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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 2:36:24 PM
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Here are the complete changes (so far) for Sombra that we are looking to test out soon:

* No longer gains ult from health pack healing
* Weapon Spread decreased by 10%
* Hacking speed increased from 0.8s to 0.65s
* Hacking will disable more abilities. Basically any ability that requires a button press will also be disabled. Here is a list:

Genji Double Jump/Wall Climb
Pharah Hover Jets
Hanzo Wall Climb
Lucio currently running Crossfade song will be disabled
Mercy Angelic Descent


support sombra is dead, pharah is dead, and lucio is dead. there wasnt anything wrong with sombra, but blizzard wont accept anything less than dps characters being able to kill anyone at any time, and theyre more than willing to put their meta in a garbage place to keep their shooters happy.

meanwhile, she still cant hack 76 out of his ult, because that would mean they would have to nerf an attack character.
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Azardea
02/09/18 2:38:10 PM
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rip. Sombra isn't fun to play against.
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Bagamak
02/09/18 2:39:02 PM
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blizzard is weird. in WoW someone datamined a quest for the upcoming expansion. there is a race of elves who the alliance helped out and then these elves got upset cause ONE night elf made a snide comment and they all left and joined the horde. in this new quest, the leader of them that tries to burn down the city of Stormwind kiling everyone inside and blizzard portrays her as the hero and that she is justified in genocide.
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Sputnik1337
02/09/18 2:45:12 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
Lucio currently running Crossfade song will be disabled

what
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 2:45:58 PM
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theres zero consistency to the hack. it can cancel out completely organic things like reaper spinning an a circle or a shimada climbing a wall, but not a literal piece of technology like tac visor? She can keep him from sprinting, but not using an aimbot??

also, the shimadas cant climb with their natural ability while hacked anymore, but lucio can still wall ride with his magic shoes. not that I want them to kill wall riding too, but like, jesus, these are such bad changes and they dont make sense regarding the meta or any basic fuckin logic. Im mad and rambling lol
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Giant_Aspirin
02/09/18 2:46:22 PM
#6:


CookieMarvin posted...
* No longer gains ult from health pack healing


that's a significant nerf tho
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 2:47:58 PM
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Sputnik1337 posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
Lucio currently running Crossfade song will be disabled

what

this is legitimately infuriating. her abilities are so anti-healer, but they wont allow her to fill the support hole anymore.

mercy is garbage again, lucio is going to die with these changes, and her emp guarantees a zenyatta death. How do they expect anyone to heal literally ever
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 2:48:57 PM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
* No longer gains ult from health pack healing


that's a significant nerf tho

Id say thats pretty negligible considering that she gets to do things like hack pharah out of the fucking sky
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Azardea
02/09/18 2:49:08 PM
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Bagamak posted...
there is a race of elves who the alliance helped out and then these elves got upset cause ONE night elf made a snide comment and they all left and joined the horde.

This ONE night elf happened to be one of the two leaders, who was hostile through the entire campaign, yes.
in this new quest, the leader of them that tries to burn down the city of Stormwind kiling everyone inside and blizzard portrays her as the hero and that she is justified in genocide.

Haven't really kept up with datamining, but I'm quite sure this refers to Sylvanas, and has nothing to do with the race of elves you're talking about.
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TheMarthKoopa
02/09/18 2:50:08 PM
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There shouldn't even be healers in an FPS
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Bagamak
02/09/18 2:51:46 PM
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Azardea posted...
Haven't really kept up with datamining, but I'm quite sure this refers to Sylvanas, and has nothing to do with the race of elves you're talking about.


no its talking about the leader of the nightbourne. sylvanas is not even in this this quest. it's a small group of commando horde infiltrating Stormwind and the horde player goes with them and they end up trying to burn down the city so they can escape. there is a huge arguement about it right now over ont he battlenet forum.
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Bagamak
02/09/18 2:52:42 PM
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Sparksfanboy posted...
Bagamak posted...
*unmarked spoilers for a major upcoming story event*


