After seeing GetQuakedOn’s video on Doomfist’s removal of techs, I am begging the hero design devs to revert this.
Doomfist’s skill expression through his movement is one of the most fun aspects of his kit, and the removal of the techs just seem like a step in the wrong direction. In reality, the average tank player won’t know every single tech, but those who love the character and commit to really understanding his movement will be rewarded with these esoteric techniques that DF is able to pull off.
His movement techs are one of the biggest reasons I love playing the character and I loved how he felt in the OW2 betas. So I am simply PLEADING to give Doomfist his techs back.
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Doomfist exists as the boogie man punching bag.
They gotta keep him around so that OW players can direct their fear and hate towards a specific character and not point out all the flaws and bs of the rest of the cast.
Whether doomfist is fun, or god forbid meta, is of no consequence.
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What exactly did they change on him? Like what caused the removal of the techs? Was it intended removal of the tech or was it an upgrade with collision etc?
2 things got changed about the slam.
First is removing it’s interactions with ledges and inclines.
Second is nerfing the control you have over the slam.
It’s functionality is exactly like a winston leap now. In other words, doom is just budget monkey.
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Im sorry what im asking is if it was a targeted change at Doomfist, or if its the byproduct of a different change such as cleaner map hitbox and collision upgrades?
As a Mercy main and thus receiver of a lot of toxicity of Doom mains
Sincerely
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A specific change to doom slam
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Idk why this is even surprising to people anymore. Nothings changed, dooms still garbage and better yet he’s more boring and his skill level dropped tremendously. At this point just delete the character bro they basically already have 
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Ahhh okay well sucks for the doom mains for sure. I am empathetic but also a support player so i have a deepseeded bias against him hahah
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just end his misery already
Man but movement techs were his thing during OW1 and they did such a great job making him a tank, keeping the depth in movement.
WQHY
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They screwed Mercy over too :)) seems like they just hate fun tech
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With Mercy, they just wanted to make the tech more consistent, not some obscure key presses.
Obviously they’ve failed.
With Doom they straight up removed them
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How do they just keep making him worse and worse…
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More homogenization of the game, because OW needs more of that. We should literally just give everyone Soldiers rifle and remove abilities/ults at this point. What stupid changes and I don’t even play Doomfist, this is just absurd.
by ‘techs’ do you mean the various unpatched glitches that have been abused over time?
support players everywhere hearing doom mains cry about the changes: 
In all seriously I haven’t seen the video so im not sure which techs were removed. Im assuming this is including diagonals? If so that’s quite the shame tbh. Some of his tech was super odd but a lot of them with punch were not really that problematic. Even in the first 2 betas he had tons of cool tech and it would be a shame if they got removed.
If im not mistaken blizzard could’ve fixed many of these “glitches” at any time and never did because they didn’t really mind that he could do it. It’s not like they didn’t know about them. They could’ve patched out mercy’s super jump and also never did. Well, until now I guess?
Blizzard recently took steps to formalize superjump’s mechanics. Doom’s abuse of glitches was just that. Abusing glitches. Good doom players will be able to play without needing to abuse unpatched map glitches. Let’s be honest, doom players abused a game that didn’t update maps in a meaningful way in years. They had to know those things would end sooner or later.
I felt bad when I first read this as well, but then I remembered this is Doom they nerf’d. Put him in the same box with Hog/Mei/Sombra, nerf that box so they are unplayable and then the rest of us can enjoy the game.
They literally had years to fix these bugs. Doom released in 2017! What are you on about. I watched the video and Quaked said Geoff was ok with the bugs except for the super slam. It wasn’t that they couldn’t figure it out the devs aren’t that dumb they just didn’t care to do anything lol. These were even in the betas and got removed later for some unknown reason. I can tell you right now it’s not because doom was too good with them.
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