It's time to give D.Va 15m matrix back

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And lets give Ana a 2nd charge to her anti nade while we at it :+1:

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I don’t think D.Va needs 15m. 12 would be fine, and actually fixing DM so allies inside of the DM can’t be shot would help. Right now, though, it’s buggy, and no amount of range is gonna matter if shots are still landing through the DM.

She has 4 seconds on her boosters now, and she didn’t have that before. She also can one-shot squishes when remeching, that she also couldn’t do before.

IMO, the entire way DM works should be changed to reward players for proper usage. Bubbles give Zarya a buff when used properly, Grasps gives Sigma a buff, but DM doesn’t really do anything for D.Va - that needs to change. But 15m on DM isn’t necessary. But doing something like making her resource meter charge faster based on how much damage she’s eaten would be better. The solution is to stop feeding into it – like Sigma.

D.Va’s gonna be really important, dealing with Junkrat, though.

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I’m going to say this. The shorter DM is buggier. I don’t know if cutting the range introduced bugs or having a longer range prevented them from manifesting as much but I can not count the number of times people have died while I have DM on them and they didn’t before. I have talked to other Dva players and we have all noticed for instance, a marked increase in the DM just not working since they took it from 15m to 10. Like hog shots or Moira balls will just not immediately disappear but sometimes last a second or manage to kill somebody before you delete them. And this is well within the cone. The 15m version was a lot more reliable.

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Lol I feel like Dva should be the only hero with nerfs in OWL. Her kit when used by pros is ridiculous but by normal players is meh - good right now

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blizz pls read this forum and give 15m ty

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No

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I’m not a Dva main but I always notice this when I play her, especially with dynamite or Moira balls like you mentioned. I can literally track the ball or dynamite perfectly and it never goes away. Sometimes I try swiping back and forth over it and eventually it does get eaten. It feels awful to use.

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Nah because matrix is oppressive and dps breaking the game is not, apparently.

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Yep. 100% DM at 15 meters wasn’t nearly as buggy as the 10 meter version.

Almost makes me wonder if they changed the entire code from the ground up when 10 meters came out. That or the game simply functions better with registration that’s in a bigger hit box compared to a small one. In theory that shouldn’t be the case, but we’ve seen over and over how messed up dm is. It’s so unreliable that I opt to use it for myself far more than I used to.

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there is a very fair argument for dva being the best tank atm

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im so dumb i thought you meant 15 minutes

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Best supporting tank, yes, but she’s no replacement for Reinhardt.

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I absolutely think the devs should give D.Va her 15m matrix back. It was way less buggy and much more fun to play.

You can give her back an extra second of cooldown to her boosters if necessary.

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I have a theory that for the nerf, Blizz 1:1 scaled down the matrix’s entire geometric (column) shape by 33%, not just a shortening of the length. Would easily explain why so much stuff gets past it even when used 100% correctly.

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no way you just said take away missles…