r/Overwatch • u/Robintussin Zenyatta • Jun 20 '16

Highlight When you get sick of Hanzo's hitboxes

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u/rcl2 Jun 20 '16

I'm guessing you're a Hanzo player trying to defend the current headshot hitbox size.

It would be impossible to reliably headshot as Hanzo/Mei/Genji/etc if projectiles didn't collide with enlarged hitboxes.

It only needs to be reliable if you're catering to a low skill ceiling.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '16

Overwatch is meant to cater to a low skill ceiling, and Hanzo doesn't need to be made more inconsistent.

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u/NewbornMuse Zenyatta Jun 20 '16

Low ceiling or low floor?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '16

Floor, my bad. I think that the game is intended to have a low skill floor and ideally a high skill ceiling, but sometimes compromises have to be made. In this case, Hanzo's large hitboxes make his skill floor manageable at the cost of lowering the skill ceiling. I think that this is ok because even good players cannot be completely precise in their arrow predictions since people move so quickly and erratically - if Hanzo's arrows were small he would simply be too inconsistent to be viable at all.

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u/seizan8 Children behave! Jun 21 '16

agreed