[Rant] Why can't Symmetra just be good?

[Zephrin-11143]

@sayori-21638

She’s easily in the best state she’s ever been in, but she’s still trash. What does that tell you?

either hero hate or incompetence as can be very easily concluded by the VERY blatant poor changes she’s gotten from infinite tp onwards.

@Zephrin-11143

to spill the tea here, either they don’t care or they’re hugely incompetent.

Examples:

• infinite tp
  • why would you butcher a short effective ranged, squishy hero’s mobility and burst combo enabling tool to have a massive down time? it really should be common sense that low effective range, low sustain, low mobility and low burst on a hero simply is the wrong direction.
  • they could’ve easily reverted the change yet Jeff claims that he plays sym a lot and then brushes off how blatantly detrimental the infinite tp cd mechanic is to her, and to this day we still have it. incompetence or hate here? idk, but it’s 1 of them.
• not noticing incorrect dps values reported on sym3.0 primary in release patch notes for at least a year
  • it shows that they definitely weren’t reading feedback about her all that time that quoted the incorrect 60/120/180 dps at the time DESPITE promising to keeping a close eye on her and looking at feedback. whether this shows they don’t care or that they’re incompetent, it can go either way.
• buffing orbs to deal 140 damage
  • the problem with orbs is that nothing justifies the sniper-like charge time. 140 damage wasn’t it. it was too inconsistent.
    • either increase orb projectile speed (more aimable; most healthy and preferred route) or reduce charge time (more spam route to actually compete in spam). in either case it
  • but devs chose to buff damage to 140 which is a spam route that doesn’t touch consistency (not a healthy choice, completely missed the mark), again, DESPITE Jeff’s claims about “we’re talking about her often” or that he plays sym a lot.
  • again, hate or incompetence? idk, but it’s 1 of them.

This has yet to go into all the bandaid bug fixes that lead to more bugs or nerfs (e.g. self destruct tp, no tping in/from spawn, etc.), nor even the contradiction of nerfs on her whole kit in double shield vs their statement about “prioritising hero individual balance” (i.e. balance outside of meta).

A lot of us want to be wrong about this, but it’s hard not to draw such conclusions when reading through a lot of sym’s “balance” patch notes.

I give credit where it’s due tho. sym3.0 rework, at a design level was on the right track. but then from infinite tp (inclusive) and onwards, hit the fan.