So, I guess Lucio’s gun uses sound as a weapon, so why is the projectile speed so slow? The speed of sound is 343m/s and I know that’s unreasonable in this game, but when projectiles like Zen’s balls and Torb’s rivet gun goes faster, it just seems off, no?
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Because he is a support, not a dps.
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The speed of sound is actually not constant.
It depends on the medium it is traveling through.
To say it moves 343 m/s is folly.
But I have no reasonable enough sarcastic reply to explain a projectile that slow.
So pretend I said one here.
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Nope. I still destroy and prefer the slower projectile. It feels just right
Looks at Moira and brig*
This post made the nerd in me lol.
Should sym’s projectiles travel at the speed of light? Faster? Maybe we could get some sort of time travel ability on cool down ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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If we’re being realistic then can Pharah’s rockets please speed up constantly after the initial launch from her launcher?
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Ya but for the overwatch maps we play in, his primary fire travels through air. So 343 m/s is a good number. About the only other scenario I can think of is Horizon Lunar Colony. His weapon probably wouldn’t work at all in the part of the map that is outside of the building.
In that case, Sombra’s gun should get more accurate as the magazine empties, for that is how such weapons work. Ana’s hostile rifle shots should never wear off, or at least not in the short time it does. It is poison after all.
that’s how it works in TF2, it’d actually be pretty neat.
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The overwhelming majority of games are not designed around total realism.
Blizzard could make Hanzo shoot angry cats at people if they wanted to. Realism has no say in the matter
Lucio’s green pancakes move slowly because Blizzard wants it that way for balance reasons.
the speed of light is about 300k m/s why can’t i throw light bulbs that fast?
(or why do lasers in sci fi settings have projectiles speeds)
Hun, lucio’s primary fire used to be A LOT slower. its very fast now in comparison. (i know yours is more of a scientific question, but yeah in game his primary fire is just fine)
Yeah, just to clarify, this was a fun post, not to be taken seriously. I’m happy the way Lucio is now, and his slow projectile speed makes it harder to juke in certain situations. I just thought it would be a bit of fun to poke fun at.
And in reply to Sombra’s gun getting more accurate overtime, keep in mind she is holding it in one hand with her arm fully extended out with a 60 bullet clip. The gun may get accurate over time, but there’s no way her arm is staying steady like that.
I love lucio so much, if they made his projectile speed 10% faster it could either break him or it would make him just way better. I would love if lucio was more of a zen style support where getting gold damage is a sign of your skill and not the lack of your team’s. But it would make ana, zed and like every dps without cc get destroyed.
Right now his projectile speed is 50m/s. If I recall Zen is 90m/s, Ana is 70 I think.
Wait what- why?