Okay D.va got a pretty substantial buff to the defense matrix duration, but that doesn’t matter, I never once in my life thought “Man, I can’t play d.va because my defense matrix lasts too long”, this doesn’t help anything because d.va’s problem is that within 2 minutes of the match starting over half of the enemy team has swapped to heroes that ignore defense matrix, I don’t care that an ability that does nothing lasting longer. This is not going to make me start playing d.va again, even though she is in my top 5 favorite heroes. In fact, I’ll probably have to play d.va even less because these are global buffs meaning zarya also got buffed which means she can now stand in front of me ignoring all my defenses with 5 seconds of invincibility, basically the equivalent of being suzu’d 10 times consecutively, and there is nothing I can do about it except for ignore the enemy tank the entire game, at which point I’m basically not tanking anymore
It’s not just d.va though, 0 of the tanks got buffs that help them against their hardcounters, while every single tank that is hardcountered by another tank now has to deal with a buffed version of that tank.
I’m really tired of having to take a month break from this game every other month because they keep messing up the midseason patches so colossally and we have to wait until the next season for them to be partially reverted
They are trying to brute force 5v5 into working by superbuffing tanks even more, despite that the issue at hand is that they are too strong when not countered and borderline fodder when countered.
But you cant remove counterpicking from OW either since that is what makes the game’s core experience.
Oh no! You mean to tell me that beta tank on the other side is going to counter me now?! I have never experienced someone dropping their main just to counter my mediocre Reinhardt, this is going to be a first for me… Please be gentle.
And also no tank could be easily counterable by a couple of enemy hero swaps. Dva was designed around having the option of having a co-tank at LEAST.
5v5 could have worked a bit better if they hadnt ALSO giganerfed other defenses that could synergize with the solo tank, like defensive DPS and support heroes.
But this is exactly the reason you can’t play DVa. Her defense matrix is up way too much, which means non-beam heroes have way too much of their damage eaten, leading to the swaps to beams because of frustration. The duration of matrix is the core of the problem.
They should look at how to rework her so matrix doesn’t have to be up somuch and she is not as frustrating for non-beam heroes, and she can survive better against beam heroes.
She relies too heavily on matrix and that is bad for DVa players who don’t like beams.
Sorry did you say something? You don’t play the game and (supposedly) haven’t for a year (yeah right). So why are you here and why would we listen to you with 1 year out-of-date play experience?