So I was playing Fallout New Vegas recently. And in that game, there is a certain design of robots called Eyebots.
And there is also a companion in the game that called ED-E who is also and Eyebot.
So these Eyebots are intelligent robots who also posses laser beams fire, and are very similar to Sym Sentry Turrets, except they can move instead of just being static and glued in one place. They even look kinda similar.
SO:
I thought that maybe it would be an interesting concept of Sym’s turrets could resemble these eyebots a bit more.
Sym could conjure them up and command them to do 1 of 3 things:
hold this position (like the current turrets do)
Chase enemy (If Sym aims for an enemy while pressing shift, they chase, follow and attack the enemy)
guard ally (If Sym aims for an ally and presses shift, for example, an ally Genji or Tracer or an Ana or Zen then the eyebot will follow them around and assist them in their battles until destroyed)
I think this would make Sym’s turrets like 1000 times more effective, original, not to mention that it would slide her a bit more towards the support role that a lot of players want.
Ofc, they might be too strong, so i think having 6 eyebots with lower damage would be better then 3 eyebots with higher damage.
Cool idea, but my concern is that turrets have always been problematic in Overwatch. Once placed, they output a static amount of damage capacity that has no correlation with the player’s skill. This has proven impossible for Blizz to balance.
If a turret is tuned to be reasonable at low tiers, it will be useless at high tiers. If it’s tuned to be reasonable at high tiers, it will be an oppressive hell for lower tier players.
I’ve always believed that Sym needs power stripped away from her turrets and allocated elsewhere in her kit, like to her survivability, which would be beneficial across all ranks. If you change those mobile turrets to mobile personal shield generators though…you can take my money!
Reaper, Mei, Phara, Brig, etc are oppressive af in low elos too, but non of them get as much hate as Sym. The low lvls just need to learn to climb just like all of us did.
Thats why i said 6 instead of 3. They will have much lower damage
That would be too broken i think.
They can be either close range lock on, or they can fire plasma orbs that have a travel time
Plasma orbs sound better than what we have now. It gives them better ability to lock places down, rather than a single choke that even then they struggle at.
I think u r describing kit for a potential new hero tbh.
However, I don’t think they will ever have new ‘builder’ hero’s in the game after the disaster of sym and torb. They’ve definitely learnt their lesson there