why can sojourns rail gun be deflected by genji or destroyed by dva, orisas, and sigma’s abilities when Zarya’s gun can’t it makes her unfun to play against these types of heros. If its because of it being a projectile explain how junker queens knife goes through defense matrix and genjis deflect, it just doesnt make sense and dont even bring up balance.
Railgun isn’t a beam, it is a projectile, unlike Zarya’s beam weapon.
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Projectile not beam
Which means free real estate for me
Railguns aren’t lasers, it’s a piece of metal launched at high speeds by a magnetic rail.
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that explains projectiles but not sure that it should pertain to their argument the op was talking bout how jq doesn’t count and saying it isn’t fair or makes sense
Like i said in the post, if it was a projectile why does junker queens knife not get destroyed by orisas and dvas abilities and not deflected with genjis deflect.
Because Junker Queen’s knife is the only projectile that returns to the player. If you throw the knife into a pit it’ll automatically come back, perhaps the devs couldn’t think of a way to make it matrixable while still retaining the recall ability.
Perhaps if they wanted to make it more blockable they could make it so that if Dva/Sigma/Orisa matrix the knife, it automatically gets sent back to Junker Queen.
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Junker Queen’s Knife isn’t a “projectile”. It is like Sigma’s rock!
Some objects in this game aren’t coded to be eaten/deflected for balance reasons. The devs probably want tanks to keep their space making tools instead of allowing them to be eaten all game haha
Also, on the topic of Sojourn – when she was first released I thought they would make that distinction and make her railgun function as a “beam” too. Balance wise though, I don’t think she needs that trait since she can outplay most of those defenses and pick her moment.
Hope we get a long-range/sniper “beam” one day!
In regards to Junkerqueen
I didn’t get to play the beta yet and test – knife bypassing deflect/DM sounds fine to me but my biggest question comes from what someone said about the knife pull interrupting (Rein’s) ult.
- Does it remain attached after Moira fades? If she gets stuck with knife, fades away and ults – could she be interrupted later? (does that mean to always wait out the duration?)
- What about Doomfist’s ult? Does the knife return when he ults or could he be… interrupted in the air??
Everything I see seems to describe it as a ‘reverse-knockback’ but I heard a couple of statements like that so it got me curious 
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stop it … sojorrn is a extrem strong dps with her right click.
when she gets buffed were are all lost.
and dont use junkerqueen as a comparison, junkerqueen are the strongest op hero we ever seen in this game
well, it wouldn’t interrupt any enemy but rather acts like roadhogs hook, but long range and it also pulls enemies a little bit away from their current position depending on where you’re standing (also pulls enemies upward if your above them), and it doesn’t cancel out whatever an enemy is doing and no it doesn’t stick if someone uses and ability that makes them phased out. Also thank you for telling me Junker queens knife is like a sigma rock.
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It doesn’t interupt, but rather just pulls them in. On the note of Moira, I’ve seen the knife just drop when things like teleport or Wraith form are used, so I’d imagine that for Moira it just sort of falls to the ground (again, like it does for Reaper’s abilities).
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