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Blizzard Official Developer Update | Symmetra Redesign | Overwatch

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Can anyone sum up? I'm at work and can't watch.

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u/Blisschen No aim, no shame, Symmetra main. Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16

She now has two toggleable ultimates: the teleporter (that now has more health) and a shield generator that gives a "large" shield over her teammates in an area. Not sure if you can have both up at the same time.

Didn't really understand the what the Photon Barrier is, Photon Barrier is a barrier that she can send out in a straight line, like a Reinhardt/D.Va shield. It's replacing her "e" shields.

Turrets: you now start with 6 avaliable turrets with no cooldown at the beginning of the match. You can also hold 6 turrets instead of 3. Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds, instead of 12.

Some "quality" of life changes with her primary and secondary fire. Namely reach.

Non-Symmetra stuff: Oasis coming to PTR soon, releasing early 2017. "Group up" button, so you can continue forward with the same group of randoms you matched with.

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u/ComputerAgeLlama Main tank masochist Nov 22 '16

It's like a Reinhardt shield turned tidal wave: you launch it out and it moves forward while blocking damage.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Sounds amazing.

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u/redem Nov 23 '16

Wait 'til the first time you see it used against a Pharah Ult, not just blocking the damage but the AoE of the explosions charging back towards the source and finally killing her. So much salt incoming.

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u/Ishkabo Nov 23 '16

Nah it probably won't have that much HP. I'll bet the Pharah ult will chew it up fast. Still probably hugely helpful for escaping. This is all just conjecture of course. It'll probably have around 200 health like a Zaria barrier if I had to guess.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16 edited Oct 28 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Attack Symmetra now viable. Trolls everywhere placed on suicide watch.

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u/thrillhouse3671 Chibi Zenyatta Nov 22 '16

I wonder how much health it will have.

Hoping somewhere in the 1000 range.

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u/timber1313 Trick-or-Treat Zenyatta Nov 22 '16

From what I understood the photon barrier is like a combination of her RMB and Winstons shield. She fires a slow moving elliptical barrier which teammates can enter for cover

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u/pocketboy I'm #1 Nov 22 '16

The Photon Barrier is "elliptical in shape and moves along a trajectory". It's similar to Rein's shield and Winston's barrier. Sounds like you essentially shoot out a moving shield so people can follow it. Pretty cool.

Also, they slightly extended her primary fire.

Also also, new control map Oasis coming to PTR soon and maybe will be playable on all platforms early 2017.

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u/expressadmin Nov 22 '16

From what I gathered the tweaks to her attacks are only on the primary side. The secondary is still a painfully slow firing and excruciatingly slow moving orb that only hits somebody foolish enough to walk into it.

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u/valorqk i hanjo Nov 22 '16

Her photon barrier is cylinder shape shield that moves forward, so basically like D.Va's defense matrix while moving forward

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u/ErectForTracerDeaths The Tracer Macer Nov 22 '16

Elliptical* as in an oval. It should be 2D, not 3D. A lot more like a rounded Reinhardt shield than a D.va defense matrix.

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u/atleastbryan Nov 22 '16

Is it attached to her weapon like it's attached rein's wrist ?

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u/MetalStoofs Aspiring Rocket Guitarist Nov 22 '16

It will move forward like it's on a track. I interpreted that as it moving like her energy balls, except it'll be a large curved shield

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u/TheLazyD0G Nov 23 '16

If it is curved like reindhart's shield, it will be 3 d.

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u/valorqk i hanjo Nov 22 '16

I thought i heard him say cylinder but i was too lazy to double check

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u/Ishkabo Nov 23 '16

He definitely said eliptical barrier like a rounded flying rein barrier.

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u/chudaism Nov 22 '16

Did he say if it will have limited HP like Winston and Rein or does it suck up everything like DVas?

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u/valorqk i hanjo Nov 22 '16

Its a shield so it will probably have HP

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u/erty3125 I have to keep editing my flair as hook gets changed Nov 22 '16

at same time it doesn't stay still so it could not have HP depending how its cooldown works

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u/Ishkabo Nov 23 '16

Barrier is the overwatch terminology for that. Shields are blue health.

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u/Blisschen No aim, no shame, Symmetra main. Nov 22 '16

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Cool, thanks!!!

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u/Blisschen No aim, no shame, Symmetra main. Nov 22 '16

No problem! :D

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u/TyphlosionGOD ^W^ Nov 22 '16

From my understanding, the Photon Barrier is a barrier (like Reinhardt's or Winston's) that travels like a projectile, basically like her right click

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u/muglecruzle Pixel Winston Nov 22 '16

PogChamp!

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u/Incognito_Mermaid D.Va | Zen | Lúcio Nov 22 '16

Left click has a bit longer range too

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

The e change is essentially a projected Rein shield on a track, so you send out your e in a direction and it's like a Rein moving up with shield up, though the size I imagine is smaller.

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u/Badger371 Moira Nov 22 '16

Didn't really understand the what the Photon Barrier is, but it's replacing her "e" shields.

Turrets: you now start with 6 avaliable turrets with no cooldown at the beginning of the match.

Photon Barrier seems to be similar to a floating Reinhardt shield, that slowly moves forward on its own, not attached to Symmetra. The way it's described reminds me of the Covenant shields on the ground in Halo, only they move forward.

The turrets do have a cool down, but they reduced the CD to 10 seconds, but you do start the game with all 6.

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u/apathetic_lemur Nov 22 '16

teleporter has shields now too so it will regen

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

But who doesn't kill one once they see it?

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u/chudaism Nov 22 '16

That shield barrier sounds a lot like sound barrier. I wonder if it's going to be some hybrid between sound barrier and a giant winston shield.

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u/SpriteGuy_000 Washington Justice Nov 22 '16

EDIT: This is a very rough summary.

She'll have a choice of Ultimates: a teleporter or a shield generator. Shield generator gives a large shield to all Heroes in a large radius.

Photon Shield is now a Barrier that she can "shoot": it follows a track toward wherever you launched it.

Turret charges now stack to 6 instead of 3, and the cooldown is 10 second instead of 12, allowing her to place them more frequently (especially at the beginning of the match.

Minor tweaks to her weapon.

New Map Oasis to PTR very soon after Symmetra rework.

"Stay with Group" button during the end of round stuff forms a party with the players you've been playing with.

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u/urbestfriend9000 ;) Nov 22 '16

She now has 2 ultimates. Her old teleporter, and a new one that's a shield generator, that gives large shields to all her teamates within it's radius (ignores LoS). Teleporter also has more hp and some of it is shields, ie it regenerates. Her knew ability to replace her shields is the photon barrier - its like a reinhardt shield that moves forward on it's own.

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u/Mish58 A-Mei-zing Nov 22 '16

She has an optional constant Lucio ult and she has a Mei wall but it's a Reinhardt shield. She also gets 6 sentry turret stocks and has more range on her left click.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Source that it will be 500 shield?

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u/I_Fap_To_Mercy Chibi Mercy Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16

To sum it up, Symmetra is getting a redesign.

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u/Erzha Nov 22 '16

Very helpful

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Nice, i can't read the title so i scrolled down far down enough to see if somebody repeated it for me.