Just asking, why does the Overwatch Team hide nerfs under "Bug fixes"?

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Also, Mercy boosting Hanzo still gives her the assists and ticks like she’s boosting him. That should be removed if it doesn’t works.

  • You get the damage ticking indication
  • You get offensive assists
  • Mercy shows up assisting in kill-feed
  • Doesn’t actually do anything

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You get ult charge for damage boosting nothing too

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Umm, that’s exactly what it was designed to do as SA was remade to be a more “fair” version of scatter. They’ve already gone on record stating that scatter was designed to be an anti-tank tool, so yeah.

I know this is beside the point you were trying to make but I felt the need to correct you on this.

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I see, I was not aware that was their actual intention, so fair point. Noted :slight_smile:

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That is a load of nonsense and you know it. Whenever you want to add a lot of nerfs to a hero you just put a couple as nerfs and the rest of the nerfs disguised as “bug fixes”. It happened with junkrat, it happened with brigitte and now happening with hanzo. “Fixed a bug cuz we never intended for this hero to do that thing he been doing since launch” yeah right, very smooth, totally didn’t see what you did there.

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You’re right - these aren’t subtle. How did you miss these for all this time?

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Nerver intended? Do you really think ( as a company) that we are idiots?

.Reins shatter for 2 years is an unintended bug,

.Sombra’s MANY MANY bugs for 2 years are unintended

Mercy’s abiltie mechaninc was not a bug tom, and its not because you feel like now that blizzards failures to balance has left 90% of the player base tired of your lies and mediocrity.

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Most of that sounds fishy but at least we can agree on one thing:

Me neither, it’s kind of huge.

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I’m still dreading the day they finally get around to fixing Orisas bug.

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What about the Mei bug caused her losing her ult entirely during the Uprising event in 2017? That was actually a bug which came back later as a legit system for ALL of the heroes. Honestly, this makes no sense AT ALL.

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I could easily see that if Mei ever became meta that Blizzard would make her ult and gun just slow you and say we never intended for Mei to be able to freeze people.

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Sounds like a common misconception

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If the dev response to this post is actually truthful then it’s pretty sad that it has taken them over 2 years to notice and fix that bug for mercy…

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“Oh my god, Mercy’s damage boost damage boosts damage? WTF! Luckily this highly contested Hanzo meta has brought this issue to the forefront!”

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Its better PR to call some things bugs instead of nerfs. You dont need justification to fix bugs.
The Moira thing is at least somewhat believable since it was listed in the known issues forum.

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Ou really. So you guys decided to ignore Mercy’s damage boost bug for 2 years, and are adjusting it now. Bravo with this bug fix.

Also, it’s a nerf not a fix. You cant fool people by saying it’s a bug fix

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Since Mercy’s ability to damage boost Hanzo’s Dragonstrike is a bug, and the exploitation of bugs is considered cheating under Blizzard’s EULA, will you be actioning players who’ve exploited the Mercy/Dragonstrike bug? I think I saw some Overwatch league players using that combo and apparently that should result in them being banned.

Or alternately you can admit that the categorization of this as a bugfix is stupid and we can all move on with our lives.

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If a bug does categorize as cheating, and if OWL players did use it then action should be taken. They announced this was a bug about a few weeks ago so the Pros should have known that using it was illegal, and should have known to not use it in the last few matches.

So it’s time for you guys to take action to those who abused this bug. Also, I used it once or twice.

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Hey Tom Powers, as much as we get your point, you guys should try to understand ours : we are used to these “bugs” and don’t see them as such, so they look like nerfs even if they are bugs to you guys, which makes it kind of offending, we look for heroes changes, then get surprised some stuff aren’t mentioned in the changes…oh right they’re here at the bottom. Y’know, it’s like, signing a new contract with a bank. Sounds similar, again no offense, just trying to have you guys understand us too.

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So much for ptr. How many other characters have they released in a broken state?

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Soon we won’t see nerfs, but only a bug fixes.

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