With the launch of the second season of “Overwatch”, the new hero Sierra officially joined the battle as the 51st character, but players’ reactions quickly focused on one thing: her ultimate move may be too powerful. The reason is that it does not burst out at a single point, but covers a range, and is particularly deadly to slower-moving heroes. This leads many people to think that no matter how good your operation is, it is easy to be cleared indiscriminately.
The numbers are written directly on the face, and the blast can reach 3 meters
When Sierra reaches 1800 points, her ultimate skill will summon a drone to drop 23 bombs, each causing 180 damage, and the explosion’s impact range can reach 3 meters. This design makes players complain that it is like carpet bombing: it is not that your position is poor, but that the bombing area is so large that it is difficult for you to completely escape from the fatal area in a short period of time.
Not only did they want to weaken it, some people even shouted “It should be cut today”!
Someone on Reddit directly stated that Sierra’s ultimate was so ridiculous that it should be nerfed today. In the same speech, she also complained about the “auto-aim every 6 seconds” in her skill set, feeling that this design would dilute the value of guns and positioning. Some players also said that they like her character design and grappling hook concept, but the skill values are really unreasonable.
Weaken the power and increase the cost of the ultimate move, at least make it less frequent
After another player compared her ult to a “carpet bomb,” many people in the thread called for reducing the ult’s damage coverage, or else increasing the ult’s charge cost (making it harder to fire). This kind of advice is actually a very typical balance direction: you don’t have to cut it until it’s not fun, but at least make it change from a guaranteed take away to a time-judged one.
There is a high probability that the official will take action, but it is still unknown when the change will be made.
At the moment it looks like Blizzard is likely to make adjustments to Sierra, just uncertain about the timing. The balance of new heroes usually requires a bit of sample size and data feedback, but the sentiment of the community has come up first: if you let a “coverage ult” traverse the ladder for too long, players will quickly beat the entire version as a “Sierra version.”