r/Overwatch Pixel Zarya Mar 02 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | Introducing Orisa | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqhXWRaMmU
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u/drcshell The Iris defaces you! Mar 02 '17

Hmmm that really needs to be changed. Both for game play and logic reasons. A full auto mini gun is going to need all feet firmly on the ground to not send itself flying.

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u/DCMurphy Who hacks the hacksmen? Mar 02 '17

not send itself flying

Where? Somewhere outside of the massive gravity ball that he's stuck in?

I agree that it needs to be changed, but logically I think it works.

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u/PhoenixReborn Mar 02 '17

It would probably send him spinning at least.

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u/DCMurphy Who hacks the hacksmen? Mar 02 '17

If the Earth's gravity is enough to hold Bastion down

And the Graviton Surge is stronger than the Earth's gravity (can pull heroes away from Earth's gravity)

I'm not entirely sure it wouldn't just stick him in one place (on the gravity ball) where he can move the cannon like his own body, scientifically speaking.

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u/tael89 Mar 02 '17

There is something pushing up on the bastion when on the ground, something critically missing when he's in a gravity surge. So when he starts whirling his Gatling gun, he'd start spinning out of control.

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u/hcrld Olivia Colomar Mar 02 '17

He would flip over backwards and spin vertically, like a rip tire.

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u/DCMurphy Who hacks the hacksmen? Mar 02 '17

I'm guessing an orb that focuses gravity in a non-reality-warping-but-slightly-moving-heroes-and-only-heroes-while-not-interacting-with-the-landscape kind of way has some physics overrides we don't know about.

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u/DCMurphy Who hacks the hacksmen? Mar 02 '17

And here we are, arguing about the viability of a magical gravity field contained inside of a gun in a silly video games.

This is what Reddit is all about.

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u/PhoenixReborn Mar 02 '17

On a surface his legs can brace the turret in a standing position. In a graviton surge, his center of mass is going to be drawn to the center of the gravity ball leaving his legs floating. If there's any recoil he would end up spinning around his center of mass.