Overwatch 2’s new throwback mode promised to recreate the glory days of enjoying Mercy in 2017, however to everybody’s shock, it truly recreated the dwelling hell of enjoying Mercy simply earlier than her peak in 2017.
When Overwatch Traditional: Moth Meta went dwell on Tuesday, individuals have been hoping to return to a interval of the sport the place Mercy was in cost. It was referred to as Moth Meta as a result of she may swoop in and immediately resurrect fallen allies together with her reworked Valkyrie final means. However as an alternative of recreating the model of Mercy from what many perceive was the height of Moth Meta in 2017, Blizzard selected a patch from a number of months earlier than she actually took flight.
“If this can be a Moth Mercy patch, why is that this a nerfed Valkyrie?” requested one Reddit person who identified the discrepancies in Overwatch: Traditional’s model of the hero. Mercy was at her strongest simply after the October 2017 patch, when her rezzes have been instantaneous and Valkyrie gave her a bonus rez. Within the new mode, Mercy is how she was in September 2017, when Valkyrie solely lowered the cooldown on rez. And for some cause, her rez has a brief solid time, a change that didn’t occur till later. Overwatch: Traditional additionally doesn’t embody the bug that allowed Mercy gamers to pop into the air — a mechanic Overwatch 2 made official.
In consequence, Mercy isn’t wherever near the height of her energy, which sours the mode’s total premise. Doomfist gamers, nevertheless, are thriving. The hyper-mobile hero is again to terrorize matches as a injury supplier as an alternative of his present position as a tank in Overwatch 2. Each Mercy participant hoping to super-jump out of his manner is getting squashed by the hero’s rocket-powered gauntlet. It’s not a Moth Meta, it’s a Doomfist Meta.
Gamers are sharing clips of Traditional’s Doomfist flying throughout rooftops to take them out identical to previous occasions. The hero was infamous for touchdown on you out of nowhere and customarily being a nuisance to unsuspecting gamers. In contrast to some other Overwatch hero again then, he gained well being by utilizing his talents, making him extraordinarily exhausting to take care of as soon as he received going. With Overwatch: Traditional, an entire new technology of gamers are getting to find what it’s prefer to be a Doomfist’s prey.
