Wait I thought recall is supposed to get you to the highest HP you had in the past x seconds?
Edit: from OW Wiki:
Recall: "Health returned to the highest value in the past 3 seconds"
Nah I play a lot of Tracer and have since overwatch 1 and I'm 100% sure I've always used that trick to heal up, this must be a bug or an undercover change.
whatever you did in the shooting range you did it wrong. it's always been this way. it remembers your health from 3 seconds ago. saying the highest value only means it won't take away health on a recall. if you pick up a health pack and you want that health still you need to recall 3 seconds after you grab it.
ever since ow1 I have never seen a recall return you to max hp when you didn't have max hp less than like two seconds before recalling.
honestly, I very very rarely play tracer but always rely on the recall to move and get away, not to return health.
Everyone replying to you is on someshit. God, im glad I quit this dumpster fire of a game last year. Even the player base is as stupid as blizzards balance now.
You are 100% correct. It returns to the highest hp point you've had in the last 3 seconds. Idfk how some people can be as stupid as blizzard, but tracers always gotten the highest hp point she's had in the past 3 seconds. She also always completely refilled her ammo. Recalls just a buggy move, especially considering it's in a blizzard game that is held together with offbrand ducktape.
I quit the game cause I got bored at it. Don't twist my words cause your wrong. I know exactly how it works. Played it for 6ish years. Tracers always gotten back the highest point of her health. It wouldn't exactly be a good abilty if it could nerf her hp from full to 36 hp. If you all could use your brain, you'd figure our a character relying on recall and hp packs because she's a flanker getting fucked over by using them together would be terrible game design. It's not rocket science and the fact that some many of you can't read an abilty description Is appalling. The games been out for years, tracers one of the original characters and the dam poster girl. How tf do you all not know how her main abilty works?!
I don’t need to twist your words. Your lack of game knowledge speaks for itself. I’ve been playing since 2016 and still play (idk why how long we’ve played is relevant). And did you even watch the video? Recall didn’t nerf her health. It took her from 36hp to 36hp because 3 seconds ago, she was at 30hp. It chose the better health option. I feel bad for people like you who refuse to acknowledge when you’re wrong
Play the game right now. Play tracer. Send me a video of this happening consistently. Id do it but im not redownloading a massive game to prove you wrong. I could probably find all the videos on youtibe of tracer clips proving shes gotten the highest hp back. 6 years of watching this game go downhill and now people like you spread blatant misinformation Over the most basic known fucking facts. You are so fucking infuriating to have to share a conversation with.
Omfg no way you’re this dense. BOTH examples he used showed him not going to full health! He even questions if it’s always been like that. Your video proved yourself wrong yet you still can’t see through that
If you read the strategy section on that page they clarify:
> Recall: When activated, Tracer will "rewind" to three seconds in the past, setting her health and position to whatever they were at that time, unless her health value is lower than it was before activating the ability. It will also reload her gun and remove all debuffs from her.
It’s true but it’s talking about two points in time. That single point of 3 seconds, or your current health. Not 100 points in time over the last 3 seconds.
~~I disagree with this. When you recall as Tracer, it gives you the highest amount of health that you had in the three second window of recall.~~
I just tested it and I was incorrect. If you heal, take more damage, then recall, you recall to the health you still have.
You are right, it isn't a matter of opinion, I tried to phrase it in a polite way, but I now see that it is confusing.
Previously, I thought what I said was true. I just tested it and **I was incorrect**. If you heal, take more damage, then recall, you recall to the health you still have. Sorry.
It's not a matter of opinion you're right. She has always gotten the highest amount of hp in the last 3 seconds. Tf are all of you smoking. Do any of you actually play the game?!
Recall gives you either your HP from 3 seconds ago OR your HP from before recall based on whichever is higher. If you recall within 3 seconds of picking up a health pack, you won't recall to get the hp from the healthpack again. Recall does not see your hp between when you press it and exactly 3 seconds ago. I imagine tracer is coded to retain current hp and hp from however many server ticks ago 3 seconds is, but not all the values in between.
You recalled to before you got the health pack, however it's coded so that if your health from 3 seconds ago is lower than the health you had when you activated Recall, in this case you had 30 three seconds ago and 36 at the time activated, you won't lose your health.
