No shield tanks in Overwatch 2 on defence like Kings Row?

[GreyFalcon-11737]

@YOURFRIEND-1420

I wish I shared your confidence that what they’re trying to do will actually work and will result in an eventuality that has not existed for the entire life of the game.

Well I’m still working on the design/formatting, but here’s something more like what I got in mind.

A balance patch like that, would be relatively simple to balance Tanks, because all of them have a barrier-like ability of some sort, self sustain, self peel, and firepower.

SUMMARY

• GENERAL - Explosives splash damage can’t be damage boosted.
• ANA - Less anti-tank CC
• BRIG - Frontline brawler instead of backline CC-bot
• MERCY - Minor buffs all around, because it’s less power in damage boost, and every healer gets regen passive
• ZARYA - 2x bubbles like April fools patch, but also the bubbles fall off and become miniature Winston bubbles.

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• Explosives splash damage can’t be damage boosted.

Comment: *Lowers the annoyance factor from Explosives spam (I.e. PharMercy spamming at range). Small buffs can be given to affected players if needed.

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Regeneration (Role Passive)

• After 3 seconds out of combat, all healers self-heal at a rate of 15hps

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ANA

GOAL: The goal here is to take some power out some of the most powerful "MOBA" Anti-Tank abilities in the game, to make the game more appealing to Tank players. Ana also typically was greatly limited by a lack of selfheal, and blocked out by barrier spam. And that's going to change. She also currently accounts for roughly 1/3rd of all Healer picks.

Sleep Dart

• Minimum duration reduced to 0.5sec, down from 1.5sec

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Biotic Grenade

• Anti-Healing effect reduced to -50%, instead of -100%
• Slows enemy movement by 30% (giving Ana a relative 1.43x speed advantage)

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BRIGITTE

GOAL: Makes Brig into a mobile frontline brawler, who heals with inspire whenever she's doing damage. Instead of a backline CC-bot. Should make Brig substantially more popular in lower ELOs, and less of an "anti-fun" pick for high tier.

General

• Health increased to 200hp+50armor
• Self-Heal Passive, similar to Mercy

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Barrier Shield

• BarrierHP increased to 400 up from 250.
• Movement penalty reduced to 10%, down from 30%.

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Whipshot

• Whipshot on an enemy = Instant refresh of her ShieldBash cooldown, and activates inspire

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ShieldBash

• No stun
• Damage increased to 35, up from 5
• Can travel through enemy barriers

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RepairPack

• Cannot travel through enemy barriers, matrix or kinetic grasp.
• Heals 130 over 4 seconds, instead of 110 over 2 seconds

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MERCY

GOAL: Damage boost is getting weaker and Regeneration is availible to all healers. So Mercy needs buffs. So here's some basic buffs to heals, Blaster and

Caduceus Staff

• 20hps lingering heal after healing a player for 3sec (Does not stack with being healed)

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Caduceus Blaster

• 0.2sec weapon switch time between Blaster and Staff, down from 1.5sec

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Ressurectiuon

• 1.25sec cast time for Resurrection, down from 1.75sec

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Valkyrie

• Heals all teammates for 30hp when casting.

  • (To cancel out the effect of not being able to heal during the cast, plus a bit more)

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Role Passive

• All Knockbacks reduced by 50%

ZARYA

GOAL: Allows Zarya to function a more like a typical barrier tank, while still doing her usual bubble peeling.

Projected Barrier

• Particle Barrier and Projected Barrier are now on a shared cooldown with 2 charges
• 9 sec cooldown per bubble
• After 2 seconds, the barrier falls off of the effected player to the ground, and lasts for 6 additional seconds, with the remaining shield health
• Individual barrier health increased to 250

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D.VA

GOAL: Makes D.va more capable of functioning like a Main Tank.

General

• When Resurrected by Mercy, she is already in her MEKA form.

Defence Matrix

• Can block Earthshatter
• Resource increased to 4 seconds worth of matrix resource
• 15m range
• Delay between usages reduced to 0.25sec, down from 1.0sec
• 10% of damage absorbed converted into Ultimate charge for D.va.

