please , please add a laser indicator for Widow please guys I beg you , please just do this , I am not asking for damage , charger time or health nerf just give her a laser indicator please just do it 
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Fr, there really needs to be a greater indicator of where a Widow is. All we have are those āsniperā voicelines that do nothing to actually tell us where a Widow is, only that weāre in a Widowās LOS.
A noticeable glint on her scope would be a good start imo.
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I meanā¦ When she shoots thereās this nice, very noticeable red trail that leads straight to her?
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Honestly that would really cool to have. I think thatās reasonable.
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yeah that is assuming you are still alive to begin with
come on man you know that Widow stays vey far behind her team how are we supposed to kill her ? by the time you find her she has already killed 2 or 3 of your team what do you want me to do at that point ?
yeah it will
come on man we can just try it and see if it is useful or not , I have not played TF2 so I donot know what you are talking about , sorry
yeah she is so braindead that you could literally one trick her up to diamond with ease , you literally need zero brain cells to play her
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Are you the only person on your team?
Why? The laser dot in TF2 is only visible if you look at the wall, which means youāre not looking at where the sniper actually is. Widow doesnāt often sit scoped for long periods of time waiting for someone to show up either, so this wouldnāt do all that much.
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It is funny but yeah Widow kind of has none of the normal draw backs a sniper has in most games. She has a fairly large clip size, unlimited ammo. No bullet drop, no scope glint and so on. Basically Widow is likely the easiest sniper character you could ever play in any FPS.
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Semi Auto Sniper that doesnt unscope after a shot and when taking damage no unscope or aimpunch, also has her own warning mine and premade locations in the map thats unreachable by most characters that can see both the main path and even the flanks lmao.
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bs.
infinite ammo ? does every other hero have it too .
also hardly any other game has as many different hizboxes as overwatch, also there are no shields or tanks in other games or fast dive heroes.
of course there must be disadvantages for the sniper in a cod or battlefield. in overwatch the biggest disadvantages are the gameplay and the different heroes and no mechanics like a wobbly scoop.
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The solutions to the problem you described in your original post are to 1. pay attention to where the shots are coming from and 2. watch kill cams. After youāve died to her and know her position, adapt? If sheās that big of a problem, get a monkey or another sniper to take care of her.
The worldās greatest sniper needing a laser sight doesnāt make any sense. Sniper rifles donāt really use laser sights either, since the shooter needs to adjust for bullet drop and other environmental factors.
A shimmer off her scope like someone else suggested could be reasonable though.
I know right, so many hitboxes that are far too easy to hit, they should make them smaller, just so Widow is fairer.
good plan
And in that game Sniper has 1) no mobility whatsoever, 2) no wallhacks (Widow has two options for that), 3) extreme tunnel vision while scoped, 4) long charge-up and reload time, 5) a big surprise counter in form of Spy. Unless Widow receives these too, they canāt be compared at all.
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you mean the huge hitboxes from the important targets like ana zen or mercy?
or are you talking about the unimportant ones like orisa and hog? shoot the platinum widows and think they are good because they have gold dmg?
It is funny when people cry about widow when she has the loudest hit sounds and the heroes even have voices to calls her out but nobody seems to even care about the silent logs that hanzo shoots.
if widow has laser indicator I will try to place it on everyone just to mess around with them xD
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The difference is that in other games there arent shields, large health pools, immortality fields and characters that can deal a lot of damage per second, all at once.
The drawback of playing Widow is that while you try to get a pick, the enemy team might be dealing much more damage and pressure. Ofc some iterations of the game benefit her more, but she pretty much had the same advantages and drawbacks since 2016
Itās very sad to see people still asking for more Widow nerfs after repeated nerfs. lol
She must be unbalanced since im bad and lose
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Well yes but a lot of other games have vehicles and actual tanks, better cover systems. Never mind the massive and constant nerfs shields have been getting in OW. The one true counter to snipers.
I thought Ashe, Hanzo and Widow all trigger the sniper voice lines.
A small dot where she is aimed would be nice, but not a full on line pointing back to where sheās located. It should be fairly subtle/easy to miss though (like junkās trap).
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