5.3 - Hotfix 1

[Locksmith]

Ultimately, missiles fill a niche that Discovery PvP needs to encourage learning game mechanics, and that is "checks". It checks a few things, movement, positioning, and countermeasures. After my initial contact with them on patch day, I have been hit by missiles a grand total of 3 times because my playstyle positions me off of my enemy's screen most of the time. I have yet to learn the little wiggle that invalidates all missiles that the higher skill guys use, but there is a tech where you wiggle just right and guarantee all missiles will fly past you harmlessly. Last but not least, bind your CMs to something easy to push while flying, mine are on Q. All three of these turn missiles from an actual threat to a checkbox while flying.

Every single PvP game has a check of some sort. For your average shooters, it's going to be shotguns. "Are you in shotgun range" is a positioning question that is important for positioning shooters like CoD, Titanfall, and even Destiny 2. In Overwatch, you have attention checks because it's a teamplay objective game. Did you pay attention to the turrets? Did you pay attention to the backline? If you do pay attention, Torb and Sym are complete nothingburgers and Monkey is the most useless character in the game. If you don't pay attention, you just lose.

Missiles do not, in fact, require noticeable effort from the user. Once you have learned about missiles, however, they also do not require noticeable effort from the victims either. My HF gameplay makes me automatically immune to missiles unless the VHF is forcing jousts or spamming the most abysmal early turns, in which case I have a lot of free shots and then still have CMs and technically the wiggle at my disposal as well. Missiles require you being aware and alert that there are missiles on the field, and crossing your Ts and dotting your Is so you don't die to low effort mechanic.

Thank you. I will try to implement this. We'll see how it goes.