u/LongJohnTbag

This patch they changed the requirements for Hazard's cute spray from dealing 750 damage in a single block to dealing 400 and the difference is insane. This achievement went from borderline impossible to able to complete casually.

Hazard's block does 70dps and uses 40% meter per second which gives him a maximum duration of 2.5 seconds, so previously you'd need to continuously hit 6 players for 1.8 seconds, or 5 players for 2.1 seconds, or the myriads of values and players in-between. 4 players or less isn't enough damage (although 4 is just short so if you had a 5th player slip in for a quarter second or so it'd be just enough).

Now that it's only 400 it's drastically easier. 6 players is 0.9 seconds, 5 players is 1.1, 4 players (which, again, this and any lower number of players would be impossible before) is 1.4, and 3 players is 1.9. Now 2 players are the highest amount outside of the range, and it's not by a lot either, so a 3rd player could be included for a moment and still reasonably hit the requirement.

This effectively halves the ludicrous difficulty from before where'd you'd practically be limited to either stadium block builds or a zarya grav. Now it's reasonable to get this in regular play.

(also lmk if my math is wrong thanks)

It's not mentioned anywhere verbatim as a fixed issue in the patch notes so I'm assuming it's a byproduct of the save system touch ups that they did this patch (that or they just didn't mention it).

To get this achievement you need to prevent 3 deaths with Life Grip in a single life. At some point in all the LW balance changes relating to his grip like cleansing, healing, etc, you could save someone with your grip and have it show up in the scorecard as a save without it counting as 1 of the 3 saves needed for the achievement.

That's seemingly been fixed now, so happy achievement hunting.

The safest bet which I will be very surprised if they stay completely silent about is literally anything related to Doomfist; We know he's alive, he's currently the only hero without a description in the hero gallery, we saw a redesign of him from the mobile game, and if all of that wasn't enough, he's the Overwatch rep on the main promotional art. I'm cautiously optimistic that if the start of this year was anything to go off of, we'll hopefully get a full blown cinematic with all the bells and whistles.

The second safest bet is probably information on all of the reworks in the pipeline. We were told that we'd hear more about them this season, which includes BlizzCon. I believe the only 3 that've been specifically namedropped for being on the cutting board are Lightweaver, Roadhog, and Sombra, but there could be more.

Something that I specifically think we WON'T see is the next hero. At best we'll maybe get a teaser for another teaser, but I'd be very surprised if they showed off the next hero midseason, especially when so far this year, they've all been about a week before the next season starts.

Past those things it's mostly stuff that's either already been announced or isn't super surprising like the le sserafim collab, the overwatch world cup, etc.

This is from the very end of the latest short story, I really hope it doesn't get a lame explanation like "he made another identical one" or "that's how he got the OW2 default".

For a very long time, any kills with Hazard's Ult didn't count as Downpour kills (they'd be counted as regular eliminations instead of Downpour eliminations) making his pixel spray impossible.

That's been fixed, so it's possible again. I checked all of the recent patch notes and this wasn't noted even though this was definitely a recent fix, so I'm posting this FYSA (also I just got it myself :] )

The first image is the edited version I made, and the second image is how it turned out in-game. I think it turned out OK, I never messed with the paintings before, so this was a nice learning experience for me.