This patch will kill the game

[Handsome-11967]

No it will not. I’m sorry.

[Whiskeyjack-12468]

I no longer have to play Orisa is what you’re saying? Queue times:

[GreyFalcon-11737]

I personally believe that the patch is in preparation for super buffing the Tanks in general, for Solo Tanking.

Simpler than that.

Temporarily putting double barrier in the trashcan until after OWL starts back up.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Oh ye of little faith…
(Like myself)

I foresee large Tanks, that cannot be killed so easily.

[GreyFalcon-11737]

I agree, if they end going with something that limits teams to one anchor tank per team.

[ChibiFox-11511]

One Tank per team… and Tanks will be large and in charge.

The non-barrier Tanks will be given compensation to body-block easily, while the barrier Tanks will be given major buffs to their healthpools.

@ChibiFox-11511

No no, don’t take it at face value… the nerfs and changes seem random at first, but look at it this way…

Hanzo
Storm Arrows

• Damage reduced from 70 to 60

Firstly, you need abilities not to shred Tanks as badly when they’re super buffed, so you start with these… Hanzo would struggle a little more.

McCree
General

• Base health increased from 200 to 250

Peacekeeper (Primary Fire)

• Recovery time increased from 0.42 to 0.5 seconds

Deadeye

• Firing Deadeye no longer locks the player’s aim

Mccree is a prime example.
Firstly, he doesn’t currently struggle against Tanks, but after they’ve been turned into Raid bosses, he wouldn’t need to shred them, or be shred too easily by them. He would need to fire slightly slower, but be a little beefier himself, as he puts himself in greater danger facing them head on, especially facing a solo Tank.

Reaper
The Reaping (Passive)

• Healing amount reduced from 40% to 30% of damage dealt

Again, they want to give these super Tanks a chance… a balanced chance, while also allowing Reaper to still be a counter.

Orisa
Fusion Driver (Primary Fire)

• Damage reduced from 11 to 9

Fortify

• Cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds

Halt!

• Snare duration reduced from 1 to 0.65 seconds

These changes seem random, yes?
Firstly, with how hard to kill they would be on their own, she wouldn’t need to deal so much raw damage, so it’s been lowered and kept in check.

Secondly, Fortify would still be extremely strong on a stronger Orisa, but i believe they even have plans for it outside of that, meaning it would need a longer cooldown.

And thirdly, HALT would be extremely strong against more spread out teams, and against solo Tanks , meaning it had to be reeled in a little.

Sigma
Hyperspheres (Primary Fire)

• Range reduced from 22 to 20 meters

Gravitic Flux

• Can now be interrupted before targets begin falling
• Impact slow duration reduced from 0.9 to 0.6 seconds

Accretion

• Explosion damage reduced from 60 to 40

Again, it follows the pattern.
Firstly, when stronger he would need his range reeled in a little, to make it more fair all around.

Secondly, as the solo Tank his ultimate would be extremely powerful, thus it needed to have it’s interactions sped up a little to encourage actual counter play.

And thirdly, a massively powerful Tank would be genuinely slightly OP with a combo that outright killed lower health targets, i believe Mccree is meant to also help further counter Sigma in this new design.

Baptiste
Biotic Launcher (Primary Fire)

• Recovery time increased from 0.36 to 0.45 sec

Biotic Launcher (Secondary Fire)

• Heal explosion reduced from 60 to 50

And finally, it fits the pattern again…

Baptiste’s overall DPS would be largely impactful alongside three other DPS, thus it is reeled in, while his healing output is tempered a little so he struggles slightly more healing wide-spread teams and the main Tank.

I rest my case.

Dive may have a role in what is to come, but not be the center of attention.
Winston may even be scary with a large buff.

I believe this is why.

[GreyFalcon-11737]

One Tank per team

But what if it was simpler than that, and it was one Sigma/Rein/Orisa per team.

But with mega buffs for those heroes.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Ehh, i don’t like it at all.
The Devs don’t want to restrict the Tanks that badly, i don’t think.

And what do you think of my assessment of the changes?

[Mitrovarr-1405]

Man, just the rule by itself would fix double barrier. I would take that every single day of the week instead of gutting Orisa and Sigma. Hell, it’s going to be one Sigma/Rein/Orisa per team now! Just a Rein. Every game.

[GreyFalcon-11737]

And what do you think of my assessment of the changes?

Makes sense. I was figuring before the barrier nerfs they would either nerf their Damage or their Peel.

Instead they went with the route of making them both halfMainTanks-halfOffTanks.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Instead they went with the route of making them both halfMainTanks-halfOffTanks.

And i believe this is the precursor to a major patch… Tanks will be massive walls of “This is my area”

[GreyFalcon-11737]

Instead they went with the route of making them both halfMainTanks-halfOffTanks.

And i believe this is the precursor to a major patch… Tanks will be massive walls of “This is my area”

Could be. But I’m worried that will end up being “pick the right tank or we lose”.

[ChibiFox-11511]

Could be. But I’m worried that will end up being “pick the right tank or we lose”.

I have a feeling that it will rather be DPS complaining (A lot) About how strong the main Tank will be.

“All three of us can’t work together, wahhh”

While the Tank sits there taking space and smacking people with hammers when they get too close.

Mei’s will have to be very very… careful.

[FunPolice-11590]

Guess what?
Rein,Winston, Dva are like 50 times more fun for majority of the tank players.

With Reaper, Mei and Hanzo nerfed, you’ll see Winston and Dva being played more. But if you liked playing Orisa and Sigma, well, bad news you’ll drop ranks like yo yo.

[Soma-1413]

I agree in some regard.
I think the ones commonly referred to as offtanks will start to get more play after these changes which is a good thing for the game in the end as those heroes are extremely popular with the playerbase and were not used previously due to perceived weakness vs having a big ol’ shield.

[KevinAteNine-1753]

But they also nerfed hanzo’s tank busting ability…

[Kristal-11786]

The reason not a lot of people pick tank is because Orisa and sigma are literally the only tanks right now

[BlitzBl4de-1291]

I agree, toning down tank busters and making winston rein and dva feel more viable than sigma/orisa seems like a good change for the game.

[tuscoggy-2305]

So because tank players are in a minority they shouldn’t be nerfed? Orisa needed a nerf, maybe after this patch we’ll finally have a variety of tanks we can choose from instead of being forced into orisa all the time.

[Kitsundere-1861]

And Reaper, and McCree.