotions with patience.
CONCLUSION
Nursing has become one of the finest career choices these days. People were not fond of nursing as a profession earlier, but now the trend has changed. Nursing has earned the prestige it deserves. With training and degree programs, the digital section has also advanced, and online nursing courses are being offered too.
Every field has its pros and cons. You can’t expect only benefits from nursing as well. Before choosing nursing as your career path, you must be well-aware of the perks and the cons. Your entire life depends upon this choice. Therefore, choose wisely.
The year 2020 marks the start of a new decade, it’s been more than 10 years since the launch of Bitcoin. Now, there are literally thousands of new cryptocurrencies in circulation. Despite this ongoing surge in cryptocurrency, the tracking and accounting of digital currency have not been on par with the rest of the industry.
Towards the end of the 2010s, the United States Government, along with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a set of guidelines on the tax liability of crypto transactions. As the crypto market evolves, so does crypto trading and expectations are likely to change as the industry continues to develop.
What to Expect from Cryptocurrency in 2020?
Increase in Crypto Tax Awareness
The inclusion of the crypto question on Schedule 1, “At any time during 2019, did you receive, sell, send, exchange, or otherwise acquire any financial interest in any virtual currency?” is one that every taxpayer has to answer correctly.
Increase in Crypto Tax Planning
Since cryptocurrency is going mainstream, it will open up new ways for tax planning opportunities such as tax-loss harvesting and an increase in more crypto tax software becoming available.
Increase in Crypto Tax Software Tools
There are a large number of crypto tax software tools that aid taxpayers in calculating their capital gains and losses. Crypto exchanges do not issue reports on a cost basis, capital gain or loss, listing proceeds, etc. When it comes to accurately calculate and filing crypto activities of individuals, it is the responsibility of the taxpayer.
Crypto tax software can be used to make precise valuations on basis tracking, capital gains, and loss, record keeping, etc. Without the aid of a software, a taxpayer is more prone to errors in their tax report which could lead to the IRS breathing down their necks.
More Exchanges May Issue 1099s
As new regulations are on the horizon, we could start to see more crypto exchange platforms being mandated to provide clearer data on a taxpayer’s crypto activities. Some crypto exchanges may proactively start producing crypto trading reports to ease tax compliance.
However, if the crypto activity is spread through multiple crypto exchanges (transferring to other exchange platforms, exchanging one crypto coin for another type of crypto coin, transferring from exchanges to crypto wallets, etc.), it becomes difficult for the main crypto exchange platform to keep track and precisely record all the crypto-related activities of a taxpayer. To combat this, crypto tax software can be utilized.
What to Consider Before Choosing a Crypto Tax Software?
In recent years, the number of crypto tax software available in the market has increased due to the need for comprehensive crypto accounting. Remember that each crypto software is different and has its own pros and cons. Listed below are the factors to note when choosing a crypto tax software.
Seamless Integration
When choosing the right crypto tax software, check the number of integrations. There are 2 main types as listed.
Application Programming Interface (API)
This is an accurate and hassle-free way to import a taxpayer’s crypto wallet and exchange data into the tax software. Once the API key is entered, the crypto tax software will automatically download all crypto-related data pertaining to the transactions made.
Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
When using CSV, a taxpayer is required to download their crypto transaction history in a CSV file format and upload it to the crypto tax software. CSV imports are more time consuming than APIs.
Credibility & Legitimacy
Before selecting a crypto tax software, check the credibility of the software and the company that built it. Specifically, check for the initiatives taken to maintain tax compliance with the IRS and other crypto regulators.
The Price
Most crypto tax software come with a free trial period before charging a premium. The benefit of using a full fledged crypto tax calculator is that they include additional tools such as higher API integrations, extra bandwidth, portfolio tracking, tx planning tools, etc. However, most crypto tax software has different pricing tiers based on the number of calculations on transactions made.
What are Some of the Best Crypto Tax Softwares?