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Micro Missiles

• Missiles have a limited amount of homing while holding the targeting reticle over an enemy player or object.

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Fusion Cannons (Primary Fire)

• -20% movement speed penalty, down from -30%

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Pilot D.va

• Shift is a Roll ability similar to McCree, but… just a roll.

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WINSTON

GOAL: This is the gameplay feature we saw at BlizzCon.

Imgur: The magic of the Internet Tesla Laser (Alternate Fire)

• Winston shoots a 100 damage laser, after a short cast time

  • “Taking you out with a long range beam”

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REINHARDT

GOAL:

Charge

• Now has 200% more power steering
• Charge canceling

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FireStrike

• 2x FireStrikes

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Barrier Field

• 1200hp barrier health

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ORISA

GOAL: Makes Orisa more fearsome at close range, with the capability to close that gap easier. Additionally she can self-sustain more easily with shield-health. Making it so that she gets the same benefit from a healthpack as a 200hp hero.

General

• 20% base movement speed increase, when walking forward (or diagonal-forward)

Primary Fire

• Headshot multiplier increased to 2.5x

Health

• Changed to 200armor, and 200shieldhealth

Protective Barrier

• 600hp, not changed
• Cooldown reduced to 8sec

Fortify

• Can bodyblock Earthshatter
• Basically functions like a large invisible Zarya bubble

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SIGMA

GOAL: Sigma is already well suited as a barrier tank, with offtank aspects and decent damage. Just need to buff him up to Rein tier.

Experimental Barrier

• Increased to 950hp
• Cooldown reduced to 1sec, down from 2.5sec

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ROADHOG

GOAL:

Whole Hog

• Can be cancelled by holding reload

Scrap Gun

• Primary Fire, Removed
• Secondary Fire, Initial Scrap projectile damage increased to 165 damage, instead of 50
• Move the secondary button to the primary button

(New Ability) Chain Wall

• New rightclick ability, Roadhog spins his chain around, to create a deflection wall.
• Deflects incoming enemy damage, at random angles
• Deflected bullets/projectiles do no damage
• Shares a cooldown with his hook, however it’s used like a meter.
• Every 2sec of hook cooldown, that’s less than 8sec gives 1sec of chain wall, for 4sec total of chainwall.
• Can block Earthshatter
• Looks kinda like this:
  
  

Results: With the ChainWall ability gives Roadhog a similar barrier-ish ability, similar to other Tanks. Without making his chainhook too strong.

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Traversal (Role Passive)

• 9% faster movement speed

WRECKING BALL

GOAL:

General

• Moved to Damage role
• 200 health and 100 armor
• 20% smaller character model
• 25% longer grapple length (to cancel out the character model shrink)

Comments: 95% of players wouldn’t want Hammond as a Tank, and he’d be a nightmare to balance for the top 2% given the lack of CC to keep him in check.

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Primary Fire

• +1 damage

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Personal Barrier

• Make it less

MCCREE

GOAL:

Flashbang

• 0.2sec of stun
• Then 0.8sec of silence (I.e. Hack)

Comments: Supposedly, the goal of Flashbang is to slow down some Flankers, Cancel key abilities/ults, and force Tanks to drop their defenses briefly. Not be a “touch of death” from fan the spam.

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Fan The Hammer

• 3 second cooldown between usages
• Recovery time reduced to zero

Comments: No more Tank/Barrier shredding with Fan the Spam.

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Deadshot (Passive)

• Combat Roll Cooldown is reduced by -1sec, for every headshot.
  • (ex. Combat Roll Cooldown is normally 8sec)

Comments: Gives him a bit more flashy outplay capability. And since he is less capable of blowing up anything that gets close to him, this can help him keep his distance.

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HANZO

GOAL:

Storm Bow

• 1.6x headshot multiplier

Comments: Reduced critical modifier to keep the ranged burst damage from snipers more in check

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Storm Arrow

• 1.6x headshot multiplier
• Reduced to 3 arrows
• Projectile speed increased from 110m/s to 150m/s

Comments: Increased projectile speed makes this idea for a finisher move, after landing an initial arrow

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Sonic Arrow

• 1.6x headshot multiplier

Comments: Consistent with the other arrows.

