I figured. You wouldn’t expect something that’s seen like 1 out of 100 times to be tuned that much. They would likely put there efforts somewhere else. Instead of something that’s seen 1% of the time.
This fails to take into consideration that projectiles have a travel time where hitscan is instant. If I’m 100 meters away and shoot a spot with widow it will instantly go to that spot. If I do this with Hanzo there will be a travel time associated with it along with projectile drop.
Maybe at close ranges the differences aren’t noticeable but at typical sniper ranges the difference is very noticeable.
Anyone who actually puts any weight into this hitbox size argument consider the following when compared to the other projectile characters:
Genji doesn’t hit for as much with his fan spam, junk is much easier to dodge as the speed is much lower, has a very visible trail AND just got a projectile size reduction. Pharah has a slow projectile that is easy to see at range and dodge.
Hanzo has a very fast, hard to see projectile which hits for a LOT of damage, has a large hitbox which gets headshots where hitscan would either miss or bodyshot, has no sustained trail (unlike Widow’s tracer bullets) and has zero falloff.
Hanzo’s projectiles can also headshot. None of the other projectiles can do this (besides Genji who does far less damage per projectile and they’re much slower), which is why the hitbox size actually matters with Hanzo and not so much with the other heroes.
This is why Hanzo is especially an issue by comparison to every other projectile heroes.
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geez people need to pick Hanzo and play for themself lmao
Latency often makes kills look like nonsense when you die.
There’s also a server lag since the servers are run at 60Hz or so from what I’ve heard. The servers won’t instantly transfer data from what actually happens, to your PC/console.
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Sure of you make him hitscan. But then he will destroy everyone
They are tied with the smallest projectiles in the game such as Genjis Shurikens.
His hand still cover his hitbox though, which make crit shots harder to land which is still frustrating as hell.
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You will be shot through walls and you will like it.
little known fact…dva, mercy, zenyatta, all able to headshot…all projectile heroes…and also little known fact…their projectiles are much larger.
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Dunno about current hitbox specifics but he does seem to land point-blank headshots pretty frequently compared to McCree, at least in my experience (as the the one getting shot)
Yes that’s what needs to be fixed rather than being ignored. This is the only reason why sometimes he seems unfair to fight against.
Ah yeah, forgot about Zen. Baby D.Va and Mercy really aren’t a factor in normal play, but yeah they can headshot too, but again, slow projectiles with low damage.
It was never an ‘issue’ until Hanzo suddenly becomes viable though. They just buffed the projectile speed by 18%. It’s still slow (compared to hitscan), needs leading and projectile arc compensation and needs a charge up time.
Genji and Pharahs projectiles are linear. Junkrat and Pharah have splash damage. All of them have a much higher ROF than Hanzo since they don’t need to charge each shot.
Not to mention Genji and Junkrat can combo other abilities with their primaries.
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also slower speed tho
but fire at a higher rate. normally.
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No-reg happens. Awhile ago there was a discussion brought on about this issue. Someone point blank head shot an Ana, but nothing registered at all. This isn’t solely a problem with Hanzo.
It was Kephrii apparently. But this isn’t a new thing.
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Hanzo isn’t hitscan, and while his buff helps, he will never be AS consistent on mid to long range as hitscans are.
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And while they may be tied for smallest projectile, they’re still bigger than any hitscan.
…because hitscan literally means there is no physical object representing the shot. Whenever you fire a hitscan weapon, the character being shot at takes damage instantaneously. Nothing is actually hitting their character.
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Aight, but make him hitscan.
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But widowmaker also has very generous headshot hitboxes. . .
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