My fears seem to have been overboard. Played a few rounds against her without an Octavia on our team and it ended up being balanced matches. Pleasantly surprised she's not game breaking. Now that I've stopped freaking out I can enjoy her really fun and odd kit. Definitely a great new Champion.

It reloads like water pistol, the sound is less dramatic than a BB gun, firing it feels less impactful than clicking my mouse.
Brainless aimbotting aside, having a gun that seems less threatening than a slingshot doesn't make her appealing to play at all.

Of course this is the opinion of a level 2 Lian with no desire to see level 3.

@insider4life02 Did you check your email, and junkmail folders ?

Because I did with my report and ticket, and I still haven't heard anything from anyone in almost a year. HiRezHansen from Hi-Rez Studios Customer Support contacted me (via automated reply) on May 9 this :

" Greetings,
Thank you for submitting this issue to us. This report will be forwarded to the appropriate contact within Hi-Rez Studios and evaluated.
If we require any more information we will contact you directly. "

In all honesty I don't think there IS a service team, or if there is, there's like 1 team for ALL of Hi-Rez 's games, and everyone's issues are dumped in a big general queue where single user issues are de-prioritized as unnecessary expense. Losing 20 players to bad service is still cheaper than hiring 1 professional to provide service and support.

They've been offline, not showing at all for me for like a week. Has there been any official word on the Bounty Coins ?

The game has a serious disconnect between the devs and players.
Devs are all about the cosmetics with updates about important issues like balance few and far between. They run the PTS like an ad campaign instead of bug testing.
Even on the cosmetic side things are implemented and dropped unceremoniously and without notice (Bounty Board). Promotions come out bugged. I STILL haven't been contacted about an issue I logged last May.

They've removed features like 3rd person and play of the match , but that didn't fix many of the bugs and now every match feels anti-climatic and half-assed and inconsistent.

In TF2 when you win you can murder the enemy team. In Overwatch there's an animation and you get a play of the game. In Paladins you get a word, followed by some numbers. If you're lucky you'll see someone on point with one of their animated sprays for a second. There's no celebration of victory any more.

So the games alive, but unless the devs support the community it's future could be Hi-Rez playing Weekend at Bernies with it so we keep collecting recycled loot boxes.

@Nico I think the complaint is them finding it able to turn point fights while you're hiding back at spawn, or finish the push and win games pretty much any time it's used.

I get it, but if your damage has some bulldozer that counters it almost as well as a Talus. (o.k that's hyperbole, no one shuts her down like Talus).

@Christlike Funny about that, I had almost no interest in playing Buck UNTIL Buck Wild. WHOOOOOOO! Different stroke for different folks I guess.

@Nico

After Darth Torv are any other skins necessary ? /s (but seriously it's a sweet skin)

@adek183 Hella good point about the counterplay while ulted.