This change will definitely lower her dps but for the wrong reasons. This is going to affect players muscle memory from over 4 years. It honestly just makes her feel bad to play. If you want to lower her dps then make her shots cost more ammo, give her a smaller clip size, or make it take longer to reload. She is even hard countered by Hammond so idk if she even needs the nerfs in the first place. (Lmao NVM I’m already used to it)
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They changed her charge rate twice before or something like that.
Welcome to nerf reality.
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Man that sounded so symetraish… And it fits so well too. Well done choosing those words.
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Just means you need to hit your shots better. This will increase the skillgap between good and bad Widows.
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Imagine players who played heroes who have had abilities or even their entire kits reworked. Adapt, like they did
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Not what he is saying.
This is actually punishing good widows more.
Trash widows don’t have muscle memory and fully charge their shot before firing every time. Even if they do have muscle memory, its charging the full 0.84 seconds, which will be in the one shot charge range.
Good widows have muscle memory for 200 damage and 250 damage shots, which will now be 170 damage and 190(I don’t know the actual numbers, just throwing random numbers out).
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Oh god, the carnage, a week to retrain muscle memory, how will you live through it?
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Seriously this.
When they sped up junkrat’s projectiles I was overshoothing every arced shot I fired for a while. And on top of that I still get extremely frustrated by my inability to bounce nades off of things (because they just don’t bounce and roll in any way that makes sense anymore. Their bounce characteristics don’t match their velocity).
And Sym…if sym can survive having her barrier removed and replaced with a less-than-useful teleporter, widowmaker players can survive this.
As widow mains so love to tell other people…
git gud
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Am I wierd for not noticing anything when I played her after the change?
But imo, she’s kinda-ish fine how she is now & she doesnt need to be nerfed anymore.
If anything & if people literally cant counter/kill her after all these change’s she’s got, they need to get better, scout where she could be if there’s enemy widow to begin with, etc…
Asking nerfs to her is useless atm.
Tough!
Remember what you all told Orisa players when ALL of her game dynamics were changed?
“If you’re good, you’ll adapt”
Man… Karma sucks doesn’t it?
so…
If you’re good, you’ll adapt!
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this is a bs claim, your aim doesn’t change because your sensitivity and dpi doesn’t change, all it is it’s a timing change.
and there haven’t been a single soldier76 post about relearning how many shots he could fire before losing accuracy which is the exact same type of change.
and another thing is, muscle memory is one of the fastest things to retrain, it takes you a month tops, not a whole year.
this is you not liking getting a nerf that’s all.
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Oh no. A muscle memory change of 0.15 seconds.
Meanwhile any other hero sometimes have their abilities slowed down by entire seconds. Multiple seconds even.
0.15 seconds is meh. Get over it.
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Hitting shots isn’t the problem. This in no way effective aim it just disrupts the flow of the shots
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Hanzo Players: First time?
ok, i hate people that complain about dps being entitled, but it’s like a 0.3 second increase.
Please don’t sound this spoiled.
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widows and brig’ s changes were so miniscule. they were a slap on the wrist for those players. and those characters viability won’t be impacted by the nerf s
y’all on here make big deals out of everything
Welcome to what every other player has had to deal with, with their own hero.
When Soliders spread and damage got changed. I had to relearn it.
When Mccrees fire rate changed I had to relearn it.
When Sym, Torb, Mercy, Bastion got reworks. Those players had to relearn. And the list goes on.
Widow is just late to the party.
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That’s already one of the largest skillgaps in the game. There’s few, if any, heroes where the gap between high skill and low skill players is as vast as it is with Widowmaker.
retrain muscle memory?
The change is so infinitesimal is it isn’t even noticeable.
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