u/TeroTonz

Inspo: https://www.reddit.com/r/distressingmemes/s/wOvbIdMU4q

Context is from the perspective of a suicide attempt survivor. First post here too so tell me if I cooked or not.

My accuracy is ok but my stats aren't even that good lol, I've also never been banned before so I'm not sure where this devil dino got that info from. I've been playing widow for a long while now but I guess the hacker accusation is a rite of passage that's been long overdue.

started playing a few minutes after the server went back online. The new widow is definitely different and is meant to be played differently now, I watched a little bit of xleks stream the day before and got his thoughts.

He thinks its broken but iirc he also doesnt think it'll stop people from throwing on her and if anything it'll make people more frustrated now that shes better. One of his biggest gripes were the reduced sprint jump and I also agree, the old widow sometimes struggled with jumping to certain places but did mostly fine. Now, I don't think I'll be able to reposition the same way and I also don't think jump shotting people has as much value because her damage now is quantity over quality with the increased fire rate but less damage.

I'm also not sure if the jump slam move is really worth using because she doesn't have her one shot combo with her e and primary attack anymore. I think its good for getting far and it being used as a mobility skill, but I don't see the point in going out of my way in using it to close the distance between someone and me if I just get better damage just staying where I am and poke and using the slam to get away. So unless if you're falling on an enemy that low and then use the slam, I see no point in jumping just to use it, I don't know how the 15 sec cd is justified either. I guess its supposed to be a dive move?

Besides what I think about the rework, I had to get used to the new widow since I've realized I used the rechambering as a crutch to manage my fire rate if that makes sense. I can spam her bullets now but its harder to aim when you spam, so I have to work on aim a little bit and I have to manage her fire rate myself so that I can aim in between shots better. The old plasma blast is still there as her right click and It still does its job of finishing people off, but I switched my ult keybinds and the right click keybinds so that I could scope with it, so I'll need to remember that her q is not her ult anymore. Im overall stingy with ults and its a problem I need to work on and with widows ult you're forced to go all in and spend the rest of the bullets within 10-15 secs iirc, I got the clip above because I had to make up my mind and go for it and Im glad it went out well but it also would've sucked if I couldn't find anyone else to shoot or if a support ulted. Im not sure if this is a settings thing but I wish the ult key needed to be held so that you can unscope easier instead of clicking it again to get out of scope.

My final thoughts are that I think the devs tried their best to make everyone happy, they left some of her old kit in there and they still let her scope just only in ult. I can tell that widow is more easily countered now since you can hear her ult and know that she'll start sniping. The jump reduce is to stop her from perching as much and her bullets are now more quantity over quality so she wants to constantly shoot people more and be on the frontlines. With her downslam she might be able to use it to get away or to dive so I guess that's the compensation for the reduced jump, but I still can't wrap my head around the long cd. Overall I think shes a good character, not to say she wasnt good before but her kit right now is good, but she is by no means the same character as before either. Off topic but I also saw u/Widowsbaby in Xleks chat so hi if you're reading this.