Former Overwatch 2 dev explains the jank: "The script looks like every subway map in the world layered over each other"

Mar. 4, 2024

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Yesterday, an Overwatch 2-focused Twitter account posted a video of a Roadhog player sending an enemy through walls and into another map area entirely, simply by using the grappling hook ability. “How does this even happen at a coding level?” the Twitter account asked, without the slightest bit of knowledge as to Overwatch 2’s “coding level.”

Getting Roadhog’s chain hook to operate flawlessly must have been a nightmare. What happens if another player moves into the path of the chain as it’s pulling a foe in? What happens if terrain objects like a bush or bench get in the way? Now multiply these questions for every hero and every terrain object in Overwatch 2, and you can imagine the mountain facing Blizzard’s developers.

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