All you would need to do is flip the damage properties on each projectile at the instant it would otherwise be deleted.
Hero damage = false
Shields/structure damage = true
This ain’t rocket science.
You can’t move a Zarya bubble to intercept damage.
I’d rather have at least 1-2 more “beam” type heroes that can penetrate the DM rather than a change like this.
Matrix doesn’t delete it the instant it hits Rein’s shield either. Most cases, the instant it blocks the projectile is before it hits anything. Shield or hero. So either way, it’d be deleted. I don’t think it calculates it as hero damage or shield damage until it actually deals the damage because then it can register what it hit. So either way, D.Va could delete projectiles from behind a shield due to the range of DM.
Matrix, like genji’s deflect, convert the enemy projectiles into your own ownership before being deleted.
I cannot imagine the amount of coding that would go to make sure the interaction between barriers and dva’s matrix was actually bug free if a ridiculous change like “can’t block for friendly barriers” was implemented.
And this idea would make it so that it doesn’t delete the projectile.
But makes the projectile do zero damage to heroes. But full damage to shields/structures.
And if they want to get really fancy:
Make_Projectile_Look_Different = True
Or alternatively put a second visual effect projectile, on top of the existing projectile.
Oh boy. You just dropped a truth that will result in double standard blabbering.
And this means you would have to rework the entire code behind Defense Matrix because it wouldn’t be deleting the projectiles. You would need to remove that code and write completely new code describing how the new Defense Matrix works.
Which is, again, more trouble than it’s worth. I doubt it would even hurt GOATS. Because DM is not what enables it.
To be honest, it would be easier to write the code, that then effort you took to write your posts.
Bastion has his own problems that need to be looked at, but as for the others, maybe you shouldn’t do barrier break with heroes who have a clip size of 5 and do burst damage.
An issue with what you’re suggesting is
A) how do you deal with splash damage then? does the explosion just get soaked up like a sponge? Does the splash damage not get done to the barrier because DM affected its allies and has no way to differentiate?
B) DM deletes the shots mid flight. How the heck is it supposed to still deal damage to barriers if it got absorbed before it hit a teammate?
And? It spares 200HP on the shield and grants Zarya up to 40 charge without her needing to leave safety. They’re both abilities that benefit.
Zarya (my second most played tank btw inb4 it’s just a D.Va main who wants her hero pick to be on top… My hero pick is always on top because I play every tank) has the best tank ult in the game, blocks more damage, does more damage, is picked more, has a better winrate… But no it’s D.Va’s fault.
Zarya is also balanced for that matter
Assuming people always put their projectiles/bullets in the center of the shield., and not the large corners that wouldn’t be covered by the bubble.
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Junkrat - grenade size change reverted
Reason: Junkrat has been too inconsistent and buggy since this change, hampering his ability to deal with these kinds of comps
Mercy - heal back to 60hps
Reason: Mercy+Zen is the healer duo that enables spread out comps like double sniper, this duo needs one of them to be good at keeping up tanks. GOATs was one of multiple viable comps until the support patch.
Orisa: Cannot critical damage while in fortify, Halt made into a more consistent ability
Reason: Orisa is too easy to walk completely over, and should be part of a viable counter strategy against GOATs
Bastion: transformation speed increased
Reason: he is too vulnerable while transforming, his slow movement and giant hitbox is enough downsides without adding an overly transformation during which time he can do nothing.
Brigitte:
Whipshot range decreased by 5m
Inspire aura range decreased by 5m
Repair Pack Cooldown increased to 12 seconds
Shield Bash changes reverted
Zoning Brig out makes her more useless because she can’t just proc inspire against an enemy properly maintaining it’s distance. Repair Pack is almost like a pre-emptive rez on a support she’s guarding and should be more baitable.
Her inspire radius is also too big, so attempting to divert her attention does nothing. She never has to worry about which ally to heal, Lucio was a must pick in Season1 for the same reason because it means the entire team is having sustain damage reduced at all times. If she’s fighting on the front, this should make her healers more vulnerable and vice versa. If teams want to take advantage of that they’d have to bunch up much more closely making them more susceptible to heroes like Junkrat.
Lucio
Speed Boost: increased movement decreased to a 25% increase in speed.
Reason: Lucio’s speed boost has caused issues every time he’s been meta since launch. It makes it too easy for tank heavy lineup or deathball comps to speed past stuff that should have been pumping their brakes a bit for a long time.
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Have you ever tried to code? It’s not this easy, and almost certainly not what you expect because you don’t know what language it was written in, nor how it was written in the first place such that it can just “be replaced”
The problem is we don’t know how anything is programmed, how objects are represented. Rein’s shield for all we know might be programmed as another hero like in terms of properties of how the computer views it.
Like we see shield and hero, but the computer might see “2000 hp entity that acts the same as shields on other entities such as Zen/Zarya/Sym when hp reaches 0” Sure I am paraphrasing here, but logically that is what’s going on. It’s simply just attached to Rein, same as Zen shields are attached to Zen and what have you.
So, if the computer sees Rein’s shield as a similar object to Zen’s HP shields just, an object with a few other properties like how it can be put up/taken down and the recharge rate is different, then telling DM “these shields are okay, but these shields are not” is very complicated especially since they are inherited from the same object “shield”. Not only that but D.va already has the gold medal for “most buggy hero” in Overwatch, let’s not make her even more buggy.
However, if we were to say don’t block damage from each individual shield, that’d still be a little complicated, because like there’s so many different types and the more conditionals you have, the more opportunity for bugs there are. There’d have to be a major overhaul of how things are already programmed in the game imo.
D.Va’s ability to block damage is not a cornerstone of GOATs nor does GOATs need it to be effective. You can swap D.Va out for Roadhog and GOATs would still be very versatile.
GOATs is dependent upon its burst healers to keep it up. So you need to look at Ana and Moira.
Now the reason why you do not see as much Junkrat is because he got nerfed in his ability to direct hit which generated a number of hit registration bugs leading to him being played a lot less.
Pharah got changed in that her damage got refocused into direct hits, and nearly all the hitscan got buffed against her.
Bastion is still suffering as a tank counter because of the spread changes and removal of crits back in his rework. His accuracy and his reward for being accurate, crits, was why he had strong potential as a tank buster why he could chew through them so easily was taken away. Combine with his team dependence and its no wonder his pickrate became even more of a ghost then it was before that misguided rework.
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Yes, the server code I worked on was about 52,000 lines of code.
A bubble on a shielding rein in my experience almost always grants its full charge potential as long as he’s already in line of fire. People tend to shoot at the Reinhardt when they try to break barriers if they can.
this is some korean pro level stuff but she could turn sideways and cover most of it with dm
Okay, because people act dumb in quickplay and constantly feed, that’s how we should balance around that?