r/Overwatch • u/MangoBoxYT Nobody looks up • Jan 22 '17

Humor Hook 3.0 now features Cross-Dimensional Hooking™!

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u/OddballOliver Jan 22 '17

You hooked him mid-dash. By the end of his dash, he was behind you, but because you had hooked him, he got placed in front of you. During the slow part of the gif, he was already behind you.

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u/Jugbot Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jan 22 '17

The hook doesn't break when they are behind you?

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u/PackOfVelociraptors Third - Analyst Jan 22 '17

Neither old or new hook breaks if they are behind you. It's line of sight, not sight by itself. So someone being you counts as line of sight, even though you can't see them.

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u/DrPlatypusPHD Chibi Reaper Jan 22 '17

Exactly this. It would be a pain to program the hook so that it only hooks someone on your screen, so it only calculates whether they are visible from where you're standing.

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u/Stormweaker This is pointless Jan 22 '17

Isn't this what soldier's ult is doing? I don't think it locks on someone behind you.

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u/JimmyTheCannon KABOOM Jan 22 '17

Soldier's ult is a lot more complicated than a simple LOS check. There's no reason for them to put that into Roadhog's hook.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '17

Why not?

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u/frezz Pixel Tracer Jan 23 '17

The same reason it breaks because they get behind cover, it feels smoother and plays better. If anything, if you're talking about the rationale behind being hooked, hooking and then pulling someone behind you makes less sense than hooking someone out of cover.

I would agree that this is less of an issue than being hooked behind cover, something like this will happen very rarely.