Symmetra, Zarya Nerfed in Overwatch PTR Patch Introducing Shared Install

Bastion, Symmetra, Zarya and Sigma received nerfs on Overwatch's Public Test Region (PTR) Thursday.

While Bastion's changes focused on their Self-repair ability, Symmetra, Zarya and Sigma each had their primary fire damage lowered. Sigma was the only of the three Overwatch heroes to also receive a damage buff, which applied to his Accretion ability.

In addition to balance changes, Overwatch PTR Patch 1.40.0.61441 introduced shared install for PTR and base Overwatch clients. This change reduces the disk space required to install and keep updated both clients. Benefitting from the change requires reinstalling the PTR client.

Check out the full list of hero changes below, and the rest of the PTR patch notes here.

Bastion

Self-repair

• Self-repair no longer consumes resource while Bastion is at full health.
• Bastion now correctly initiates .25 sec of recovery time when canceling Self-repair with weapon fire.

Symmetra

Primary Fire

• Beam width lowered from 0.3 meters to 0.15
• Beam DPS per level lowered from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180

Zarya

Primary Fire

• Beam width no longer scales with energy (from 0.1 to 0.2) and is now always 0.15.
• Max Beam DPS lowered from 190 to 170

Sigma

Hyper Spheres

• Explosion damaged reduced from 35 to 30

Experimental Barrier

• Added a toggle option for deploying Sigma’s Experimental Barrier

Accretion

• Explosion damage increased from 50 to 60

Gravitic Flux

• Intro cast time increased from 0.4 seconds to 0.6

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