Dear forum guys. Enjoy hog changes

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i dont think its a forum thing, its a general balance thing in overwatch. Or a lot of games outside blizzard come to think of it.

Hero does average -> people request buffs -> gets buffed -> other people hates it -> gets nerfed to be even worse than before -> hero is left to rot for months until they get a slight buff that makes em average again -> not touched for months -> repeat.

This whole nerf is literally #SaveHog all over again, im not surprised but im disapointed it had to happen again and what led to this nerf is because the team put him back in the very same direction all the past buffs/nerfs were trying to keep him AWAY from.

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I was tired of Hog and ball in game even before he was buffed. Most people play stright dps with him and leave their team to hunt their kills.

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Hog was fine, I donā€™t understand why they felt the need to buff him in the first place. Now heā€™s worse than what he was before. Gosh, thanks for nothing Blizz. 10/10 balancing job.

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He may be statistically worse than before but dont forget that barriers were nerfed when he was buffed as well. He may still have a space in the meta but only time will tell.

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Hog and Ball torture is the worse thing in all of OW

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New meta?

because meta now its best sniper wins

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You havenā€™t played Comp in a while I see

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Rank?

Because on high ranks hook=bubble=no kill. Tanks just survive and waiting kills. Usually can be hooked and died after hook only zarya and only if your zarya save you from hook/sleep. Roadhog just will take bubble and run with self heal

But snipers cant be blocked.

Idk maybe your enemy zarya just dont try block hoks with bubble and thats why roadhog better winā€¦ who knows

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and thank f*** for that. Now we can actually play the game. :slight_smile:

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Yeah, they should have left Hog well enough alone. He didnā€™t need his damage buffed and now heā€™s worse than before. Classic Blizzard.

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I like how youā€™re acting like itā€™s the end of the world when Hog is still seeing the most playā€¦

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Imagine blaming your peers for a change that the devs made from internal statistics represented in game.

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Imagine actually believing in that nonsense.

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The first big Hog nerf was because people whined enough though.
Even Jeff confirmed they solely nerfed him for that reason.

Meanwhile broken but popular heroes are Immune to nerfs (Widow, Tracer, Genji etcā€¦)

Disclaimer:
Even though I play quite a bit of Hog, I found the damage buffs stupid in the first place and Iā€™d rather have gone the 1/3/2 route with more team utility.

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Learn how to speakā€¦

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Wait whatā€™s wrong with the shotgun spread patternā€¦ I thought I was sposed to make it more consistent to reliably kill someone like ana/Sombra when hooked :confused:

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Is he really worse than before though?

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Still needs more nerfing tbh, health to high.

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Same old (nerfed) damage, attacks slower, less bullets, reloads moreā€¦

Take a guess

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Damage isnā€™t the same though. He got a compensation with the shotgun changes.
His hook is still 20 meters too? which is a very generous range