Thanks Mudkip and Dr. Riku for breathing new life into this subject. Here is a linked video that goes in depth in some of the problems with roadhog.
As a summary. No other hero in overwatch has to deal with chance on the level roadhog does. His elimination count is heavily influenced by random and luck influenced factors such as,
-Hook breaking: whether it will break or not due to your movement or the enemies.
-Pull in Placement: Where the enemy will be placed, anyone who plays roadhog knows that people can be dragged to the right, left, and above you which totally throws off your aim and end up doing a fraction of the damage.
-Bullet pattern: Doomfist who also has a shotgun like ability has a fixed spread so he knows where to aim it, unlike roadhog who has greater spread and random spread. You can do everything right; get the hook, get the right placement, move in a little bit, and shoot, but that random pattern decided to screw you because not enough pellets went to the head where you aimed at.
No other hero has to deal with 3 factors that determine whether they get the elimination or not when they hook someone. This leads an inconsistent and unreliable hero that is still fun to play but can be on fire one round and just an ult battery the next.
i love seeing these topics popping up if there is enough the devs need to take notice they have ignored him for far too long, anyone who cares about hog lets all try to keep these topics up or even if you care about bugs being reduced if these topics are up forever stylosa might make a video about it(a 10 minute video) then and only then will it get fixed
Hook breaking and target placement aren’t random, though. Sure some of the hook mechanics are less intuitive and perhaps even bugged, but you just plan around those when using it. His weapon spread is the only random factor.
I think Roadhog just needs more damage. He never had this issue when his damage was actually good. I’d gladly take his old damage if it meant having his dumb e ability reverted
I’ve seen this too much. I’ve been in clear LoS of the Roadhog hooking me, and it randomly breaks. Sure, it’s good for me, but it makes me question if they even care about certain characters.
In the few hours of me playing Roadhog, this is annoying. I try to fix it, but still nothing. No matter how much of “pulling the hook more to the left if X hero is on the right,” it’s just annoying.
Pellets can sometimes just fly right through people, and it is just… why?
I mean, he has one of the worst ults in the game, so many abilities interrupt it. Hack/emp interrupt it even though there are no electronics involved lol