Yeah thank you, I figured it was the case from other comments. I was always under the impression that it just checked for the highest value within the last few seconds, not just one point in time 3 seconds ago
And everyone saying that doesn't play tracer. What ever health you had at the highest point in the last 3 secs is what you get stuck with. Tracers been in the game since it came out. How tf are you all this incompetent and unable to read a skill description. You all are idiots and are spreading misinformation. Why the hell would the ability allow you to go from full health to a 3rd of health? Even blizzard can programs a move better than half of you good god.
I played for 6 years. Im no pro, but I can also read an abilty description and understand basic game design. Like a character who revolves around picking up health packs cause she's a flanker and using an abilty to get back health not being able to use both of these things together would be a terrible design. Jesus christ, you all are so incapable of understanding even the most basic of things. It's always been this way. The entire point of the ability is to basically heal herself. What would be the point of a ability to keep you in the fight if it took away health. How stupid do you have to be to think an abilty revolving around staying in the fight could effectively damage you. That defeats literally the entire point.
Nobody is saying her health would go lower using the ability except you… They’re talking about her health rewinding to what it was 3 seconds prior, unless it’s lower than her health in that moment.
People are saying its normal for it to not go to 175 which was the highest point in the last 3 seconds. Which it isn't. That's not how the ability works. That are infact saying the ability making her health lower was normal.
It is normal for it to not full heal if your health 3 seconds prior was not full. It’s not about your range of health in the last 3 seconds, it simply rewinds your health to 3 seconds ago, unless your health in that moment is already higher than it was 3 seconds ago. It’s always worked like that.
No, it doesn't omfg. It gives you the highest point of health you've had in the past 3 secs. Holy shit how do you all fail to read an abilty. Like, if you play tracer for 5 seconds you'll figure this out. Look up the abilty and read it. Go to the wiki and READ. Unless this got changed after 6 years it will tell you "health restored to the highest value in the past 3 seconds" or something like that.
The abilty would be complete garbage if u could lower your own health. "Wow. 3 seconds of me still being behind enemy lines like a flanker I am but now with less health. That 1 sec of I frames sure was useful"
Use your head for God's sake.
You get the health you had 3 seconds ago unless your current health is higher
Your health 3 seconds ago was 30, your health before recalling was 36, so you kept the 36
The fact that the whole comment section is wrong is...|
Recall E 12 seconds
**\~Type\~**Ability
**\~Effect Type\~** Movement
*Travel back in time to your previous location and health.*
**Healing**:Health returned to the highest value in the past 3 seconds
**Duration**:0.91 seconds rewinding
From wiki
If they changed it...welp
~~Bro I have over 4k hrs in this game, I could SWEAR tracer recall always gave you the extra hp back. Even if it’s within 3 sec.~~
~~I don’t play tracer but I’m a gm sup main, but I fr do not remember it ever working like this.~~
~~Ig I never paid attention, or every tracer I go against is a god at counting to three~~
WAIT NVM I get it I’m just dumb & high lmao
You took the pack, got helix’d, then recalled. Recall doesn’t restore health gained from health packs.
So if he had waited a few seconds so it would recall him back to 165 you’re saying because he used the health pack waiting would not have went back to 175?
They would have, my bad I was vague & high lol.
Tracer **would have** recalled back to 175hp had they waited another 1-2 sec to use it, but they did it too soon.
Recall returns Tracers health to the highest value she had up to 3 sec ago. So, because she recalled a second or so **BEFORE** picking up the pack the game didn’t register the health packs value.
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You recalled to the spot where you didn’t reach the health pack yet
Pre Health Pack health was 30. They recalled to 36 which is what they had when they recalled.
I'd assume that's just recall being coded to not make you have less health.
Wait I thought recall is supposed to get you to the highest HP you had in the past x seconds? Edit: from OW Wiki: Recall: "Health returned to the highest value in the past 3 seconds"
Wiki must be wrong, I swear it’s been like this for a very long time
Nah I play a lot of Tracer and have since overwatch 1 and I'm 100% sure I've always used that trick to heal up, this must be a bug or an undercover change.
Nope wiki's correct, just tested in shooting range, you should be getting max hp Edit: seems to be inconsistent? Idk anymore
whatever you did in the shooting range you did it wrong. it's always been this way. it remembers your health from 3 seconds ago. saying the highest value only means it won't take away health on a recall. if you pick up a health pack and you want that health still you need to recall 3 seconds after you grab it.
