The blurb about Mercy continues: 'We saw some issues with the implementation of this latest version throughout the first week of the beta, so we'll be changing up the ability in the mid-cycle patch. Lastly, the plan is to change the Teleporter cooldown from 16 seconds to 12 seconds. The second change is reducing the Secondary Fire charge time from 1.2 seconds back to 1 second. One of these changes involves increasing Secondary Fire projectile size from. That said, one of the benefits of this beta is that we can make changes and iterations prior to launch.'Īdding to this, Blizzard notes it's trying out a few changes in internal tests.

Our reasoning for some of the other nerfs was that Symmetra is already a statistically strong hero, and we feared these changes alone would push her over the edge. One of these nerfs was no longer gaining ammo from barriers, which we removed to put power back into her ammo capacity since barriers are much less prevalent. We expected the changes to Symmetra's Teleporter and secondary fire projectile speed to be the primary solutions, but we overshadowed these with other nerfs. 'There are fewer tanks that Symmetra can use to charge up, and the removal of Assault (2cp) maps takes away a defensive stage that she previously shined on. 'We recognized in the first beta that Symmetra didn't quite fit into the play space Overwatch 2's changes were defining: Faster paces, more engagements, less barriers,' said Blizzard of one of the two characters.

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