DizzyCaffeine
Member
Anyone have any tips for playing Mercy? I really enjoy healing other players rather than going for the kill, but I feel utterly defenseless when the opposing team locks in on me.
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Play mgs when you have ult.
Like really.
Sometimes it's better to hide and wait for your team to die than keep healing and expose yourself.
Dirty Bomb did something like this. Instead of capturing the point where the Payload spawns, you had to repair the vehicle itself. After that, the enemy team was able to disable the Payload by damaging it.
Also, the big doors on the Payload's path didn't open automatically. You had to plant a bomb to blow them up. It was kinda neat. Very objective focused.
Yeah because most people either win with her on first point, or switch off and another character absorbs the loss.
Red Arremer
Member
I'm very curious about how Symmetra's rework will affect the meta if she comes to live in a similar state as she is on PTR.
Her barrier and her decent damage, as well as her map awareness might open up a 3 support meta where Symmetra takes the slot of one of the tanks, and is an off-tank.
She will be especially powerful on defense maps, particularly on last points where she can put a shield generator into spawn and give everyone an additional 75 health consistently without any repercussions.
I'm not sure how well she will do on attack, but I can see her being less useful there.
Yes.
Her barrier and her decent damage, as well as her map awareness might open up a 3 support meta where Symmetra takes the slot of one of the tanks, and is an off-tank.
She will be especially powerful on defense maps, particularly on last points where she can put a shield generator into spawn and give everyone an additional 75 health consistently without any repercussions.
I'm not sure how well she will do on attack, but I can see her being less useful there.
Yes.
xaosslug
Member
interesting!
That's a weird way to spell tracer.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Would sym even be support anymore?
New sym is more like a tank by having options that create space for her team.
If anything the turrets kinda don't really make any sense with her new kit.
New sym is more like a tank by having options that create space for her team.
If anything the turrets kinda don't really make any sense with her new kit.
Hey, lay off my two favorite characters!
DizzyCaffeine
Member
Ok, I'll try to play more defensively. It's just hard to hang back when people are running right into a buzzsaw.
RecRoulette
Member
None of the classifications matter anymore. Just throw them out.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Red Arremer
Member
Her turrets will serve 2 main purposes now:
Protecting her ult and anti-flanking. And anti-flanking not by taking out the flankers, but rather by providing awareness. She can rig flanking routes with her turrets and when they set off/get killed, she can say "flanker coming from X".
And anti-flanking/map awareness is a good ability for a tank to have. Tanks are sort of supports after all, and map awareness is an important aspect of support play. I mean, D.Va is built to be an anti-flanker as well.
Are you PC or PS4?
Yea totally. Most of the tanks you aren't going to be able to keep alive anyways if they are getting focus fired. Once you're close to your ult as Mercy you should be making sure EVERYONE knows you got it. You might even bait the other team to use some ults to stop the push then you got a huge advantage in the counter punch.
DevilDog
Member
These characters are fine, in order to be good with them you need to have tons upon tons of skill. One wrong dash and genji is dead and tracer can get one shot so easily.
Genji ult with nanoboost however, I could do without that.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I guess, but I'm more thinking that her gun and turrets works best by getting the team to enter her territory.
While the moving shield is more about opening space to enter the enemy's territory.
Skid 4 Dead
Member
Any people interested in partying up for competitive? I play on PC and (mainly) XB1. Playing competitive solo is gut wrenching. I don't think I'll be playing tonight but I've been playing a bunch lately. Feel free to add me Skidfo on XB1 and Skidfo #1612 and battle.net
Self-quoting my prediction from OT6.
xaosslug
Member
no one is gonna do that, tho. xD Blizz kept going on and on about Symm's 'all seeing eyes' and peeps playing her wrong, but no one will do this. They will all be bunched together @ chokes/flanking positions, because that's just more effective, a guaranteed kill, and quicker teleporter/generator charge.
they kept her in support because the new shield generator can sustain peeps like artificial life, sort of.
Yes.
Red Arremer
Member
I see her as a Reinhardt with less mobility, less consistent protection and more supportive capabilities.
Definitely seems like she'll be a solid pick as off-tank.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Eh, I mean the ult charge nerf means there's more importance in the skill of skirmishing with raw mechanics rather than waiting for ult and also more importance in the skill of ult management instead of constant dumping.
MarioHead3
Banned
Wasn't it kinda always supposed to be more focused on game knowledge than mechanical skill?
I will add you on xbox one.
It's kinda disgusting how casually people throw this term around these days. It doesn't even work as a metaphor here. And you don't even back up why the game has become "skill-less", which it blatantly has not.
Anyway, the Sym changes look really cool. I might download PTR tomorrow to check her out.
onepiecefan
Member
Yh I'm not sure what type of character Symmetra will be now but the thought of all those random turrets being thrown around and whatnot isn't a nice one lol.
Incendiary
Banned
Everyone else already replied with all the actual commentary I had on the matter. So here's a gif of everyone's favorite skill-less cancer.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Knowing devildog he's probably talking about blizzard getting rid of genji's ledgeboost.
Which I kinda agree, coming from a fighting game background, that I'd rather them not get rid of the skillful "exploits" that the community discovered by themselves.
Which I kinda agree, coming from a fighting game background, that I'd rather them not get rid of the skillful "exploits" that the community discovered by themselves.
xaosslug
Member
since that burns an ability, probably never? LOL
onepiecefan
Member
Wait what they got rid of edgeboost? I swear they once said that they weren't gonna remove that? That's BS, there's really no reason to remove it. The firestrike charge nerf for Zarya also sucks. Is there a list of the updates?
Just because something is skillful doesn't mean it's balanced. Genji has a ton of mobility, Blizzard decided the ledge boost might be too much.
xaosslug
Member
ftfy to reflect Torb likely being there.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Genji kinda sucks in this meta though. DVa and roadhog running around means not so fun times for genji.
Other games don't do it. There's no way for it to know WHY your client just shut down (you wouldn't even need to unplug, you could just kill the process).
Fun times ahead. As if playing Winston in solo queue wasn't bad enough.
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