The Effectiveness of Shield Spinning

We've all seen tank players spin uncontrollably in dire situations. Is this a viable strategy or simply an act of desperation? The answer is "yes".
WORKSHOP CODE: W7G6X (broken in Overwatch 2)
TIMESTAMPS:
• 0:00 Blocking Hitscan
• 1:57 Blocking Projectiles
• 3:19 Blocking Everything
MUSIC:
• Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards OST
LINKS:
• Twitch - / marblr
• Discord - discord.marblr.net
Footage captured on game versions 1.72.0.0.100234 and 1.72.1.0.99843

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The scariest thing about the 6 bastions for me is that there is a chance that some poor crusader was actually put in a situation like that during the omnic crisis

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He definitely didn't suffer long then lol

[@cromanticheer]

Now I'm imagining some poor Crusader trying shield-spinning on a Bastion army.

[@shriizel3667]

@@cromanticheer now im imagining some poor bastion getting 360 shattered

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Now I’m imagining some poor Ganymedes getting dizzy 🥴

[@J.07T]

Watching any of the war flashbacks with multiple bastions always felt overly tense and dangerous

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“Some Reinhardt players will call upon the dark arts in a situation like this.” Reinhardt: *BEYBLADE INTENSIFIES*

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Reinhardt players: **Arthas intensifies**

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Complete golden spin energy

[@SuperDicq]

The most effective way to shieldspin is using a trackpoint style mouse like on Thinkpad laptops. It will allow you to hold one direction and you will keep spinning indefinitely.

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Ah yes, the fabled nipple shieldspin, used only by the gamerest of gamers.

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I played on a drawing tablet I use to play Osu! Usually, I used the mouse setting to play OW, which makes the pen behave like a normal mouse would, but if you use the pen setting, the tablet maps the screen, meaning just placing the pen on the side will spin you indefinitely as well. Each tick the server brings back your cursor to the center and calculates the distance travelled by the cursor to calculate camera spin, and in the next tick, your cursor is already on the side of the screen again.

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Or dear god, with a Controller. :) Playing (OW) with a drawing tablet is pretty cool though.

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Have you tired 16000 dpi, and 100% sentlstiivity, it doesn't do shit, but looks amazing

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Ah yes let me break out my portable track pad

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He really did, wow. I thought he used some tricks that would have the same effect, but be way easier to make, like filming the bastion shooting on the green screen map, then cutting to the same exact angle to the workshop island and greenscreening that bastion manually, in order to do the camera panning. It would take time, but it would be way easier. However, if you look closely, the bullet patterns on the floor, they are different as the transition wipe goes over them, which confirms that they are 2 different videos, filmed in the exact same way. Ironically, the way I thought to do it wouldn't have that problem. But after a point, these details become irrelevant, and even though I thought of it, I wouldn't have even dreamt of polishing it to half of that degree. Dude is an artist.

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I did this with junk rat tyre all the time (I play on 1300dpi and 38 in game)

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You can fire your weapon between frames in Overwatch which might explain some generous-looking flicks. Blizzard has a forum post about this feature: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/new-feature-high-precision-mouse-input-gameplay-option/422094 I'm not sure if there's extra leniency with this, but it can probably be tested with the workshop somehow

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