In the cinematic reveal trailer (the one with the kids in the museum) reaper is shown shooting rockets out of the bottom barrel of his shotguns. This was most likely a removed ability bound to right click. Reaper currently has nothing bound to right click and it just feels kinda…empty, like there should be something there but there isn’t. It’s the same for Hanzo and Winston. So I came up with an idea for what reaper’s alt fire could be, based off his abulity from the cinematic reveal trailer. What if reaper could shoot a whole shotgun shell out of his shotguns, which would be an arcing projectile that would explode upon contact with any surface, throwing a small amount of shrapnel in all directions. It would kind of be like scatter arrow, but without the ricochet. This could either be his alt fire, that uses up one ammo per shell, or it could be an ability on a short cooldown. They s would help to give reaper some extra range and viability. What do you guys think of this?
i think its a good idea as long as its not too powerful, better than reaper just standing there and only being able to have an evil glare as his only weapon at range
Technically hanzo’s right click disengages drawn arrows, and disables scatter and sonic arrow
how about let him hold right click to charge a shot that reduce bullets’ spread? this will help reaper deal with small heroes like widow after he could sneak behind her back.
Huh really? I barely ever play hanzo so I’ve never tested it. Winston could use a right click ability, though. Maybe he could drop a banana peel on the ground and when someone steps on it it would have a similar effect to earth shatter on them
I’d like the option to fire slugs at a reduced total damage for dealing with armor or small targets.
Good idea, however I would format it differently.
It could be an explosive shell tucked under his regular use.
The ammo cost should definitely be higher than a regular primary fire.
I was thinking that the shell would shoot out a set distance and either explode at max range or first contact with something, doing splash damage in an area (like soldiers helix).
A bit too much like road hog’s secondary. Also reaper shouldn’t be countering widow…
If it exploded after a max range reaper would be too similar to roadhog. It should probably use more ammo than a regular shot, but I just thought that wouldn’t make much sense since he’d be shooting out a shotgun shell, using up the same amount of ammo as a normal shell logically. But this is overwatch! Who cares about logic?
Maybe reaper alt fire could be him throwing his guns as projectiles since he doesn’t seem to care about wasting them during reload anyways. This would ofc force a reload animation after every use, so it should deal decent damage and maybe penetrate shields
His alt fire wouldn’t be very effective at long distances due to the arc, and it could have a slow travel time to make it more balanced
Yeah, I was thinking of something more along the lines of graves from league of legends. He has an ability that throws out an explosive shell instead of a regular shotgun shell, and I think it would be different enough from roadhogs due to the nature of it exploding into splash damage.
I’ve wished for a Winston alt fire for a while. I was thinking something like a charged shot that fires similar to Sym’s, or maybe a charge that releases into a shockwave, dealing a little more damage than his primary tickle.
I still want a banana peel that acts like a single person earthshatter for whoever steps on it
Tracer also doesn’t have a Right click ability. (Blink is normaly binded to Shift, therefor no Right mous click ability.) It’s just a fact. nothing more.
What i wanted to say is, right click must be rapid fire like mccree’s fth
How about a “Half-Life shotgun” right-click, where Reaper fires both his Hellfire Shotguns together instead of one at a time, but that significantly delays follow-up shots?
Or maybe he can just HOLD right click for like a 33% slower rate of fire for 50% less bullet spread?
That’s too good of an idea, Blizzard would never add it in.
A banana peel is out-of-place in Overwatch, though. For as much as the game’s influenced by Team Fortress 2, it doesn’t have the same “Tex Avery meets Happy Tree Friends” aesthetic where a Sandvich or a Jar of Piss would be seen as legitimate weapons. Moreover, Winston doesn’t actually eat bananas. His thing is peanut butter.