CoinTracker
CoinTracker has the ability to automatically synchronize crypto assets and transactions from all crypto exchange accounts a trader uses. After importing, the Cointracker interface displays these crypto-assets along with the trading history. One of the main benefits of this crypto tax software is that it has an in-built performance tracker that can track and estimate the growth of a trader’s crypto investment over time.
CryptoTrader.tax
This crypto tax software lets the taxpayer calculate their capital gain or losses in minutes. Known for its ease of use and simple user-interface, CryptoTrader.tax makes importing various crypto trades a breeze and supports all major crypto exchanges such as Bittrex, Gemini, Coinbase, etc.
Zenledger
Zenledger is one of the most renowned crypto tax software in the market. It allows traders to import their crypto history and calculates their crypto taxes, such as their profit and loss statements, income and donations, capital gains and losses, etc.
The additional features of Zenledger include audit reporting, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) access, accounting calculation methods (First In, First Out and Last In, First Out), airdrops, and forks, ICO support, etc.
These are just a few of the various crypto tax software available. Before choosing the right software, it is advisable to sign up for a free trial. Thereby, you can be certain that you have selected the right one.
Redditor Zenofy, under the alias DocterrificDoc, has unearthed a whole bunch of upcoming Overwatch cosmetic items for the upcoming Summer Games event. And, yes, upcoming (anti-)hero Doomfist is included in the festivities.
Would it be too much to assume that he’s a world-class shot put pro?
At any rate, they’ve confirmed a skin, a few sprays, and over 67 other cosmetic additions prepped — almost definitely things like victory poses, emotes, highlights, voice lines, and others. Here’s what they had listed:
Summer Games
Rare Icon
Common Spray
Common Voice Line
Epic/Legendary Skin
Doomfist Launch Cosmetics
Achievements
Golden Gun
Cute Spray
Pixel Spray
General
Heroic Victory Pose
Heroic Highlight Intro
Heroic Emote
Highlight Intro(s) (Random)
Default Weapon Skin (Non-gold)
Default Voice Line
Classic Skin
And, yes, there are already demands for specific emotes and skins from the peanut gallery.
To be fair, though: with his villainous background (he murdered his own mentor to take up the Doomfist, for one), it’d probably make sense for him to have a Shadaloo-inspired Street Fighter skin.
There is a LOT to look forward to with Doomfist’s release, especially with that of his voice lines. Just the D.Va voice-over update alone added more character to an unrelated castmember, while Doomfist’s own spoken dialogue will give further glimpses of the world behind the game. Though he is, sadly, not voiced by Terry Crews at all, actor Sahr Ngaujah’s treatment of the brooding international menace has given him a gravitas that his in-game presence will hopefully match.
As he’s apparently set to come out with the Summer Games patch and is already playable on the PTR, we’ll hopefully see Overwatch‘s Doomfist update land within the next week or so.
The Evolution Championship Series is the pinnacle of fighting game competition every year, and 2017 should be no different. Playing host to no fewer than five major fighting game circuits, and one of the biggest events of the year for Super Smash Bros, it’s a show you won’t want to miss.
The Evo staff released the schedule for the festivities, with stream times to follow – but this is when you’ll want to be ready to tune in.
Friday, July 14:
Qualifying pools, where players will duke it out and attempt to advance to the upper echelons of the tournament, will kick off at 9 AM Pacific and run through 11 PM Pacific. Seven games will have their pools on Friday, including:
Street Fighter V
Super Smash Bros Melee
Super Smash Bros for Wii U
Tekken 7
Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2
Injustice 2
King Of Fighters XIV
Exact times and stream schedule will be posted soon. Streams are viewable at a variety of locations, including the Evo Twitch channel, as well as some developer channels like CapcomFighters and Bandai Namco’s Tekken channel. This will be one of the bloodiest days of the tournament, as most players do not advance beyond this point to the upper echelons of Evo placings.
King of Fighters XIV will be played out in its entirety on Friday.
Saturday, July 15
Saturday will see three of the Evo finals play out, in addition to the conclusion of qualifying matches for Sunday’s finale.
