Overwatch thread

[Xhominid]

I'm honestly scared as fuck for these Symmetra buffs.

She's going to be even worse on Defense with a good player than ever before.

[Janis L.C.V.]

As a Symmetra player myself, I'm certainly gonna love using her more as everyone fears my flying barriers and extra shields.

[DelusionTrim]

I'm honestly scared as fuck for these Symmetra buffs.

She's going to be even worse on Defense with a good player than ever before.

Even if the player was good, more often than not their efforts wouldn't really pay off because more experienced players knows how to get around her turrets, especially when they pick characters really good at destroying them. Her shields were pretty inconsequential too because 25 HP is really not good enough to make a difference.

With her new changes, her turrets will at least be more present in a match and the new shield ability will definitely be more relevant in matches. The new ult which she gives 75 shield HP will be great at making an impact to the team (especially competent ones) without it being broken as it isn't an E ability.

Best of all, she can probably become a viable pick for anything other than the first point on Defense... she could even be good on attack for all we know.

[Xhominid]

That's exactly why I'm scared.

Symmetra wasn't good at all, but I was expecting her rehaul to make her more defensive and support based, but not to this extent.

She has a little more range with her Primary(which is already a massive pain since a good Symmetra can basically take down your entire backline especially on console if no one communicates at all), Wasn't one of her new Ultimates is a Winston-like Bubble and one of her normal skills gives HP or did someone interpret that wrong?

And her Teleporter now regens if it's only partly damaged and not destroyed on top of her gaining that 2nd Ultimate and nothing about her Ultimate gain was changed at all(which I found funny to be honest considering I heard people say it impacting Mercy means it kills off her main gimmick but it honest to god doesn't unless people, like always, can get rid of her first but considering her passive regen buff, that's even more difficult) which means I would not be surprised if Sym becomes the next Mei in how quickly she gains her Ult in every encounter.

I'm more or less saying that I fear how good a great Symmetra will be from now on.

[Hyogo]

So happy right now ;_;

[Darkflare]

Oh right. Maybe now people will pick Winston more often to deal with her and while they're at it deal with Hanzo, Widow and Mercy too.

[DelusionTrim]

So PTR is bugged, more so for Shield abilities... you can literally hack through Rein/Winston shields, Zarya bubbles and Mei's cryostasis.

I've seen Reinhardts getting killed by Self Destruct and High Noon even with his shield up, there is no way this is intentional lol.

[Moon Girard]

Oasis is on PTR the cars can be used to charge Zarya's shield and also kills ulting Zen's.

[DelusionTrim]

So if anyone wants to get an idea for which characters may get costumes for the christmas event , here is what dataminers have found so far:

https://pvplive.net/c/dataminers-discover-overwatch-holiday-event-and-wh

Damn this is a lot of content, thankfully I have saved up a lot of coins since the halloween event ended (over 3000 coins so far).

[Hyogo]

Fortunately Season 3 has been so nice to me so far, I'm hoping to hit Master by the end of the season!

[Moon Girard]

Winter event comes out next Tuesday
https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/806196531795673088

[Darkflare]

That's about what everyone was guessing it would be on. Nice to have the confirmation.

[Berry]

Today's my first event, what kind of shit can I expect?


Some leaked image of 4 skins, Torb's looks Legendary and the others look like epics... I'm hoping so at least.

[Moon Girard]

Yeti Winston is the other legendary Tracers is a legendary as well.

[Berry]

Some trailer in Spanish since there's no English one yet


Group Shot

[Moon Girard]

This was suppose to be an easy event to give mei a legendary and it looks like they spent 5 minutes on it no way is it worth 3,000 credits when Pharah's does more to change her default and is only 750 credits.

Also English trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gjn0ObXWak

Symmetra Rework is live as well.

[Berry]

I got that shitty Mei skin first thing, I'm fucking uninstalling

edit: i got mcree, saved

[Moon Girard]

She turns into a snowman when using iceblock with it, i guess that's something going for it.
This snowball brawl sucks though.

[Berry]

This event is pretty shit, the brawl sucks and mystery hero is limited to only two maps, and there's no all brawl playlist to fuck around in.  Fuck this.

And lol that Mei skin is trash, legendary status for a recolor with a hat and snow added to her shift? Come on.

[rednavi -RETIRED]

"But the hat is new!"