I would love to see a good (shield) Hitscan Tank.
As a hitscan player i dont enjoy dva, hamster at all.
Im pretty sure if there would be a good Hitscan tank alot more ppl would play tank myself included. It worked for Support aswell. Maybe also because baptiste is a bit broken right now but i only enjoy playing hitscans and i think alot of other ppl think the same.
Right now im playing dps(mainly hitscans) or baptiste as support.
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D.Va is hitscan silly billy
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Even if Dva would be reworked i would still not enjoy playing her.
Tbh i dont rly like the shotguns on tanks.
I nominate Bastion, he should be reworked into a tank.
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Oh, I like this idea.
I remember a concept about a rail gun tank that had two modes essentially making it a bulky Widowmaker with no mobility. Scoping in locks you in place giving you a huge defense boost and allowing you to use a Railgun to snipe. Allies can use your bulk similarly to Mei’s cryostasis.
zarya is hitscan if you’re looking for low mobility tank hitscan.
sadly she’s only an off-tank and people won’t accept 2 off-tanks.
but really if you’re limiting yourself to only hitscan because your only other characters in the game are hitscan you are probably shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to tanks.
as i see it, you can either be more proficient in hitscan or projectile, however low aim requirement characters don’t interfere with this at all, they are in my opinion a great option for people who don’t want to spread themselves too thin in terms of learning mechanical execution.
but if you do it only because you only enjoy hitscan characters i’d say stick to the few characters you do like and don’t even consider other options.
i mean if you don’t like the current hitscan tanks at all and don’t want to play anything that isn’t hitscan, don’t play tank.
don’t make it unnecessary difficult for yourself.
I’d play other tanks if they were viable/useable
Actually the only tank i sometimes play is Zarya. But i cant rly enjoy her much because either she is picked or your team plays 2 offtanks or she just dont fit in the current comp.
Hitscans are in general just more fun for me to play probably because i also play a lot cs go and also i feel like when playing a projectile hero my raw aim is getting worse. Also a big factor why i only play hitscans.
Im not playing tank much. Maybe once in 20 matches. Since i got long dps q times im not playing ow that much anymore.
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but counterstrike is a lot different? peekers advantage and all that, it kinda gets chucked out the window in overwatch.
yeah i kinda understand not wanting to wait for games and not really enjoying other roles, but i think that’s just your expectations you’ve setup for yourself.
i mean counterstrike can’t be the only other game you’ve played and enjoyed?
It is different but in Cs i also dont spray that much going for raw aim headshots most of the times.
I just love to raw aim and in ow you can track raw aim very good with soldier cree
I also enjoyed Dota for a while and hearthstone.
But just figured out that competetive fps are the most fun for me. Got thousands of hours in cs go.
I always waited for a good hitscan tank with a headshot mechanic that is fun to play. But till today there is none
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I wish Zarya had more range so i had to rely less on team mates.
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but what don’t you like about wreckingball?
because i think a lot of players are actually sleeping on wreckingballs actual shooting potential, i’ve played him with very little need to go into ball mode to be good with him, like i could just roll up to people and shoot them in the face and retreat.
and something i really don’t see many wrecking ball players doing is flying up into the sky pop out and shoot down on your enemy before piledriving them and then shoot them again when they are stuck in the air.
most people just pile drive and just shoots.
like his gun is imo underutilized by the vast majority of wreckingball players.
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Remove Sigma = More tank players
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I just dont enjoy rolling around 60% of the time.
Also i feel like with a hamster you get bad comps alot of times.
I never like to see a ball in my team.
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i think my last wreckingball game i played i was in ball mode maybe 10-20%?
and i did a lot better than i did when i was in ball mode around 60-80%
because i got a lot more consistent damage out and as an effect out of that i got more kills.
and i also had a better overview of how the engagement was going and i could easier spot places where my ball boops etc would be beneficial in the few cases they were beneficial.
like i would legit play him a lot more like d.va and winston and just take high ground and sit on the high ground advantage shooting down on people and i could do that a lot more with wreckingball because he actually has longer range on his guns than they do.
just pressure from off-angles with guns, roll in when you see an opportunity to either CC or shoot to kill.
like it’s insane how much control you do actually have.
i mostly use the ball form just for mobility and less so for fighting. sure some CC here and there but it’s not the meat and potatoes for me if we would call it that.
Well i will give him a chance again.
But i feel like if you play him like that he dont fullfill his role as a tank.
he’s a dive tank, he’s not supposed to face tank the whole enemy team.
he’s supposed to pressure the enemy where they don’t want him to be and be evasive, and by that explanation you need to hunt squishies and not other tanks, you can peel using your boops against tanks sure but tanks are not your main concern. you want to get around them and exploit your tanky body against squishies and don’t let the enemy team be able to catch you while doing so.
just remember pressure from off-angles with guns, preferably high ground and finding holes or opportunities in the enemy team to just swoop in and kill.
if your team dies, you regroup and try again because it’s much easier for the enemy team to chase you when they don’t have a whole team on them trying to kill them.
it’s kind of like how you would play winston, there’s no point in winston jumping in all alone against a whole enemy team, he won’t be able to get anything done on his own.
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People also want Mei, Doomfist, and others, as possible hybrid-tank substitutes.
But at some point you basically lose the heterogenous premise of what tank/tanking is supposed to be. May as well just crossover into open, unjailed QPC where you can be creative in the role spectra.
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Yeah but i think Bastion is 10× more suited to be a tank than Mei or Doomfist.
This thread has a good suggestion:
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Wrecking Balls weapon isn’t very good so if you are looking for a fun hitscan he isn’t it. His quad cannon is basically 1 tracer pistol with a lot of ammo.
Bastion as a tank would solve one of his biggest problems… his hitbox is the size of a tank.