We got two slows added to counter her. Reducing her weapon spread is overkill. Why is blizzard obsessed with over buffing/nerfing stuff?
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The amount of Tracer/Hampster I’ve seen this season
This makes 125% sense to me.
I was tired of playing so much Brig on support.
I’ll still have to play her, but hopefully less now that there’s another good counter for hard dive.
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It was classified as a bug and generally she has almost always been a very powerful pick (except goats thanks for pointing out a meta designed to remove her role she wasn’t viable)
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No, she needs a blink/mobility rework. They’re scared to rework a poster-child so she gets everything around the root issue changed. Anyone who knows anything about the game knows she isn’t balanced and it’s a fundamental thing. This nerf is probably just a precaution so if cowboy’s nade works too well and she starts performing too bad, they can undo the nerf and probably even overbuff her.
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First off, yes she needed a nerf.
Second good luck hitting her consistently with either one. Tracer will shred Mei or just avoid her, and that Cassidy nade seems weird but easy to avoid if you have her mobility.
Both exist solely to make tanks more miserable because apparently tanks were having fun and that is not allowed.
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I could’ve sworn they fixed this bug like two seasons ago?
Also she was absolutely fine, hopefully they give a compensation buff by mid season.
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they should rebuff her damage back to 6 and itll be fair
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On console yes she definitely needed this nerf.
This could work. They did say that they’ll keep an eye on her, but I’m afraid that Tracer players are in for some pretty bad time for at least a month. More, of they’re too slow on relearning how to juke Cree’s nade.
eh i feel like rereading it back, they noticed the bug and their trying to fix it. however by the time S5 comes out it wouldn’t have been fixed so they just decided to slap a bandaid fix for her currently to have the bug match her CORRECTED spread as before, so it matches the spread that they wanted her to have the whole time until the bug changed it.
so basically the bug currently reduces her actual spread by 15%, that’s a bug, so they increased her spread by 15% so the bug calculates the actual correct spread until they manage to patch the bug out
it’s actually kinda smart alec did that. i’m certain that once it’s fixed he’s gonna reduce it by 15% again. if not, leave her as is (or if you must, just buff her dmg to 6)
i’m pretty sure the bug a couple seasons ago was set on range. where it actually just recalculated hee falloff to be at 20m flat instead of 12m. the current bug just reduces her spread by 15%
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Every tracer nerf is a W for this game (c)
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They want to destroy og heroes because they make their new trash designs look bad.
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I feel she needed a nerf, tbh.
Theres a reason she utterly dominates the leaderboards right now- and i dont think that the changes to mei or mccree are going to be super detrimental to tracer
Though i will readily acknowledge that tracer has a steep floor and scales well with skill. I feel shes only a “problem” at the highest tiers
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WAIT WTF situation is that bad that they desperate and touch tracer balancing ?
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That’s mostly the case. She doesn’t have a single spread angle but rather a min angle, then several gradually increasing angles as the bullets diverge from the gun barrel axis, then finally a max angle.
Her max angle was bugged and narrower than intended. But to compensate, it looks like they had to nerf all of her angles from min to max (I’m guessing they can’t tune each separately). So it’s a larger nerf than if they had simply fixed the bug. I guess they wanted to nerf her anyway and used this as an opportunity to do so.
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Maybe they are pre-nerfing her cause she’ll overperform with the new widow nerfs at whatnot, thats my best guess given I haven’t really heard much complaining about Tracer.
as much as i feel sorry for tracer mains AND the nerf to one of my favorites (widow). i am curious to what the leaderboards will look like next season. right now its all tracer and some widow and mccree.
will next year just be mccree and hanzo. that yznsa guy will dominate no.1 again if he wants since widow cant really hit him if hes far away lol with a mercy too. or will widow still retain her spot but with the help of mercy. we’ll see i guess but it has me wondering and i like seeing what happens with statistics
also there is a fair amount of sombras on the leaderboard. will mccree diminish that also… i really want to experience the sombra/mccree interaction. ill probably hate it tho
Yeah, how about no?..
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Yeah, how about yes.
Her and Genji’s mobility is why we end up with things like Mei’s increased slow and McCree having a homing missile with a Sombra hack.
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