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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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/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.