So much sustain was awful. Even below GM, brig and a bunch of tanks just made games boring beyond belief.
Though, double shield double sniper was a million times worse. Holy crap that was beyond garbage.
You mean a game where Symmetra doesnt have a gimped version of Soldier’s primary fire, that starts at 60dps, has a third of the range and has no aimbot/instant rocket burst to lean on?
What a Noncompetitive, Unfun, Unskillfulled, MMO, MOBA, ISIS, SJW, [Buzzword], [Buzzword], [Buzzword], [Buzzword] game it could be!!!1!
Like who? Zarya? Hog? Let’s not forget that Reaper and Junk were memes during triple tank too.
You could delete Tracer and it’d still happen. Genji, 76, Pharah, junk during that one time he was broken, and even tiny bits of Sombra and Reaper on select maps in some metas. All came down to what the best way to stop the tanks was for a given map.
Meanwhile you replace Winston and it’s not dive, full stop.
…are you saying that bad players are bad? I’m not sure what your point is here.
Except that it isn’t. Remember that the original incarnation of goats was Moira based, which ran at higher speed to overrun the tank line. The switch to Zen happened because it was better at goats mirrors.
Are you seriously complaining about people trying to counter the incumbent meta at the time?
Nah. There’s also the side effect of making Winston and Hog near unplayable, which in turn made slow dive and anti barrier comps unviable, and took along any DPS reliant on such playstyles.
You are more than welcome to play hitscans and get to top 500 as you think they are beyond OP.
But i understand this game gave options to the mechanically-handicapped with certain hero options.
But Even all those options seem to be headed towards more shooter type designs, which is far better for the health of the game.
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Even after the devs keep telling the player base this…we still have people saying…
“Why is this happening, i dont understand” lol jesus.
[leans into the microphone] we will stop complaining when we actually see those alleged changes because the last 7 years (or decades for general blizz fans) have literally destroyed any faith on Blizzard design and balance philosophy.
For a glorious 2 weeks, junkrat could hard counter tracer.
That was good times. Then junkrat was reverted a bit and they tried out their brig idea instead.
We all know how that turned out.
I prefer to earn my SR playing heroes that don’t hold my hand the entire way.
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They were both bad ideas.
Brute forcing CC + oneshot burst into being a mobility counter is literally ALWAYS going to be a bad idea, because then you counter immobile heroes 10 times harder.
Both Brig and Junkrat (and McCreee and Doomfist) are problems due to this.
You know what doesnt? Anti-mobility debuff that doesnt affect immobile/low mobility heroes heroes. No, not slows. No, not roots. Literally Zarya’s grav debuff.
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That version of junkrat was a lot more fair than their other attempts, it was purely short range, and wasnt particularly better against tanks than he was before the buff. It was purely better against tracer and genji (and reaper but nobody in their right mind played him)
Tracer and Genji are not the only close range dps in the game.
They are only purely close range heroes anybody was playing. Reaper was already nerfed into the dirt at that point, and sym has never been particularly good at any point in this game’s history.
goats has never been more beloved since sigma was dropped into the game forcing double shield…
double shield has made every single player miserable with the game and felt like banging your head against the wall was more productive.
You are literally saying why it was a bad idea and why it remains a bad idea.
Making heroes who clearly arent in the best place just to try to get to counter Tracer and Genji is utterly self-serving and short sighted.
Here the thing. Players like you wont ever be happy without any chances those heroes get. Even though the changes they give them will make them less niche than they are now and a bit more generalists.
Because ultimately what certain players want is for Blizzard to rework Sym to have a 30 meter auto aim, 6 throwable turrets, Shield gen back and throwable shield.
They want Mercy to have 80 HPS healing and 5 man rez, no delay, etc
Release Brig type power levels back
Junk to be able to snipe far away threats.
etc, etc
So no, you wont get these type of changes, But we will get changes that hopeful make FPS type players actually want to play those niche heroes and make them not depend on cheese to be viable.
Me, a Sym main and Doomfist enjoyer: what the eff are you talking about.
Made junkrat fun, and it kept tracer out of your games.
Sounds like a win win to me.
Made junkrat overpowered to barely counter Tracer while practically erasing like 6 other heroes who are weaker than her is not an epic balance win.
its completely true that sigma made this game a million times worse and did more damage then goats ever did
Get off the hitscan, bucko
Junkrat wasnt overpowered, he was still worthless against mid range heroes, and wasnt better against tanks than he was before the buff.