Flipping icons is very hard and much desired. During these tough times we need to take all the things we can get!
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His stats aren’t OP at all, that must mean it’s something else. That’s why I think the issue is that his direct dps competition is underpowered, not Hanzo being overpowered anymore.
Hopefully they’ll flip Reinhardt’s icon next patch, it’s really starting to decrease the playerbase.
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They did what exactly to the icon?
Seriously though i’m out of the loop. What is this a-Mei-zing flip you are talking about?
In the hero gallery and kill feed, Roadhog used to face right, now he faces left.
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The dev’s have pretty much stopped caring about the game. Ignoring mercy players and bugs while also recycling events with little new content.
Reminds me of the Cliff translocator bug. The introduced it in the PTR and it got fixed about 1 or 2 weeks later. Never hit live though, yet they praised it as a fixed bug of her.
“Starts rewriting the entire game engine code so that these heroes will work better”
“both get hate for their abilities, changes both, gets less hate but now they are op, nerfs them until they are balanced”
“said we won’t get anything new, and events are meant to be the same, still makes new maps and new events”
People still complain…
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You’re actually borderline brain-washed if you think Blizzard are doing an acceptable job as of late.
Did you play the christmas, year of the dog, or uprising events?
Did you not see them talking about changing the code?
Did they not rework hanzo and mercy?
I’ve played since launch and each event is basically the same.
I’ll give you retribution/uprising/archives but other than that they’re not refreshing and new, they’re stale and boring.
I know the added a new mode for last year’s Christmas event, but it was hot garbage so I forgot about it until now.
Also, did you not see this year’s summer games? Like 20 new items that weren’t player icons. No new mode or anything.
No, I’m interested in what this means. If it’s something blocking them from fixing the collective 100 bugs those heroes I listed have then I’ll let them off, but I severely doubt it.
Perhaps you could provide me with a link?
Yeah, and we all know how those went. 
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New skins and a new map.
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Both are closer to balanced than ever before?
It’s all about the money!
Like I said, only 20 new cosmetics that weren’t player icons.
And really…new map? You sure?
It’s identical to the other two with a different background and VA announcer. It’s hardly new and exciting content. When I loaded into the new map for the first time I genuinely didn’t notice it wasn’t one of the others.
Thanks! You’re right, I’m glad Earthshatter and Reinhardt bugs are being looked into. But what of Doomfist? Symmetra? Sombra? Roadhog? No answers on any of their many bugs.
Yeah, it only took 11 nerfs and Mercy being a must-pick for 9 months of a hellish meta.
And Hanzo out-classing all DPS heroes until very recently since his rework, 4 months ago.
They may be close to, or fine now, but it took disgustingly and unacceptably long.
Flip That Portrait - coming to A&E this fall.
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If you want to balance a game you need to take it slow.
If they had dropped a larger nerf, they would have needed to buff the hero back up.
The problem being that the developers aren’t top 500 players, nor do they know how every single player will play a hero.
They try to balance around the average player.
Honey there’s a difference between slow and 9 damned months.
Wrong. They balance around the top-end and their money-making OWL.
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This is a fairly good point. Midrange DPS is dead and has been for a while. You either want Widow/Hanzo or something that works close range - i.e. a flanker.
Hanzo’s stats are actually pretty deceptively bad right now. He’s among the bottom for win rates across the tiers and other DPS are eating his pickrate up fast now. His kit sounds bonkers on paper but he is still inherently inconsistent and that affects literally everything he can do.
I can wax poetic about McCree and Soldier’s issues for long enough to pass the character limit. None of the solutions I have in mind involve Hanzo at all.
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I just started a topic about it, feel free to swing by. I have know idea how to balance McCree anyway.
Then they would have never nerfed mercy nor hanzo.
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