The Overwatch 2 Season 4 patch notes for the upcoming update on April 11 are quite comprehensive. While the official patch notes are not available yet, the community manager for the game has released an extensive preview for the retail Season 4 patch notes for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Since there’s quite a lot to unpack, here’s a condensed breakdown of the major highlights, including the new hero Lifeweaver and other balance changes.
Overwatch 2 Season 4 patch notes details and highlights
These are the most important changes and updates coming with the Overwatch 2 Season 4 patch notes on April 11:
- Lifeweaver – This new hero has a chargeable healing burst, an attack that can fire projectiles in a spread, and can heal all allies within the radius of a tree.
- Stranded Spawn System – Spawn rooms that shut down will now remain active for 7 seconds and you can teleport to the new active spawn room.
- Top 500 Leaderboard Eligibility – Players will now need to win 25 Competitive matches, not just be in 25 matches in general, to enter the Top 500 Leaderboard.
- Competitive Leaver Penalty Changes – A new Competitive season will not reset suspensions and bans anymore. This should stop players from quitting matches at the end of a season without penalty.
- Competitive Point Reward Changes – The amount of CP earned after a Competitive Paly win has been boosted from 15 to 25. CP points earned for being in a final seasonal rank have been increased significantly too.
- Competitive Challenge Titles – Open Queue titles will have “Open Challenger” while Role Queue titles will have just “Challenger”
- Seasonal Rank Decay Removed – A player’s Competitive Rank will not be reduced at the start of a new season anymore.
- Competitive Skill Update and Progression – Players will have clearer stats on their losses, ties, and wins, and see how they have improved even if they do not reach a new skill tier or division.
- Map Pools Disabled – All maps are in rotation now
- Hero Updates
- Reinhardt – Armor health down, base health up
- Sigma – Accretion damage down, knockdown duration up
- Cassidy – Base health down, Magnetic Grenade damage down
- Sombra – EMP disables Blizzard
- Ana – Sleep dart duration reduced on Tank heroes by 30%
- Brigitte – Multiple changes to Rally, Repair Pack range decreased
- Mercy – Caduceus Staff healing increased but does not heal allies under half health, Guardian Angel cooldown reduced, Valkyrie ability does not disable passive healing
- Moira – Fade can be activated during Coalescence, Coalescence movement speed down, Biotic Grasp heal duration up
- Talantis Map – New underwater Talon bae map, playable from April 25 – May 1
- New Workshop Projectiles – Projectile, Homing Projectile, Projectile Effect
For more guides on Overwatch 2, here is the best team composition of heroes this year so far, and an explanation of why players are queueing ahead of you when the servers are down.
