Widowmaker is by far the easiest sniper I’ve seen in any game that has characters of that same archetype.
Widow has:
no flinching when getting hit to throw off accuracy
no worry of losing ammo supply
no range falloff
no bullet drop
same amount of health as characters who have to push into the enemy to get value
no scope sway to make it harder to shoot accurately
an amazing ability that works both to get her into position and out of tight situations
literal wallhacks
the ability to shoot down most targets without being fully charged
one of the game’s tiniest hitboxes
The only major disadvantages she has are the fact that she has longer cooldowns on her abilities and her close range engagements aren’t in her favor…just like any sniper. Then again this is easily circumvented by her grapple anyway so it doesn’t affect her much. Especially when she can just go to her team.
Widow is not hard. There are a multitude of characters in this game with a much higher level of difficulty to play than her. The other hitscans can’t one shot headshot so that automatically makes them harder.
no flinching when getting hit to throw off accuracy
Wrong. there are multiple heroes in the game that make her “flinch” such as getting shot by soldier.
Another thing worth mentioning is that movement is overwatch is more erratic than virtually any other fps, making landing hs consistently very hard.
no worry of losing ammo supply
no range falloff
no bullet drop
How does this make a character “hard”? There is nothing required except a basic awareness of these concepts when playing the characater/hero etc. Besides there are few situations in overwatch where u will be shooting down a very long sight line.
an amazing ability that works both to get her into position and out of tight situations
literal wallhacks
Do I really need to name other insane high mobility abilities and ults in the game?
the ability to shoot down most targets without being fully charged
This means absolutely nothing in the context of ur argument. If anything, she has higher skill ceiling because of the existence of charge.
one of the game’s tiniest hitboxes
True, but when she scopes in she becomes very immobile and easy to shoot. This is why widow vs widow is alot easier then hsing a crouch-spamming strafing soldier who is constantly poking you.
The other hitscans can’t one shot headshot so that automatically makes them harder.
I don’t follow your reasoning. if that were the case no other hitscan would see play. Different heroes have different strengths and weaknesses.
All what your thread shows is that the people who compare Widow to other snipers are actually the ones who never played other snipers.
Seriously, hitting shots in Battlefield is WAY easier than in Overwatch, despite projectile physics. Wanna know why? Because all you are shooting at are massive grunts wider than McCree who are all the same size and animations, while have sluggish movements and the game actually punishes them for trying to ADAD because of this thing called movement acceleration. They also can’t zip around, wallride, blink, dash, super jump, insta teleport, or otherwise just turn around and have their heads hidden behind a terrible posture. Not to mention that you have to account for all of that while trying to shoot behind one way barriers that you are awful at destroying. Did I mention that you have to actually hit a headshot to OSK, unlike some others that you can just shoot above the pelvis?
Overwatch also lacks meaningful momentum on heroes, has heroes with extreme mobility, and heroes of vastly different sizes.
That last one is a big one.
In MOST FPS games player models are all the exact same size
This lets you line up at a specific spot on the terrain (ie wall) of a corner or other specific location- and always be at the perfect height for a head shot.
In overwatch heroes range from torbjorn to Reinhardt and everywhere inbetween, invalidating the relevancy of this type of familiarity and muscle memory.
I TYPICALLY play snipers in games- always have. From CS (not CsGo, good ok CS), Tf, cod, Bf, you name it.
I’d easily put sniping in Overwatch up there with the hardest of them for many reasons
NOT that I don’t have my problems with snipers. I don’t feel they’re implemented properly for the context of overwatch and how this game works- and absolutely want some changes for them.
But I also have nothing but respect for the players who have the mechanically capacity to hit consistent headshots.
Everyone knows a widow kills every 0.7sec with 1 shot.
You can’t show videos of a missing widow…
Thats impossible.
The forums will go nuts
I mean if she was to easy, i would hit shots after smoking a tree right?
Can you show me the aim assisst pls?
Aand as a side note:
None of the 3 guys tried to dodge you.
None of the enemy tanks tried to annoy you.
Enemies deserved those 3 deaths 100%
Or do you close your eyes once you see reaper walking at you? If you think its bc widow is broken, then you WOULD close your eyes at a reaper comming at you.
Bc you’d expect the widow to hit so you don’t even try to beat her.
I would take the opinions of you guys who say Widowmaker is easy more seriously if a single one of you were capable of climbing to a decent rank playing hitscans only, or if you were introspective enough to ask yourself if you are capable of climbing with her
