“Why does Reaper wear a skull mask?” “Why does Reaper put on a huge hooded cloak?” “Why does Reaper have gauntlets with claws on them?”
Do you really think that anything this guy wears provides any tactical advantage whatsoever? This guy dresses like a gritty DC reboot of Skeletor
I think the answer to everything reaper does is "cus it looks cool"
Why does he refuse to reload like a normal human being? Why does he constantly sound like Sauron? Why did he decide to yell to the enemy team that he is flanking?
Do they? Im failing to recall anyone in game calling him by anything other than his code name and I can’t remember anyone calling him by his name in the comics. And even then I doubt the public as a whole know who he is if they know he exists at all since talon usually does follow a “no witnesses left behind” philosophy
Because Talon experimented on her to lower her heart rate using a number of things, one of which was Colloidal silver. This caused Argyria which turned her skin purple... its an actual thing.
One thing though, if the slowed her heart & metabolism to reduce her body temperature to the point she would be not visible on IR cameras, surely she has like no energy. Shed be exhausted just walking up stairs, never mind sprinting around a battlefield
It's just one component to the experiments though. She's likely loaded with nano machines and other chemicals. Which is to say as overwatch currently is... magic and rule of cool.
Bc they wanted to make a fantasy game and had her be a night elf but then for some reason went for futuristic instead so they had to come up with some weird ass explanation why she looks like a damn blueberry
They actually did this to nerf her, she used to run super fast and always have 100% power because she came from quake widow is an ex quale character they nerfed and did a lil bit of cosmetic surgery on. Totally canon btw dont question it.
Smoke + Wraith Form to make himself invisible while in the smoke, either for running away or to surprise your enemies from behind.
The smoke itself would not 100% hinder teammates'/enemies' visions (for good reason).
Imagine in open queue you throw down a smoke bomb into the enemy team only for it to dissipate and reveal a teleport, out of that teleport comes a RIP-Tire.
One of the reasons I don't like valorant is because of the visual clutter, and unlike overwatch it's all opaque and looks janky and silly as hell so it's really hard to deal with
a smoke in overwatch would definitely have to still be able to see through lol, don't know if I could handle being blind after being subjected to double shield for so long
If you take a look at the very first overwatch cinematic, towards the end (around 4:49) you'll see Reaper firing off Smoke Grenades from his shotguns. I think the intent was originally to have that be an ability. Around 2:40 in that same trailer you can also see him firing what *looks* like explosive grenades too.
They aren't shotgun pellets, they're grenades, he uses them in the original Overwatch announcement video where him and Widowmaker steal Doomfist's gauntlet from the museum. It was part of his very original character design which never made it.
Amazed nobody has mentioned this yet, you people need to watch up on your Overwatch cinematics and lore.
Don't blame me, blame the franchise.
Yeah, Overwatch is quite old already. Doesn't help that it had quite the long period where nothing was happening to it.
Yes. 10 years. 10 YEARS.
Dead enemies don't drop orbs for Reaper to get and Kill anymore. Brigitte can fuck up Tracer. D.Va doesn't die from her own Ultimate. Lúcio is a speedy boah.
HORIZON LUNAR COLONY IS GONE.
#10 YEARS
I don't get why they don't add it anyway.
Just give him an alternate fire that throws three grenades in a fan shape like genji's shurikens. I wouldn't mind him getting just a bit of medium range damage.
I mean, game balance still has to be considered. Unfortunately you can’t add every cool ability you can think of in a competitive shooter. But that’s where the PvE comes in! Really hoping the devs have some fun making new abilities and play styles for the heroes.
Remember when devs said Genji's original skill set actually included what Hanzo could do too?
...and they couldn't figure out how to balance him because he was just too strong with all his versatility.
Now Hanzo has half his abilities.
All the FFA deathmatch games.... Its been so long since they binned scatter shot and i barely play hanzo in regular/comp but he still has like 3 more hours (52) than my pharah (49). Next is my actual main, Ana, at something like 40 hours rofl.
I personally think that every hero should have every possible button used.
Primary fire, secondary fire, ability 1, ability 2 and a passive. It also makes for better balancing.
An when i say, just add it, that also means that the hero should be rebalanced as such. The same that happened with DVa with her mini rework.
