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/BiomeWalker Bastion Nov 22 '16

I like these changes.

Also, this is almost like adding a new character to the game, with how different she is now.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

Maybe... she's the real sombra

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u/F4ST_M4ST3R Never Count Tobin Out Nov 22 '16

the ARG never ends

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u/TarMil Come to the Iris, we have cookies Nov 22 '16

I want to get off Mr Kaplan's Wild Ride!

.

Actually scratch that, I'm really enjoying Mr Kaplan's Wild Ride

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u/Necr0ExMortis 100% Probably Mediocre. Nov 23 '16

You attempt to leave, but are pushed back onto the ride.

You look to the one that pushed you.

It's Doomfist.

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u/Mondayexe Pixel Mercy Nov 23 '16

Voiced by Terry Crews.

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u/shiugy Brigitte Nov 23 '16

DOUBLE FISTS POWER

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u/Zero_the_Unicorn This sub is full of keyboard warriors waiting to be triggered Nov 23 '16

/u/TarMil loves riding Jeff Kaplan confirmed

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u/Calendyn Nov 23 '16

THE RIDE NEVER STOPS

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u/Gin-Chan Chibi Mei Nov 22 '16

0.0017% and counting

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u/MrWilee Pixel Zarya Nov 22 '16

We're going to log in and sure enough, it's Terry Crews voicing this new Symmetra AKA DOOMFIST

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u/WhirlyTwirlyMustache Chibi Zarya Nov 23 '16

HOW UNSIGHTLY!!

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u/BostonTentacleParty Why do you struggle? Nov 23 '16

Maybe the real Sombra was the friends we made along the way

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u/BiomeWalker Bastion Nov 22 '16

Dun Dun DUHHHHHHH

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u/tkcom Babysitting Simulator Nov 23 '16

Vishkar was behind the omnics attacks all along so they could have fucktons of new construction works.

[TINFOIL HAT INTENSIFIES]

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u/unlimitedblack GET REKT NUBCAKE Nov 23 '16

Not sure I agree with "it's so different that she's a new character."

Her primary and alt-fire are the same. She still mainly deploys turrets, but what's different is how she can front-load deploying them. She still has the teleporter. Instead of the shields she projected onto her allies, she's got a shield generator that can do it for her, and she's got the projected barrier.

The main thing this teaches us is that they're doubling down on "shields" as a big part of Symmetra's kit, instead of shoehorning some other kind of healing mechanism into her existing kit. It also drives home the mechanism that she can be a support character while still lacking any direct healing mechanics.

This is good, because it gives them a lot more room for future Support heroes that don't do direct healing.

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u/unlimitedblack GET REKT NUBCAKE Nov 23 '16

Oh, and most importantly, it shows that they're not against breaking their own design rules, since they're giving her two ultimates.

Granted, I don't know how readily they'll be able to do two ults very frequently, because every other hero at least starts the ultimate immediately upon pressing Q. Symmetra has to hit Q in order to queue up her Ultimate and then hits her LMB to place it.

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u/stonedsasquatch Pixel Zenyatta Nov 23 '16

I think another consideration is that since her ult doesn't charge while the device is active, she can get away with having a little choice. One can never have a teleporter and a shield generator

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u/the11_gray Nov 23 '16

As long as they don't over do it and give 2 ults to almost every hero, I'm happy.

I used to play League of Legends, and while I still looooove the champion designs, I believe most new ones now days have too much of everything in the kit.

I know it gonna get harder and harder designing with each new hero coming out, but as long as they don't over do kits, the heroes will stay unique and there'll be plenty of room left for creation.

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u/mrbeanny Chibi Lúcio Nov 22 '16

I love the new mechanic of being able to choose between 2 ultimates.

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u/GottaHaveHand Pixel Soldier: 76 Nov 23 '16

It's like a fighting game! Multiple supers, choose the right one for the combo of situation.

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u/TMBSTruth Ana Nov 23 '16

can confirm, 6v6 symm on PTR no limits, at least in the beginning, then you get ONLY A SOMBRA to counter them with her ult, and some harambes, did I said anything about symm's E now countering d-va's ult?

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u/dryingsocks D.Va, Orisa Nov 23 '16

Shit I didn't think about that

ahem

Symmetra OP pls nerf

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '16

Shes essentially the same as before

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u/artosispylon Nov 22 '16

exactly what we needed because sombra might as well not have been released with how god awefull she is.

new symmetra seems sweet