I really hope they don’t mean the next support can drag teammates to them or something,that’s certainly not exciting
Very glad they’re doing something about this
Yeah right like the main sub is better lol
I am chill. I am saying, it’s an AMA. It’s one thing if he doesn’t know the answer to a question, but it’s certainly something he is capable of answering, even if it’s just an informed opinion.
Great post, thank you so much for saving us the hassle. One thing I find contradictory is the answer to Pharah. Of course someone replies with bias but they dont wanna remove what players like or find fun about her? Hmm kinda like they did to another hero? I swear this game is a love/hate relationship lmao. Again great work on the post.
University is the only good one
Ok this is going incredibly slow. Some of the devs didn’t answer anything for like a hour now. I guess they are still having technical issues. Why reddit had to fail now? Why?
It’d also be annoying.
“Ahahaha, I’ve got you pinned enemy Ana!” * poof * “Ah, enemy Ana is alive and I am back behind my Rein. Wonderful.”
@Baja Thank you for the summary thread! I greatly appreciate it.
One of the core pillars we have when developing a new hero is Counterplay in Mind. Heroes should have clear strengths and weaknesses as well as space for situational upside.
HAHAHA
could also be something they might have answered in something else they might publish later…like a future blog post perhaps
in any case i havent seen any more responses in the last few minutes
But the dev literally said " we’ll cover the Mercy questions in another reply"
They didn’t ignore the question. They didn’t imply that they wouldn’t answer questions about Mercy. But simply that they will reply on the topic of Mercy in another question.
There are so many questions in this thread.
Edit: 13:00 PST - we’re still having some folks unable to post their responses. We’ll keep trying to post them later today. Apologies that our AuAA was impacted by the reddit outages. Really unfortunate timing.
so that was posted 30 mins ago…not sure when “later today” is…ill check back later and ill add if anything
they are planning their answer very carefully and they want to give a strategic reply.
Which i fully understand considering how easy it is to poke the beehive. (heh, get it, cause she got a bee skin)
Anyone ask them anything involving dookie doodoo push?
I would very much like them to make changes to it or remove it. Hate it far more than I ever hated 2cp.
Still no answer about DF
What did you mean by
"[Generally speaking we have plenty of players in all of the roles at almost all ranks](https://i.imgur.com/kjRWKpw.png)"?
Since there’s certainly some sort of scarcity going on, which the matchmaker is heavily compensating for.
Is it something along the lines of:
- Scenario A. An abundance of Gold/Silver Support players, but not enough for Plat and above.
- Scenario B. Enough players per role, but substantially different playtime per role.
**Gavin - (Systems Designer - Blizzard) — **
Feels like the community isn’t really aware of what the “root cause(s)” of these matchmaking issues are.
Neither A or B. Our wider matches aren’t because of any type of scarcity, they’re because the criteria we use to reject candidates are currently a bit too simple. We’re adding additional tuning knobs to correct this issue soon.
To all the people who have been saying there aren’t enough support players & that we need to make balance changes to fix that
and
This includes you Grey!
The devs continue to ignore the questions asked to Mercy, what a novelty.
This includes you Grey!
Yes, I’m aware of the question that was asked. I happen to personally know the guy who asked the question.
Yes, I’m aware of the question that was asked. I happen to personally know the guy who asked the question.
Just making sure you saw that considering how much you’ve been talking about totally rebalancing the game because you were under the assumption that there weren’t enough support players, and I’ve been telling you for months that that’s a horrible idea.
can you relax, you’re so overdramatic.