a huge improvement. she does more damage overall, but no longer penetrates barriers with her right, and her left requires way more accuracy than i expected. she can still tear you a new one, but shes seeming more like a flanker/distracter similar to sombra or tracer; not exactly meant to kill, but meant to make you turn around from the real problem.

syms rightclick has that aoe now, as well as a large speedboost. itll do 60dmg on hit and 60dmg aoe, but the aoe feels very, very small, so it works out. i think they felt that her main focus on damage should still be the turrets, hence the buff after they removed 3...

her turrets, of which she can only have 3 now, are very useful with the throw mechanic instead of the placement. however, they buffed the damage and slow on them, so if they are grouped up, you will still die. the upside is that its easier to destroy the turrets when theyre airborne.

at the moment, dva cannot eat thrown turrets with d.matrix and genji cannot reflect thrown turrets.

she is also a fair counter to pharah now, due to the throwing turrets!her teleporter is very easy to destroy, and awkward to use. they decided that the acknowledge key (F by default, idk if you guys changed it) would also now be the Interact key. i went into the settings and tried to see if i could change it, but theyre one and the same for now. hopefully thatll change.

her ultimate lasts 10 seconds, so its not up forever and theres no generator. sym turrets seem to be able to go through it right now, though im sure thatll change

bugs, downsides, unsorted things:

symmetras turrets do even more slow / damage, which means that if a symmetra is grouping her turrets, youre going to get shredded even faster.

again, dva cannot eat thrown turrets with d.matrix and genji cannot reflect thrown turrets.

right now theres a bug where if symmetra spams her left click, she does massive damage.

sym is still listed in support achievements, in case youre trying to find her achievement sprays.

now lets move on to the other stuff!

everyone in defense and offense has been condensed into one MASSIVE "Damage" category. its... not a pretty setup, but i understand their reasoning.  i feel like keeping offense/defense wouldve been good, maybe just move some people around...?

they also have a new endorsement system. you can endorse 3 players per game at the end of the game; you can endorse them for being a good leader/shot caller, a good teammate/for good communication, and for being positive overall / being gracious about losing.every player now has a little gray ball next to the dropdown arrow that will have segments surrounding the ball, colored yellow for leader, purple for good teammate, and green for positivity. the more you’re endorsed, the more rewards you get, i think??

you can only endorse the same player once every 12 hours.

the recent players tab has been improved A LOT. there's a section specifically for players in your last match, and it says under each username which hero each person was playing at the end of the match. your teammates are on the left, and the enemy team is on the right, every time.

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