Overwatch 2 Nerfs Snipers & Puts an End to Long-Range Oneshot Kills

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One shot… no kill?

The Overwatch 2 devs have introduced plans for the upcoming mid-season patch and Hero stability updates, protecting a number of subjects in their most up-to-date information piece. Amongst these adjustments, essentially the most important by far are the adjustments relating to the long-range sniper characters, Widowmaker and Hanzo.

For fairly some time now, there have been a number of complaints locally from gamers throughout a big number of Aggressive Ranks that these heroes have felt far too highly effective because of their capability to one-shot squishy enemy gamers will full HP from throughout the map. Snipers have been extraordinarily robust since Overwatch 2 was launched, bringing the shift of 5v5 group compositions.

This has allowed the likes of Hanzo and Widowmaker to profit completely from plenty of outdated and new maps and change into a few of the greatest meta picks out there within the recreation. To assist treatment the state of those Heroes, the next adjustments will probably be going down:

Widowmaker

• Injury falloff is altering from 70-100 meters to 40-60 meters.
•  Injury falloff scalar rising 30%-50%
•  Will nonetheless be able to one-shotting 200 HP heroes at a spread of fifty meters or much less, however something additional is not going to lead to a killing blow.

Hanzo

• Will obtain a slight nerf to his harm, making him incapable of one-shotting 250 HP Heroes.
•  The usage of Sonic Arrow will probably be extra recognizable to the enemy group.

Right here’s an announcement of those upcoming adjustments made by well-liked Overwatch 2 leaks and information channel OWCavalry. Be happy to have a look for your self beneath:

These nerfs are essential to the sport, as they won’t solely have an effect on simply Hanzo and Widow, however all different Heroes within the recreation. For instance, Ashe is one other DPS sniper, and whereas she doesn’t fairly play in the very same means Widowmaker and Hanzo do (and often makes up for her weakened harm with the utility of her dyamite), it’s at all times been a bit odd that the previous two heroes have the flexibility to headshot 250 HP enemies throughout the opposite aspect of the map to safe an instantaneous kill, whereas Ashe is incapable of securing a oneshot kill on comparable targets at shut vary, even with the help of a Mercy pocket.

Contemplating Ashe, Hanzo, and Widowmaker are all DPS sniper Heroes, these adjustments are seemingly to assist spherical out the weaknesses and strengths of those three Heroes and make DPS snipers extra balanced total. There’s nonetheless loads of strengths to those Heroes as picks, and a whole lot of potential to be a viable decide for many group comps.

Whereas it’ll undoubtedly be irritating for gamers who fundamental these Heroes to see them take a nerf, most gamers will have the ability to agree that it’s a optimistic factor that can assist how matches play out sooner or later, as these nerfs aren’t tremendous harsh on the playstyle or hero kits of both sniper.

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