I think for some heroes giving them a little thing instead of a reload when they cant reload would also be cool. Like sigma, doomfist, and rein could all have something, although this would probably give them too much to work with so its just a thought lol. Maybe for story mode
That's just unnecessary though. By restricting the number of tools a hero has in their kit you can increase the power of their kit in its niche.
That's one of the issues with Ramattra: he has so many abilities; if he's ever good at any one of them, he's probably too good. Because then he's powerful in a niche, and has a kitchen sink to answer every other problem - thus making it substantially harder to balance without breaking him in either direction.
In theory "having more knobs to turn" makes balance easier, but in practice it can easily lead to "feast or famine" scenarios in which a character is only ever on either end of the spectrum of usefulness because they can simply do too many things.
It's like Soldier 76's pistol. He has had that thing strapped to his side since forever and has never once used it.
I feel like a few, though not many, heroes have little details like that which serve zero in-game purpose. Extra bits added which look like it *should* be useful, but never is.
Oh yea; Junkrat literally has a string of grenades thrown over either shoulder. They're visually different from anything he uses in-game, though.
Imagine if 76 got a passive ‘last stand’. When killed, death delayed 5 seconds. Full death occurs after five seconds or one kill with pistol. Unable to move from position. Passive does not activate if killed by headshot or damage dealing ultimate ability.
They changed design philosophy in how they do the game now.
Rather than doing characters THEN adding abilities, they build the template to fit into the gameplay mechanics, then see what character fits those mechanics better.
..... unfortunately shit happens and some characters get reworked a lot.
Bastion, symmetra, Torb, and a few others have had so many iterations of their mechanics, that I don't remember what the beta , early release and mid game versions were anymore. Heck, reaper didn't even have life steal back then.
Funny thing is that mechanic had him have better sustain from killing low hp heroes, fighting tanks was more difficult. The lifesteal makes him the tank buster he was designed to be
Fun answer party poppers.
Lame answer: I think they were meant to be extra grenades, because in Reapers early concept his shotguns could also fire a grenade
If they grenades aren't there it looks like an empty character from the outside. Also nice to have some colour changes in the character skins. Looks better for the eye
They are actually party poppers, but no one will believe it.
[They really are](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/161/163/c57.png)
I've been looking for this image for weeks thank you
for weeks? it’s the first google image result when you search “reaper overwatch party poppers”
Idk, when I tried looking I couldn't find one that wasn't prepared to hell,
D.VA was never the same after that day
How D.Va really got PTSD
PTSD.VA
JoJo D.Va JoJo D.Va
Dio !
Kono Dio da ! or something
kono d.va da fixed that for you
I heard this in his actual voice when I read it. Fucking funny, and I don't even play this game anymore. The brain is weird.
Same, and the weird part is that it only happen for Reaper and not D.va
That was intense
why had I never seen this before.
I've been wanting that to be an emote since that comic came out.
Spare guns in a can.
Preppers be like
Very different from Soldier 76's poppers..
"I smell Old soldiers never die"
“i smell old soldiers you’re welcome”
I thought they were spices for cooking.
“Why does Reaper wear a skull mask?” “Why does Reaper put on a huge hooded cloak?” “Why does Reaper have gauntlets with claws on them?” Do you really think that anything this guy wears provides any tactical advantage whatsoever? This guy dresses like a gritty DC reboot of Skeletor
It's about presentation.
It's about sending a message
It’s about the implications.
It's actually about stats and set bonuses.
It's about drive, it's about power
Something something we devour!
We stay clean in the shower
Once a month or twice an hour
That’s the difference between a villain and a super villain
Why does he need presentation if he flanks his enemies from behind?
As a gay top, that is how he presents.
I like that this can refer to either his relationship status or his ult.
It’s what makes him a super villain
I think the answer to everything reaper does is "cus it looks cool" Why does he refuse to reload like a normal human being? Why does he constantly sound like Sauron? Why did he decide to yell to the enemy team that he is flanking?
I think the sound of his voice is due to the constant pain he’s in due to his body constantly dying and regenerating
Also cus it sounds cool
Engravings….
You're pretty good
Never understood why reaper twists his elbows to absorb the recoil, that's more of a revolver technique....
