Overwatch 2 continues to incur situation after situation, with the newest drawback leaving the icy injury seller Mei completely unplayable on account of a “crucial situation” together with her Ice Wall potential. Nicely, Blizzard may need to examine the hero shooter’s latest assist character, Kiriko, because it seems she will block headshot injury by merely [checks notes] staring up on the sky.
Kiriko is a kunai-wielding ninja healer who leaked at first of September. Beforehand locked behind Overwatch 2‘s battle cross, Blizzard has since opted to offer the kunoichi away without cost following some slightly uproarious criticism of the developer’s preliminary determination. Although she’s a fairly squishy hero, with solely 200 well being factors, she will deal some stable injury and has a package completely suited to buffing her teammates. In different phrases, she isn’t as passive a healer as, say, Baptiste or Mercy, however you most likely don’t need her charging the enemy frontline like Brigitte or Zenyatta both. Nevertheless, which may change contemplating an exploit found by Twitch streamer Flats.
A associate of the Overwatch League’s Florida Mayhem, Flats tweeted a video on November 15 of Kiriko blocking headshot injury together with her arm by trying up on the solar. Flats shot at an opposing Kiriko a number of instances with Widowmaker, just for the bullets to merely graze the ninja’s seemingly indestructible arm, permitting her to instantly heal again up. Flats finally murked Kiriko with a single headshot, however solely after positioning himself at simply the correct angle, saying you “should get behind” Kiriko to “shoot the again of her head.” Who knew that staring up on the sky might prevent from demise?
What’s seems to be taking place right here is that, when she seems to be up, Kiriko’s arm will get in the best way of her dome’s hitbox, impacting the injury she takes from headshots. In response to Flat’s tweet, one Twitter user noted that Mercy was in a position to do the identical factor, however solely when casting her Resurrect final potential, which sees her increase her arm within the air to revive a useless teammate.
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Kotaku has reached out to Blizzard and Flats for remark.
Blizzard, which has a storied historical past of abuse and harassment, has been working to get Overwatch 2 right into a extra steady and balanced state for the reason that sport launched on October 4. This contains patches to nerf heroes similar to Genji and benching characters to take away exploits and repair different points (as we’ve seen with Mei, who should return to the hero shooter on November 17). Through the Overwatch League grand finals, which had been held earlier this month, the studio revealed the brand new tank hero Ramattra, who can be locked behind the sport’s battle cross. It sucks, however I assume we’d higher get used to it.