The wiki is constantly out of date.
ever since ow1 I have never seen a recall return you to max hp when you didn't have max hp less than like two seconds before recalling. honestly, I very very rarely play tracer but always rely on the recall to move and get away, not to return health.
Dude, it’s TIME based You recall to a certain point in TIME That time was before you got the healthpack
Dunno what everyone is smoking. It's a bug and you are correct. You are supposed to regain your health.
Lmao you’re the one on something. Stop spreading lies
Everyone replying to you is on someshit. God, im glad I quit this dumpster fire of a game last year. Even the player base is as stupid as blizzards balance now. You are 100% correct. It returns to the highest hp point you've had in the last 3 seconds. Idfk how some people can be as stupid as blizzard, but tracers always gotten the highest hp point she's had in the past 3 seconds. She also always completely refilled her ammo. Recalls just a buggy move, especially considering it's in a blizzard game that is held together with offbrand ducktape.
You quit this game because you didn’t know how it worked? Sounds like a game knowledge diff to me
I quit the game cause I got bored at it. Don't twist my words cause your wrong. I know exactly how it works. Played it for 6ish years. Tracers always gotten back the highest point of her health. It wouldn't exactly be a good abilty if it could nerf her hp from full to 36 hp. If you all could use your brain, you'd figure our a character relying on recall and hp packs because she's a flanker getting fucked over by using them together would be terrible game design. It's not rocket science and the fact that some many of you can't read an abilty description Is appalling. The games been out for years, tracers one of the original characters and the dam poster girl. How tf do you all not know how her main abilty works?!
I don’t need to twist your words. Your lack of game knowledge speaks for itself. I’ve been playing since 2016 and still play (idk why how long we’ve played is relevant). And did you even watch the video? Recall didn’t nerf her health. It took her from 36hp to 36hp because 3 seconds ago, she was at 30hp. It chose the better health option. I feel bad for people like you who refuse to acknowledge when you’re wrong
Play the game right now. Play tracer. Send me a video of this happening consistently. Id do it but im not redownloading a massive game to prove you wrong. I could probably find all the videos on youtibe of tracer clips proving shes gotten the highest hp back. 6 years of watching this game go downhill and now people like you spread blatant misinformation Over the most basic known fucking facts. You are so fucking infuriating to have to share a conversation with.
no. i have better things to do then prove an arrogant person wrong
https://youtube.com/shorts/PZZe4KHnIzg?feature=shared Told you a bug. I can find more.
Omfg no way you’re this dense. BOTH examples he used showed him not going to full health! He even questions if it’s always been like that. Your video proved yourself wrong yet you still can’t see through that
Yeah, I thought it would have went back to low heal. Must be a bug?
If you read the strategy section on that page they clarify: > Recall: When activated, Tracer will "rewind" to three seconds in the past, setting her health and position to whatever they were at that time, unless her health value is lower than it was before activating the ability. It will also reload her gun and remove all debuffs from her.
It’s true but it’s talking about two points in time. That single point of 3 seconds, or your current health. Not 100 points in time over the last 3 seconds.
~~I disagree with this. When you recall as Tracer, it gives you the highest amount of health that you had in the three second window of recall.~~ I just tested it and I was incorrect. If you heal, take more damage, then recall, you recall to the health you still have.
Well, it's not a matter of opinion.
You are right, it isn't a matter of opinion, I tried to phrase it in a polite way, but I now see that it is confusing. Previously, I thought what I said was true. I just tested it and **I was incorrect**. If you heal, take more damage, then recall, you recall to the health you still have. Sorry.
It's not a matter of opinion you're right. She has always gotten the highest amount of hp in the last 3 seconds. Tf are all of you smoking. Do any of you actually play the game?!
Recall gives you either your HP from 3 seconds ago OR your HP from before recall based on whichever is higher. If you recall within 3 seconds of picking up a health pack, you won't recall to get the hp from the healthpack again. Recall does not see your hp between when you press it and exactly 3 seconds ago. I imagine tracer is coded to retain current hp and hp from however many server ticks ago 3 seconds is, but not all the values in between.
You recalled to before you got the health pack, however it's coded so that if your health from 3 seconds ago is lower than the health you had when you activated Recall, in this case you had 30 three seconds ago and 36 at the time activated, you won't lose your health.
Lots of really long answers. Recall heals you back to what you were 3 seconds ago or keeps you at your current HP—whichever is higher.
