Overwatch- After 2 long years, Symmetra is finally good.
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I guess stray bullets are the official licensed counter to Widow
Update has left me mixed because as a Mercy main I'm going: "Noooo" but also as a very vocal lover of Mei I'm also going: "Yeeess"
I'm so torn...
I feel like the next Mercy Nerf is just gonna remove her from the game because they keep finding something new to nerf on her. The final solution.
Removing Mercy? She would still find a way to worm herself to must-pick after so many fucking massive nerfs in a row
Its almost as if Resurrection isnt a good mechanic for a FPS game.
I said it before as a joke but now I'm actually getting worried they are balancing the game based on who doesn't get picked in the OWL.
God I fucking hate hammond's ult. Oh you're trying to contest the cart on defence? Tough shit now you have to run away and focus fire on these little balls instead of the enemy.
A great hero to clean up those mines is Symmetra. Her turrets deal 50 DPS and those mines have 50 HP each. Combined with their perfect aim, three well places turrets can clean up the entire mine field in 5 seconds.
Alternatively, Rein with a full shield can just walk through them as a minesweeper. Each mine deals 130 damage and Wrecking Ball deploys 15 of them for a total of 1950 damage.
Depends on the game. FPS as it is now is a gigantic spectrum. I'd agree if this was Quake or Counter-Strike. Overwatch is closer to Left 4 Dead VS Mode than either of those.
resurrect is a lot better now than it used to be.
Less of "putting all of your eggs in 1 basket" sort of thing
Here's how you improve Mercy: Make her the TF2 Medic
Make her ultimate a single target invulnerability to whoever is connected to her beam for 8 seconds (and lingers for 2 seconds after disconnected from beam)
ALTERNATIVELY: partial invulnerability ultimate that targets a group of people and herself from the brink of death, can still be damaged but can never go under 1 HP.
Make the beam heal less when your patient is in combat, but if they have been outside of combat for 8 seconds healing is ramped up significantly higher to encourage falling back
Make E ability emergency boost to either healing or damage beams that's on a 15 second cool down
The thing is is that her res is just too invaluable. They can decrease her hps all they like but as long as she is able to bring a player back up she will always be a necessary pick.
I don’t think targeted invuln ults could work at all for this game. A nanobladed Genji that’s unkillable for the entire duration of his ult with 2 seconds to spare sounds like it’d be worse than any of the brainless “ult combo to win” metas we’ve had in the past by a long shot. Even if you shorten the duration so that some combos aren’t blatantly bs then it’ll become way too short and situational for an ultimate. There’s enough differences between the two games (losing Uber on death being the big one in this case) that I think if you were to directly port mechanics for characters over, it would just end up lost in translation. Closed beta Torb being a good example
The amount of times I see people suggest Blizzard just copy shit from TF2 I wonder why people aren't just playing TF2 instead.
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/07/24/why-blizzard-added-a-hamster-in-a-mech-to-overwatch/
And that’s the thing about Wrecking Ball—we knew that he was going to be a somewhat polarizing figure. We wanted him to be polarizing. I think you fail in both directions if people just hate something. But if everyone just loves a character and thinks they’re perfect? Well, nothing is ever perfect. You want that dichotomy between people saying, “Oh this is too far,” and others saying, “This is amazing!” We wanted that push and pull, that passion on both ends of the spectrum.
Sometimes the polarization happens on the gameplay side, and sometimes it’s over a character’s personality. We knew we were pushing things, but we wanted to see where the limit was—how far we could push things, how much we could get people talking, while also putting together a really fun character with great new gameplay that all worked as one cohesive unit.
You might be on to something here.
I'm personally fine with her Rez in its current state, but something that could please people would be getting rid of the full HP ressurection, and instead revive them with only 50 HP or something like that.
That way Mercy has to be even more cautious when she want to Rez someone, and has to keep an eye on her patient for a couple of seconds afterwards and work together with her team (second healer, tank to protect them) before the revived player is fully ready to participate in the battle again.
Ok so now they are getting delusional too
They added a hamster to fuck with the tumblr fanbase who desperately want a black woman hero.
And yet, ever since the change to res Mercy has been dominant in the meta.
Before hand, it was annoying yes but it was really linear and predictable.
And ever since this happened they've been nerfing mercy left and right trying to validate this abilities existence, making mercy more and more boring each patch.
I take it as "We added a hamster to fuck with the userbase to get a combination of free ads from websites saying 'Hey look a hamster in Overwatch- and why that's a great thing' and corner the cute market to sell plushes"
Let me apologize in advance if I'm making a mistake here, Oizen, but weren't you among the many, far too many people here who seconded everything the developers did to Mercy for a while 'cause "Hey guys, did you remember Mass Ress? What a fucking broken ulti that was, am I right? Everything is better than that"
Let me clarify.
Mass Res was cancer
Everything that happened to mercy because of it, was more cancer and has made me realize that I was a fool for my previous beliefs.
Quite literally a monkey's paw situation.
Winston melts through the lil mines, easy minesweeper achievement too.
https://youtu.be/ZYbETSNDplw
excuse my voice but
i stopped so much shit right there
I really like this idea. Could make pretty great synergi with Lucio. Well placed amp up to heal rest of team while Mercy rezes, bopping enemies that try to attack during the rez etc.
Jesus that thumbnail.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244047/f0b60966-a04c-4680-9ee2-c9a13a5da591/image.png
Man there's no way they couldn't have gotten someone more interesting and worth their money
You can just be Reinhardt and sweep them with your hammer before they even activate.
Overwatch- After 2 long years, Symmetra is finally good.
