I realize that console players may be the minority, especially on the forums, but I hope I can speak my mind on this without getting too much hate. The Zenyatta nerfs are controversial on PC; can you imagine how much they kind of stink on console? Us console players don’t really have much of a voice on how things are nerfed and buffed, but I really hope this update doesn’t go through on console at least.
It’s no secret that aiming is easier on the PC with a KB/M. The best PC players might be able to exploit Zenyatta’s capabilities to his maximum potential (players like JJonak and Ryujehong, or even players that aren’t quite that good), but how the best PC players play one characters on isn’t necessarily how console players use that character. Zenyatta is already very difficult to use on console and isn’t nearly as dominant as he is on PC.
I hope someone can empathize with me a little. Blizzard once said that they will balance PC and console separately, but the times that this has happened have been a bit of outliers. Can us console players get a bone thrown at us and not have this nerf pushed upon us?
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They’re only controversial because people like to overreact. It doesn’t affect his healing, doesn’t affect his raw damage, doesn’t effect his ultimate, and it doesn’t affect his discord.
All it does is mean you aren’t instantly dead from a charged Zen shot, even when you’re moving left or right. Before if one ball in the barrage hit you it meant you were dead. But if a person is unaware, like a Widow scoped-in and not looking at Zen, they’re still dead now.
Of course console has a say, they do listen. They gave us an exclusive Ana ally heal aim assist after all.
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I’ve been seeing people talking about these nerfs but what even got nerfed about his volley?
The volley rate of fire has been reduced. In other words there is now more spread if your reticul is moving. The further the target, the more spread.
Ah I see thanks for the explanation
Don’t worry, PC players don’t get a say either. Blizz just do as they please.
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MY only problem is on console now. Im gonna have much harder time sniping down pharah. For some odd reason zen is one of my best counters to pharah
The issue I think stems from the overwatch league, nerfing a hero because of what OWL players can do with it isn’t really great for the average joe in comp
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Yet we don’t have anything competitive on Consoles.
So balance console and computer differently !
I feel the issue there is they would need to bring in a whole other dev team just to do that specifically, it would take a lot out of the team for them to separately look at both at the same time. I mean, how long have we been waiting on hanzo sym rework that will change on both platforms now?