by JR Cook - 7 years ago     show comments

The Overwatch team posted a Developer Update with Jeff Kaplan this morning. In this informative 9-minute video, Jeff highlighted changes coming to Symmetra, an update on the newly announced Oasis Control map, and some social features.

Symmetra:

• Has a choice of Ultimate.
  • “Teleporter”
    • Teleporter works just as it did before.
  • “Shield Generator”
    • The Shield Generator applies shields (more than previous) to allies in a large radius and ignores line of sight.
• Symmetra’s ability to apply shields to allies is being removed.
• “Photon Barrier” replaces her previous shield ability.
  • The Photon Barrier is an elliptical shield that follows along a track.
• Symmetra can now stock 6 turrets (up from 3).
  • The total amount of turrets she can have out at once is still the same.
• Weapon remains mostly unchanged, but Symmetra’s primary fire has had it’s range extended by a minor amount.
• These changes are coming “very soon” to the PTR.

Oasis:

• Will come to the PTR after the Symmetra changes.
• The development team wants time to tweak/balance the jump pads.
• Will be on PTR at some point in December to go live in early 2017.

Social Features:

• The development team added a “Stay with Group” button that will allow you to stay grouped with your team without having to be friends.

Check out the full video below: