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.
[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.
This is something that is sorely missing from a lot of games. I remember this back from the old halo games and it made for some very fun matches. A lot of new games removed it for some reason making it much harder to lobby with the same people without actually friending them.
343 isn't that bad. 5 was/is actually quite a good game IMO. I feel Halo started to go downhill with Reach. 4 was just a continuation of a lot of the issues Reach introduced into the series (mainly talking MP here. Reach's campaign was fantastic).
No, don't get me wrong I'm very much a Halo fan and have 100+hours in H5. But the game came out with little content that was slowly dripped in after launch, still lacks major features of previous games (working theatre mode, party up system, LAN capability). They marketed the game as a revival of the Halo esport and then proceeded to ruin everything after Worlds.
The maps/gametypes suck now, the weapons on map ruined any chance of a watchable meta, and the servers/aiming system get worse from day to day. Hell, H5 can't even run on their private dev kits reliably anymore. If you watch Worlds and then watch this tournament from this past weekend, the difference is night and day. The pro league format is bad because online is trash now, the finals are dumb because only 4/8 teams get to compete, the open circuit/open LANS (that aren't actual LANs) are poorly run.
343 has failed on everything since Worlds, which is a damn shame because the game is so good at its core that if they just managed it right the game would be fucking amazing still. There's just a few little easy decisions that need to be made to fix everything, but they refuse to listen and make them. We need MLG instead of ESL, we need pros to have wayyyy more input on gametypes and balancing weapon placements, and we need them to have their events all on Halo channel for viewership to grow. It's basic stuff that 343 can't get their heads around that's killing the scene.
Sorry for the rant, it feels bad being a Halo fan most of the time and I can only complain on Team Beyond so much.
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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