you want a hitscan tank that can headshot and burn shields until you get one and all of a sudden youre countered by someone with good aim alone that tears through your tanks defensive cds and everyone will cry about it not being a “fun skill gap”
If he is hitscan, he’ll be hitscan in the same way Ball is, in that he can hit instantly from any range but has MASSIVE drop off, so he won’t be able to do jack to Pharahs.
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I feel like Bastion and Zarya would be worse, but at least with Bastion and Mauga you could just play D.Va.
And D.Va… D.Va is hitscan too! Technically so is JQ.
But if the rumors are true Mauga will be too. He’ll have two chain guns that apparently do different things and can be fired at the same time!!!
From the leaks…
Mauga features a kit that is designed to bash through the front lines and brawl his opponents in close-quarter combat, by wielding two powerful Chainguns that can either be fired individually or in unison. Ignite enemies with hisIncendiary Chaingun “Gunny” to burn them when they take enough damage, then finish them with a critical hit from his Volatile Chaingun “Cha-Cha.” Paired with his Berserker Passive, which grants Mauga temporary health whenever he deals critical damage, he’s a mountain on the battlefield.
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I think people are using hitscan incorrectly too. Hitscan doesn’t necessarily mean long range. Reaper is hitscan. D.Va is hitscan. JunkerQueen is hitscan. It just means that the hit registers instantly with no travel time and isn’t a beam.
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Mauga has the ability to generate Overhealth, and Overrun cannot be Slept, or crowd controlled by any ability.
So, Ana will have a difficult time doing anything against him.
Orisa can operate at longer ranges back in Overwatch 1. And most tanks can operate as far as 20 meters… even Reinhardt can do this.
Chain-guns. A little different from gatilng guns.
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I think a lot of players are expecting something like a single-target or precision weapon hitscan for a Tank. For the most part, there’s real Tank design that would effective fit that kind of weapon. Tanks are supposed to be strong on area-effect damage, and easy to use weapons like shotguns. D.va, Junker Queen, and Wrecking Ball aren’t using precision weapons, and Roadhog uses a projectile-based shotgun with falloff.
Reading about him, he sounds awesome - Nintendo screwed up big time with this leak though, jeez.
Would have been amazing to have this announced as a surprise that we could play him early for the weekend.
That sounds really fun, so it’s probably fake because Blizzard would never be nice to Tank Players…
If that were the case then nobody would be asking for hitscan tanks as we have several…
Pretty sure they’re referring to actually accurate hitscan weaps…and that would be terrible on a tank
That’s what I’m saying. We already have several hitscan tanks. People are just incorrectly using the term hitscan. What they want is a long range hitscan which is NEVER going to happen for a tank. There will be plenty of hitscan tanks in the future I’m sure, but they will always be short to medium ranged.
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My crystal ball is telling me Mauga’s gonna be “If we remade Bastion into a tank”.
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DVA is also hitscan.
I think that would almost certainly make them hitscan, especially since they seem to be like Bastion’s assault form minigun. Just doesn’t mean it will translate to being good at far range.
Ah yeah, forgot about JQ for a moment.
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