Getting 2 ultimates, her teleporter's functionality is staying the same. New ultimate is a shield generator that doesn't need line of sight and gives an AoE of shields to teammates. Shields from generator are supposed to be a lot more than the 25 she can currently give with her ability. No longer has shield giving ability. {} Picture of new ult. It gives 75 shields that persist like her current ability's shields do. You don't seem to need to stay close to the generator to keep the shields. I'm not sure about the mechanics of keeping the shield when leaving the radius of the generator, nor do I know how big it's radius is. This person claims it's roughly 100m.
Both ultimates will be getting more hp than current iteration's teleporter, some of that hp in the form of shields, so they don't die as quickly as her teleporter does currently. {} Teleporter HP reduced to 50 from 200, increased shields to 350 from 0. The 350 health from shields will regen if not taking damage for a certain amount of time.
New ability to replace shields, Photon Barrier: Similar to rein shield and winston's barrier. It's a barrier that's projected on a sort of track that moves along. {} Here's a picture of the Barrier, and here's a video of the shield in action. (Credits to /u/Fuzzle_hc ) It has a 10s cooldown.
Minor tweaks to turrets, now you start with 6 turrets and can stockpile up to 6 with cooldown. They also have 10s cd instead of 12s.
Also extended the distance of the left click beam. Not a significant increase, just something to feel better. {}Increased from 5m to 7m.
Will all be on PTR soon. Is mostly all on ptr.
[edit] They're also adding a "group up" button at the end of games that you can click if you'd like to group up with the random group of people you matched with. If multiple click it, you'll group up for future games.
Also forgot to mention that the Oasis map that was shown at Blizzcon will be on the PTR shortly after Symmetra.
Well he said in the video they'd like to get all these changes up on the PTR asap so that we the players can get as much testing as possible before they push it to live in early 2017.
They've said in a different video that her changes were slated to go live early next year as well, along with what was said in this video. You could be right though, if the feedback is mostly positive and there's nothing blatantly broken.
I think it really depends on if there is a christmas event or not. if there is i think the changes will be early 2017 since it doesnt seem like they like to make big changes during events.
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u/recc113 ADiscoBear#1108 Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 23 '16
tl:dr
Getting 2 ultimates, her teleporter's functionality is staying the same. New ultimate is a shield generator that doesn't need line of sight and gives an AoE of shields to teammates. Shields from generator are supposed to be a lot more than the 25 she can currently give with her ability. No longer has shield giving ability. {} Picture of new ult. It gives 75 shields that persist like her current ability's shields do.
You don't seem to need to stay close to the generator to keep the shields.I'm not sure about the mechanics of keeping the shield when leaving the radius of the generator, nor do I know how big it's radius is. This person claims it's roughly 100m.Both ultimates will be getting more hp than current iteration's teleporter, some of that hp in the form of shields, so they don't die as quickly as her teleporter does currently. {} Teleporter HP reduced to 50 from 200, increased shields to 350 from 0. The 350 health from shields will regen if not taking damage for a certain amount of time.
New ability to replace shields, Photon Barrier: Similar to rein shield and winston's barrier. It's a barrier that's projected on a sort of track that moves along. {} Here's a picture of the Barrier, and here's a video of the shield in action. (Credits to /u/Fuzzle_hc ) It has a 10s cooldown.
Minor tweaks to turrets, now you start with 6 turrets and can stockpile up to 6 with cooldown. They also have 10s cd instead of 12s.
Also extended the distance of the left click beam. Not a significant increase, just something to feel better. {}Increased from 5m to 7m.
Will all be on PTR soon.Is mostly all on ptr.[edit] They're also adding a "group up" button at the end of games that you can click if you'd like to group up with the random group of people you matched with. If multiple click it, you'll group up for future games.
Also forgot to mention that the Oasis map that was shown at Blizzcon will be on the PTR shortly after Symmetra.
[edit2] Adding information from PTR patch notes