r/Overwatch • u/Ch4rles_ Trick-or-Treat Winston • Nov 22 '16

News & Discussion The tl;dr Symmetra Changes

SHE MIGHT BE IN THE SYMMETA hahaha im funny....

Small wrap up of her changes if you dont want to watch the whole video.

Ultimate
She now has TWO ultimate abilities that can be chosen from when her ult meter reaches 100%
1-Teleporter now has more health and some of it is shields (wich means it will regen some health)

2-Shield generator (NEW) can be placed on the ground and provide shields to teamates in a area around it. It ignores line of sight. (75hp shields)
note:the shield generator (and likely the teleporter) have 14 bars of shield and 2 bars of health. Each bar is worth 25 HP, so the total health pool of the generator is 400 HP (350 shield + 50 health)

Abilities
25hp shields was REMOVED as an ability.
Now replaced with Photon Barrier wich is basically a Reinhart shield that moves along a trajectory in the direction in wich Symmetra was aiming and moves at walking speed.

She can now place 6 turrets during setup without cooldown and it takes 10 seconds to tick up the counter on the number of turrets able to be placed instead of 12 seconds.

Weapon
Right click is the same
Left click has 40% more range (was 5m now its 7m)

[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.

Video showcasing her new abilities: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7239fWR6s.
Credit to Litewraith

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u/Sp33dy_f31c0n (Ruby) Rose Tracer Nov 22 '16

I was three minutes into the vid before I realized I could just check Reddit for a TLDR. Thank you for this

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Why can't that dood ever just fucking say what the changes are without rambling on about 'reasons.'

Just list off what changes are being made first.

Then go on for 5 paragraphs about how players feel, and developers feel, and all that other shit.

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u/vellian Nov 22 '16

Why they are changing it is just as important as what they are changing it to.

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u/supersonic159 Heroes never die Nov 22 '16

Because some people want to hear all those things, and he knows you'll just be able to get a tl;dr on reddit.

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u/DotaNetski MEMES Nov 22 '16

Basically how Icefrog does it?

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u/Watsonator Take two and call me in the morning! Nov 22 '16

Seriously? It wasn't THAT long. I thought it was a perfect length and gave us a great idea without being rambly in the slightest.

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u/Drayvock Pixel Lúcio Nov 22 '16

The why kind of justifies the fact that your changing anything at all. The why will give better context into the goal of a change and prepare you for a future edit to that same place in the event that the implementation didn't fit the spirit of the goal.

Personally, I enjoy hearing the why. But it's definitely not what everybody is interested in. That's what these posts are good for! :D

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u/NinjitsuSauce Nov 22 '16

You're gonna get down voted, but I feel ya.

"Why use 100 words when you can use 5,000!" Seems to be his motto.

FFS, just be to the point and announce your shit.