So hard. as if she isn’t one of the most difficult characters to play and see rewards while using.
meanwhile, Bastian & soldier 76 seem to get nothing but love, despite being the two easiest characters to use and see rewards you never even deserved while using.
who has played Tracer? and gotten a killstreak, with her?
she has 150 health. she gets 1 tapped by just about anything in the game.
the Spread on her guns, is absolutely nuts, you need to be almost point blank to deal worthwhile damage. as a 150hp glass cannon, you are required to get within 2 feet of your opponent.
her Ultimate has almost 0 range. low explosion radius, doesn’t throw far. Deals damage to tracer. (lotta people proud to be Junkrat but that man can’t hurt himself)
sure, the ability to teleport is very nice. but that is all she can do. unlike most other DPS she has no ability to double jump, or wall climb or wall run. she cannot block bullets like genji, or heal herself like soldier 76. she has no extra abilities to deal damage besides her ultimate.
tracers entire ability is movement & dash. paired with akimbo machine pistols for damage. As a completely non biased opinion, tracer is an extremely well created character.
the ability to teleport, rewind time itself is Very broken. Overwatch seems to have taken this extremely overpowered ability, and limited it. right off the bat.
limited it to a character with 150 health, close combat weapons, and absolutely no other advantages.
tracer probably deals the least consecutive damage in the game comparing her to any other DPS (unless we are talking about her managing to get point blank on opponents, which not only takes skill, but time & patience)
when shooting at small targets, tracer needs to be even closer, or even more accurate.
when shooting tanks she is able to keep more distance, and this is i think what makes her such a balanced well made character.
becuase mobility and the lack of cc. Thats it thats the only reason, if anyone says anything else they are wrong just that and maybe becuase of that 1 skin.
It was one of the things that helped keep her somewhat in-line at most levels, but she could still outplay them. Now that they removed so many of them (barring Cass’ atrocious grenade right now), she has more free reign than in OW1 and has been pretty dominant outside of snipers for most of OW2 so far.
They’ve been pretty neglected for the most of OW2.
Bastion actually got disabled for weeks while they worked on fixing his ultimate, where it could fire endlessly - and it still sucked as an ultimate. lol
cass is pretty broken, but no bastian is absolute easy mode. 0 recoil on his gun (both) the characters playstyle is Hold R2 & place targets in the middle.
oh you forgot to hit L2 better lob that grenade.
In OW1 there were 2 tanks, main and off tank. the off tank could help the back lines when the tracer was trying to get a kill, that and the removal of Crowd control across the board made it so in OW2 dive heros like tracer had very few counters or heros that could deal with them.
TLDR: OW2 soft buffed all flanker so people got mand
my time playing, i have complained (in my head) about bastian, soldier 76, yes, cass - saying wow. that is so busted.
man is a mile away, just spamming/holding r2.
i had a tracer point blank me and said, wow. gg, i would rather have a tracer come up in my grill, teleport around bamboozle my a$$ - than have some loser as soldier 76 gun me down with no skill. (guy seems to have absolute perfect non recoiling accuracy, and a self heal lol)
I rarely get mad at tracers, but i understand why people do get mad. A super hyper mobile character will always cause issues. Even in OW1 she caused issues, its just that OW2 exasperated them.
That is also why widow and hanzo became a much larger problem in OW2 then OW1. We had double shields and the off thank could dive them to keep snipers in check. Getting rid of 1 tank soft buffed alot of heros.
I can give you my reason I used to until I played her myself for a short while.
I felt that she was a better reaper. Recalling health with iframes once cast to a less obvious position, a similar reaper-like spread so I hated that she didn’t have to hit headshots like Sombra, and her evasive nature even with recall on the side.
The main reason I disliked Tracer was her gun spread. One reload, 2 clips, and a bad tracer can kill you just aiming at the upper chest. A good one (which requires aim) can one clip combo you if they do it right with mele.
I used to say tracer should be aim intensive like sombra, but sombra does a heck of a lot of damage if you actually master that headshot damage.
Nowadays I think tracer is okay, but she will always be a gnat buzzing around me.
tracer just seems Too weak to me.
I had been loving her, but her DPS seems to fall short compared to any other character.
and this is from someone who is clearly, trying to main tracer over all other characters.
but she just isnt that strong. the skill required to play her, would be jsut as well spent elsewhere on other characters.
i have been using Sombra for example, and she just seems to perform every job tracer can, better. while dealing more damage, from further away.
she also has the addded bonus to see enemies through walls.
Hanzo is also Ridiculously overpowered. as a Sniper he is doing unreal amounts of damage, yet can perform way too well in close combat situations, double jump, wall climb (and reveal enemies through walls)
tracer as a damage dealer seems to just fall behind in almost every case, unless i can imagine i was managing to get pointblank on nearly every shot.
to me, thats very good balance, since i am trying to, and trying to perform better with tracer, but simply can’t. and feel more comfortable on other DPS.
for the guy who feels more comfortable on tracer. gg. she is a very niche character style.
