It matters because at the higher skill levels these Mercy players are ubiquitous and aren't particularly good at the game. I'll attempt to explain:Something that I've found very strange with Overwatch, as someone who has never stuck with a first person shooter long enough to see this kind of pattern develop, is the complaining about whether or not a character requires "skill"
It's like... what the fuck does it matter? Do you really care how relatively easy a character's toolset is long as the team succeeds? How can people complain about high skill ceiling characters like snipers in one breath and then turn around and go "OMG NO SKILL" for Mercy or Bastion or Torbjorn? I thought the point of the game was to win, not to master the most complex set of mechanics?
Is this some MOBA shit or has this always been a thing with classed based shooters?
Balance-wise, Mercy isn't a particularly strong character, especially on PC. In fact, she's almost certainly the weakest healer overall and only gets any tournament play because Pharah is now usable on certain maps. In terms of ladder performance, her aggregate win rate is pretty average and she only outperforms Ana in this regard, and the reasons for that have nothing to do with balance; Ana is just a mechanically difficult character that needs to be played close to her potential to perform well, and that's simply not in reach for most players.What pisses me off most is that when Mei's ultimate was becoming oppressive because she was getting it every team fight back in season 2, they nerfed her charge rate harshly (more than the rest of the heroes), and she hasn't been close to being a meta pick since.
Mercy gets her ultimate every single team fight and Blizzard doesn't bat an eye.
What the freak? What an odd post.The only reason to hate on Mercy would be because she likes Genji. Fuck Genji.
Mercy is best!
I'm a feminist and literal Mercy stan (see avatar). The hate towards her has nothing to do with misogyny.
Btw when peopke asked Blizzard to change Symmetra achievement (so it could be given for destroying 3 shield gens,not just TPs), Jeff said that Sony and Microsoft don't allow this. They can't change it.
So because of Mercy achievement changing her ultimate to "Rez 1 person but gain ult faster" is impossible. Nobody will ever get the trophy for rezzing 4 people.
Never played much TF2, but did a lot of peeps complain about the Doctor class?
Nothing to do with misogyny? No one's refuting there are gameplay reasons for people disliking the character, but it seems hard to ignore the gendered abuse.
What about the incidents mentioned in the article?
Mercy's Guardian Angel allows her to be almost wherever she wants every 2 seconds. Positioning is differentl for the other supports that don't have the same mobility.I'd say knowing how to position well as a support is something that carries over to other (support) heroes.
Mercy's Guardian Angel allows her to be almost wherever she wants every 2 seconds. Positioning is differentl for the other supports that don't have the same mobility.
I'm well aware of her pick rate, her strengths, and her weaknesses. It doesn't change the fact that she is oppressive at all ranks of the game except for the highest level, a problem which is only exacerbated on console. She is the most picked hero in the game by far (as revealed by the developers), and the fact that, for 97% of the people playing this game, it has become an experience that revolves around Mercy is an issue.Balance-wise, Mercy isn't a particularly strong character, especially on PC. In fact, she's almost certainly the weakest healer overall and only gets any tournament play because Pharah is now usable on certain maps. In terms of ladder performance, her aggregate win rate is pretty average and she only outperforms Ana in this regard, and the reasons for that have nothing to do with balance; Ana is just a mechanically difficult character that needs to be played close to her potential to perform well, and that's simply not in reach for most players.
Mercy is definitely a problem in competitive but it has absolutely nothing to do with the strength of the character. In fact, I would argue that Mercy probably needs to be buffed (although not until they do something about her frankly absurd SR gains).
Yeah, nothing to do with misogyny. It's really a disservice to the... I don't know, thousands of women who have to tolerate abuse on the internet because they have the gall to use voice chat while playing a video game to say that this has anything to do with Mercy.Nothing to do with misogyny? No one's refuting there are gameplay reasons for people disliking the character, but it seems hard to ignore the gendered abuse.
What about the incidents mentioned in the article?
She might need a rework, but the rework needs to amount to a buff. She's, again, not a strong hero and her success at low ranks has little at all to do with her strength as a character. There's a pretty significant subset -- by all accounts a subset that is larger than master and GM combined -- of the player base that hasn't figured out how to beat Junkrat, a character that is countered by not walking into slow-moving bright red balls. There's nothing wrong with that; it's just a game and not everyone who plays it needs to be good at it. But it would be silly to balance around these people since it would make the game very unfun and unrewarding at high levels of play.I'm well aware of her pick rate, her strengths, and her weaknesses. It doesn't change the fact that she is oppressive at all ranks of the game except for the highest level, a problem which is only exacerbated on console. She is the most picked hero in the game by far (as revealed by the developers), and the fact that, for 97% of the people playing this game, it has become an experience that revolves around Mercy is an issue.
Mercy doesn't need to be buffed. What she needed was what the community originally called for months ago: a rework. She needs to be given abilities that give her utility outside of her ultimate. Instead, Blizzard ignored that and buffed her in ways that made the only thing is she good at oppressively strong against the majority of the playerbase. They absolutely need to scale back her previous buffs and give her something else of value besides resurrection.
What the freak? What an odd post.
Playing support requires a high amount of game sense (knowing where enemies are), a continual tally of team and enemy ult usage, risk assessment in split seconds, as well as crisis prioritization. She is the antithesis of everything we think about first-person shooters mechanically and, therefore, earns a lion's share of derision because of it.
I do not agree, mercy requires fair skill to keep safe, heal the right people without being attacked yourself and her res can change the flow of combat, she's just as skill based as soldier is.
Probably because you either play on console or play at a rank below Master.I never heard anyone complain about mercy until this neogaf thread.
Article is a huge stretch trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. "Games have a sexism problem" and "Mercy is a disliked character" = / = Mercy is disliked because she's a female character.
It's the only character I like to play as. It's really fun for me for some reason. I don't give a shit about "skill" in goddamned Quickplay.
Man, fuck Overwatch.
Playing support requires a high amount of game sense (knowing where enemies are), a continual tally of team and enemy ult usage, risk assessment in split seconds, as well as crisis prioritization. She is the antithesis of everything we think about first-person shooters mechanically and, therefore, earns a lion's share of derision because of it.
Bet you're a mccree main who thinks he's hot shit. Would be nothing without your mercy healing you. Healing is harder than clicking heads.most people who play her are shit and most gaffers are shit at ow so its like a perfect shitstorm
dps or uninstall MOON2SMAG
Bet you're a mccree main who thinks he's hot shit. Would be nothing without your mercy healing you. Healing is harder than clicking heads.
Bet you're a mccree main who thinks he's hot shit. Would be nothing without your mercy healing you. Healing is harder than clicking heads.
Bet you're a mccree main who thinks he's hot shit. Would be nothing without your mercy healing you. Healing is harder than clicking heads.
Healing is harder than clicking heads.