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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by jrockway on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:12AM (#27059743)
The no-crits-while-in-fortify change. Probably just a couple patches ago at this point.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by void_mint on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:49AM (#27059928)
Ah yeah. The Orisa change was actually mostly irrelevant to the meta at the time. The change that actually had an impact was the 2nd of 2 big Hammond nerfs.

At the time, teams were running Hammond/Sigma/Tracer/Echo mostly. Depending on the map, Rush (Rein/Dva/Mei/McCree/Lucio) was also viable. After the change in the patch you referenced, Hammond was no longer optimal so Sigma/Ball stopped being played in favor of almost fulltime Rush.

More recently Double Bubble has become popular (Zarya/Winston), but Rush is still played a ton and the dominant meta.

The patch notes for that patch can be found here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/overwatch-reta...

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