The 3.40 update arrived for Overwatch 2, and here’s the full list of changes and fixes added with this patch. Blizzard supports the game with regular updates, owing to this, it offers players a better gameplay experience. The latest version, which was kicked out a while ago, brings tons of changes to the title. Here’s everything with the new Overwatch 2 update 3.40.

Overwatch 2 Update 3.40 Patch Notes

Overwatch 2 Update 3.40 – General Updates

Competitive Play and Matchmaking

We’re continuing to monitor the health of competitive play and matchmaking across Overwatch 2, both for returning and new players. We’ve made numerous tuning adjustments on the server for both the initial and continued determination of a player’s skill tier and division, many of which will become even more noticeable at the start of Season 2.

We’ve increased the precision of our queue time estimates for each individual role in the role queue.

Defense Matrix

The audio transcription feature has been added with a limited rollout for PC players in select countries. As a piece of our Defense Matrix initiative, audio transcriptions allow us to analyze a transcript from a temporary voice chat recording of a reported player. Players will now see a notification when entering voice chat for the first time during a play session indicating that voice chat may be recorded. Make sure you report as close to when disruptive behavior occurred to maximize this feature’s effectiveness. Once reported, a temporary audio recording will be used to make a text file transcript through speech-to-text programs. No one listens to the temporary audio recording, which is quickly deleted after being transcribed. Transcriptions are only made for reports of disruptive behavior in public voice channels, which include team and match chat—group “party” chat is excluded.

Crossplay and Aim Assist

We made a change to Aim Assist in Crossplay (PC+ Console) lobbies. If you play in a Crossplay game now, Aim Assist is enabled in all matches except Competitive.

In our data, we found many groups were crossplay groups between PC and console players. This meant if you were playing on a console and grouping with players on PC, you were opting into a bad experience for yourself to play with your friends. Also, if you had a group that primarily consoled, but one of your friends was a PC player, you had to leave the PC player out to have a good experience.

We’d like to reiterate—at this point, Aim Assist exists only on console platforms. We’ll be monitoring the deployment of this change carefully and making changes quickly if needed.

Bug Fixes

General

  • PC Only – The Default setting for the audio mix has been changed to “studio reference”
  • Resolved an issue where some players could be stuck in Bronze 5 even after several rank updates
  • Console Only – Fixed an issue where the PC interface was being forced on for some console players
  • Console Only – Fixed a bug on the console where your game could freeze if you opened and closed a Hero cinematic
  • Console Only – Fixed an issue where ‘Capture Highlight’ could not be unbound from Left D-Pad
  • Addressed multiple leaderboard issues causing inaccurate placement and ordering
  • Players who getting healed will no longer see the healing status effect on their screen while they’re in full health
  • Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be placed into an empty game
  • Resolved a bug that prevented players from rejoining their competitive game after being disconnected
  • Fixed a bug where typing in chat could purchase an item from the Hero Gallery
  • The ‘No Name Card’ selection in the Name Card interface is now selectable
  • Fixed a display issue where players were shown the incorrect amount of Overwatch League tokens, which made them unable to purchase items. The display now shows the correct amount of tokens a player owns
  • The ‘Avoid Teammates’ button is no longer hiding behind the Recent Players list
  • Fixed an issue with the Challenge ‘Farsighted’ not correctly tracking and/or completing with the Overwatch 2 update 3.40.
  • Fixed an issue with the Challenge ‘Damage Sponge’ not correctly tracking and/or completing
  • Resolved instances of the player’s screen becoming blurry/out of focus
  • Fixed an issue where some players were missing the Noire Widowmaker skin
  • Various visual improvements to the First Time User Experience
  • Fixed in the last update – Practice bots now show up through walls correctly when you play a healer

Overwatch 2 and the 3.40 update are now available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. For more information regarding this patch, visit the official site.