Can you maybe put a spoiler warning on datamined spoilers in unrelated topics in the future? Thanks.

sorry. it doesn't strike me as a thing cause I never understood spoilers for mmo's. the way the story is played out it just......isn;t the same same as a book or movie. so I never care about the spoilers

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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 2:53:56 PM
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can anyone think of the last time they actually nerfed a dps character

TheMarthKoopa posted...
There shouldn't even be healers in an FPS

hey this aint the topic for your garbage ovw takes.
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halomonkey1_3_5
02/09/18 2:58:58 PM
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Hack was actually totally consistent in what it would stop but Blizzard does a very poor job communicating that in-game
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Azardea
02/09/18 2:59:14 PM
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Bagamak posted...
Azardea posted...
Haven't really kept up with datamining, but I'm quite sure this refers to Sylvanas, and has nothing to do with the race of elves you're talking about.


no its talking about the leader of the nightbourne. sylvanas is not even in this this quest. it's a small group of commando horde infiltrating Stormwind and the horde player goes with them and they end up trying to burn down the city so they can escape. there is a huge arguement about it right now over ont he battlenet forum.

...huh. Well then, nevermind. That does sound pretty weird.
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halomonkey1_3_5
02/09/18 2:59:56 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
can anyone think of the last time they actually nerfed a dps character

they nerfed Junkrat like a week ago
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Tyranthraxus
02/09/18 3:02:58 PM
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Bagamak posted...
blizzard is weird. in WoW someone datamined a quest for the upcoming expansion. there is a race of elves who the alliance helped out and then these elves got upset cause ONE night elf made a snide comment and they all left and joined the horde. in this new quest, the leader of them that tries to burn down the city of Stormwind kiling everyone inside and blizzard portrays her as the hero and that she is justified in genocide.

remember the time goat aliens came out of a portal and went into space and then elves stole the space ship and became space elves and then shot down the goat aliens lmao
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SSJ2GrimReaper
02/09/18 3:03:30 PM
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Is there a up-to-date chart that shows which characters are picked most/least
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:05:56 PM
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
can anyone think of the last time they actually nerfed a dps character

they nerfed Junkrat like a week ago

lol an actual nerf
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:06:50 PM
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...
Is there a up-to-date chart that shows which characters are picked most/least

https://www.overbuff.com
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SSJ2GrimReaper
02/09/18 3:09:11 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
SSJ2GrimReaper posted...
Is there a up-to-date chart that shows which characters are picked most/least

https://www.overbuff.com

dankkyawww
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EverDownward
02/09/18 3:09:59 PM
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Why the fuck did I read the OP as "Clifford is bombing the hell out of Somalia?" Like, Big Red Dog Clifford, too...
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halomonkey1_3_5
02/09/18 3:10:05 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
lol an actual nerf

which DPS do you think needs an "actual" nerf right now
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:11:19 PM
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
lol an actual nerf

which DPS do you think needs an "actual" nerf right now

boy you best not take that tone with me
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Tyranthraxus
02/09/18 3:29:52 PM
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
lol an actual nerf

which DPS do you think needs an "actual" nerf right now


Junkrat is ostensibly not supposed to be DPS. And none of them need a nerf IMO.
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Were_Wyrm
02/09/18 3:33:32 PM
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Azardea posted...
...huh. Well then, nevermind. That does sound pretty weird.

It's not like story has ever been WoW's strong point.
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BlueBoy675
02/09/18 3:33:58 PM
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
lol an actual nerf

which DPS do you think needs an "actual" nerf right now

I don't really have an opinion on this, but it seems the general consensus is that Tracer has been top tier since launch
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ZMythos
02/09/18 3:36:35 PM
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Blizzard shows incompetence in game design, more at 11.
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_Near_
02/09/18 3:38:04 PM
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time to become a sombra main
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AvantgardeAClue
02/09/18 3:38:41 PM
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Overwatch has turned into a semi-twitch shooter where non-DPS characters are essentially considered throwing and Attacker mains don't have to read patch notes because they're untouchable
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:42:50 PM
#34:


