Clarifications & Insights:
Personal thoughts and philosophies behind how matchmaking works. Although we disabled the "Avoid this Player" functionality, we'll continue to iterate and improve on features that will help players reduce in-game toxicity and harassment.
Why is there no fall damage in Overwatch?
Your BattleTag does not impact your queue times.
Sudden Death and Coin Flip will both launch with Competitive Play. These systems will remain in place for the Summer season, but will be removed in the following Fall season. The "time bank" system will also be added to Escort and Hybrid Maps.
Why does the development team prefer "time bank" to "stopwatch" for competitive match formats?
Roadhog's hook won't have a golden variation at the release of Competitive Play, but it will be gilded in a future patch.
Why can't Soldier: 76's Ultimate (Tactical Visor) headshot targets?
We're already working on new maps. No ETA, but when we release new maps, they'll be patched in for free.
We're always working on new game modes and map types, but many don't make it past the prototyping phase.
Does the development team analyze stats from community tournaments?
Map & Hero Balance:
We're looking to reduce Torbjörn's turret damage on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One only in an upcoming console patch. ETA is mid- to late July (give or take).
We're still keeping an eye on McCree's performance following our first balance patch and will continue to make changes, as needed, to make sure he remains viable.
Suggestions & Feature Requests:
We're working on 21:9 support. ETA is late July (give or take).
When looking at ways to improve Competitive Play in the future, we'll consider adding names like Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum (etc) to skill rating brackets.
We love the idea of letting players enable localized VO for certain heroes (i.e. Widowmaker uses French localization, Reinhardt uses German localization), but we're not sure if it's possible. We're looking into it!
We're very interested in allowing players to gift copies of Overwatch, but it's not a high priority right now.
We're looking at ways to feature "Mystery Heroes" more often, or make it a more permanent fixture.
Bugs & Technical Issues:
We're looking into issues preventing players in the Americas region from being matched into local servers for ANZ, Brazil, and Singapore.
Being able to spam objective call-outs (i.e. "Stop the payload!") is a bug. We're working on a fix for a future patch.
We're looking into "Unexpected Server Error Occurred" reports from the PTR.
The Top 500 icon is not working correctly on the PTR, but it will be fixed for the release of Competitive Play.