I don’t know if anyone is gonna read this or really care, I just need to vent. Symmetra is my fave hero by far with lore, look, and old kit. I am very disappointed to play the new Symm, it really does not feel the same at all. I have not had any fun playing her and the rage from my teammates for just playing her now is so bad. RIP my fave hero and RIP me playing overwatch. Can I get a refund?
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You are not alone. Old Sym will be sorely missed. ![:sob:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/sob.png?v=5" ":sob:")
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I feel bad for Symm mains. Their hero was basically deleted.
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New Symmetra makes me very happy. I hardly enjoyed playing her as much as I do now.
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This is what I have been saying for a while. A lot of Sombra mains are complaining right now about the changes to their girl but Sym was changed so much more than that. I still maintain that they should have only tweaked bits of Symmetra’s old kit and saved this rework for an entirely new Hero.
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They need to make it so that the beam damage only resets on reload.
To be fair, I feel bad for Sombra mains too, cos that just wasn’t cool either.
I look forward to feeling bad for Torb mains, cos Blizz aren’t exactly on a roll right now.
In the past 6 months they’ve managed to annoy just about everyone… Rein mains, dive character mains, symm mains, Sombra mains, bastion mains, Mercy mains… it’s like they’re going out of their way to alienate the playerbase.
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I like the new Sym, but a lot of people still consider her a troll pick.
I almost never see beam used tbh. Seems right click spam takes the day since it can basically two shot and AoE at the same time. A fat pharah rocket is what it is!
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I feel the same way OP, I’m a Mercy main but I loved to play Sym on the very rare occasion that I didn’t get a support slot and the new Sym isn’t the same.
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Exactly. The range and the need to stay on target make it impractical to get up to speed, and it’s only really useful at all once it’s lvl 3.
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I don’t get how symmetra mains say they miss old Sym. The issue I had with old Sym and the Sym players was:
While they helped their team on point B on one or 2 maps out of the whole rotation of maps, but are useless in every other map or every other point that is not healthy for the game and also not fair for your teammates, because you decide to play her on offense and defense on every map no matter what refusing to switch.
I never was angry when somebody would choose old symmetra on my team when it made sense. The issue was that these people would choose to Sym on every point on every map and would refuse to switch no matter what even if there was a better hero they can choose to contribute to the team that would make more sense.
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Literally the only complaint I hear is that they liked the need to aim less.
They tried that once remember? It didn’t work. She still had all the same problems as before.
not all symm mains feel this way. we are very much split down the middle about old vs new just like 1.0 vs 2.0 split alot of people.
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I’m pretty much Mega Man at this point. She’s no longer specialize at close range anymore due to being vulnerable. She’s now a long rage hero that happens to have a mini splash damage fire orb.
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YOU AREN’T ALONE BABY! 
I am previous symm’s main as well… They changed her so drastically that she doesn’t feel like the hero i fell in love with. Her game style has diametrically changed that I do not enjoy playing her anymore. Symm seems like a new hero that lives in the skin of another I spent 100h playing old symm and loved her… My issues with the new one are:
- primary fire being useless in 90% situations
- orbs do not pierce barriers (it was great when u played symm on attack on hanamura)
- lack of shield generator
- I loved having 6 turrets, I loved that i could cover point with them. (I am not saying her trowable turrets are bad. They are good, but i prefered having 4 of them, with decreased dmg ofc)
- ult also feels useless, since she is ‘true’ dps now shouldn’t she have dmg ultimate?!
- not being a threat to flanking genjis and tracers on hanamura…
In my opinion New Symmetra is just mediocre and weaker version of junkrat. Both of them nukes enemies with AoE dmg.
Blizz said New Symm is supposed to MELT SHIELDS DOWN
WIth her little range it is not possible. Junkrat melts shields way better than symm. So why should we pick Symm over Junkrat who has in addition lethal ultimate? For me, personally, this rework is not fully thought and total failure. Let’s forget fact that nobody uses symm’s TP, enemies instantly destroys her turrets and she has the lowest win rate than ever before
Why couldn’t they adjust Symm a little bit… And make another hero with those abbilites. Sanjay Korpal (member of Vishkar and secret leader of Talon, Symm’s Boss) Those abbilites would fit him sooo much. He might have similar to symm, since they both are from vishkar vishkar technolog it would be understandable…
(waiting for Symm 4.0)
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Because Symmetra players saw her use in maps that others didn’t. She was better on Attack for Route 66 than Defense for example.
She had more good maps than bad maps. But nobody ever believes that.
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I do agree slightly, instead of getting reworked like other characters, shes not even the same.
Personally, I think new Sym does have potential. I think they just need to get a better feel for her and get some better number tweaks. Making her primary fire should be the first step