This is not a post comparing Sym 2.0 and 3.0 or even asking for it back.
I just suddenly remembered Shield Generator and I miss it.
EDIT: OK, I’ll be very clear. I am NOT asking for changes to Symmetra. I was just thinking about her old ultimate. That is all.
Please… for the love of all that is right - let this go. These kinds of posts are treading very close to just being spam quite honestly.
Uh… Did you read the first sentence?
I explicitly stated I’m not asking for Sym changes.
I was just remembering good times.
I don’t miss it.
That thing was annoying as hell.
I get the feeling they have a shield generator
I liked it, I used Sym then, it was just a problem in the game that had to go. But even thinking now about it and raising the topic is … spammy.
me too omg idk why but i ONLY EVER used the shield gen i was so connected to it
Never reminisce, kids. You’re not allowed to talk about the things you miss. /s
And its still spammy 
Because it concerns Symmetra? Am I just not allowed to talk about her at all?
NO THANKS.
I am so done with shield generators.
I single-handedly sought out and destroyed over 600 Shield Generators during the entire existence of Symmetra 2.0—and that hundreds more destroyed than any other player ever bothered to. I even looked up every high level player I could find and looked up their profile stats for generators destroyed before Blizzard removed those stats.
LOL - from someone who loves the character, no. But raising topics about dead mechanics that are never coming back… its just pointless now. We endured two years of Mercy mains humiliating themselves with threats, please and attitude over Mass Rez, I would hope Sym mains could hold themselves to a higher standard.
I don’t miss it… because when Symm was definding (point, payload etc.) the first thing you had to do was finding this Shield Gen… otherwise as an attacker you had not rly a chance to win.
As attacker you played basically on 2 targets while still dealing with the enemy team.
Just my thoughts.
Its never coming back, I guarantee you. Jeff and I were having drinks one night and when I asked he looked at me and laughed for three minutes straight so hard his drink came out of his nose. He gets great pleasure out of watching people go on about dead mechanics actually, he and Geoff high-five in the hallways and laugh with “How about that Shield Generator Geoff” and in turn “I think its in the next patch Jeff”. Then they both laugh.
I get that Shield Gen is never coming back but I can still miss it and talk about it. It’s not spam just because it’s gone.
This a forum to discuss Overwatch and that’s exactly what I’m doing. If you don’t want to think about Overwatch’s past, then by all means don’t, but don’t come into a thread you consider “Pointless” just to spit in someone’s face.
I liked the skill, but I can see why they got rid of it. A permanent and potential 450 extra HP over your entire team has a lot of potential for being too good, plus there were a lot of maps where the skill just wasn’t great because there weren’t any good hiding places for it. It was wildly inconsistent.
I think I’d rather them rework her original E skill into a support character. Like maybe instead of giving 25/50 whatever extra shield to a single character permanently, she gives 100 (or however much) shield for like 2-3 seconds to a single target, to combat burst damage. Plus a healing mechanic.
Junkrat also misses it
Man I miss it as well. Shield generator was something almost every Symmetra main liked. I would love for it to come back as a passive ability for Symmetra
Shield gen and thiccmetra was strong, but shield generator was pretty darn OP. Will be missed ofc because current symmetra is so horrifically bad that I will always miss her viability days.
Sym 2.0 got removed at a terrible time. Her kit would have been a very strong counter to the double shield meta and probably would have allowed shield tanks to be individually strong. Yes I know that the new left click is better versus shields but everything else specifically old alternate fire would be good versus the double shield meta.