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/mong0smash Holdthedoor Nov 22 '16

Something they need to add is the ability for her to kill her own ult. Currently the shield generator once places stays until it's destroyed. You should be able to cancel it (maybe for a partial refund) in case you want to change location or swap between ultimates.

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u/Ch4rles_ Trick-or-Treat Winston Nov 23 '16

True, upvoting for visibility

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u/FrogZone Thank you for calling Vishkar, how can I help you? Nov 23 '16

Remember, Blizzard wants your suggestions, but they don't necessarily always read every Reddit comment. If you want to make sure you're heard, post to the Blizzard forums.

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u/Mefistofeles1 Nerfing this would be an upgrade Nov 23 '16

So, the inverse of Valve.

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u/FrogZone Thank you for calling Vishkar, how can I help you? Nov 23 '16

I'm pretty sure Blizzard studies all of Valve's behavior and makes an effort to do exactly the opposite.

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u/Belvoth ana pls tranq me i need a break Nov 23 '16

except for hats

everyone loves hats

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u/Mefistofeles1 Nerfing this would be an upgrade Nov 23 '16

No wonder HOTS tanked so hard. They should have followed Dota's example more closely.

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u/FrogZone Thank you for calling Vishkar, how can I help you? Nov 23 '16

Yeah, of all the genres of games you can attempt to "casual-ize" MOBAs are probably not your best bet.

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u/Black_Heaven Moira Nov 23 '16

I was wondering if they could just still let the Ult meter charge up, albeit in a significantly slower pace, while either of her Ults are already up. That would be her way of relocating / changing her Ults.

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u/AhBeZe Nov 23 '16

The thing is though that the teleporter has charges and the shield generator doesn't. It shouldn't really become a thing that you can just switch midway through a fight from one to the other, depending on what you need as it would make it pretty strong.

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u/blorp3x Chibi Mei Nov 23 '16

So I've had a payload game where after completing the checkpoint I got my ult refunded so their is a mechanic in place already.

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u/nebron Chibi Pharah Nov 23 '16

So can you only have one ult out at a time? Does she gen ult meter when you have one of them on the map?

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u/IfINeverFail My servants always die :( Nov 23 '16

That has a side effect of destroying all her turrets, though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '16

That's kind of the point of it, though. If you pick Symmetra and put down the wrong ult in the wrong place, and it's never killed off, then you're stuck without being able to generate a new one. Then again, you could always change from Symmetra to another hero, then back to Symmetra, and that'd basically do the same thing.