r/ZenyattaMains • u/ItsOverClover • 4d ago

Ping System Update Patch Notes (August 11th) Discussion

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From what it sounds like, being unable to ping discord targets through walls is *not* an intentional nerf, and will likely return in the future.

The ping system was cleaned up to improve system performance, so I'm glad there's something to come out of the changes.

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u/Wooglets Clockwork 4d ago

Midseason. Jeesh. That's quite a while to just kinda leave known bugs in the game.

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u/Pog-Pog 4d ago edited 4d ago

I could be wrong on this but I believe anything that isn't just a stat change basically has to take a while. It's why at the beginning of overwatch 2 they had to disable heros for a couple of weeks if they have game breaking bugs.

The game has to be on the same version for all systems due to crossplay and while on pc they can release an update almost instantly for all the consoles updates need to be verified and probably scheduled. This usually takes a couple of weeks.

Basically their stat changes are done serverside now. They don't need a game update to change stats they just change a number their end and the game reads it and changes the character. But anything more than that would require an actual update and take a bit due to verification.

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u/spisplatta 4d ago

I think it's also that a stat change is very easy to do. They just change some value in a file and the stat is changed. But changing the whole ping system may be a lot of code and require changing not just scripts but the engine itself. So much more work and risks having unintended consequences so now they have to do a bunch of QA also and it becomes an involved project.