I disagree that there’s no decision there. Although you can’t break deflect, there are numerous abilities that goes through deflect or can mitigate it’s effectiveness. Also, unlike Zarya, Genji cannot damage you while deflecting.
Obviously there are the abilities that goes through deflect - Winston cannon, Moira beams, Symmetra, Doomfist’s 3 abilities, Boops, Zarya, Brigitte charge, Junkrat mines, Sombra hack.
But there are also other tactical decisions. For example, although S76 cannot shoot through deflect, he is able to run away, heal or save his rocket to burst down the genji after the deflect. Deflect also gives time for teammates to respond, as Genji can’t really hurt the enemy while deflecting.
As for your comment about “no-cast time,” this also applies to the genji. Let’s forget hitscan for a moment. The median projectile fires at 60m/s in Overwatch. Let’s suppose they’re 1 swift strike distance away from the target - that means the genji has 0.25 seconds of reaction time + latency to react (half of sombra’s hack). From personal experience, this means that the genji needs to anticipate the opponent’s shots just as much as the opponent needs to anticipate deflect.
He can cancel Deflect with Swift Strike, though. So, yes, he absolutely can damage you while Deflecting, not discounting fire from sources other than yourself. I’ve seen players killed by Deflect simply because that person’s teammates were shooting at Deflect. Hell, it’s happened to me a few times.
But that’s beside the point. My point is: Is it fun to have an ability in the game that directly and harshly punishes shooting at and hitting a target; the most fundamental thing in the game?
So they fix a “bug” which make the character “inconsistent” and the other people who actually don’t play that character say “it’s fine and get used to it”.
hmmm~I wonder if this things happened before~
(Sombra crying at the corner while Tracer blinking around her)
yes they have nothing better to do than boosting accounts to show off on forums lol.
they play this game daily. for many many hours. they had played it also long time before the game was even in closed beta stage so yes this is more than sure their developers accounts have such high levels
I’d find you the post where jeff says they fixed it ,but I’m too lazy so have this instead, you can try to find that yourself ,seems like learning how to research will do you good anyways.
My own experiences are my proof when i panic deflect and hit stuff behind a wall or even behind me, but if it never happens to you, then not much i can do.