by JR Cook - 8 years ago     show comments

Game Director Jeff Kaplan made a short video talking about the recent updates to the beta in Overwatch. Most of what he talks about was identified in the recent patch notes.

He did however say that while they are happy with the Symmetra changes, they’re not happy with the Mercy changes. He says her ultimate doesn’t feel as responsive as it used to and that her ultimate was a bit powerful so they tried to tune it down a bit, but it appears they have done so too much. There will be changes in the future to fix it.

He also said there will be changes, likely next year, to Torbjorn and Bastion. They feel too strong against new players, but more experienced players don’t find them that viable in competitive play. Right now they’re discussing how to make those characters less devastating to new players but also more viable to competitive play.

You can watch the full video and his comments on the upcoming beta stress test below