Overwatch 2 Hanzo mains claim Season 9 changes made him “soulless”
Blizzard EntertainmentOverwatch 2 Hanzo mains have called the Hero “soulless” after Season 9’s major change to the size of projectiles.
Overwatch 2’s Season 9 update brought plenty of changes to the game like a soft reset to Ranks, a big Pharah rework, and much more.
One of the biggest changes came in the form of projectile size alterations, which essentially made bullets bigger across the board.
This change has led many Hanzo mains to call the hero “soulless” in Season 9, as he now struggles to pull off one of his most satisfying feats.
Overwatch 2 players frustrated with Hanzo in Season 9
Players have taken to social media to vent their frustrations with both Hanzo and the Season 9 projectile changes.
One player took to the Hanzo Main subreddit to vent their frustrations and said, “…One of my favourite things about Hanzo was one-shoting that nice headshot and being annoying. Now he feels like a soulless hero and I hate it.”
Fans in the comments agreed and noted these changes stripped Hanzo of some nuance. “They moved him from a high-skill, positioning-dependent assassin to braindead spam, which is ironically the playstyle people complained about the most with Hanzo.”
Others made memes about the size of his arrows in Season 9. “Live look at Hanzo’s projectile in S9,” posted one fan, with an attached screenshot showing a Greyhound bus.
Some players were confident that the Overwatch 2 dev team would rectify some of the more frustrating projectile size changes through a patch in the coming weeks.
This may in fact be the case as the game’s lead Hero designer Alec Dawson said fans could “expect finer tuning of the project size changes for a subset of heroes” in the future.
Whether or not Hanzo will be a part of this subset of heroes remains to be seen. However, it seems clear not all Overwatch 2 players are happy with the new projectile size changes as they stand.
