Ashe provides quick-shot thrills for Overwatch’s most patient snipers

Overwatch is, for the most part, a game that thrives on chaos. While its high time-to-kill means firefights are long, tug-of-war affairs, Overwatch is a fast, ever flowing brawl. Ashe, hero number 29 and the latest addition to Overwatch’s roster, is an interesting juxtaposition to the game’s madness, especially in the wake of the kinetic and machine-gun-happy Wrecking Ball. She’s one for the more patient player. And as any sniper knows, patience provides the sweetest rewards. That’s not to say Ashe is a sniper, of course. While her lever-action rifle provides the longest range in the game bar only Widowmaker’s weapon, it’s designed for medium-long range encounters. Hold down right-click and you aim down the sights in a way unseen in Overwatch before. The flip-up transparent sight provides the classic ADS zoom popularised by shooters like Call of Duty, and while feeling a little out of place in the mostly from-the-hip world of Overwatch, it absolutely works. The rifle also fires with a satisfying crack, the result of Blizzard collaborating with the gun nuts over at Black Ops developer Treyarch. As a lever-action rifle, though, you must cycle between each of the eight rounds in the magazine. When aiming down the sights, this inflicts a substantial pause between each shot, although from the hip the rifle can be ‘speed shot’ for a surprisingly rapid salvo. The full reload is where the real time punishment is inflicted, though, as each bullet must be fed into the chamber individually, akin to reloading shotgun shells in so many FPS games. As such, each and every bullet needs to count, and you need to count your bullets to ensure you’re not in a hairy situation when that lengthy reload begins.

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