If it were we wouldnt be having this debate. I and many others maintain Moira has, at the very least, a soft-lock, which as a type of lock-on by extension means ⌠Moira has lock-on.
The only reason Moira playrs fight this inevitable truth is because they know the devs are turning against lock-on heroes.
No Moira player is worried about Blizzard nerfing lock-on heroes because Moira doesnât have lock on, so it wouldnât affect them.
So Hanzo has soft hitscan, got it.
if we can add the term soft to anything which means ânot at all, in any wayâ, then we can say Hanzo has soft hitscan.
which⌠if we follow your line of reasoning, Hanzo is Hitscan.
They are sick of people being completely wrong about their hero?
If you donât understand EVEN the basics, and then people will mock you.
So this hitscan hanzo, do you think he has soft flight?
There canât be a soft hitscan, because projectile heroes in no way check the crosshair before firing. Itâs a binary difference, whereas lock on is a spectrum.
except it isnât. Either the hitbox is changing in size or it isnât.
In Moiraâs case it does not.
So on a spectrum from âdoesnât have lock onâ to âhas lock onâ she is in the âdoesnât have lock onâ bit.
Either the hitbox is changing in size or it isnât.
How does that have anything to do with lock-on?
No it isnât. Either somethings locks on, or it doesnât.
Everything. That is how lock on works.
The other thing it does is ignore people who walk in front of the target while it is hitting someone.
Which her beam doesnât at all either.
There is 0 difference between her beam and Symâs new beam in the way it works. (except you canât spycheck with Moira)
So, we know Syms new beam is not lock on. since, the devs have straight out said so.
So how is Moiraâs beam working differently than a Sym beam with a big hitbox?
Because if the answer is âit doesnâtâ then you donât have a lock on right?
Thatâs an argument that Moira doesnât have hardlock. But she clearly has softlock, in that the beam partially tracks the target for you. Unlike hitscan, where the server cant âpartiallyâ check the target and crosshair for a lineup before registering the hit.
Animation is not the weapon.
It does NOT partially track the target for you.
It looks like it does, because of how it is animated, but looking like someone and being something are VERY different beasts.
Symm used to have a lock on and it was fixed to require aiming, I think introducing this tech to Moira would help increase the skill cap needed for her.
Anything in the cone in front of Moira it continuously applies damage to whilst theyâre in it; thatâs a lock on to me.
Omg, pls yes. Make them feel our pain.
Anything in the cone in front of SYM it continuously applies damage to whilst theyâre in it.
But we know Sym isnât lockon.
You may note Sym doesnât have to have her beam touching the model either to do damage. but her hit box is smaller.
Except Symâs cone is much narrower, to the point that itâs almost a point. Moiraâs is very wide.
Yes, that is her hitbox.
Moiraâs one is big, which no one disagrees with.
Syms one is small, which no one disagrees with.
So where is the lock on? Because a big hitbox is not lock on.
You donât say Mercyâs pistol is lock on, nor Meiâs icicle, but they have large hitboxes.
Like I said, itâs a spectrum. Symâs is far too narrow to be a lock on, Moiraâs is too wide not to be.
EDIT: Mercy and other projectile heroes fire discrete shots, which is the dfference there.
lock on has NOTHING to do with hitbox size.
hitbox size is how you describe it.
Moira has a massive hit box, which makes her aim trivial.
But she DOESNâT have lock on, you can body check a Moira.
lock on has NOTHING to do with hitbox size.
Not what you were saying earlier.
ok fair enough, it DOES have to do with how the hitbox changes in size after the connect, (like Sombraâs hack) and how it ignore body blocks (like sombras hack)
But a large hit box is not lock on, because all it is, is a large hit box.