Just as Activision Blizzard released a new patch for Overwatch 2 With sweeping changes to a handful of its heroes, one of them has been temporarily banned from competitive play due to a hilarious glitch. The newest support hero, Illari, was retired on January 9th because her buffs were so powerful that she accidentally ended up with infinite ammo.
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Hero Shooter’s 38th playable character has been improved the latest patch, which went live on January 9th. The primary fire charge gain of her weapon, the Solar Rifle, is no longer interrupted when she uses the secondary fire or her ultimate ability, Captive Sun. The weapon’s ammo capacity has also been increased from 14 to 16. Unfortunately, this is exactly where Illari’s buggy problems arise Overwatch 2 Twitch streamer mL7 posted a clip on X/Twitter as the hero’s weapon continuously screams “Brrrrrrrr”.
“So Twitch chat tells me there’s a glitch with Illari right now,” mL7 says as he fires his weapon forever at an enemy tracer. “In which [she] gets infinite ammo.”
As you can see in the clip above, Illari’s mL7 ammo capacity goes into the negative, but he continues firing the rifle without ever stopping to reload the weapon. In a follow-up post on X/Twitter: He shared a picture of Illari’s ammo counter, which hilariously reached -1,000 bullets. Shortly afterwards, Activision Blizzard stepped in and removed the support hero from the game.
At the official Blizzard forums, Overwatch 2 Community manager Kaedi announced that Illari has been temporarily removed so developers can “investigate an issue where her ammo is not resetting properly.” This only affects their eligibility in Competitive Play, the game’s ranked mode for people looking for lobbies to sweat in. So you can choose them in other games too Overwatch 2 Game modes like Quick Play. The team is also investigating some other game issues, including crosshair settings not working properly, career profile data not updating correctly, and the LC-208 error code encountered terrorizing players of the game since at least October 2022. As of this writing, she is still hampered in comp play.
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While hero number 38 sits on the bench – sorry, Illari as the main player – a few others Overwatch 2 The characters have been optimized in the latest update. Mauga’s health has been increased (but his shield has been reduced), Roadhog’s self-healing ability has been nerfed, Sojourn’s railgun charge never drops below 25 percent, and the effect of Ana’s biotic grenade no longer lasts as long. Things are changing. You can check it out: While the newest support hero sits on the sidelines, Blizzard has given her a handful of buffsthe full patch notes below:
Overwatch 2 January 9th patch notes
Hero updates
tank
Mountain
- Base health increased from 250 to 300.
- Base armor reduced from 250 to 200.
Incendiary and volatile chain guns
- Ammo reduced from 350 to 300.
Heart overshoot
- Lifesteal reduced from 70% to 60%.
- Cooldown increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
Cage fight
- No longer grants unlimited ammo. Still reloads Mauga’s chainguns at the start of the ultimate.
Berserk
- The conversion rate for hyperhealth dropped from 60% to 50%.
idol
Augmented Fusion Driver
- Falloff damage penalty removed.
Strengthen
- Now immune to forced critical hit damage. Reinforcement already prevents direct critical damage from headshots.
Traffic hooligan
Take a breath
- Total healing reduced from 500 to 450.
- Cooldown between casts increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds.
Damage
Stay
Railgun
- The gradual energy no longer drops below 25%.
Sombra
Stealth
- The grace period in which stealth can be canceled immediately after entering has been increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds.
- The cooldown now pauses at 1 second while capturing or engaging targets, down from 1.5 seconds.
- Respawn cooldown reduced from 1.5 to 1 second.
Supports
So
Biotic Garnets
- Effect duration reduced from 3.5 to 3 seconds.
Years
Solar rifle
- Primary Fire Charge increase is no longer interrupted by Secondary Fire or Captive Sun channeling.
- Ammo increased from 14 to 16.
Captured sun
- Now fully refills the secondary fire resource and resets the overheat status.
- Sunstruck explosion damage reduction has been removed.
Life weaver
Volley of thorns
- Projectile speed increased from 70 to 80 meters per second.
Petal platform
- Will no longer be pierced by piercing projectiles.
Troubleshooting
Generally
- Fixed a bug that caused the support level to be displayed incorrectly in custom games.
- The volume and clarity of the Ultimate Voice Over lines has been increased.
- Fixed missing multikill voiceovers not activating when the criteria was met.
- Fixed an issue where the Rugby Training challenge was not progressing.
- Fixed a spectating bug that caused the camera to freeze on two team members.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Hero Limit option from being saved after changing it in Custom Game Options.
- Fixed an issue with the crosshair options where point size and outline thickness would change the appearance of the crosshair even if their opacity was set to 0.
- Fixed a crash when watching replays.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from manually entering the maximum queue delay value in the Streamer Protect settings (this value could always be set using the slider).
Heroes
- Fixed a bug that allowed shockwave abilities to hit targets on a floor below.
bastion
- Fixed an issue that caused Bastion’s hitbox to desynchronize in Assault mode.
Doomfist
- Fixed a bug with Rocket Strike that could cause targets in the strike to potentially lose their walking animation.
echo
- Fixed a bug that would occur when an echo that copied Sigma’s kinetic grip would not grow when he took damage.
Years
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Sunstruck effect from exploding if the damage threshold was reached in the last 0.6 seconds of the effect.
compassion
- Fixed an issue that caused Guardian Angel’s active duration to be shortened by canceling the ability while simultaneously pressing Crouch or Jump.
- Fixed an issue that forced Mercy to reload if Valkyrie was activated during the reload animation.
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