AvantgardeAClue posted...
Overwatch has turned into a semi-twitch shooter where non-DPS characters are essentially considered throwing and Attacker mains don't have to read patch notes because they're untouchable

yeah whats that saying? "Tracer mains don't read patch notes" or something?
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Giant_Aspirin
02/09/18 3:43:17 PM
#35:


TheMarthKoopa posted...
There shouldn't even be healers in an FPS


Overwatch isn't an FPS. It's an objective-focused, class-based first-person game. It's more akin to a FPMOBA than an FPS, honestly.
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AvantgardeAClue
02/09/18 3:45:35 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
AvantgardeAClue posted...
Overwatch has turned into a semi-twitch shooter where non-DPS characters are essentially considered throwing and Attacker mains don't have to read patch notes because they're untouchable

yeah whats that saying? "Tracer mains don't read patch notes" or something?


I think that's it but I've also seen that used for McCree and Soldier too

And healers are very welcome in FPS. Doc is a top-tier operator in Rainbow Six Siege with good reason.
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FrisbeeDude
02/09/18 3:48:53 PM
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Personally, I think she should be able to hack while invisible, but I'll take what I can get. I may be able actually use her in comp now let's gooooo
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:49:31 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
Personally, I think she should be able to hack while invisible, but I'll take what I can get. I may be able actually use her in comp now let's gooooo

that wouldn't even be kind of balanced
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AvantgardeAClue
02/09/18 3:50:42 PM
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Tracer mains don't read patch notes

Which is exactly why they need an unsuspecting nerf lol

Seriously she can OHK 200 HP operators like it's nobody's business, it's bullshit
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Kitt
02/09/18 3:52:48 PM
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LightningAce11
02/09/18 3:54:22 PM
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Fuck Blizzard.
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:54:40 PM
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I've started playing tracer a lot recently because healers are in a super not-fun spot right now, and she is stupid easy to play with, very little learning curve. But Blizzard has actually pointed to her as their golden standard for how they want characters to be balanced in the past so,,,,,,,,
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AvantgardeAClue
02/09/18 3:57:32 PM
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They should take the MW2 approach of "if everything is OP, nothing is OP"

Cause they're sure as hell doing so with their attackers
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 3:58:24 PM
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honestly, I was just thinking that thought goddamn verbatim
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Illuminoius
02/09/18 3:59:11 PM
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CookieMarvin posted...
support sombra is dead

not getting ult charge doesn't make her health hacked health packs less useful healing
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 4:00:10 PM
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Illuminoius posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
support sombra is dead

not getting ult charge doesn't make her health hacked health packs less useful healing

they're pretty clearly trying to move her away from her current play style <_<
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Sputnik1337
02/09/18 4:00:58 PM
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Illuminoius posted...
CookieMarvin posted...
support sombra is dead

not getting ult charge doesn't make her health hacked health packs less useful healing

It does however mean that every single ladder sombra is going to ignore health packs (even more than usual) because "SHES A DPS NOW HEALING IS SOMEONE ELSES JOB"
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AvantgardeAClue
02/09/18 4:01:49 PM
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Nobody's healing anyone in the current meta

If I see an Ana I'm assuming they're throwing
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Ulyanyx
02/09/18 4:02:21 PM
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Bagamak posted...
blizzard is weird. in WoW someone datamined a quest for the upcoming expansion. there is a race of elves who the alliance helped out and then these elves got upset cause ONE night elf made a snide comment and they all left and joined the horde. in this new quest, the leader of them that tries to burn down the city of Stormwind kiling everyone inside and blizzard portrays her as the hero and that she is justified in genocide.

i hate to bring politics into anything but this sounds like something that could very easily be made into a political point
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CookieMarvin
02/09/18 4:03:41 PM
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AvantgardeAClue posted...
If I see an Ana I'm assuming they're throwing

this makes me so sad. I would give anything to go back to triple tank + ana and lucio meta
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