I’m kind of on the side of, “If this character revolves around one-shots, that kind of sucks for everyone else”.
And I’m not mad about him losing it for the most part. I do want to see him have a more defined role, though. Maybe faster arrows, slightly less damage? Super stealthy damage? idk. I just want it to move away from one shots, otherwise, what was the point of the HP boost?
snipers will always be the most fun gameplay for me. i remember the old return to castle wolfenstein days. of course sniping in fps games is becoming less popular and hated. maybe it will disappear forever someday?
Finally. He has a bloated kit and too many escape abilities. He was also on the top end of projectile hero picks for a long time. It’s someone else’s turn to be in top.
Good, if a character is only playable because of a one shot or a burst combo, than that character is poorly designed and should be reworked (hanzo isn’t even bad in s9 a headshot is still a guaranteed kill most of the time, after all most heroes are left with 10 hp, it is incredibly easy to take this amount of damage just from random spam)
While you may claim to understand game balance ,which I don’t believe, since your takes are trash and shortsighted (with no personal analytic input, based on unrelated data and articles), please don’t claim to understand sales and marketing. Why not? It’s literally my job —you clearly don’t get it.
The direction of the patch clearly shows that OW will be much less skill expressive in terms of mechanical skill. Lower skill floor as well as lower skill ceiling.
That also means the game is now way more team dependent, b/c most of the solo carry potential came from mechanical skill diff.
It seems the devs want MMORPG level teamplay without sustain. SoloQ becomes more like a casino.
Which is what they did which has made the game better. That doesn’t mean hanzo isn’t bad, that just means your credibility isn’t in question as you suggested something similar
Pulllleeese, Hanzo has been GOD OP for years , its about time something happened. I have no sympathy for hanzo players now feeling the way they are about him.
He is still godly up close , no more football field headshots, you will live.
I bet money when hanzo had the one you, someone like you would get one headshot every 20 games. Widow is miles easier and way more oppressive than hanzo and yeah shes literally point and click. But go on about how a hero requiring prediction and having to take projectile drop into consideration is low skill compared to a hitscan hero that will delete you the second a pixel of your head shows up.
Hanzo still plays pretty well in S9. He is no longer a 1-tap sniper, but he still does well as a ranged brawler and CQC storm arrow bot. Big hit box characters are his specialty targets (e.g., Bastion, Mauga, etc.), along with guarding choke points via Sonic Arrow.