HechtHeftig wrote:I also installed Overwatch again. I'm really shocked how that game turned out. I haven't played ever since they reworked mercy. And now I get back only to find that symmetra was again reworked, too. My favourite 2 characters... completely raped.
What I don't get is: The auto-aim beam from symmetra was "too powerful" but at the same time they add Moira, who has the exact same beam, just that her range is about 3 times as huge? Now Symmetra's primary is so bad.... if you want to be useful you just need to spam your secondary all day long and hope you hit the enemies. Her turrets were reduced to 3, which is an insane nerf, because when people see there's a symmetra they automatically look around for turrets and kill them in an instant without the turrets dealing any damage. She just feels so aweful to play. From a supportive close-combat character to a rear guard that's only good to distract rather than to actually be actively useful in terms of damage and defense. Most characters haven't changed much, but my 2 favourites had to get reworked of course.
The new maps are quite nice though.
Mercy needed to be reworked. At low-mid-high brackets in comp mercy mains would do nothing but build ult by pocketing a shield tank and hide in a corner waiting for the enemy's grav+nanoblade/hanzo dragon combo to rape the entire team just to mass rez them right afterwards. It was really silly and punished IQ lvl 9999999 team wipe plays by nulifying them. She is still the highest heal output hero in the game, unless youre a crazy good mechanics player and go Ana all the time.
Sym is pretty nice still. Her beam does ridiculous amounts of damage if you can get it all the way up to tier 3 and her beam replenishes ammo if you hit a rein barrier or orisa shield, and her right click rapes offtanks like roadhog and zarya with no bubble. Also being able to throw out your sentries is nice QoL even if you can only set 3 at any time now, you can even use the throw to save your life in some situations (see that widow aiming for your head? throw a sentry at her, she will hit it and not you) , they deal double the damage of the old sym with 6 sentries , which basically means 3 = damage of the old 6 now, you just cover less ground with them, not really a nerf. As for her ult it can be a game changer, unless you have a bastion on the enemy team saying hi. Overall i think she's in a good place right now, even more so that beam damage types got buffed this last patch. You never ever saw any Syms on comp before the change unless it was troll picks or one-tricks anyway, same as old torb. Also, teleport is a regular skill instead of an ult. You can teleport literally everything but projectiles and hitscan through it. You can teleport a dva bomb or junkrat rip-tire though it for example, or a charging Rein. Let that sink in. She's pretty good.