Overwatch 2's New Support Hero Can Block Headshots By...Looking Up - Kotaku

Overwatch 2 continues to incur contented aft issue, with the latest problem leaving the icy harm trader Mei wholly unplayable owed to a “critical issue” with her Ice Wall ability. Well, Blizzard whitethorn besides privation to analyse the leader shooter’s newest enactment character, Kiriko, arsenic it appears she tin artifact headshot harm by simply [checks notes] staring up astatine the sky.

Kiriko is simply a kunai-wielding ninja healer who leaked astatine the opening of September. Previously locked down Overwatch 2's conflict pass, Blizzard has since opted to springiness the kunoichi distant for free pursuing immoderate alternatively uproarious disapproval of the developer’s archetypal decision. Though she’s a beauteous squishy hero, with lone 200 wellness points, she tin woody immoderate coagulated harm and has a kit perfectly suited to buffing her teammates. In different words, she isn’t arsenic passive a healer as, say, Baptiste oregon Mercy, but you astir apt don’t privation her charging the force frontline similar Brigitte oregon Zenyatta either. However, that mightiness alteration considering an exploit discovered by Twitch streamer Flats.

A spouse of the Overwatch League’s Florida Mayhem, Flats tweeted a video connected November 15 of Kiriko blocking headshot harm with her limb by looking up astatine the sun. Flats changeable astatine an opposing Kiriko a fewer times with Widowmaker, lone for the bullets to simply graze the ninja’s seemingly indestructible arm, allowing her to instantly heal backmost up. Flats yet murked Kiriko with a azygous headshot, but lone aft positioning himself astatine conscionable the close angle, saying you “have to get behind” Kiriko to “shoot the backmost of her head.” Who knew that staring up astatine the entity could prevention you from death?

What’s appears to beryllium happening present is that, erstwhile she looks up, Kiriko’s limb gets successful the mode of her dome’s hitbox, impacting the harm she takes from headshots. In effect to Flat’s tweet, one Twitter idiosyncratic noted that Mercy was capable to bash the aforesaid thing, but lone erstwhile casting her Resurrect eventual ability, which sees her rise her limb successful the aerial to revive a dormant teammate.

Kotaku has reached retired to Blizzard and Flats for comment.

Blizzard, which has a storied past of maltreatment and harassment, has been moving to get Overwatch 2 into a much unchangeable and balanced authorities since the crippled launched connected October 4. This includes patches to nerf heroes specified arsenic Genji and benching characters to region exploits and hole different issues (as we’ve seen with Mei, who should instrumentality to the leader shooter connected November 17). During the Overwatch League expansive finals, which were held earlier this month, the workplace revealed the caller vessel leader Ramattra, who volition beryllium locked down the game’s conflict pass. It sucks, but I conjecture we’d amended get utilized to it.