Wattson
Can wattson have a buff where it tells you if a enemy shield is being charged of her ultimate
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@DarthValtrex Are you sure about the circle thing? I'm fairly certain that it's not how the Pylons work, at least currently.
Patch notes from December 03, 2019:
The Pylon is now significantly more aggressive in the way it shoots down grenades. Rather than just identifying between incoming and outgoing projectiles, it now predicts the trajectory of grenades thrown within the interception zone and intercepts them if they will land anywhere within that zone. This means that no grenade can contact any surface within the interception zone regardless of the team, but players can fire grenades outwards from anywhere within the zone
Patch notes from December 03, 2019:
The Pylon is now significantly more aggressive in the way it shoots down grenades. Rather than just identifying between incoming and outgoing projectiles, it now predicts the trajectory of grenades thrown within the interception zone and intercepts them if they will land anywhere within that zone. This means that no grenade can contact any surface within the interception zone regardless of the team, but players can fire grenades outwards from anywhere within the zone
@Sir_Named That's how it works.
Ok.
I'm back, here's what I did.
Test 1: Throwing grenades outside of the affected zone.
When I was close to the pylon, I tossed a thermite clearly outside of where the pylon should affect. The thermite landed like normal.
I went further away from the pylon, and tossed a thermite in the same area, thermite landed like normal.
This shows that it doesn't matter where you are, you can throw a grenade anywhere outside the zone.
Test 2: Throwing a grenade straight up.
Stood next to the pylon, tossed a grenade straight up. On the way up, nothing happened, but on the way down it was vaporized.
Stood further away from the pylon, (still within it's zone) and tossed a grenade up. Nothing on the way up, but vaporized on the way down.
This shows that it doesn't matter where you throw a grenade from, if it lands within the affected area it will be destroyed.
While testing, I did see the two rings. While the outer ring is definitely to show the area the pylon affects, I have no clue what the inside ring does.
I'm not sure what the inside ring does, since it looked like the shield charging and ability charging extended to the outer ring, as well as the ordnance blocking part.
- @Sir_Named I just tested again. Seems like you can throw from anywhere inside its radius except the edge of the outer ring(where the ultimate still recharges your shields) but blocks friendly grenades(going outwards). Interesting, so that's why it keeps on intercepting friendly nades/caustics gas ultimate, etc. So if you stand on the edge of the outer ring(last point where ultimate works), it will destroy friendly ordnance. That's kinda messed up.
- @BaldWraithSimp Ah, so that's where the confusion is. That must be a bug or something.
- @Sir_Named Ooo just saw the test post and another post. I think when I've been trying to throw out and it intercepted I was on the very edge. I'm wondering if this is a bug?
- @hayhor Looks like a bug. And besides, the outer ring radius doesn't stay after deploying so there is no way of knowing where it actually is. So stick close to the pylon lol
