Ever since Blizzard revealed Overwatch 2’s latest hero, Lifeweaver, could be able to pulling allies to his location with Life Grip, gamers have feared the worst in terms of his trolling capabilities. Placing your religion in your teammates could be a problem at one of the best of instances, however Lifeweaver’s equipment takes that want for belief to the following degree.
For one unlucky Cassidy participant, who documented their tragic story on the Overwatch subreddit on April 12, they skilled firsthand simply how devastating an sadly timed Life Grip pull could possibly be.
Ominously titled “And so it begins…”, u/ThatGuyCamLa’s clip begins with them lining up a Deadeye shot towards the top of a push on Havana. With the enemy Baptiste down and no shields to talk of, it’s a Deadeye that would have simply achieved three or 4 kills on the enemies nonetheless caught out within the open. However sadly for them, that they had barely begun charging up the Final earlier than being violently plucked out of sight and across the nook because of a Life Grip from their allied Lifeweaver.
With the vast majority of Deadeye’s length nonetheless ticking down, ThatGuyCamLa determined it was greatest spent staring down the Lifeweaver who had disadvantaged them of a possible play of the sport whereas the Lifeweaver in query apologized profusely within the in-game chat. As one commenter identified, “he did apologize,” to which ThatGuyCamLa agreed and added that they “had a superb giggle about it afterwards.”
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Regardless of it not being an intentional troll transfer this time round, the clip was nonetheless proof to many gamers of the anxieties they’ve had round Lifeweaver’s Life Grip capacity since earlier than he launched. “Your title was sufficient for me to know what was gonna occur,” commented u/The99thCourier, and one other reply jokingly tagged on that “the character design upon launch was sufficient for us to know what was going to occur.”
Gamers within the thread took it as a possibility to debate what adjustments to the flexibility may forestall conditions like this from occurring sooner or later. One popular comment steered that it ought to be modified to a “permissive capacity” allies would want to just accept first, with permission solely overridden in situations the place that ally is in a crucial situation.
However as others level out, talents like Mei’s Ice Wall have been within the sport for years with no such necessities to fulfill and simply as able to griefing a workforce. Another offered the rebuttal that clips resembling this one have been quite a bit rarer in-game than some responses would have viewers consider and that dictating Lifeweaver’s stability round them could be an “completely horrible thought.”
No matter how a lot Lifeweaver’s Life Grip is a real drawback for his allies in Overwatch 2, this Cassidy is among the unlucky souls to expertise absolutely the worst of its potential firsthand.
