I’ve rarely felt so miserable playing OW as I do now. I start each session with 2-3 games on hog and finish with 1-2 games on hog. And I play DPS and some hog in between.
This hog rework has made me just not want to play. I had the day off work today and would normally have spent a chunk of it in OW, but I didn’t even open it until 6:30pm. Even then I was dreading what it would be like.
First 2 games, both against Rein, both losses, I did 60% and 65% of the damage Rein did. I mean, come on!! Next game (these are all QP) I did under 3k damage. Even in games that are stomps I would do more than that on old hog.
The area in front of him where he does absolutely no damage is huge. You constantly have to be moving forward to be right against the enemy or backign up to make sure your right-click explodes.
If the enemy is 13m+ away, then there’s barely any point shooting at them. Pharahs can exist for free in the air as the spread is so bad you’re only ever going to hit her with 1-2 pellets. With old hog, a decent aim meant the shrapnel did way more damage than this.
He is effective at 1-3m and at 10-11m and otherwise is completely useless, relying on hook to do anything at all.