After this patch the game is literally gonna all depend on who has the better dps, or more specifically sniper. Tanks can’t do much anymore and supports are absolutely useless against snipers.
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Oh, you mean like how the game has already been for a year?
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The issue with this game is that no matter what role you are, you depend on your team to some extent.
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I’m ready to be the Mercy for my DPS
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that’s kind of the point? dps only bring damage and offensive capabilities, dps should dictate the pace of the game, they are the spearhead
tanks and support are far from useless though, as a matter of fact they’ll still be power crept, so much so that most of them can kill dps faster than dps can kill them
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Tanks are the spearhead…first ones in, control the pace by controlling the space.
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tanks are mostly the shield both literally and metaforically
Tanks will still be the carries. If anything, more so now. But whatever, have fun getting shreked by Widow players.
No. They aren’t. Some tanks don’t even have shields. The tanks job is to create the space (and thus attack style) of their team. They should typically be the first into battle.
It’s up to dps to use that space to take down the enemy team, and the supports job to enable these two to do their job by augmenting their capabilities.
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all tanks have higher hp though, no shield doesn’t mean they aren’t more resilient, tanks are the shield in this metaphor and shields don’t dictate nothing, they protect the offense and that’s it
Which is why the metaphor makes no sense. Tanks dictate the playstyle because they are the spearhead. That’s why bunker is about synergizing with Orisa, not Widow. It’s why dive is about synergy with Winston, not Tracer. Etc etc
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that’s because up until this point defense has been power crept, not my fault you lack understanding of basic fps strategy
This game doesn’t play like a typical fps, and the tanks in this game have largely not had their defensive abilities power crept.
It’s because their job is to create space not block for the team.
Tanks are net stronger and currently are objectively the strongest role so your premise is false.
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creating space is fine, that’s not being the spearhead, tanks aren’t supposed to kill anything, creating space is different than being the actual damage source, tank’s job is to defend however that may be
and it does play like a typical fps, just because we have roles doesn’t mean that a typical fps doesn’t have understood roles assigned based on player skill
i am ready for mercy to be the dps
Spearhead does not mean kill. It means lead.
a leading element, force, or influence in an undertaking or development
From the dictionary.
The tanks go in first, lead the attack style, and create the space that the dps then use to secure kills.
spear·head
/ˈspirˌhed/
noun
noun: spearhead ; plural noun: spearheads
- the point of a spear.
what the hell are you talking about? stop responding to me anymore, this is once again pointless
well at least now when we blame our trash DPS for making us lose, it will be true.
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I’m talking about the same dictionary that you could have scrolled down on to see the definition when used as a metaphor and not the literal tip of a literal spear.
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