The new Reinhardt skin (Gridironhardt) offers a new ult sound for earth shatter that has caused many problems for me and other players. I am a rein main myself, and do not own or use the new skin. However, I have noticed while playing against others that are using the skin, those that use it are given a significant competitive advantage when it comes to using earth shatter. The old voice line for a shatter was “Hammer Down!” with the first sound being the beginning of the word “Hammer” and it started as soon as you pressed Q. With the new skin, the ultimate voice line changes to “Touchdown!” which is totally fine, I get it, it’s funny. The issue is that it is harder to detect when a Reinhardt is ulting while using that skin. Reinhardt seems to make a very low pitched and quiet growl sound before saying “Touchdown!” and by the time you realize he is using earth shatter, it’s too late to block it. The voice line change makes it harder to detect an earth shatter, and grants a clear competitive advantage. I probably wouldn’t have made this post if it wasn’t this big of a deal, but it has come to the point where I have lost several games because I was not able to detect the shatter and block it. Blizzard please fix. Thank you.
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Months after, no fix. As a Moira main, I can fade when I hear “Hammer” before the"Down", but it’s almost impossible with the “Touchdown”. This is an unfair advantage…
Bump this topic! I wonder why so few people notice this. I can see many Reinhards in Ranked abusing this skin.
I’d like to ask developers to make it clear, is it bug, or feature.