Could we make Hazard’s pellet spread a bit wider? Say “skill issue” if you want but i hate super tight pellet spreads. What you gain in potential lethality you lose in needing extreme aim and given the type of weapon a scattergun is, it makes more sense from a gameplay standpoint to make the spread somewhat wide. It’s frustrating to have my cursor over someone who’s 1 but because i was slightly off and didn’t have the dot directly over them, they somehow survive the shot.
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I will say skill issue, because that’s what it is
Having a scattershot is almost always an objective downgrade to a precise shot, only being an upgrade in the situation where a very low health target is in front of you. The wider the scatter, the worse the shot is.
Just work on your aim, there’s no benefit to decreasing the accuracy of the weapon further
I find this interesting, because I’d much rather they tighten his primary spread, and take some power out of Spike Guard.
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More consistency means easier game balancing. You don’t have to worry as much about “What if” moments like old Hog’s alt fire one-shotting people at a specific distance or Hanzo’s old scatter arrow one-shotting golden Orisas. Too much consistency leads to stale gameplay, but we’re a long way off from that with OW.
I am not sure I can because you are technically asking for them to make it harder to play Bowser… That’s pretty based.
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leave it to the Roadhog main to need a babymode shotgun to land shots
I don’t think it’s as much a skill issue as a preference, because I prefer tighter shotgun spreads but I couldn’t hit the side of a barn from the inside.
I just wish his gun was more distinct from Junkerqueen’s.
what if he just turned his arm around 90 degrees and has a vertical rectangle spread, he would have twice the accuracy
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Am I the only one who thinks his gun already has quite a bit of spread? At least compared to jq.
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Except for the fact that all shotgun spread in Overwatch is exactly the same every single shot. They removed the randomness a while ago. Now its up to learn the spread to maximize lethality
Just for information’s sake.
Of the shotguns, Junker Queen has, arguably, one of the best. Narrow spread of 1.8 degrees (smaller than Reaper’s, Roadhog’s) with a fall-off of 15 to 20 meters.
Roadhog’s spread is 20 degrees, with a falloff of 30 (because they combined his old RMB with his old LMB). This used to be 10 meters.
Reaper’s spread is current 6 degrees, with a falloff of 10 meters. He used to have a spread as wide as Roadhog’s, but over the years narrowed it considerably while reducing his total damage per shot.
Right now, it’s not clear what Hazard’s is as he is still under development. He does have a faster fire rate than everyone but Reaper.