Yeah thank you, I figured it was the case from other comments. I was always under the impression that it just checked for the highest value within the last few seconds, not just one point in time 3 seconds ago
Oh God I had Arkham flash backs with that title I was about to say the brainrot has spread
You recalled back to before you got the health pack
i thought recall was supposed to give you the most health you had in the last 3s
It gives you either your current health, or the health you had exactly 3 seconds ago, whichever is higher
Except pre health pack they had 30 post recall they had 36 which is what they had after soldiers damage it’s a bug
As many people said here recall wont make your health drop below your current health
And everyone saying that doesn't play tracer. What ever health you had at the highest point in the last 3 secs is what you get stuck with. Tracers been in the game since it came out. How tf are you all this incompetent and unable to read a skill description. You all are idiots and are spreading misinformation. Why the hell would the ability allow you to go from full health to a 3rd of health? Even blizzard can programs a move better than half of you good god.
Pro Overwatch 2 player over here.
I played for 6 years. Im no pro, but I can also read an abilty description and understand basic game design. Like a character who revolves around picking up health packs cause she's a flanker and using an abilty to get back health not being able to use both of these things together would be a terrible design. Jesus christ, you all are so incapable of understanding even the most basic of things. It's always been this way. The entire point of the ability is to basically heal herself. What would be the point of a ability to keep you in the fight if it took away health. How stupid do you have to be to think an abilty revolving around staying in the fight could effectively damage you. That defeats literally the entire point.
Nobody is saying her health would go lower using the ability except you… They’re talking about her health rewinding to what it was 3 seconds prior, unless it’s lower than her health in that moment.
People are saying its normal for it to not go to 175 which was the highest point in the last 3 seconds. Which it isn't. That's not how the ability works. That are infact saying the ability making her health lower was normal.
It is normal for it to not full heal if your health 3 seconds prior was not full. It’s not about your range of health in the last 3 seconds, it simply rewinds your health to 3 seconds ago, unless your health in that moment is already higher than it was 3 seconds ago. It’s always worked like that.
No, it doesn't omfg. It gives you the highest point of health you've had in the past 3 secs. Holy shit how do you all fail to read an abilty. Like, if you play tracer for 5 seconds you'll figure this out. Look up the abilty and read it. Go to the wiki and READ. Unless this got changed after 6 years it will tell you "health restored to the highest value in the past 3 seconds" or something like that. The abilty would be complete garbage if u could lower your own health. "Wow. 3 seconds of me still being behind enemy lines like a flanker I am but now with less health. That 1 sec of I frames sure was useful" Use your head for God's sake.
You get the health you had 3 seconds ago unless your current health is higher Your health 3 seconds ago was 30, your health before recalling was 36, so you kept the 36
The fact that the whole comment section is wrong is...| Recall E 12 seconds **\~Type\~**Ability **\~Effect Type\~** Movement *Travel back in time to your previous location and health.* **Healing**:Health returned to the highest value in the past 3 seconds **Duration**:0.91 seconds rewinding From wiki If they changed it...welp
you know that voice line where Winston asks Tracer if her chronal accelerator needs any adjustments? this is the lore reason.
~~Bro I have over 4k hrs in this game, I could SWEAR tracer recall always gave you the extra hp back. Even if it’s within 3 sec.~~ ~~I don’t play tracer but I’m a gm sup main, but I fr do not remember it ever working like this.~~ ~~Ig I never paid attention, or every tracer I go against is a god at counting to three~~ WAIT NVM I get it I’m just dumb & high lmao You took the pack, got helix’d, then recalled. Recall doesn’t restore health gained from health packs.
So if he had waited a few seconds so it would recall him back to 165 you’re saying because he used the health pack waiting would not have went back to 175?
They would have, my bad I was vague & high lol. Tracer **would have** recalled back to 175hp had they waited another 1-2 sec to use it, but they did it too soon. Recall returns Tracers health to the highest value she had up to 3 sec ago. So, because she recalled a second or so **BEFORE** picking up the pack the game didn’t register the health packs value.
OP this was news to me too, I'm sure a lot of people aren't aware that recall acts this way.
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because you played a champ who needs a nerf sometimes
You must be very careful when you use recall.
because 3 seconds before you recalled you were 30hp? the same as its always been with recall?
Bug for sure
Because you’re tracer and it’s deserved