Overwatch's McCree will receive a balance update in the future
Blizzard is planning to reduce the hero's fan damage without impacting the efficacy of fan-favorite combos.
Overwatch has been available for two weeks, and millions of players around the world can't get enough of its squad-based action. Blizzard has been monitoring feedback closely, and has a number of balance upgrades in the works.
Chief among them is a damage reduction for McCree, a gun-toting hero reminiscent of gaming's favorite mad-dog gunman. Speaking to Eurogamer, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan said the team's plan to smooth out McCree's wrinkles is pretty straightforward. "What we're looking at right now is his fan the hammer damage. We're going to reduce it. The goal there is to make it so that McCree can still use his combo that we love, which is the flashbang and fan the hammer on somebody like Tracer. McCree should absolutely kill that Tracer. We want McCree to be a counter to people like Tracer, Genji and Reaper."
The problem, Kaplan explained, is that McCree is powerful enough to "shred" tank characters. The trick will be dialing back his damage enough so that tanks still have an advantage against him, yet not mitigating his damage output so much that medium-strength characters run roughshod over him.
"If he times everything perfectly and gets every single shot off, he's got a shot against a tank, but it's not the instant 'I win' button that it is right now. So that's what's coming for McCree. We've been testing it for a while and it feels good. You still want him on your team."
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There was also another blurb:
"Widowmaker is on our radar. We are discussing her. We have some internal experiments going to see if we can keep her viable while lowering the frustration threshold a little bit. Right now, this is just exploration. If something more comes of it, we'll let you know."
Personally I think her shots need to charge a little more slowly. Yesterday I was in a match where a very skilled Widow quickly 2-shot a Bastion who was running, then killed me (Mercy) exactly one second later with a headshot while I was mid-Guardian Angel glide. That's just too much DPS.-
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Her HP needs to be dropped to 150 and she has to have a slower rate of fire. Players need to be punished for not aiming for the head not rewarded with 9 free retries...
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Same here, and it is always frustrating when the enemy kills me instantly as soon as I poke my head around the corner, not knowing they have the wallhack ability.
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Good, fuck him.
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It'ssss high noon.
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Honestly I just think Fan the hammer needs a cool down.
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Unless the entire team went Zarya. That happened yesterday and Soldier felt like a wimp against that team.
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Actually they should definitely address this
https://youtu.be/_UU8jqxAiHQ-
Heads are still hard to hit. Some people are really good at it. Like every other game.
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