Somvra's Opinion on the balance changes

[Somvra-1200]

I know many not even care what I have to say, but I want to at east put it out there for other user who may care about my honest opinion on the recent changes.

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Balance Changes’s Patch Notes

[ALL] Overwatch Patch Notes – May 3, 2018

HERO UPDATES Brigitte Shield Bash Cone angle reduced from 90 to 60 Developers Comment: When fighting against Brigitte, it often felt like Shield Bash was able to hit players who felt like they were out of its range and should have dodged it. On the flip side, when playing as Brigitte sometimes players would hit the wrong enemy in the middle of a fight. With the cone being reduced, the ability is more accurate to its visual representation. Genji Deflect Hitbox size has been reduced Deve…

Link Above, for new users who haven’t seen the new patch notes.

@TomPowers

Brigitte

Shield Bash

Cone angle reduced from 90 to 60

Developers Comment: When fighting against Brigitte, it often felt like Shield Bash was able to hit players who felt like they were out of its range and should have dodged it. On the flip side, when playing as Brigitte sometimes players would hit the wrong enemy in the middle of a fight. With the cone being reduced, the ability is more accurate to its visual representation.

Genji

Deflect

Hitbox size has been reduced

Developers Comment: The hitbox on Genji’s Deflect was big enough that it would sometimes reflect projectiles that were pretty far away from him. We’ve tightened up the hitbox, which should solve this problem while still fully protecting him from projectiles that would hit him from the front.

Hanzo

Storm Bow

Projectile speed increased from 85 to 100

Sonic Arrow

Cooldown decreased from 20 seconds to 12 seconds
Duration decreased from 10 seconds to 6 seconds
Radius decreased from 10 meters to 7 meters

New Abilities

Lunge

Press jump while in the air to leap horizontally

Storm Arrows

Replaces his existing Scatter Arrow ability
Hanzo can now rapidly fire up to 6 arrows that deal reduced damage but are always fire at full powers

Developers Comments: The goal of these Hanzo changes is to allow him to have new options and maintain his high damage output, while removing the frustration of fighting against the old Scatter Arrow. Hanzo is now much more mobile with his new Lunge ability, and with the combination of the bow projectile speed increase and the new Storm Arrows ability he can now deal his high damage more consistently than ever before.

Junkrat

Frag Launcher

Projectile size decreased from 0.3 to 0.2

RIP-Tire

Tire movement speed decreased from 13 to 12

Developers Comment: These changes are aimed at lowering some of the most frustrating parts about playing against Junkrat. Decreasing the Frag Launcher’s projectile size means he will have to aim a bit more carefully to land powerful direct hits and slowing the RIP-Tire’s movement speed gives his opponents slightly more time to destroy it before it detonates.

Lúcio

Wall Ride

Wall riding is less likely to be interrupted along a single surface

Can now go around corners (both outside corners, and inside corners) without having to leave the wall

Can now land back on the same wall after leaping away, provided his leap takes him far enough away from the original jumping off point

Added a minimum time that the jump key must be held before Lúcio can ride around corners

Soundwave

No longer consumers ammo

Can now be used while reloading

Developers Comments: Wall Ride has been significantly overhauled to allow it to function more smoothly across more areas of every map. Lúcio players should instantly notice a huge improvement in where and how Wall Ride can be used. In addition, Sonic Amplifier’s Soundwave ability was unnecessarily controlled by both a cooldown and an ammo cost, so we’re removing the ammo cost.

Tracer

Pulse Bomb

Max damage decreased from 400 to 300

Developers Comment: Pulse Bomb was too good at killing tanks, who can be easy to stick due to their size. This damage reduction makes it less powerful as a tank-destroyer, while keeping it lethal against most other heroes.

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LUCIO

First and foremost , I want to say that I am absolutely love the changes to Lucio.

I can finally be an effective Lucio user.

The one thing that drew me away from Lucio wasn’t Lucio himself, because he is one of the most fun heroes and he match my play style method (bunny hopping.)

But because I was never really good at Wall-riding like I should be. Don’t get me wrong, with enough practice and I will get there, but it seems like for me that every-time I wall ride, something always end up interrupting me to do so. So these changes was so welcoming.

I absolutely love the Soundwave now not consuming ammunition as I told plenty of my Lucio Mains Friends that his cool-down should not consume his ammunition at all.

Overall I felt like these changes will really help Lucio.

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Tracer

These changes to me did not really effect her too much, as she is still lethal outside of ultimate. Every time I play Tracer, but job was to harass the Supports and take out heroes of 200hp. The only time I go after tank, is for ultimate charge and that is it. Other than that I like these changes, as again she will not be effective by this too much.

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Genji

I been seeing a lot of feedback of how Genji will be “dead” etc.
He is still a strong hero, and has one of the best ultimate in game still.

This is my opinion, and my opinion only.

The Deflect Changes was a FIX not a Nerf.

@TomPowers

The hitbox on Genji’s Deflect was big enough that it would sometimes reflect projectiles that were pretty far away from him. We’ve tightened up the hitbox, which should solve this problem while still fully protecting him from projectiles that would hit him from the front.

This pretty much sum up what I have to say about Genji, because I am prep that some Genji’s user may not be too please with me saying that his deflect was not a nerf, but a fix more so than anything.

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Junkrat

Is it weird that I love this change, prior to pre-nerf changes.

I just feel like I am so much accurate and precise when it comes down to shooting his Primary bombs. It’s just something about it that I love about it now.

With the bombs being more precise, I feel like I have more so control on them, as the bombs won’t randomly bounce just “anywhere.”

As for the riptire, the speed reduction was needed as it does not really effect his overall potential of the ultimate.

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Hanzo

This was my favorite change about him, as I fell in love with the new changes.

Now I don’t have to take my reticle off my target just to shoot at the opposing enemy’s feet to get a cheap OHK.

Just everything about these changes, I felt like it was for the best and he feels so much smoother to play now.

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Brigitte

Well she is brig, so you got to love her…

[DirtyWeeb-1289]

U bring up some fair points but brig could really use a longer cooldown on her sheild bash.

[Somvra-1200]

Agreed. I just expressing how I felt about the changes that went live.

[Malware-11643]

As Malware, I don’t care what you have to say, as your friend, I love you, Somvra. As Malware, I dislike you.

Do with this information as you please, but I like the post and agree with most of it.

[Somvra-1200]

Thanks Malware, I can always count on you.

But honestly though, thank you for the feedback!

[endlessXburn-1398]

Lucio could get some mad speed after doing ‘wall ride skip’ where he would ride a wall and then immediately hop to another wall and he would gain mad speed if he could keep on doing this. I really hope these new changes don’t ruin that.

[Somvra-1200]

I just preform in a match where I played as Lucio and I can safely say that these new changes allow Lucio to get to heighten areas that he could barely do before the buff.