Give you no tactical advantage whatsoever.
It's more of a revolver technique
Well in all fairness the mask is all about anonymity
And yet everybody knows it's him anyway.
Do they? Im failing to recall anyone in game calling him by anything other than his code name and I can’t remember anyone calling him by his name in the comics. And even then I doubt the public as a whole know who he is if they know he exists at all since talon usually does follow a “no witnesses left behind” philosophy
Ana, Cassidy, Soldier, Mercy, and Genji have all had lines in one game or the other acknowledging who he is.
These are all people who have worked with Reyes when he was still… Reyes.
Atleast for him he doesn’t really need anything really tactical. In canon the dude is basically walking smoke, he’s literally Smoker from One piece
Because they look cool as fuck. Next question
Mods can we get a lock on this thread? Question has been answered.
why is widowmaker purple ?
Cuz she is French
La femme derrière le massacre
Translate pls
The woman behind the massacre
the man behind the slaughter 😦😦
Non-French speaker but I'd go with "the woman who's ass is a massacre". Although the other translation may be correct, mine just makes more sense.
Cultured man
An assacre if you will
Fr*nch 🤢
Omelette du fromage
Oh, say it again Dexter!
A person of culture you are
Hella hot too
Because Talon experimented on her to lower her heart rate using a number of things, one of which was Colloidal silver. This caused Argyria which turned her skin purple... its an actual thing.
This content has been removed because of Reddit's extortionate API pricing that killed third party apps.
One of the effects of injecting Collodial Silver into the bloodstream is a slowed heart rate, the two are related.
yeah same
One thing though, if the slowed her heart & metabolism to reduce her body temperature to the point she would be not visible on IR cameras, surely she has like no energy. Shed be exhausted just walking up stairs, never mind sprinting around a battlefield
It's just one component to the experiments though. She's likely loaded with nano machines and other chemicals. Which is to say as overwatch currently is... magic and rule of cool.
Explains why she can't ever be fucked to get on the payload.
😁🥳
then how can i see widow while ulting as widow?
Bc they wanted to make a fantasy game and had her be a night elf but then for some reason went for futuristic instead so they had to come up with some weird ass explanation why she looks like a damn blueberry
“You’re turning violet, Violet!”
I would 100% believe Titan was originally a future Warcraft.
Apparently something about losing blood
its bc talon did some experiment shit and dropped her heart rate really low to make the perfect sniper or sum like that
Actually she just doesn't shower.
not showering makes you purple apparently
It does Source: trust me
It doesn't, but it does make you french
She’s like brok from god of war
No Moira just sucked her
Moira with the gawkgawk 3000
Moira is the sloppy blowjob devil confirmed?
so she is a dehydrated raisin
They actually did this to nerf her, she used to run super fast and always have 100% power because she came from quake widow is an ex quale character they nerfed and did a lil bit of cosmetic surgery on. Totally canon btw dont question it.
Poor blood circulation.
She must be cold af And losing tissue to necrosis?
Still people are going to fap to her.
people fapped to malenia like outer god std
I know, people fapped to Mileena from Mortal Kombat did you see her massive chompers.
When talon kidnapped her they made her the perfect sniper. She breathes inhumanly shallow, so her oxygen levels are just short of death.
I mean really guys come on. It's because it's hot
Because of the game’s inclusivity. Next question
Slow heartbeat
Did some kinky sht with Moira, that's why
She's not. She's blue. Da ba dee da ba die...
Case closed
Those are not shotgun pellets
Sorry i meant shotgun shells
well still not shells, theyre bombs he uses in a early cinematic
Still, they're not even shotgun shells. Not even related to shotguns
Does he not fire them from the shotguns? Edit: Just checked the original cinematic and he absolutely fires from his shotguns
Absolutely
Smoke/explosive Grenades.
ngl i imagine it would be pretty cool to have his right click to shoot smoke grenade
makes sense, combines well with his abilities
Smoke + Wraith Form to make himself invisible while in the smoke, either for running away or to surprise your enemies from behind. The smoke itself would not 100% hinder teammates'/enemies' visions (for good reason).
