There is a bunch of reasons why I personally don’t like the rework.
- The first and more obvious is that the devs never even tried to permutate her current kit. She got reworked in November 2016, and apart from bug fixing, she was never touched in any patch. And it’s not like we didn’t had a long megathread with thousands of posts from Symmetra players talking about what her issues are, and how to fix it while retaining her playstyle. Going from “ignored” to “fully new rework with all old toys gone” is very drastic.
- I don’t like the new orb because it’s removing one tool that was very unique in its mechanics and approach, and swapping it for the fourth primary weapon that is an explosive projectile (after Pharah, Junkrat and Zarya). Her old orb had a niche pressuring heavy shield comps. Her new orbs is just another flavor of Pharah rockets.
- Symmetra was a benchmark of accessibility in the game (and it involved more than the “autolock gun”), and it seems like the devs pretty much ignored that they have an disabled playerbase when designing Symmetra 3.0.
- Other than the turrets (which is still debatable), every other aspect of the new kit is weaker or at the same power level of her current kit, which kinda defeats the purpose of the rework in the first place.
- (and to be fair, I was expecting it to be very OP at least for a few weeks…)
- Finally, all the issues that are affecting her new beam (regardless of your opinion on autolock), and that apparently will stay for when the rework hit live. And by issues I mean, in no specific order:
- The fact that it’s a damage downgrade when you add precision to the equation, because to get to the same damage levels of autolock , you need more precision than even pro players have, by a large margin
- The fact that it still takes more than 2 seconds to kill any 200 HP target, regardless of your aim, thus still leaving her ineffective at bursting targets down
- The fact that it takes too long to ramp up her damage, making it extremely dangerous to play close range DPS with her. Compounded by how effective her new orb is, so its better to spam orbs even at close range.
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#SaveSymmetra is a cute hashtag.