Deadeye Can Miss (a lot)

Cassidy's ultimate, "Deadeye", is supposed to eliminate any player in view. Guess his aim isn't what it used to be...

UPDATE: Most of these problems were fixed with the release of Season 4 on April 11, 2023 (game version 2.4.0.0.111387). Here is a summary of the changes:
• There are no longer three line-of-sight checks; instead, LOS is only checked against the hardpoint the bullet goes to. (fixes 2:35)
• You can no longer lock-on to the bind pose's hardpoint. (fixes 4:16)
• The bullet no longer misses certain characters when undergoing a rapid pose change. For example, the bullet will no longer miss a Mercy jumping out of guardian angel (fixes 7:22), but the bullet can miss a Lifeweaver using dash.

TIMESTAMPS:
• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:42 What are Hardpoints?
• 1:18 How does Deadeye work?
• 2:35 Miss #1: Misleading LOS
• 4:16 Miss #2: Ghost Hardpoint
• 7:22 Miss #3: Sudden Pose Change
• 10:18 Miss #4: (Don't) Favor the Shooter

WORKSHOP SCRIPTS:
NOTE: Since this was patched, these scripts may no longer function as intended.

MUSIC:
• Blinx: The Time Sweeper - Hourglass Caves
• Super Monkey Ball 2 - Ocean
• Super Mario 64 - Snow Mountain
• Blinx: The Time Sweeper - Shop

MARBLR:

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UPDATE: most of these problems were fixed with the release of Season 4 on April 11, 2023. there is more info in the description.

[FFxStrife]

The fear this ultimate causes on people is definitely not equivalent to how dangerous it actually is huh

[ootachi]

"I'm not as good as I used to be... but I'm still the quickest gun in the New West" makes more sense all of a sudden

[disturbedwaffles]

You'd think such a straightforward ultimate wouldn't cause so many issues but here we are

[myseglis]

This feels like it would take an entire rewrite of Deadeye for it to properly work as advertised because it's fundamentally broken on so many levels. Thanks for putting the spotlight on that and hopefully it'll get fixed!

[engineer]

This really puts the "Dead" in "Deadeye"

[ToonDoge]

I think the fact he has a L.O.S check that's attached to the feet just for the bullet to ultimately be fired towards the chest at the end of the day, is the most bizarre thing about this ult for me. I would've thought the bullet would be programmed to fire along the ray-cast that currently has L.O.S 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[JordyVsTheWorId]

I’ve experienced this manytimes, where deadeye misses someone right out in the open or hits an object

[artofajax]

I love watching the tumbleweeds spawn in with every Deadeye activation, it’s like Cass is trying to turn the map into a literal desert.

[XMBarrett]

Honestly, Cassidy dodging another Cassidy's Deadeye shot with Combat Roll feels kind of awesome

[mackymacky]

The double take the case does at 9:28 is hilarious.

[wearr_]

gotta love how deadeye is basically just a reload with the occasional maybe killing someone now

[abaddonarts]

Honestly the fact Cassidy can roll dodge a deadeye is badass enough that it both isn't something I'd complain about and makes sense as a character but for everything else it's ridiculous

[samasaurus]

It's interesting because I've never had Deadeye miss in OW1, but have had 2 misses due to pose changes in OW2 already. One of them being Ana....jumping...

[monzilarttan]

I once missed a deadeye on a walking Kiriko, no sudden animation changes, just walking straight. Nice ult👍

[nezkah]

this happened to me last week as ana, enemy cass deadeye managed to just completely miss me when I was in full LOS the entire time from his triggering ult to pulling trigger. I guess latency possibly? but I had no movement abilities to use so I'm still surprised it missed. i did try to sleep him but he was suzu'd immediately before. it was a very bizarre moment. incredibly glad you did a video on this one, it's been driving me crazy lol

[dezrettel]

Although it would be a nightmare to test, I wonder if certain emotes would have the same "moving the hardpoint" effect, like Junkrats lounging emote.

[maxgoose]

I'm curious to how much time it takes for you to make these videos, because its very clear that you put a LOT of effort into them

[maseow]

genji's double jump also counts as a sudden pose change

[noahpalin]

This is such an absurdly well-made video! Everything from the writing, explanations, and editing is just outstanding. Subscribed!