Dear Bug Fix Team

Look I get it, bugs are probably harder to fix than we realise but really ? Nerfing hog ? He was already in a pretty bad spot and you nerf him with a bug fix that most people wouldn’t even realise as a bug.

Meanwhile Doomfist has been a buggy mess since his release, every patch since fixing like 10 plus but even how he still has like 40 others. One of which letting him punch and dive through hogs ult, something I remember actually being fixed in a previous patch and making it back in a later one.

Mercy damage boosting Hanzo and Dva’s ultimates was apparently a bug. The former being literally meta defining ! I need to stress that we had a meta based on a bug that existed since LAUNCH. It took them 2 years to fix that, and we almost had a similar thing again with Hammond’s drop off damage bug.

The point is that these fixes need to come out wayyyyyyy sooner than they are. The same goes for balance changes but I would rather have the game be more stable first.

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He deserved to get nerfed and you know it.

If you want the bugs fixed ASAP, the best thing you can do is tell the Dev team how to replicate them (video evidence is super helpful) so they can understand exactly what’s broken and how to fix it, with a good example being Hammonds Piledriver bug which was fixed recently due to video evidence posted on the bug forums.

In either case, Blizzard puts things like boosting Hanzo’s ult under bugfixes not because it’s a bug, but because it’s an unintended interaction.

What was his nerf? I never read up on it.

It takes time to find the bug, remove the bug, test the patch and releas it.
I think they are trying their best.

Thats what I still don’t get. If it was unintended, why did they leave it in for so long? Surely there was some time to devote to that after 2 years. Imo they only patched it out because Mercy became a problem, instead of fixing it on-release as it should have been.

Too bad majority of this game’s community doesn’t seem to know a damn about bug fixing. They can’t just press a button and fix everything lol.

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I’m sure blizzard could press enough buttons over the course of 2 years to fix bugs that were in the game since the start.

Probably because it was never an issue beforehand and removing that interaction was a cleaner way of nerfing the Grav/Dragon wombo than nerfing the actual ability itself, which is pretty balanced outside that wombo.

Things are usually fixed in relation to their urgency, and before his rework, Hanzo had literally never been an issue in terms of balance.

Doesn’t “unintended interaction” still count as a bug ?

Going slightly off topic, but isn’t it funny how Blizzard keeps nerfing other characters to try balancing out Hanzo?

“Dragonstrike into Grav is too strong so we nerfed Zarya’s ult.”

“Damage boosted Dragonstrike was too good so we made it so Mercy can’t damage boost any ults anymore.”

I just want a Hanzo nerf, man. LOL. Stop ruining my characters to make up for his messy tracks.

It’s a pretty blurry line. In WoW, we’d call something like that a “clever use of game mechanics”.

Really the only difference would have been where it was in the patch notes though.

Well technically Mercy can boost ults. Just not Dragonstrike and Dva Bomb.

Though I agree that Hanzo still needs a good whomping with the nerf stick.

Fixing is one thing, but leaving a hero unplayable for a long time is brutal. Oh I am sorry they’re not Mercy worthy to tweak.

His right click attack damage was nerfed pretty hard.

Aw dude really? Was it classified as a bug fix or a nerf? Because either way, that’s just going to hurt me physically.

Unknown… here is a side-by-side of it…

Omfg dude that IS massive. I’m actually worried now. Hog was one of the only tanks left that I enjoyed. He took skill, but now it just looks like he’ll take luck.

Ok small explanatory side tangent, Hog is nothing. He is a tank at most only to bodyblock and feed. He’s not a spammer, heavy damage dealer, or even a melter at this point. The most he can do is get lucky and disrupt one person, who may just get pocketed, shielded, or will have an ability that gets them out safe. Hog is actually dead until further notice. RIP pig.

2.32% pickrate 47.98 winrate

Yup definitely deserved to get nerfed