Can you atleast communicate? Or is that to much?
If thereâs one thing that will ultimately lead me to quit playing a video game, itâs stealth nerfs. Itâs beyond frustrating and once it becomes a habit and devs think they can do it without much backlash, it becomes the norm. If that day ever happens, I stop playing Overwatch.
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Yeah⊠at this point Iâm almost going âJust say youâre going to rework himâ because at least that means theyâre paying attention to himâŠ
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Youâre talking about the guys that left sombra a buggy mess for 3 months. I wouldnât get my hopes up.
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As mentioned above, I wouldnât expect any response until Overwatch League is over. They seemed to be pretty occupied at the moment.
Iâm currently considering returning to the game only to work on my Winston and Roadie game, and play with my friends. Sadly I donât think I will be playing Reinhardt in his current state, which truly breaks my heart and soulâŠ
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I thought something was off today. Glad to see itâs not just me.
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I havenât played much Rein myself, I started trying to âgit gudâ at him a little while back - after this last patch he feels SO sluggish and wonky, but itâs things I canât really test or articulate myself since Iâm not overly familiar with him. All I can say is, I definitely noticed it in gameplay today when I was playing Mystery heroes and died with him almost immediately because I couldnât get my shield up fast enough, just felt⊠Gummy and weird. Seeing this post confirms that thereâs something up with him for me.
Nice to see you here Jelly! maybe blizz will finally recognize this problem and the 10+ threads about it!
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At this point i think it might have been a mistake or something they changed in the Blizzard test region and then forgot to revertâŠ
Itâs understandable considering the blizz staff is probably under big pressure during OWL. Basically my current âMost likely situationâ is that blizz QA staff are brain dead.
if blizzâs reading this, we just want some feedback, like
âtaking a lookâ
âfixed soonâ
âintentional, animation cancel was mistakeâ
or something
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I went into a QP game to test this, I like to play a lot of Rein.
Held up my shield and went for a quick swing. The time the animation had finished and registered I had been out to the Kitchen and made a cup of tea and sat back in my chair.
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That is nice, keep making the best out of it. I like to make coffee, evaluate the last game, water my plants or write my girlfriend a love letter when I transition from shield to hammer. XD
Just kidding I have no gf atm ![:frowning:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=5" ":frowning:")
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Reinhardt main here. I dont play enough, or competetively, to notice major differences, but the old boy definitly feels⊠stiff.
I guess they are too busy with the OWL finals to read us ⊠yet hereâs the bump.
And probably, theyâll wait until they get the whole patch in the PTR with his reworks and will never address this. Sigh.
Keep strong, shield brothers and sis.
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I am done playing main tank until this is fixed. Itâs not right to take away what made rein fun. It was bad enough having brig ruin rein vs rein with her shield bash and stupid aggression, but this is it for me.
Canât play Rein without trying to shield-cancel juke enemy Shatters. Losing team fights because I donât get my barrier up in time.
Done with Rein until fixed.
RIP my favorite hero.
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Blizz can we please get official word on this? Please?
Yeah, I hate to say it, but itâs these little things that keep adding up that make him un-fun to play right now. Being able to react to things such as shatters in a crucial moment is a necessity to Reinhardtâs playstyle, and is what keeps him viable. I can deal with the ridiculous amount of CC that I get all at once, but without being able to fight back against it with these quick cancels, heâs quite crippled more than he should be.
I love the character and I always will, but itâs getting to the point where I have to drop him again like I did while the hammer swing issue was going on.
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Sums it up pretty well right there. I can handle/adapt to the changing game-scape but when you start hamstringing the tools I have to do so, it really makes me want to walk away from the game altogether.
Theyâve probably added framework for his upcoming changes that removed his animation cancels. Similarly to how before Sym was reworked, her turret deployment sound changed and her TP/SG started destroying itself on walls. They likely changed something about her ults before she was reworked to edit something about her new TP before it was released. Couldnât have been a coincidence that it started destroying itself and the first iteration of the new TP destroyed itself constantly.
The same probably applies. Get used to the new Rein, Blizzard doesnât care what we like about heroes 