I and a Friend (Hasseseld) were testing out Wrecking Ball aka Hammond on the PTR and we have found a few bugs which are a little funny to look at but a big problem I would think. Firstly we were just messing about together and thought, who counters him the best
So we thought Doomfist would be good at, then we got onto Mei… once she froze me in ball form I was shown and displayed as out of ball mode but I was technically still in ball mode, so the speed was the same as ball mode and I would have no headshot hitbox and that’s a big problem because I was taking reduced damage with no headshot hitbox, I could also grapple around still within this form which for a Widowmaker, for example, sees that coming in around the corner aims for his head and doesn’t get the headshot even though the little hamster is out of his mech, that is an issue obviously. Also when he dies he stays in this glitched state until he is either firing his guns or chooses to get out of ball mode himself.
Once we saw that this was a bug we looked into other characters with CC to see if this could be a consistent issue and we did, we found that Reinhardt also did this with his charge but apart from the two we did not find any other forms of CC that have caused this issue either.
Another Bug we had found is little but I don’t know if its intended or not but when Hammond is in ball mode and you say “Hello” inside of it, the grapple disappears from the ball itself which was weird.
Thought I would just put this here and see if anyone sees this because it’s nice to help out I guess, he looks fun and we both want to make sure he works alright. Hope this helps someone out atleast! I do have screenshots if needed but here you go haha.