All April Fools’ Day Overwatch 2 Hero Changes
All hero changes highlighted in the April Fools’ Day patch notes are exclusive to the limited-time Balanced Overwatch Arcade mode, with the exception of googly eyes and alternate voice lines.
Balanced Overwatch runs from April 1 – April 9, 2024, giving you a whole week to earn the brand new Sprays designed by the brilliant Megabubu.
All Heroes / Miscellaneous Changes
- All heroes have alternate Ultimate voice lines. (Including regular game modes)
- All heroes have googly eyes. (Including regular game modes)
- Payload and certain other objectives have googly eyes. (Including regular game modes)
- Maximum Ultimate charge between heroes is increased from 15% to 49%.
- 17 new Sprays can be earned through Challenges.
All April Fools’ Tank Changes
D.va
Boosters
- Can move backwards.
- Can be cancelled by crouching.
- Canceling the ability within 0.4 seconds reduces the cooldown to 1.5 seconds.
Self Destruct (Ultimate)
- Knockback increased by 900%.
Doomfist
- Power Block and Meteor Strike empowers Quick Melee.
Power Block
- Movement Speed Modifier increased to 1.25x from 0.65x.
Junker Queen
Jagged Blade
- Pressing Secondary Fire while Jagged Blade is active pulls Junker Queen to Gracie, rather than the other way around.
- Cooldown starts when the blade returns to Junker Queen.
- Cooldown decreased to 4 seconds from 6.
Mauga
- Health decreased to 25 from 350.
- Mauga is 50% smaller.
Incendiary Chain Gun
- Hitting enemies who are “On Fire” will cause them to Ignite.
Orisa
Energy Javelin
- Richochets once when thrown.
- Explodes when stuck.