Congratulations, whiners (RE: Symm Nerfs)

[Twist-11709]

Symmetra didn’t even get to be viable for a month.

(for those who haven’t seen):

Symmetra

Primary Fire

• Beam width lowered from 0.3 meters to 0.15
• Beam DPS per level lowered from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180

[Naz-11562]

I hope they’re beefing up her health and TP since she has to be the biggest sitting duck ever for even longer to get close range kills!

[Wilkham-2393]

No one whine at Symmetra dude, it’s just the devs.
Stop trying to make people fight each others.

[Twist-11709]

No one whine at Symmetra dude, it’s just the devs

Really, so all the threads over the past week were my imagination?

I hope they’re beefing up her health and TP

I sure hope so too. I can’t even believe they lowered the damage of her initial ramp up. If they wanted to take a tiny bit of damage off the high end, fine, but they could have left the first two values intact.

I’ll still play her, of course, but now I’m going to be back to people whining about it.

[Fireboy769-11416]

Wait, what happened?

[polar-12870]

“hi im wilk and i literally close my eyes when the truth is right in front of my face”

while the whining wasnt as bad when compared to brig, people still whined about symm

[Hardrada-11168]

I don’t think it was whiners this time honestly. The community mostly considered the beam heroes to be balanced so this was them basing it off personal experience and stats. I really hope this doesn’t go through

[Wilkham-2393]

Really, so all the threads over the past week were my imagination?

I didn’t see any thread talking about nerfing Symmetra 3.0.
I saw Doomfist, Genji, Hanzo, Widow even Bastion. But never I’ve seen thread about Symmetra 3.0.

Also, I don’t think the devs nerf character based on the people complaining about them on this forums.

[Twist-11709]

what happened?

Symmetra

Primary Fire

• Beam width lowered from 0.3 meters to 0.15
• Beam DPS per level lowered from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180

[Naz-11562]

If I can play launch Symmetra I can play this but good Lord. Why nerf her first two ramps? Is barely over Winston dps really so deadly you had to make her first level do Winston’s DPS but without the AOE and bigger hitbox??? What???

[Guiltycrown-11463]

he lives in a world of alternative facts…

[Twist-11709]

@Wilkham-2393

I didn’t see any thread talking about nerfing Symmetra 3.0.

How is Sym OP when you enable it?

Stop playing double shield every match. Stop picking Sigma every match. Stop feeding the enemy Sym your shields. Pick a dive tank. How do you Feed and throw, then say the Sym is op for taking advantage of your poor comp choices? She’s the only thing that counters double shield and you want her nerfed? Do you even understand your own logic?

Sym is so OP right now

It’s not the teleporter its not the sentries that slow and do 150 damage per sec (if all 3 are hitting you) its not even the massive ultimate 5k barrier that cuts off entire sections of map ( okay maybe kinda that ) It’s her beam – in close combat she is so easily played and with the bug fix and most teams playing double shield atm, or at least zarya w/ her beam just melts teams without much skill involved. I imagine this is less impactful at the highest ELO level though I think I saw Surefour …

Symettra is overbuffed

Go try her yourself, I am not trolling. I know they buffed beams but wasn’t that only against armour? Why is symettra killing faster the 90% of DPS? Playing her last night I just felt bad for my opponents, and I finally understood why I was struggling against her in aim training. She touches a squishy for a literal second and they die from 10 metres out, it’s insane.

Sym, mei, reaper are too strong

Anyone that mains these 3 heroes will tell you flat out that they are climbing comp super fast. Sym gets her ult the fastest in the entire game Reaper has few counters and can win almost any 1 v 1 situation Mei is a goddess,and can 1v 1 the entire roster. She is a hard counter to all dive heroes to the point that they have to all switch or throw. DPS roster is not balanced and needs some serious changes.

Symmetra Beam Buff Too Strong?

Hey all, Just wanted to pass along something that struck me as being drastically different with the newest patch, Symmetra’s damage seems to be significantly higher. I wish I had a video clip, but I was playing the new 2-2-2 role lock last night as Reinhardt and came across the following situation: My team was defending point B on Hanamura with the opposing team pushing from the wooden deck side of the point. The opposing team used Symmetra’s teleporter to jump the gap and was just about to …

Symmetra does too much damage

this “bug fix” made her do insane damage. nerf her

Symmetra is overbuffed now

She can freely move anywhere she wants and on some maps its hugely op to have infinite teleport. Like lijang tower.

Symmetra is super "fun" to play against

I love the fact that she ramps up damage for doing almost nothing, i love the fact that blizzard made her turrets have more health, and most of all, I love that the damage she gets doesn’t go away for a long time. Blizzard you surely have good taste in “fun” game design…

Just from the past two days, I don’t have enough time to go through 1000 more posts.

[Vangel-11432]

I don’t think Devs listen to whiners anyway; not the unreasonable ones anyway. But I would like the know Dev’s reason for her nerf.

[Positive-11139]

An Hero that has an Pick rate less than 1.0 percent gets nerf. Bad balancing at its finest.

[Wilkham-2393]

Oh, there actually people complaining about here, that’s really strange.

[Fireboy769-11416]

…that’s actual bullcrap

[Twist-11709]

actual bullcrap

It is.

As a Symm main who had an account dedicated entirely to her and who has endured the flaming and the toxicity that comes along with playing her, I was so grateful that her beam was finally viable and that I could play her and know I wasn’t going to get screamed at because I’d be in the kill feed.

Now I’m going to be back to desperately trying to maintain my cool as people yell at me for not doing enough damage and demand I switch from my hero of choice, not because I suck at her, but because Blizzard seems determined that Symmetra will never be viable.

I’m not even annoyed about the width change. I have good accuracy with the beam, that doesn’t concern me at all. But the damage change? Unnecessary.

[opak-21652]

Um… The first one is implying the opposite of her being OP, and explain it’s only because the players pick.

The second one Is indeed calling her OP, but with 2 likes, it’s not a popular opinion of this forum. But this forum is indeed special, and luckily the devs knows that.

For the record, i don’t really think the changes where necessary at the moment, but it is funny to see the reaction here.

[Twist-11709]

Um… The first one is implying the opposite of her being OP, and explain it’s only because the players pick.

I’m aware. If you actually READ the thread though, you’ll see all the people whining about her being OP.

And these were not the only threads, they were just the ones most easily available to me in my dropdown because they were threads I actively participated in.

None of this changes the fact that this damage nerf is completely unneeded.

[iffy-21517]

i wish sym “mains” would quit the game and go play something else. she has a high win rate in her niche, you play the game like its an rpg and expect your avatar to be played in every situation. leave the game if you dont like it and dont want to play the game as intended. your constant complaining is super toxic.