Overwatch 3 changes

General Discussion
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Health changes

  • Revert back to pre-season 9 healthpools
  • Possibly keep transition for 225 HP to 175 HP?

Health numbers are arbitrary, they depend on weapon damage and healing numbers. Most, but not all post-S9 numbers were adjusted to accommodate, so returning to 200 HP seems adequate. Artificial DPS/HPS/Health inflation is not good, keep numbers simple for less balancing overhead.

DPS passive replacement
The idea is good in general, but applied poorly. The idea should be that enemies that take constant damage should be more prone to dying.

The new replacement should be a global “healing reduction” (all roles can apply this) which only lasts 1 tick; the same tick damage was applied. This means that healing an ally that is being damaged at the same time is nerfed, but only whilst they’re taking damage.

There will be a multiplier for each consecutive tick you take damage. Say it’s a -0.5% healing reduction. If you take non-stop damage for 1 second (64 ticks), 0.5 * 64 = 32% healing reduction. The number is arbitrary, testing will be needed.

The idea here is that if a person is taking focused damage, they should be easier to kill; i.e mercy pockets or tanks being double-pocketed.

Tank passives

  • Remove headshot reduction multiplier
  • Knockback resistance should be tied and clamped to max healthpool; higher max health meaning higher knockback resistance.

It seems illogical to put a blanket headshot reduction for all tanks. The only tank this makes sense on would maybe be D.va. If you hit a headshot, you want to see the health drop proportionate to the damage you dealt.

Projectile, hitscan sizes

  • Revert to pre-season 9
  • Prioritise smaller sizes in general. Hitscans should have the most strict bullet sizes
  • Zen’s orbs should not be the size of a hobbit house; 0.250m currently

Projectile and hitscan time-to-live

  • There should be a max distance for all or most projectiles
  • Projectiles should have a damage fall-off that follows an S-curve; no damage fall off for most of the trajectory’s lifetime, then steep fall-off after a certain threshold
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Ew, ugh, ew. I can see your name was just bait. You are not a headshot master 5000…

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The idea behind this is to curb random Kiriko kunai flying across the map and dealing 120 damage to 200 HP heroes.

As long as other points are considered, most importantly healthpools, DPS passive and tank passives

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So either you’re making snipers worse, or you’re turning anything hitscan into a sniper.

Why not just nerf kiri’s headshot damage or something?