So in season 11 Cassidy will have some sort of reverse change on his grenade to make him a lot stronger
I was hoping Reaper will be rework but no they once again decide to buff/rework another hero and let him agonize another season
At least hindered effect seems to be gone forever but stun is not better…
I don’t understand why the devs hate Reaper so much
He is part of the original rooster but Orisa, Doomfist, Sombra, Wrecking ball and now Cassidy had changes before him
Reaper probably eviscerates them in their in-house test patches. They genuinely believe he is Tracer power level which is embarrassing. You couldn’t waterboard that out of me.
“I am not, nor have I ever been, associated with Mr. Reaper. I ask that the personal attacks cease.”
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They refuse to do anything to Reaper that might make him better than mid because he is the tank buster of DPS. Making him a hard-counter to the non-armoured tanks would just worsen the tank experience further.
You want reaper to be played more, by buffing the tanks he’s so effective against.
The problem is that there are no tanks he is effective against outside of perhaps Winston. After the armor changes, that seems debatable. Albeit, it is not as if I would mind if they buffed Winston. Even without considering the Reaper lens.
Hypothetically, according the forums (who are just as knowledgeable about shotguns as Flats), Reaper counters Hog and Hog is allegedly meta. That SHOULD result in some Reaper scenarios. Unsurprisingly, even the tank with no armor dominating the game is not reason enough to pick such a useless hero.
The reality is that Reaper is horrible and so is this playerbase. They refuse to buff him because he will stomp Helen Keller, and she loves first person skins. Lots of value.
They honestly need to give him an alt fire with a tighter cone spread with less pellets. So he can match up with the other dps without being to much close up.
he isn’t even good against winston anymore it’s crazy
point black headshot to a full hp winston does 108 dmg xd
The trailer looked like it had reaper writhing similar to severog from Paragon . Could be wrong but it seemed that way.
The wraith form change in the trailer is just a part of content creators thing
Reaper is a difficult character to balance because buffing him the wrong way would just make him a terror in metal ranks while doing nothing for high level play. The main issue Reaper has is the fact that Shadow Step is arguably one of the worst engage abilities in the entire game.
Reaper has a a rework of some degree coming, the devs have stated so as a fact.
But they also said that they’re strugling to implement what they want properly (without too many bugs).
My bet is that we’ll have his rework by season 13.
Worst ability in the entire game you mean
So because he his difficult to balance let’s go don’t touch him at all
It’s clearly not an excuse and devs are lazy to try something to make him more fun and better to play
Or a second shotgun you can swap to that has 2 rounds, that is longer range.
I say 2 rounds because it would need to be limited so he retains his close range persona mostly, but those 2 rounds on the other shotty can be used to finish off the target thats about to get away.
I remember playing Crysis 13 years ago and the shotgun had a toggle that switched it between high and low spread.
I assume the dev team is scared this would make reaper too… complicated?
It just seems like it would fix at least 80% of Reaper’s issues by giving him passable mid-range accuracy so he can do something against flyers.
They said that since december 13th and we are 20th june where is his rework ?
All I see is Ball rework in season 10 and Cassidy buff in season 11 it’s not normal
Reaper is possibly my favorite hero but if I need to sweat then reaper is literally never the choice. Venture is a better close range burst hero with better mobility
Reaper chicken skin confirmed !!?
Bastion and Pharah too.
Basically every character got buffed going into OW2 and Reaper got nerfed. Hasn’t received a buff since launch.
Genuinely starting to think they want to treat him like a real villain and not support him at all.
They label him a “short range hero” and then allow all the long range heroes to do equal damage in the short range. They have gutted him of any uniqueness with every patch.
Reaper statement of the year.