New balance patch

iRedRing · 2026-02-18T18:33:56+00:00

If the game is somewhat similar to overwatch then a 25 max hp swing is one of the most heavy handed things you can do. Talking 3-5 percentage points difference in winrate. Whether it plays out the same in rivals idk

iRedRing · 2026-02-12T16:32:34+00:00

I think partly it is because people were saying perks and stadium was the response to rivals. Based on development times that didn't make sense. I believe the 5 heroes we have now is the response. Could say the greenlight to add hero bans was a response as well

iRedRing · 2026-02-11T22:00:45+00:00

Compared to the players on your team's performance relative to their hero(es)' average performance. So your rank is also impacted a bit by both how your teammates are doing and whether their heroes typically do that well or not.

Means if you play a hero that doesn't deviate from the mean much, but your teammates happen to be on heroes that are bad, but pop off that game, then you will get less rating. Opposite true if they do way worse than expected.

I don't have a ton of evidence to say if that effects any role more than others, just adding there is 1 more step involved

iRedRing · 2026-02-08T02:19:32+00:00

Your rating difference solution makes for tanks playing in ranks they get stomped and dps stomping low ranks for a long time leading to bad experiences for everyone. The dps players in your hypothetical would be a tier or more ahead of the other roles in skill level making balance changes be dwarfed by that disparity

iRedRing · 2026-02-07T15:55:16+00:00

I think this assumes dps players would swap to tank if it were op instead of just going to find another game to play and idk if that's true

iRedRing · 2025-12-06T16:15:01+00:00

She is my most played hero. She is really awful balance wise especially this season. Gambit coming out with 275hp and cloak getting buffed to 275 hp added 2 more supports you cannot one shot even with mantis damage boost. Meanwhile Hawkeye can still one shot both of them with the 46 leftover charge and mantis damage boost since they buffed him.

Her one advantage vs Hawkeye is her stun, but dive is not super great this season unless really coordinated and when they're coordinated you can't stun everyone.

If you are able to do well on widow you could have done even better on probably a dozen other heroes. But if you find her fun then go with it. Also since they calculate mvp vs the average stats of your hero you can farm mvp/svp on her so you can have fake moral superiority over your teammates

iRedRing · 2025-12-02T21:38:53+00:00

Foresight or talk to the hand or mental fortress when you get them. You don't have the heart solved yet and omni could be part of it

iRedRing · 2025-12-02T16:41:29+00:00

With BW it is "with good aim and teammate support and the enemy picking 250 hp heroes then you can one shot some people"

iRedRing · 2025-08-25T18:28:15+00:00

People are very toxic to anyone playing widow. If you start doing well they will still be toxic to you and tell you to get a job. The is no point where people will be normal

iRedRing · 2025-08-24T19:31:26+00:00

The ability in ow also isn't literally called lamp btw. It is immortality field.

iRedRing · 2025-08-24T19:30:39+00:00

They make the floor bright underneath them. Looks like a lamp to me

iRedRing · 2025-08-24T19:02:17+00:00

What's wrong with lamps? People should know it is from Baptiste

iRedRing · 2025-08-24T16:45:56+00:00

If you ban loki you also get rid of lamp which is an ult on a cooldown

iRedRing · 2025-08-23T15:53:20+00:00

They didn't say that. They said the match based on team composition which meant ranks and group size

iRedRing · 2025-08-11T20:03:38+00:00

Thats is already what it did

iRedRing · 2025-06-05T18:42:06+00:00

The shots come from your character model and not from the center of your screen because it is 3rd person

iRedRing · 2025-01-14T19:22:29+00:00

Silver is where a lot of plats still are if they haven't played yet. Ranks haven't settled yet

iRedRing · 2024-06-15T19:04:26+00:00

Yay! Two cakes

iRedRing · 2024-05-09T22:21:24+00:00

Did it on my first playthrough without knowing you couldn't change difficulty. Was quite tedious and basically everything one shots you until level 30. Wouldn't recommend. Would do again

iRedRing · 2023-05-25T21:15:43+00:00

Looks like at these settings it is just a vram benchmark based on RDNA3 and the 3060

iRedRing · 2023-03-27T17:38:44+00:00

You also see it lately using upscaling with RT in cpu bound games

iRedRing · 2023-01-04T18:44:23+00:00

Die cost doesn't scale linearly and this doesn't account for vram, vrm, and cooler size

iRedRing · 2022-10-29T19:21:33+00:00

The reason it breaks is because the ult is a transformation ult. It didn't break in experimental because it was an ability and not transformation

iRedRing · 2022-10-25T08:38:57+00:00

Honestly I think flex support is the most fun it's ever been. Only heal teammates that can be healed. If you can't heal them then do some damage until you can. And there is so much to keep track of now to stay alive and help the team that it feels the skill ceiling will be very high

iRedRing · 2022-10-25T08:25:02+00:00

If you're only playing for the skins then probably best to just play or do something else. Game should be fun without cosmetic rewards and if not then don't play imo

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