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Whidon

Whidon

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8 player FFA deathmatch makes it so easy to get your arcade boxes.

I got a 1st place win as Mercy the other day and she is amusingly very strong if you have solid mechanical aim. Normally i just play as Moiria, or Roadhog sometimes if on the Chateu map as it seems your almost guaranteed the get top 4 hence a 'win" counted for loot box.
 
Araxen

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This is what they've tried so far in regards to scatter arrow:

Posted by Geoff Goodman
We're still working on him so it might be a bit early to talk about where we are right now.

What I can do is mention a few things we have tried that haven't worked so far, that might be interesting.

We tried replacing Scatter Arrow with Piercing Arrow, which was an arrow that had an extremely fast projectile speed and would pierce through enemies and barriers. This was pretty fun as a 'snipey' arrow that you could occasionally take a super long-ranged shot at an enemy widow, pharah, or just a support in their back lines. Ultimately though, it was pretty frustrating to be feeling safe behind a barrier and get headshot through it and die.

Another thing we played with was just changing Scatter significantly. The most successful version was one where it had a very fast projectile speed, could only ricochet one time, could no longer split off the floor, and had a much tighter spread. This version removed the floor scatter entirely but added some new options in either using it as a long-range sniper shot or using it more accurately off a single wall (or ceiling). This one was pretty fun but mostly just felt really hard to use consistently. There were some areas of maps where it felt useful and fun but a lot of the time there weren't any usable surfaces around to cause a split, and using your cooldown to merely increase the projectile speed of your shot didn't feel great as a common use-case.

Another crazy thing we playtested a few times was a new ability bound to his Reload key (which is currently unused). This ability would have a small animation delay (~2-3 seconds) after which your cooldowns would reset. This meant if you wanted to sacrifice some normal shots you could forcibly reset your special arrows. This was pretty interesting when paired with the Piercing Arrow idea, but felt pretty crazy with Sonic Arrow. This idea overall wasn't bad but I think its shelved for now.

We're still narrowing in on what broad direction to take him, and what would make you really glad to have him on your team etc.
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Yeah, no thanks on an arrow that can pierce barriers. I'm surprised they haven't tried giving him an AOE arrow.
 
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Needless

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I'd be fine with that, just scale it so if it goes through a barrier it does like 50% of the normal damage from 'impact reduction' or some shit. (this would make him really fucking bad though tbh)

Even if it was full damage, it wouldn't be as bad as the issue with scatter shot. 1 arrow headshot won't kill a tank like scatter shot does.

Plus theres a cooldown, unless they go forward with that reload mechanic (which is retarded)
 
Whidon

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Yeah as long as it's not gonna be one shotting heroes through barriers all the time i'd be ok with something like that.


The CD would potentially make it difficult to stack up damage through the barrier with it but rather it would be used to try and pick off low hp heroes i imagine. The problem might be if you make it too high dmg it will be really strong and frustrating, too low and it's nigh useless and it might not be possible to find a happy medium.
 
skribble

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Araxen said:
This is what they've tried so far in regards to scatter arrow:



Yeah, no thanks on an arrow that can pierce barriers. I'm surprised they haven't tried giving him an AOE arrow.
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I really do wonder about blizzard sometimes. Why would you ever, possibly think that giving a character an ability to one shot heroes THROUGH shields on a NORMAL ability would be a good idea. This is the sort of shit that shouldn't NEED testing.

Fucking hell.
 
Ravishing

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I think what would make me like Hanzo on my team more is if he had a CC ability. An arrow that can "pin" a hero to a wall would be sweet. Sweeter if it counts barriers lol. Would make shield stacking a liability vs Hanzo since you open up your teammates getting pinned to the front of your barrier lol.
 
ex-genj

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man ctf appears to be just too complicated for the morons I keep getting queued with. If you're down one, stop fucking turtling. Play a lucio no matter what. Trading kills in the middle of the map does nothing. Its not hard.
 
Needless

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I do agree a pinning shot would be nice, give that dude some 'sticky bolas' arrows that latch whoever it hits to each other, or a wall if it's close enough, or the floor if it hits their feet on an angle for 1 second.

Also straight up switch scatter shot with multishot, fire 3 arrows for 75%(?) damage on a 12 second cooldown or something. 75% would mean nobody with 200 HP would get 1 shot from a headshot.

and keep sonic arrow how it is.
 
BoozeCube

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I wish there was a learning mode for practicing less played heros in this game.. QM is fucking pure aids and the fucking cocksuckers who thought that gold and silvers should be matched with diamonds and masters should be American History X'd into the fucking curb. You can play your less used heros in ranked and drop like a fucking rock not that it matters since the whole fucking matchmaker is a fucking coin flip in the first place. Some faggots need to lose their fucking jobs.
 
Araxen

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It even happens in GM too not just Silver/Gold. lol

BoozeCube said:
I wish there was a learning mode for practicing less played heros in this game.. QM is fucking pure aids and the fucking cocksuckers who thought that gold and silvers should be matched with diamonds and masters should be American History X'd into the fucking curb. You can play your less used heros in ranked and drop like a fucking rock not that it matters since the whole fucking matchmaker is a fucking coin flip in the first place. Some faggots need to lose their fucking jobs.
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This is how Blizzard gets you to buy a second account.
 
lost

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got 2800s for CTF, but was a 5-5 win/loss placements rofl. some games are just so dumb as there goes the lucio *cap x3* or you actually work for it. but i decided that most games have a roadhog or winston and going reaper is the best bet, but them genji flag carriers are pretty pesky when it comes to matches with an upper or lower level + wall climb
 
Valderen

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Oh well got tilted and left a match :(

I'm on Zarya, kept dying without getting healed...the 2 stack in my team are Zen and Moira and just DPSing. The Reaper says he has gold in healing, and i just lose it and leave.

Fuck this game sometimes.
 
Kharzette

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I find myself actively rooting against sanfran because they are so stupid.

I think the entire team's purpose is to inflate Dhak's "times resurrected babybad" stat.
 
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Kharzette

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I paused and slept awhile, and when I came back I saw art:

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