11521

Totally legit planned changes that did not make it into the PTR

Spoiler
  • Doomfist: Rocket Punch only does damage when opponent hits a wall, wall splat damage unchanged
  • Pharah: Fuel gauge consumption doubled, Rocket Jump cooldown reduced by 2 seconds
  • Soldier 76: Bullet damage increased to 19.9
  • Tracer: Recall is now a passive ability that activates when Tracer is reduced to 0 HP
  • Hanzo: Scatter Arrow removed, replaced with a melee karate chop that instakills opponents
  • Mei: All instances of freezing are replaced with a slow effect, Ice Block healing halved, Ice Block is now treated as a 600HP object that can be broken open
  • Reinhardt: Barrier HP halved, is no longer slowed while blocking
  • Winston: Tesla Cannon is now a beam like Zarya’s Particle Beam, tracking only occurs within a very small radius from the beam
  • Symmetra: Primary fire removed, replaced with her secondary fire which now travels faster
11522

Blizzard trying hard to ruin this game.

11523

I hope so, because a reduction in Matrix time should probably just be 20% or 30% max instead of 50%. However, I worry that they might simply change it so that Matrix has a set number of HP Damage that it can absorb before it does away and gets reset.

11524

They turned Mercy into the chopper gunner killstreak from MW2!!

LOL!!

11525

Mercy’s ult is totally fucking retarded right now. She flies and recovers health so fast she’s practically unkillable unless you somehow manage to land a headshot with Hanzo/Widow on this battle monster. I tried twice to ult her with Hog and I couldn’t kill her. And good luck trying to kill people that get chain healed by her.
On the other hand, Hog is finally a good counter to D.va again right now, but the fact that you can basically kill two squishies every 8 seconds with her is a little scary.

edit: new D.va is damn fun to play. Although she charges ult so fast with hidden missiles I have bomb almost every fight.

11526

PTR keeps crashing on me. The universe is keeping me away from the new Mercy.

11527

It just happened to me too.

11528

People were complaining about too many Mercy POTG’s, so I imagine DPS players getting salty AF seeing Mercy steal their spotlight literally blasting people like Bayonetta.

11529

Mercy seems sweet now. It’s like when they changed Lucio, they actually made her interesting. Lucio’s problem was his near full map heals made the rest of his kit weak, they adjusted him and now his wall rides and gun is satisfying. Mercy is the same, weaker kit because of rez but now she’s been adjusted and made more fun to play.

I actually like the D.va changes as well. D.va is my third most played character. The way they’ve adjusted her, her role is more of a bruiser now. She’s much better in 1 on 1s but less of a main tank. That’s fine though as it makes Orissa more useful.

11530

I think the new Mercy changes could be interesting, but I don’t like Blizzard’s philosophy of turning every character into a quasi-DPS and the very obvious mobility creep that’s happening with this game. Mercy is now the hard counter to 1-shot abilities (just res them), and the ult is currently ridiculous: on paper it sounds like Molten Core+Transcendence, which means it will be used as a panic ult when someone attacks you 110% of the time. I think the stuff with her passive and her gun shouldn’t be part of the ult. The mobility, cooldown reduction, and extra healing are enough. As far as impact on the game is concerned, the res change is a pretty big deal for surprise kill heroes (snipers, Roadhog) and characters that take a long time to win even the duels they’re favored in (Sombra, Mei). Even if you kill several heroes quickly, Mercy can still rez, ult, then rez again.

If we’re getting multiple hero overhauls in the near future (which was implied by Jeff’s video), I hope they address Mei. She’s in a weird spot right now because she doesn’t have the CC to fight mobile characters and can’t kill tanks outside of a 1v1 because of her damage output, on top of having poor mobility/range to threaten squishies. The saving grace of her kit in earlier seasons was her wall, but dive seems to completely invalidate the strategy of cutting off choke points. It would be so cool if she could shoot the ground and skate on the ice (which she actually does in a highlight intro) or she could block movement abilities partway through freezing someone.

11531

She’s not just a bruiser, she’s basically a fat Genji now. If you rush towards people with missiles + shooting + melee combo you can easily kill TWO squishies in a row.
Honestly the more I play her the more I think the change is dumb. Dive will be 99% worse with that as there’s literally nothing to soak her damage (since, you know, matrix has been nerfed) unless you’re Roadhog. For the first time I’m really thinking of quitting OW…

11532

Always funny to see the majority of one tricks in Blizzard games being mega allergic to reworks.

Need blue post source on these

11533

Seen Valkyrie at work for the first time.

Apparently they needed a new ult, so they just gave Mercy Level 3 X-Factor.

11534

Like someone said earlier.They basically made her the gunship from COD black ops with her ult. Or more like The osprey from MW3 since she can provide huge support while raining death

11535

I approve of this.

She needs a new skin with flaming wings. Because she (or more precisely Blizz) can’t control it.

11536

You literally can’t control her while ulting. She moves so fast it becomes hard to even aim.
A comparison with amped up Lucio and stealth Sombra:


11537

People can actually aim on console you know. They’re incredibly accurate above certain ranks.

11538

Funny he posts that, when there’s footage a few posts above showing someone who can aim wrecking shop with her.

EDIT: More lvl3 XF Mercy.

EDIT: Looks like they’re already planning to nerf it.

11539

Well the rate of fire is so high that even without good aiming you will kill stuff, but that will be nerfed soon.

11540

Just because some of you guys can’t aim doesn’t mean people can’t aim on console. Ever seen MLG CoD? Or GBs? Controllers. A huge amount of people use mouse and keyboard on PlayStation as well. It’s not as responsive as PC but you have aim assist.

I have the game on PC and PS4. I mostly play on PS4 because my friends do. Scrubs are scrubs on both systems and top DPS players are crazy accurate on both systems.