This is one thing I don’t understand. Hanzo’s primary is the long range projectile with travel time and also curve at long distance. So Bliz make this thing to have higher damage than another easier-to-hit weapon like 76 AR is reasonable right?
So why the heck do we have to compensate it with larger projectile size anyway?
I’m 90% certain that the projectile accounts for the entire length of the arrow and not just the tip, so if you move your head into the shaft of the arrow as the tip blows by you, you’re basically headshotting yourself.
Yes, this has been Jeff’s go-to “proof” that Hanzo is balanced since the rework. “Actually Hanzo got the smallest projectile hitbox in the game”. And yet he is the only one who consistently gets headshots by firing in your general direction from great distances…
The very ironic thing is, that due to the log, compared to the ray of Widowmaker, Hanzo gets stronger the closer he is to his target.
Very un-snipery.
At close range he can trivially headshot. It is actually hard for him not to, both due to the log size as well as the speed of the projectile - which is indistinguishable from hitscan at close-mid range.
The hitbox isn’t the problem with hanzo’s arrow. It’s the fact that interpolation heavily favors Hanzo because his projectile is considered “slow and bursty” like Pharah’s rockets despite all the buffs it’s gotten.
Big hitboxes are still big hitboxes. They can be the smallest in the game, but they are still unreasonably large. Not to mention, the head hitboxes of every hero being much larger than what it actually looks like also contributes to the problem.
I think Hanzo is the only character that when I try to actually aim, I can’t hit anything. And then suddenly when I’m not paying any attention at all, I start landing repeated headshots. This isn’t normal. Hanzo is poop, and his entire “sniper” kit is poop.
Good grief how many times does this topic come up? His arrows are small-- but the projectile hitbox isnt. All projectiles hitboxes are larger. When you cross this with his fast arrow speed , that creates the issue. (Faster than a helix rocket btw)
The actual quote was something like “ties for smallest projectile size with genji’s shurikens” which has been proven false.
It’s not small relative to its speed and to many heroes’ hitboxes. The speed to projectile size ratio combined with the enlarged hero hitboxes is too good.