u/Individual-Draft-963

Hello!

I’m not a Mercy player, but I’ve been thinking about Mercy balance lately how to possibly make changes that overall buff her without encouraging toxic play. One thing that I know is quite controversial with the character is how hard pocketing a single player can be somewhat uninteractive for the Mercy player and extremely frustrating for the opposing team to play against. I’ve been thinking about ways to discourage this play style without heavily nerfing the character and I’d love to hear what some actual Mercy players think of it:

Mercy’s healing/second and damage boost are buffed heavily from their current state, possibly 1.5x stronger than they are now, but they slowly degenerate the longer they’re used on a single target. This will be kept track with some sort of queue that actively decreases your support output on your current target, but refreshes it as you move on to different players. Visually, you will see your beam get thinner/weaker the longer you pocket someone.

This change was inspired by a mechanic you see in a lot of fighting games called a staleness counter, which is an invisible queue that prevents players from abusing the same move many times in a row by slightly decreasing their damage the more they hit the move, and resetting it when they use different moves.

With this change I’d hope that it makes Mercy see more value in supporting the whole team, and make ga movement even more valuable to encourage constant weaving to support different teammates. Her skill floor and skill ceiling would probably increase a bit, and her core playstyle remains the same (unless you only play pocket-hitscan).

I’m a new game developer so these kinds of exercises are fun and helpful for me to practice.

Let me know what you think!

So I’ve been playing OW for a couple of months and I really gravitated towards Sym as a character. She is my most played DPS by far, I have watched all the Unranked to GMs, sub to the best players, etc.

I took a break from the game and came back hopped on to play her again and she just feels… incredibly bad. I am in Mid Gold and nobody has any concept of team play. Nobody even looks at the TPs. I try to off angle and do something but even when I hit all my shots she is pitiful at securing kills if the enemy supports are doing their job. All my supports ignore me and healbot the tank or there’s almost always a mercy pocketing a hitscan. It’s just so unfun at this level. She doesn’t work. I feel like I struggle to provide value to the match the way I can on characters that can simply hold their own and output dps.

Ik i’m still new to the game and my gamesense is bad (which is why I’m gold). But she doesn’t seem like a good or viable character to play at this level. I also have dabbled with Freja, Mei, Bastion, Echo, etc and they are far easier be impactful/carry with than sym. The enemy actually has to respect your dmg output on those chars and your team wants to help you (or you have the sustain to help yourself).

Idk guys that is just my rant after having a really unfun session.

Hi all.

I’m a 24M who recently moved to the island with his parents post grad while doing a remote internship, now looking for full time work in game dev/software engineering. I’ve been here for a year and noticed how few young adults are here full time, especially those who are more nerdy and into digital media. It makes sense given how most jobs are in service/hospitality, but man! I’m also not a partier and don’t drink so that adds to the difficulty.

Any suggestions for ways to meet people my age? Outside of partying i’m fairly well rounded and into cooking/baking, games/esports, pickleball, various shows, used to be a big rock climber (it doesn’t exist here). I actually majored in game design and that’s ultimately where I want to be later in my career. I’ve been keeping myself sane in the meantime by keeping up with my friendships online, mostly friends i met in high school and college. It’s rough finding people out here, especially when I bet a lot of people like me also don’t go out much lol.

Also if you are also in the area and looking for friends i’m happy to chat!

Hi all.

I just went through a 3 stage interview process for a dream position. It would have been my first salaried position out of college in an industry that is notoriously difficult to break into, and for a subject matter that I particularly enjoyed. They flew me across the country for the final interview and I got to meet people on the team and have lunch with them and have 4 back to back interviews, personality and technical.

The interview process was excruciating for my anxiety. I had multiple sleepless nights, heart pumping before every interview. I simply cared far too much and wanted to get it right. I experienced tons of latent anxiety during the waiting game. I just wasn’t capable of doing anything.

Lo and behold, despite me thinking that I nailed the whole interview, I got a rejection letter in the mail this morning.

I am devastated. I was already exhausted from this process that took months. It is the only interview I’ve gotten, and I’ve applied for many positions.

I don’t think I’m mentally capable of going through this again.