Finals played out on Saturday at Evo 2017
Super Smash Bros Melee
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
Injustice 2
The schedule for these finals have yet to be announced, and this article will be updated as soon as times are released.
Qualifying matches for Top 8 will take place for Street Fighter V,Super Smash Bros for Wii U, Tekken 7, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (including pools), and BlazBlue: Central Fiction.
Sunday, July 16
The finale of Evo 2017 is at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, complete with arena seating. Festivities will get underway bright and early with Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 kicking things off at 8:00 AM Pacific. Here is the full rundown of events, and their times. You can tune into the main event on Evo’s Twitch channel.
8:00 AM:Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
10:00 AM: BlazBlue: Central Fiction
12:30 PM:Tekken 7
3:00 PM: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
7:00 PM:Street Fighter V
Note that the above times are approximate, other than Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, and are dependent of the preceding event’s runtime.
There are also a number of panels hosted at Evo 2017. These won’t be streamed, but they are typically chock full of information about upcoming DLC for fighting games, and other upcoming fighting game releases. There will be tons of news coming out of these panels, which we’ll be covering here on PVP Live.
Evo 2017 will run from July 14-16 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
It’s hard to tell from the sound clips that /u/OverwatchSarah compiled whether we’re getting two highly unusual maps or one that hybridizes multiple fantastic themes. But either way, the datamining work done by /u/xArDDe and /u/ethanciavo back in July 2016 still has two distinct categories of audio assets as yet unused on any current map.
Sure, you’ve probably heard all sorts of oddities while roaming ancient Tibetan temples or high-tech Chinese skyscrapers, but not even the wildest Overwatch map to date was thematically appropriate to be accompanied by a musical piece like these:
Nor do we have any jungle-like maps where sounds like these make sense:
However, that’s not to say that they don’t fit Overwatch in general. Because there is at least one place mentioned, if not unexplored, where all of these would make for a singular, thematically coherent map. Said Winston:
Of course, if you’re going to head into space, you probably want environmentally-appropriate gear. Winston’s already halfway into a space suit already — but what about the likes of Hanzo? Or McCree? Can you even design a space helmet that can keep his hat attached?
Come to think of it, a low-gee map would be amazing by concept alone.
Blizzard confirmed their intentions to release new Overwatch maps earlier this week. But no ETA has been set, no assets are yet playable on the PTR, and no — they won’t be at E3. We’ll just have to patiently wait for when they’re ready to talk.
If you go into Overwatch right now and run to Lijiang Tower, you’re gonna see a few new things. Things that confirm some long-standing rumors that leaked out of datamines some time ago.
The biggest tell is the central pillar in the pagoda within the Garden map. Originally, the red rotating banner in the middle is that of a stylized lunar rover and has since been replaced by a satellite blueprint mockup. The one for the Horizon Lunar Colony, meanwhile, used to feature a world map instead.
Those keeping tabs on the Overwatch lore will remember that the lunar colony is basically Winston’s childhood home — the place that he grew up with, alongside his scientist father figure. Also: it’s the place where intelligent apes staged a violent rebellion, kicking out all the humans and claiming the place as their own.
If we’re headed to the moon to check on Winston’s relatives, that probably won’t be the most welcoming reunion ever.
The earlier leaked audio for the map suggests it comes in two forms: the usual electronic whirr and buzz of high-adventure science fiction, complete with the sounds of ray guns and electric fields. But there’s also a subset of sounds that are distinctly more organic, and creepier. It probably makes sense that apes would remodel their lunar home into something more befitting their physiology, after all.
As for an official confirmation, Jeff Kaplan’s recent Q&A; session’s at least a little suggestive.
Q: MOONBASE CONFIRMED!
Jeff: Nonono I didn’t say anything! That’s a killer idea though. People are going to be very excited about the maps that we’re making. And then new gamemodes, we have some ideas…
The arcade has really opened it up. I don’t believe that many new gamemodes belong in Quickplay or Competitive. I really think you want the core of the game to feel like the core of the game, and not like a circus. I don’t think we want a bunch of gimmicks – I think you want Overwatch competitively, to have a certain vibe to it, and it should be more focused on the heroes and less focus on the gamemodes.
Now the arcade has opened the door to where we can really do a lot of fun stuff and you know, you start to see some of that, and there might even be some more cool stuff, with the Anniversary Event.
Sadly, while the Overwatch Anniversary event did bring us a bunch of new skins and 3v3 arena maps, a whole new space map was not part of the works. We’ll have to wait for the next major content push to, hopefully, find out more.
The newest Overwatch map is finally here: Horizon Lunar Colony. After being teased on Monday evening in a post by fictional news organization Atlus News, Horizon’s ready for testing on the PTR.
The Horizon Lunar Colony, as fans may remember, was Winston’s birthplace. Here, a group of monkeys and apes were given gene therapy, which made them hyper-intelligent. But apparently, not all went according to plan, as Horizon has been silent for quite some time.
Now, communications with the base are reestablished (as we saw on Lijiang Tower, and was hinted at in datamined audio), and it’s up to attacking and defending teams to battle for control of the station while finding clues about what happened to the scientists.
Check out the first screenshots of the map:
Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has said previously that there are six maps in the works, with this being the fourth, though this is the first map to join the regular rotation. Horizon joins the three Elimination maps that were released at the onset of the Overwatch Anniversary event: Castillo, Black Forest, and Necropolis.
It’s highly possible there are some hints contained in the map about the next Overwatch hero as well, as Jeff Kaplan suggestively said that the next hero is “just over the Horizon” during an interview. As the preview post said, there were strange sounds coming from the vents of Horizon – and Specimen 8, Hammond, is missing. He’s a “smaller” experimental subject, perhaps small enough to fit in the vents.
Horizon likely won’t hit live servers during the Overwatch Anniversary event, set to wrap up on June 12, but you’re able to test it right now by downloading the PTR, through clicking on the region drop-down menu in the Blizzard Launcher. Get to work, Overwatch supersleuths.
Blizzard has just updated Overwatch’s PTR with Patch 1.12, which revamped Reaper’s passive ability and nerfed Roadhog’s burst damage significantly. The only other hero that received an adjustment was McCree, lowering the lock-in time of Deadeye and increasing its damage build-up. Most notably, however, Blizzard uploaded Overwatch’s latest map, Horizon Lunar Colony, onto the Public Test Realm for playtesting.
Built as a first step towards humanity’s renewed exploration of space, the Horizon Lunar Colony’s goal was to examine the effects of prolonged extraterrestrial habitation—on human and ape alike. The scientists’ research proved incredibly promising…until, suddenly, all contact and communications with the base were lost.
New Legendary Skins
Oni Genji and Officer D.Va have been added to classic loot boxes.
Custom Games and Game Browser
Player gravity and projectile gravity can now be modified.
Knockback magnitude can now be modified on any weapons or abilities that have a knockback effect.
Jump height can now be modified.
Hero Updates
Deadeye
Targets now begin locking on after 0.2 seconds, instead of 0.8 seconds.
Damage accumulated over the first 1.0 seconds increased from 20 to 80 (damage per second after the first 1.0 seconds is unchanged).
Developer Comment: McCree’s ultimate can deal a lot of damage if it has a lot of time to build up, but it was often too difficult to get even a small amount of damage out before being stopped or killed. These changes make it more flexible and powerful.
The Reaping (Passive)
Removed health orbs.
Now regains 20% of all damage done to heroes as health.
Developer Comment: Reaper’s old healing passive was useful if you could kill a bunch of enemies in a row. But since enemies needed to be dead for it to work, it wasn’t very helpful unless the situation was already in your favor. His new passive lets him get immediate benefit from it, especially when fighting Tank heroes, which tend to be larger targets that deal lower damage.
Head hitbox size reduced by 20%
Scrap Gun
Bullet damage decreased by 33%.
Fire rate increased by 30%.