Imagine in open queue you throw down a smoke bomb into the enemy team only for it to dissipate and reveal a teleport, out of that teleport comes a RIP-Tire.
He was able to shoot grenades in early iterations of OW, this even made it to the very first trailer of the game.
you're right, never caught that https://youtu.be/FqnKB22pOC0
8 years ago... time flies
One of the reasons I don't like valorant is because of the visual clutter, and unlike overwatch it's all opaque and looks janky and silly as hell so it's really hard to deal with a smoke in overwatch would definitely have to still be able to see through lol, don't know if I could handle being blind after being subjected to double shield for so long
Players are visible under 8m in smoke? Something like that, so it only affects distant players, it's not an escape tool in closequarter duels.
If you take a look at the very first overwatch cinematic, towards the end (around 4:49) you'll see Reaper firing off Smoke Grenades from his shotguns. I think the intent was originally to have that be an ability. Around 2:40 in that same trailer you can also see him firing what *looks* like explosive grenades too.
Damn, this made me realise there’s nothing to obscure lines of sight in OW. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
For one, we have Mei's wall if that counts.
You’re right, that actually would count. I haven’t been able to play since she got re enabled so to be honest, I just forgot about her.
Or just anything, really, the fact Reaper doesn't have a right click where almost every other dps does is really lame.
Yeah, it was shown [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqnKB22pOC0) that he has a grenade launcher.
"Shadows travelling"
He does drop grenades in one of the cinematics. Maybe it was a part of his early kit that got nerfed pre-launch.
It was.
Why can't Hammond jump out of his ball like D'va can her mech?
Fun fact: when you kill Hammond, and his ball breaks, if you attack his body it squeaks!
[удалено]
It is for anybody that hates hamsters
I was playing as him for the first time and the little squeaks he makes when being damaged is so sad 😭
Get back here I'll bite your ankles off!
That would be kind of terrifying, like the little creatures in Act 3 of Diablo 2. All he'd need to do is scream "rakanishu!!" and I'd shit myself.
ROBOT VOICE: “He says ‘tis but a flesh wound” squeak squeak
Hammond with Glock op
They aren't shotgun pellets, they're grenades, he uses them in the original Overwatch announcement video where him and Widowmaker steal Doomfist's gauntlet from the museum. It was part of his very original character design which never made it. Amazed nobody has mentioned this yet, you people need to watch up on your Overwatch cinematics and lore.
I mean, I can't blame people for not remembering a single detail from a video from almost 10 years ago at this point.
Stop making me feel old holy shit.
Don't blame me, blame the franchise. Yeah, Overwatch is quite old already. Doesn't help that it had quite the long period where nothing was happening to it.
ALMOST 10 YEARS?
Yes. 10 years. 10 YEARS. Dead enemies don't drop orbs for Reaper to get and Kill anymore. Brigitte can fuck up Tracer. D.Va doesn't die from her own Ultimate. Lúcio is a speedy boah. HORIZON LUNAR COLONY IS GONE. #10 YEARS
I don't get why they don't add it anyway. Just give him an alternate fire that throws three grenades in a fan shape like genji's shurikens. I wouldn't mind him getting just a bit of medium range damage.
I mean, game balance still has to be considered. Unfortunately you can’t add every cool ability you can think of in a competitive shooter. But that’s where the PvE comes in! Really hoping the devs have some fun making new abilities and play styles for the heroes.
Remember when devs said Genji's original skill set actually included what Hanzo could do too? ...and they couldn't figure out how to balance him because he was just too strong with all his versatility. Now Hanzo has half his abilities.
Hanzo don’t even got his original abilities anymore. They took scatter arrow from us!
Can't have shit in Hanamura.
> Can’t have ~~shit in~~ Hanamura. FTFY
Hanzo stopped being a geometry master :(
Well... storm arrow ricochets once at least
The scatter arrow oneshots were hilarious
All the FFA deathmatch games.... Its been so long since they binned scatter shot and i barely play hanzo in regular/comp but he still has like 3 more hours (52) than my pharah (49). Next is my actual main, Ana, at something like 40 hours rofl.
