5/29/2025
Developer Comments: Biotic Field builds have been unpopular and underperforming, so we're adding some additional firepower there. Chaingun has been very prevalent in all types of Weapon Power builds for Soldier, so we're tuning it down a bit to allow for some more variety.
Hunker Down – Power
- Decreased Biotic Field duration to 50% reduced duration (from 70% reduced).
Chaingun - Power
- Decreased Weapon Power per shot to 0.4% (down from 0.5%).
Battery Pack – Rare Ability Hero Item
- Increased Biotic Field Duration to 40% (up from 30%).
Rapid Response Radius – Epic Ability Hero Item
- Increased Biotic Field radius to 40% (up from 30%).
Compression Fatigues – Rare Survival Hero Item
- Removed 5% Attack Speed.
- Added 5% Ability Power.
5/16/2025
Developer comments: Soldier 76's Helix Rocket build is one-shotting a little too consistently. We're decreasing the damage here a bit to reduce the burst potential.
Cratered - Power
- Reduced increased Explosion Damage to 15% (down from 25%)
5/1/2025
Developer Comments: Soldier 76 has been consistently making too much money from damage and healing, allowing him to consistently snowball his lead.
We love that players have been enjoying using Rocket Visor. It's been great to see some players pick up Soldier: 76 who may not have played him much in the past. That said we have always intended for the build centered around Rocket Visor to be a strong accessible build, but not necessarily the build with the highest practical performance ceiling. We've seen that it's overperforming and can feel frustrating to play against. We're hoping to reduce a bit of the power with this change, but we will continue to keep a tactical eye on this build as we move forward with more balance updates.
We felt the payoff for making Biotic Bullseye work was a bit too low to be worth it.
- Reduced the amount of Stadium Cash gained from damage and healing by 12.5%.
Rocket Visor – Power
- Duration reduced to 0.5 seconds (down from 0.75 seconds).
Biotic Bullseye – Power
- Increased ammo restoration to 10% per critical hit (up from 5%).
4/22/2025
Field Emergency
- The description has been changed to "Biotic Field's healing is increased by 100% on Low health targets."
4/1/2025
Developer Comment: Soldier: 76 being the stubborn old soldier that he is says he doesn't need any help and can still outrun anyone on the battlefield.
- Soldier 76 can no longer see allied or enemy health bars. Including his own.
- Passive healing starts faster and heals much faster.
Sprint
- Running speed increased by 100%.
3/25/2025
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Primary fire now uses the larger projectile size (0.07 meters).
3/18/2025
Developer Comments: Reducing Stim Pack's cast time will make it more responsive, allowing use during combat without dramatically affecting shooting uptime.
Stim Pack
- Cast time reduced from 0.4 to 0.15 seconds.
- Stim Pack anti-heal is now cleansable.
2/18/2025
Recycled Pulse Munitions
- Helix Rockets reload 15 ammo if they damage an enemy.
Field Emergency
- Biotic Field's healing is increased by 100% on critical health allies.
Agility Training
- Sprint's speed is increased by 20% and Reload can be performed while Sprint is active.
Stim Pack
- Biotic Field can be used as a Stim Pack, increasing Attack Speed and Reload Speed by 30% while being unhealable for 4 seconds.
12/17/2024
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Damage increased from 19 to 20.
12/10/2024
Developer Comment: Soldier could use a small increase to his effectiveness and with changes to the damage role passive it's a good time to make his Biotic Field more available.
Biotic Field
- Cooldown reduced from 18 to 15 seconds.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Run and gun? Sounds like fun!
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Can now be used during Sprint.
- Using Heavy Pulse Rifle while sprinting has a spread of 2.
2/20/2024
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Now uses the smaller 0.05 meter hitscan projectile size modifier. Total projectile size is now 0.05 meters .
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 250.
12/5/2023
Biotic Field
- Cooldown increased from 15 to 18 seconds.
10/10/2023
- Relative Aim Sensitivity During Tactical Visor – 100% by default.
- Relative Gyro Aim Sensitivity During Tactical Visor – 100% by default (Only available on gyro-supported platforms).
8/10/2023
Developer Comments: Soldier: 76 became much more deadly after his last round of changes so we are reverting the Helix Rocket explosion damage to lower his burst damage. We are also increasing his Tactical Visor ultimate cost to help account for his overall increased damage output, both during the ultimate and leading up to it.
Helix Rocket
- Explosion damage reduced from 90 to 80.
Tactical Visor
- Ultimate cost increased 10%.
7/11/2023
Developer Comments: One of Soldier: 76’s strengths is his reliable damage output, but it hasn’t quite been effective enough after his last round of changes. We’d like to avoid going all the way back up to 20 damage on his primary fire since it has proven too powerful in the past. So instead, we’re adjusting both primary and secondary fire damage slightly. He will also be able to stay in the fight longer and support his team more effectively with extra healing from the Biotic Field.
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Damage increased from 18 to 19.
Helix Rockets
- Explosion damage increased from 80 to 90.
Biotic Field
- Healing per second increased from 35 to 40.
2/7/2023
Developer Comment: This is more an adjustment for the gun feels rather than strictly trying to add power, but it does have an effect on both. It makes the weapon handle more similar to the original version in that you can burst fire more accurately before the recoil kicks in.
Heavy Pulse Rifle
- Number of shots to reach maximum recoil increased from 4 to 6
- Recoil reduced 12%