They talked about how Ana is a huge counter to Bastion and it never dawned on me till then. That mez is going to put the hurt on Bastion.Jeff (and some other Blizzard people) played a bunch of games on Ster's stream while doing Q&A. VOD here:Twitch
Some things worth noting:
In the next PTR patch, Mercy's damage boost percentage is getting reverted back to what it was (instead of 50%). The explanation for the buff (and why it's being reverted) is from 10:30 to 12:00 in the video. They say they are specifically aware of the McCree 200 damage headshot threshold.
They are looking closely at how Zenyatta feels in the PTR, and will reduce his total HP to 175 if 200 is too much.
The bug with Ana shots giving a friendly Zarya charge is getting fixed
New comic with more backstory about Ana is coming very soon
They have 4 new maps being worked on right now, but note that not all of them may see the light of day
The are working on new game modes, but the first new map (coming "soonish") will have a standard mode
New skins are coming before the end of summer
It sounded like they may want to try hero stacking again in season 2, but they didn't actually explicitly say that
For season 2 they are getting rid of coin flip (I think this was already known)
For season 2 they are also trying to reduce how long competitive matches take, which means you'll probably have shorter attack times at the very least
I probably forgot some stuff, so feel free to let me know if I missed anything!
Yeah the McCree-from-across-the-map-with-Mercy was a bit insane on the PTR. Pharah/Mercy also just got straight buffed and it was already a really good. Glad they're reverting it. 30% damage buff is still really good.Mercy's right click going back to 30%.
Some OW Devs were on ster's stream:Twitch
Mercy buff is being reverted (and other info revealed by Jeff Kaplan on Ster's stream) : Competitiveoverwatch
They talked about how Ana is a huge counter to Bastion and it never dawned on me till then. That mez is going to put the hurt on Bastion.
Good question, I'll have to try that tonight when I get home. My money is on they can't be mezzed. I hope I'm wrong.I wonder if you'll be able to mez Torb turrets.
That's what I'm doing. I don't want to burn out when I know they'll have a much better product available in S2. Messing around with HOTS right now instead.Yeah, been getting a lot of leavers in the last few days and it's making me just want to wait until Season 2 until they fix all of their matchmaking problems. It's a poorly implemented system at the moment and while they have already changed some aspects of it, I think they need to do a lot more.
12 games in a row, someone on my team left. I went from rank 46 to rank 38, fuck this leaver shit. I basically play competitive now to just fuck around and do what I want. If we win, great, if not, who cares. I have had people on my team get mad because of that, but do I care nope. Maybe if enough people complain, blizz will get off their ass and fix it.Has anyone else been experiencing a lot of leavers? 3 out of 5 games today. I understand the other team getting points for the game, but solo queue players shouldn't suffer a penalty if the leaver is in the first round.
Nothing happens to the leavers yet.I thought you were supposed to get a season-long ban if you've left too much?