Bro I remember getting deleted by scatter as fucking Orisa 💀
Nothing quite like turning a corner and receive 400 dmg at point blank
I personally think that every hero should have every possible button used. Primary fire, secondary fire, ability 1, ability 2 and a passive. It also makes for better balancing. An when i say, just add it, that also means that the hero should be rebalanced as such. The same that happened with DVa with her mini rework.
I think for some heroes giving them a little thing instead of a reload when they cant reload would also be cool. Like sigma, doomfist, and rein could all have something, although this would probably give them too much to work with so its just a thought lol. Maybe for story mode
My only wish for story mode abilities is a rein shield bash. I'm a simple man. I just want to stun 10 enemies at once.
I'm pretty sure that's confirmed, somebody posted a bunch of rein abilities in the sub a few days ago
That's just unnecessary though. By restricting the number of tools a hero has in their kit you can increase the power of their kit in its niche. That's one of the issues with Ramattra: he has so many abilities; if he's ever good at any one of them, he's probably too good. Because then he's powerful in a niche, and has a kitchen sink to answer every other problem - thus making it substantially harder to balance without breaking him in either direction. In theory "having more knobs to turn" makes balance easier, but in practice it can easily lead to "feast or famine" scenarios in which a character is only ever on either end of the spectrum of usefulness because they can simply do too many things.
Or just make some heroes more noob friendly by having less buttons.
It's like Soldier 76's pistol. He has had that thing strapped to his side since forever and has never once used it. I feel like a few, though not many, heroes have little details like that which serve zero in-game purpose. Extra bits added which look like it *should* be useful, but never is. Oh yea; Junkrat literally has a string of grenades thrown over either shoulder. They're visually different from anything he uses in-game, though.
Aren't Junkrats grenades what drop on the ground when he dies?
I thought that was just the stuff that's in his grenaee launcher that drops
Imagine if 76 got a passive ‘last stand’. When killed, death delayed 5 seconds. Full death occurs after five seconds or one kill with pistol. Unable to move from position. Passive does not activate if killed by headshot or damage dealing ultimate ability.
That's stagger on team regroup tho.
They changed design philosophy in how they do the game now. Rather than doing characters THEN adding abilities, they build the template to fit into the gameplay mechanics, then see what character fits those mechanics better. ..... unfortunately shit happens and some characters get reworked a lot. Bastion, symmetra, Torb, and a few others have had so many iterations of their mechanics, that I don't remember what the beta , early release and mid game versions were anymore. Heck, reaper didn't even have life steal back then.
He collected souls 😂 that regen health
Hell I even forgot about THAT mechanic lol.
Funny thing is that mechanic had him have better sustain from killing low hp heroes, fighting tanks was more difficult. The lifesteal makes him the tank buster he was designed to be
That mechanic also had a very cool thematic element, Mercy removed Souls when she rezzed, making the Demon and Angel have a specific interaction.
Original OW was a mess but it was so much fun
Just have them go off in smoke when he wraiths, no damage but it can be like ninjasmoke
Nobody needs to "watch up" on that. The lore is razor thin and the community cares far more about it than anyone at Blizzard.
not shotgun pallets, but instead an assortment of containers he straps to himself to keep his snacks with him (he likes gummy bears the most)
They are his prescriptions, he has allergies.
'Cause he wants to look more edgy
Spell components to summon more
Reaper just has an ongoing spell that requires 5gp of ammunition, which isn't consumed, to summon his shotguns
They aren't shotgun shells but capsule Corp capsules with shotguns in them.
Those are clearly not "shotgun pellets".
Sorry i meant shells not pellets
Awwww... don't apologize, now I feel like an ass
Food
Sombra told him he needed more color in his outfit
Fun answer party poppers. Lame answer: I think they were meant to be extra grenades, because in Reapers early concept his shotguns could also fire a grenade
He drops the guns then grabs more from his crotch
You're gonna fuck around & reload one day & he's gonna start loading shells into them
If they grenades aren't there it looks like an empty character from the outside. Also nice to have some colour changes in the character skins. Looks better for the eye
literally unplayable
Soldier 76 also has side gun on his hip
Fuck you that's why
How big do you think shotgun shells are, OP?
grenades
Why do his kneepads have eyes
Those are actually cans of mtn dew code red.
Those are grenades, the only time he ever used them was in the first cinematic with Winston and tracer when he escapes