The burden of evidence is on you to prove it is a lock-on. You don’t have to prove a negative. Since your claim runs counter to well-established fact, you must provide irrefutable evidence that your claim is true while the established fact is not.
It’s like you don’t understand the concept that different weapons can have different hit box sizes.
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Yes, but they still will. This is common knowledge now. It’s easily proven now simply by going into the training range. The OP and this Kurfwurst guy are literally arguing against something they are seeing with their own eyes, and allegedly “testing” to “prove” their point.
I say this is a troll thing, but honestly, especially considering this sort of nonsense goes on 24/7 in the political arena, I’m not so sure it is.
No. It isn’t. A lock-on beam remains even if the target completely leaves your FOV and cannot be bodyblocked. A large hitbox cannot.
That’s important information for people fighting the hero. And fighting to spread misinformation because your salty the weapon is easy to use is what’s actually pathetic.
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Lol except it isnt just the visual effects. There is actually a totally different ruleset for how lock-on weapons function. The hitbox for attaching a lock-on weapon is usually significantly smaller than the one for detaching. Like small circle vs. Full 180 smaller. Heroes with support lock-ons like Ana and Mercy typically can also adjust the hitbox size to make it easier to detect a hit.
so it’s just a hitscan soft lock?
still a lock on but it’s very very restricted, a real lock on don’t lose the target, it’s usually combined with an aquiring target kind of feature that allows things to lock on like heat seeking missiles.
how they accomplished this feature is actually none of our concern to us, but it does look like a lock on type of thing, but it doesn’t actually lock on to heat signatures in all circumstances, it only has like a cylinder of influence where it will grab the closest target it seems like, but because sombra is untargetable in cloak it won’t grab her.
so in a sense it’s very limited lock on, if it wasn’t lock on she could have hit targets further away with it, but because it has cylinder of influence and can only grab one target in it, it will prioritize the closest one available.
that’s why i think it’s more of a soft lock and is actually something that makes her good in one way against one opponent but much worse against multiple opponents.
i did some reasoning to why it’s worse in some cases when i talked about brigs shieldbash having a big shieldbash cone, it might hit a target you didn’t intend to hit with it making the ability squandered. in which an actual hitscan laser beam would have been more preferable in those situations.
accuracy vs forgiving targeting is not a straight up conclusion which is better, they both have their uses.
just like hitscan and projectiles are different, they have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Don’t forget resurrect too.
Meh it happens people will always plug their ears to some things.
Be it if Blizz state if the beam is lock on or not. Or if keyboard and mouse is considered to be unfair on consoles.
If it goes against their narrative they will deny it, but they make themselves look well…dumb because it has been addressed and it becomes much easier to spot a troll vs a misinformed person
Sombras hack is a lock on because you do not have to maintain your aim to complete the hack. That is the difference between a lock-on and just a large hitbox. Once you attach sombras hack, you can just aim away and it still hacks the target.
Yet another person has no idea how a lock-on works.
Sad.
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All Im seeing is your beam disconnecting when your beams hit box isn’t on the characters hitbox, therefore making it NOT a lock on if it was the beam would stay connected until one of you was out of range, regardless of hitbox.
Moira is one of the strongest healers in the game. Yes she can DPS, but what healer can’t? She is great for DPS when you need a push and your team is full health, but can do awesome heals when she needs to. Very dynamic.
Mmmm, thats not entirely true, if you lose LOS of the target when hacking or move your crosshair too far away from them it breaks. The only “lock-on” thing about hack is the targeting in system the ability uses.
It’s legitimately hilarious to me how many people have a problem with her at this point
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It’s not prioritizing the closest hero. The beam’s hitbox never left the closest hero. It’s not a soft lock. It’s not any lock. As soon as the beam leaves the hitbox it stops dealing damage. That’s not any lock; that’s the same rules as Zarya’s beam. It’s the exact same with Winston’s primary fire: they both have large hitboxes, but they are not lockon.
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It’s not lock on the beam/cone is wider than what is visible. So with the animation it looks like it is locking on.
this actually gave me an idea what they could do to actually buff moira if they wanted or make a new character that has a similar aiming function, it grabs every enemy within it’s influence but it diverts the dps shared between the enemies it grabs.
for example if it had 200dps (hypothetical)
if you make it grab one person it does 200dps, it hits 4 targets it diverts the dps into 50dps per target.
that could be really cool.
Moderators - can we please lock this thread or have Blizzard put up a notice on exactly how this works? Its getting real old with the misconceptions…
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Hack is a lock because she can keep hacking anyone in her frontal 180 vision once lock is obtained, Moiras does not function this way at all.