Clip size increased from 4 to 5.
Developer Comment: Roadhog’s head was abnormally large compared to similarly-sized characters, so we’re reducing its size to increase his survivability. The Scrap Gun changes reduce the power of his hook combo and alternate fire burst damage potential while still keeping his DPS roughly the same.
User Interface
A quick summary of each player’s most-played heroes is now available by highlighting the player in the Groups section of the Social menu (statistics displayed will dynamically change based on the mode/ruleset).
A new “All Modes” option has been added to the Career Profile that allows players to view combined stats from all game modes.
A new “All Competitive Seasons” option has been added to the Career Profile that allows players to view combined stats from all Completive Play seasons.
The “Damage Done” statistic has been replaced with “Hero Damage Done” in multiple locations.
A new “Barrier Damage Done” statistic has been added to the Statistics section of the Career Profile, as well as an “All Damage Done” statistic, which combines damage done to barriers and heroes.
Averages are now calculated in 10-minute slices, rather than by the number of games played
“Rate This Match” option no longer appears at the end of a match.
Developer Comment: The new “Hero Damage Done” statistic is the same as the old “Damage Done” statistic, but it doesn’t include damage done to barriers, only damage against heroes and placed objects (e.g. Torbjörn’s turret). That number can be found in the new “Barrier Damage Done” or “All Damage Done” statistics. However, since “Hero Damage Done” and “Barrier Damage Done” are brand new, their averages will only be based on time played since they were added.
Also, the old statistics were calculated by taking total damage inflicted and dividing it by the number of games played. This resulted in an average that didn’t accurately reflect the underlying performance because it didn’t take into account the length of the games. The new averages are calculated in 10-minute slices.
Bug Fixes
General
Fixed an issue causing players to lose progress on their On Fire meter, after the meter had been completely filled.
Arcade
Fixed a bug that could cause the announcer’s “select your hero” voice line to play during the end-of-match screen after Elimination games.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Z’s from appearing above a sleeping enemy during Elimination games.
Competitive Play
Fixed a bug that caused your first win to appear as a loss in your Career Profile.
Custom Games and Game Browser
Fixed a bug that prevented some settings from being properly displayed in the summary when viewing 3v3 Elimination presets.
Clarified an error message that appears when a player attempts to exit the Settings page with an invalid combination of settings.
Fixed a bug that caused the lighting from health packs to appear on Capture the Flag and Elimination maps even after health packs had been disabled.
Fixed a bug that allowed Torbjörn’s Armor Pack ability to function even after being disabled in custom settings.
Heroes
Fixed a bug that prevented players from hearing the voice line that typically accompanies their ultimate if they executed the ultimate after being stunned.
Fixed a bug that could cause D.Va to become stuck if her mech was killed just as she summoned it.
Fixed a bug preventing Genji’s sound effects from playing if he used his primary attack immediately after a Swift Strike.
Fixed a typo in Orisa’s “Satisfied with Protection” voice line.
Fixed a bug that prevented Orisa’s Supercharger from being destroyed if run over by the payload.
Fixed a typo in the description on Roadhog’s Junkenstein skin.
Fixed a bug that allowed enemy players to detect Sombra (while Stealth was active) if they were within a certain distance.
Fixed a bug causing Symmetra’s hair to take on an unnatural appearance when her Vishkar or Architech skins were equipped.
Fixed a bug with how Widowmaker’s Grappling Hook interacts with the flying drones on Oasis.
Maps
Fixed a bug on Volskaya Industries that prevented the ice from appearing broken when players fell off a ledge to their death.
User Interface
Fixed a bug that caused the Heroes of the Storm promotional portraits to appear locked, even after being unlocked.
Fixed a bug that could cause an error message in chat if you attempted to spectate a new player while already spectating another player.
Fixed a bug that could cause the chat window to be placed too high on the main menu, blocking menu options.
Fixed a bug that prevented text from wrapping in the Report Player text box.
Overwatch PTR Patch 1.12 is currently available for download on PC.
