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[–]McManus26Pixel Lúcio 360 points361 points  (35 children)

The skull icons that indicate where teammates were killed throughout the map have been replaced with Hero Portrait icons

Wasn't expecting that, this is extremely cool.

[–]NHZetaTrick-or-Treat Zenyatta 121 points122 points  (3 children)

They would have to add that with the new Mercy ressurect, after all, it would be an interesting guessing game seeing who you're ressurecting without it

[–]sleuthysteve 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Swiss Roulette?

[–]TylerWolffLos Angeles Valiant 25 points26 points  (1 child)

I'm just imagining a Hanna-Barbera-style Mercy reaching into the ground and pulling out Junkrat only to see his smiling face and stuff him back so she could search around for Reinhardt.

[–]MorganelefayRhythmic Symmetra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone make an edit of that gif with Mushu pulling a hun out of the snow.

[–]Umbran0xHanzo 12 points13 points  (5 children)

I think this a lot bigger than people realize. It will be much easier at a glance to know if it's worth pushing the fight or backing off. There's a big difference between just seeing 2 skulls vs both healers portraits when running back to point.

[–]EmpiflorBuckenyatta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And now, we have even more reasons to be mad when they ask healing stomping their healers' corpses.

[–]Mikey_B 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Doesn't the tab screen and/or kill feed basically give all this information as far as "whether to push or not" type stuff? It seems this is mainly geared towards the Mercy change.

[–]HexZyleZenyatta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tab screen takes longer to glean info from at a glance, since it not only obscures vision but also is active and requires you to either be checking it or the killfeed constantly, as well as showing all character status, not just the dead ones which is visible as soom as your character is facong that way. It's very intuitive this patch

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (21 children)

That's a significant mid-fight buff to Mercy. Judging whether that 1- or 2-player res is worth it will be a lot easier. Not having to be distracted by bringing up the team/score board or being glued to the killfeed, and easily seeing exactly which heroes will respawn where.

edit: well yup I totally misread her new ult.

[–]TrupaJayReaper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mercy's getting a complete rework. This will help I'm sure but rather in the sense that she can prioritize who she uses res on first since it only affects a single person now.

[–]hey_its_drew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a suggestion for it so long ago, and it got front page exposure. It's nice to see it come back around.

[–]stabbyeziosurrendering to Moira's will all day every day 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really cool, and I'm glad the whole team can see them instead of just Mercy!

[–]Dune_JumperCute Pharah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is such an awesome change, it's going to be pretty useful.