Quick skim through this thread, seems like no oneâs actually posted the whole interview link yet (itâs a Twitch VOD that YourOverwatch just made a video about on YouTube, note itâs a good 40 min in lengthâwatch starting at 01h33m):
Also, as Geoff noted above: that bit of the interview was not about Winston buffs (thatâs clickbait in the extreme, shame on YourOverwatch) but rather disentangling channeled weapon tick rates and armour damage reduction.
OP, you should really change the title/content of your first post. This is misleading and upsetting the community unnecessarily.
Its not just a problem with brig, its a problem with the overall armor in the game. So, thatâd mean its a problem from the game overall. Dont try to push everything on brig, even if sheâs annoying af.
Please consider editing this bit. The YO video is clickbait and not necessarily representative of the actual Twitch interview.
Most people are picking up on Geoffâs correction that the interview segment wasnât about buffs/nerfs but rather more of a bug fix, tbh⌠but not everyone. Itâs just throwing fuel on the fire.
Winston is my second most played hero and Iâd prefer to see a buff based on survivability rather than damage. His damage is fine but he canât stay alive within the latest patch.
Well this looks really dire for characters who rely on Armor to be a mitigation tool and drives Brigitte to a more useless spot than ever before.
Itâs rather clear now that you Devs donât like Brigitte or you wouldnât have been so hasty and incisive with her nerfing compared to Dive being untouched for a year or 2. What plans do you have for her? Did you realize yet that the main issue of Brigitte was that both Pharah and Junkrat are not valuable enough overall to make their presence relevant? Are you insisting on nerfing Brigitte directly and indirectly? Isnât at this point better to put her on an âUrgent Reworkâ tab instead of having a character simply being useless?
Do you have a source for him working on HOTS balance significantly?
Iâve seen it over and over and might have posted it once or twice myself but, I did a further look a couple days back and he does not seem to have been a significant part of HOTS from what I can dig up.
The people that play HOTS donât seem to have heard of him.
Edit: It appears he was involved with Arthas on HOTS
Huge HotS player here. There was a minor pro team literally named âPlease buff Arthasâ as a meme because Arthas was nerfed to be so laughably bad that⌠It was a meme. Donât like to name names but itâs largely attributed to him. https://liquipedia.net/heroes/Please_Buff_Arthas
Darth, she does not even come close to D. Va. D. Va has been meta ever since season 3 after her rework, before then she was the most useless character. She apart of the long meta, Dive. Zarya would have never been pick during dive. She was is also now apart of GOATS. She been in every single meta and has not been kicked out. So far D. Va has been played in meta for 20+ months, while Zarya has only 10-14 months.
D.Va has been in three metas, only one of which she was part of the starting lineup: GOATS. She wasnât a necessary player of two of these compsâtriple tank (before she was buffed) and GOATSâeither. People say âevery single metaâ and forget we have only had, like, three major ones and two minor ones. All three of the major ones almost necessitated her role regardless of whether or not she was OP: triple tank had three tanks and two had to be off-tanks. There are only three off-tanks so of course she got a spot quite often. Dive was dive. D.Va is the only off-tank built for it and she replaced the original dive off-tank, Zarya. Zarya can work with Winston, but not to the same level as D.Va and especially not without a Lucio to speed boost her. GOATS, again, traditionally requires two off-tanks outside of variations. D.Va and Zarya are the only two viable off-tanks. So of course theyâre both picked. However, with GOATS, D.Va is one of the nonessentials. She can be swapped with Mei or Sombra or another character, whereas GOATS is not GOATS without Zarya, Lucio, and Brigitte.
She was not meta during gravdragonâs minimeta.
Zarya has had a higher:
-pickrate
-winrate
-damage done
-damage blocked
-Obj kills
than D.Va for over six months now.
Furthermore, Zarya has less deaths than D.Vaâs mech has.
She is statistically better, regardless of duration in meta, and has been. She also has the best ult in the game and is enjoying two buffs
Please, as the very least fix the targeting. On Lijiang Tower: Gardens try targeting the upper widow when coming from spawn. It jumps back and forth between window and the walkway. This map is the worst example, but it happens in other places of the game as well. Symmetraâs teleporter does the same thing, likely because it shares the same targeting tech.
I wasnât around at the time. Itâs just what I picked up from hanging around the HotS community for a couple years.