Make her aim down sights for her railgun shots. Doesn’t sound like much of a nerf, at least not numerically, but it does add complexity to her engagement dynamics with her targets. We get to see her take aim and maybe duck and it’ll slow down her movement, where she will get less benefit from AD spam while lining up an instant death headshot.
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Which button would be used to aim down sights?
Can’t use Alternative Fire, that’s fires the railgun.
You press alt fire to ADS and primary to fire. Hip fire remains the same. Think of Brigitte and shield bash.
That makes sense. I would assume then that when the railgun is uncharged, you can still use Alt-fire for some zoomed in scouting?
Although, I’m not sure if this would be useful for Sojourn’s typical gameplay loop. Sojourn usually fights in the same distances as Soldier, or shorter. In those frenetic moments, forcing a switch to ADS to fire a railgun charge seems a bit counter-intuitive, and more reliant on Sojourn’s weaker primary fire.
Sure. Click alt fire and bring up iron sights, or whatever, at any time you want.
Yes. That’s one of the main points to the change: slow her down a bit.
This actually would make a big difference, especially for her ult. I’d be interested to at least test it out.
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Yes you can, because right click will modify primary for secondary, and you can’t shoot primary while adsing.
How is that a nerf even? When in reality that would be a buff.
Why a buff? Right now she just instantly right clicks at a moment’s notice; having to line up an ADS shot changes that. Also, there’s this:
What you do with this is basically add more precision to that character, I don’t care if you are prepared or not, ads allows me to use everything to my advantage and miss less headshots. This would be a huge buff to a character that requires a complete guttation.
You may benefit from it, but not everyone else will. Also,
this is a word, but doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Gutting, nerfing, sending to oblivion
Some people view ads as a buff though. This is more a rework than a definite nerf. I still believe they just need to increase railgun cooldown and decrease its hitbox.
I agree. In many games aiming down sights means making a precision shot, as opposed to a wildly inaccurate hip fire. Sojourn’s railgun is already as precise as it can be, so there would be no buff in this regard, especially if it’s just bringing up iron sights without a zoom. It would just slow her down mechanically without gutting her damage potential.
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After watching Shy casually erase Spitfire players tonight without warning time after time, it’s hard to argue that Sojourn needs a good look at. This minor rework might make a big dent in the current problem.
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Hitscan is fundamentally just a moronic weapon type.
Tf2 has the right idea by having all hitscans have a huge falloff or spread.
Even the sniper rifle has huge downsides.
Imagine if they changed Sojourn’s railgun into a projectile shot. Now that would be something to see.
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Fully agree. M2 ADS → M1 Railgun, after charging. No more cheap shots.
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Even though they have announced their intended nerf for her in season two, I still think that this should be considered as well.