This isn’t a serious game conversation, I was just curious if anyone preferred the old barriers more. I personally did and I wanted to see if anyone shared that opinion. Have a good day and stay healthy.
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I personally didn’t play with them wish sigma had more barrier health
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No. Shoot-the-rectangle was a boring game, I’d rather play Overwatch.
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I miss the version of the game where one or more barriers weren’t a requirement for winning. Unfortunately, powercreep is a thing.
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Ah yes. Sigma/Orisa/Reaper/Doom/Zen/Moira. Certainly a time that was. I reached career SR highs for some reason.
I sure don’t. Team fights lasted years and were most of the time both teams taking pot shots at each other until someone gets a lucky pick
I’m shooting enough rein shield as it is whenever I’m playing soldier, I might as well be playing shield shooting simulator, no thanks.
Strangely enough despite playing tank all the time, I actually don’t miss stronger barriers at all. With weaker shields I now have incentive to move around and attack more often instead of just waiting behind a shield, which is a lot more fun.
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Nah, I like things how they are now.
Only a bit on Orisa actually. Otherwise, no. And honestly, I think that I’d rather have a stronger fortify than a stronger barrier when I play her anyway.
Yes and no. Yes it actually meant your felt like some kind of thought went into a push. That you had an obvious goal to either destroy the enemy barrier or go around it. Now most fights are just a free for all with little cover.
But the worst of barriers being nerfed into the ground is Ultimates. Barriers are the only way to really stop dmg without feeding the enemy Ult charge. This means you can quite often see a hanzo or Junk ult every minute or two. Q spam is real with no barriers on your team.
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Heck no. I would prefer to shoot players instead of shooting red rectangles for 5 minutes before I get a chance to shoot players for 1 second, which if I did somehow manage to pick off, would either get immortalized by Bap just before or rezzed by Mercy after.
No thank you.
That argument really makes no sense though because if their shields are stopping you from getting your ultimates, then your shields are stopping them from getting their ultimates.
222 is what made this game UltimateWatch due to the fact that tanks undeniably have the best ultimates in the game. And with 2 tanks and 2 healers every game, everyone is too survivable to kill them consistently without ultimates.
I miss Sigma and Orisa being playable in one sense or another.
Well, not really Sigma, he’s a badly designed trainwreck and the game would be better off without him. But I miss Orisa.
I want Orisa and Sigma to be viable main tanks, without making DoubleBarrier be too strong.
Yes, i prefered to be defending tank not being forced to be dps tank or hide half game.
I moved off tanks lately… because im no longer interested in that role.
I’ve been playing a lot more Zarya lately because feel like I can do more in the off tank role.
I dont like zarya myself, played her only when someone before me picked rein. And that not always also.
the only thing I miss is 2 month wasted in season 18 w/o playing ow