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WIDOWMAKER

GOAL:

Widow’s Kiss (Primary Fire)

• Damage increased from 13 to 15
• Spread reduced 30%

Comments: A bit more rapidfire damage to counteract

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Widow’s Kiss (Secondary Fire)

• Charged shot has a 1.6x headshot multiplier
• With a base-damage of 125

Comments: Reduced critical modifier to keep the ranged burst damage from snipers more in check

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MEI

GOAL:

General

Primary Fire

• Cannot Freeze
• More primary damage

Secondary Fire

• No delay between pressing Fire, and the initial projectile launching
• 2.0x headshot multiplier

General

• Switched primary and secondary fire buttons
• Options in settings to swap them back (Without messing with the icewall confirmation buttons)

Blizzard

• If Snowball comes in contact with a deflect/matrix/grasp, he is not reflected/absorbed, instead he falls straight down and deploys there.

Results:

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DOOMFIST

GOAL:

General

• Figure something to greatly reduce roof idling, or just make it really noisy.

Rocket Punch

• Punch knockback reduced by the amount of distance the punch has traveled before contact.
• Punch is not a stun. It’s a silence+root+knockback. Primary fire and alternate fire can still be used by the opponent.

Comment: This should cut down the “annoyance factor” of this CC a lot. Additionally adds a bit of reduced survival, given the lack of CC.

Meteor Strike

• Goes through enemy barriers (Like D.va remech)
• Resets all of Doom’s cooldowns

Results:

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TRACER

GOAL:

Recall

• Maximum HP regained is 50hp

Results: This is meant to reduce her survival in light of reduced crowd control options

GENJI

GOAL:

Deflect

• Duration reduced
• Cooldown increased

Comment: This is meant to reduce his survival in light of reduced crowd control options.

Results:

GOAL:

SOMBRA

Opportunist (Passive)

• Teammates have access to the visuals from her passive “see wounded enemies through walls”.

Vision Hack (Replacement for Hack)

• Blocks a players vision with dark fog outside of a range of about a Winston bubble, maybe a bit less.
• Similar to the Paladins character Maeve’s Ultimate
• Massive reduction in hearing enemy players outside that zone
• Potentially have it block vision of teammates, otherwise use the “see through walls” outlines for teammates.
• Potentially block hitmarker visuals and sounds

EMP

• Puts the Opportunist “see through walls” visuals on the enemy players, for her teammates to see.
• Doesn’t affect the new “Green TempHealth”

Results:

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BASTION

GOAL:

General

• +50 armor, -50hp

Tactical Dash (New Ability)

• Rapidly moves him 5m away in any direction (i.e. like McCree Roll)
• Animation looks like a half crouch, with some friction sparks at his feet. (Aka Armored Core dashing mechanic)
• 5sec cooldown
• Can be used during Sentry Mode, Recon Mode, and Tank Mode

Sentry Mode

• Can headshot, at 1.5x
• 300 damage per second, down from 450
• When deployed, if a teammate stands infront of Bastion, then the teammate becomes transparent (or alternatively the enemy is visible with Widow Ult vision, through the teammate player model)_

Tank Mode (Ultimate)

• 0.5sec transform speed
• 0.5sec un-transform speed
• Different “aggressive sounding” Ultimate noise for enemy players. Could use some Omnic War sounds for it.

Results:

SYMMETRA

GOAL:

Photon Projector (Primary Fire)

• Damage ramp of 100/140/180
• Beam range increased from 12 to 15 meters

ECHO

GOAL:

Sticky Bombs

• Don’t block visuals in the center of the enemy player’s screen.

Comments: Wow this is all kinds of frustrating, if you’re getting rid of annoying stuff, get rid of this.

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Focusing Beam

• 150 DPS, regardless if a target is low
• 10m range

Comments: Seems like it would be less anti-tank.