me too lol

yep same

Pure W+M1, just like TF2's pyro

Me too

I had to actually pause the video for a second...

Seems likely. She's explicitly shooting people with advanced climate-control technology; maybe it was originally designed to nucleate hail.

+Glenn Tang this is stated in mei's journal tbh. Only thing you guys got wrong was that the original purpose of the gun was to capture animals for study.

Andy Zelonis that is not the leidenfrost effect Learn your words!

jens verhagen what else is it called then?

but if they are encased in ice how can she bury an icicle in their skulls.

Big Z they had to make a character that freezes the company is called blizzard after all

A thin layer of ice may not, but if she were to able to quickly add on layers of ice, in theory, it would hinder the opponent's movement enough so that she would be able to encase them.

But the wall

Lard Man Magic......

Omg this is exactly what I was about to comment

No, her thiccness protects her

It is memeatically illegal for me to like the comment because it is at 69 likes.

@@theronanempire2290 not now.

Rekt

HAHAHA That legit made me giggle

LOL

No he isnt.

You don't get the joke do you?

theobsidiangem 4858 he admitted this in his Zarya video

@@jadensorani2081 excuse me?

I'm going to have to

*she's

Daniel Xsim I love her on my team tho

Isac Carrillo even if she blocks me from being able to leave spawn. she's still adorable

fuck her, its bullshit how she slows you down and fucking pops an icicle while she is smiling, and when she gets attacked, she fucking makes a face that freaks out, FUCK HER

Daniel Xsim but rule 34 loves her

lol

No

+Micah Noa I agree but only because those puns are mei job. That was a n-ice pun wasn't it?

I would agree if you came up with it, but it's actually one of Mei's own puns; find your own god damn puns xD

+Frozen Lotus I don't actually play overwatch so it was

Skintel N.Keychain yeah but then that doesn't explain how they get frozen on the other side too if what you said is true only one half at the most should be frozen

Skintel N.Keychain Nice nepeta picture

what if it were somehow highly liquid and highly attracted to the human body?

@@dbop7441 well, it takes a few seconds for it to freeze, so perhaps some of it dripped down their back

Lol

FrozenEdges Whoa Technology

FrozenEdges common nickname, cause it's addadicting

Don’t forget about when he says least heat in the pizza example

Well well well!

Also, you forgot the heat required to make the phase change into a solid. You need to add this to the energy required to change to temperature to zero.

Wouldn't they stil die because of this? There wouldn't be much "breaking out off" if they're dead?

+Bumfuzzle yeah but it would be a different situation though, it shouldve been taken into consideration

Bumfuzzle Not for that short of time. You can get covered in ice for a few seconds and emerge just fine. Think of it like getting ice water dumped on your head. Uncomfortable and disorienting, but not fatal.

Yup, it's kind of like what happens to flowers. They can get coated in frost or ice and still be fine as the sheet of ice actually starts trapping heat inside. The reason why most people die from getting covered in ice is because they _continue_ to stay in an environment where they won't be breaking out anytime soon.

Beacouse it's coating that frezes the air it can freeze d.va mech

+Zelm Moriya yes but it still freezes them immobile. Which is pretty fucking deadly, if you didn't notice. Even with short exposure.

Yes, it's what allows them to break out like they do.

My conjecture is that agents of overwatch have shields that are represented as the game's health, armor and shields. I noticed that there is no gib, gore or wounds of any kind so the represented heroes health is probably the strength of their shield. Mei's blaster most likely freezes that shield rendering the hero frozen.

And it's completely harmless besides the cold

Yep

Did he fucking stutter?

Do you know what the title is? It’s not the one in the description

Yup, and Shoddycast just plain doesn't know how to do any research other than Hard Math apparently.

Judging by the nature of its deployment and the idea that the body isn't being frozen throughout (but rather encased in a frozen shell, explaining why enemies can break out so readily), I'd suppose that Mei is actually more likely using Supersaturated compounds. Supersaturation is a phenomena in which a liquid is brought to high temperatures and saturated to its maximum capacity with some sort of soluble substance (sugar or salt, for example). When the liquid is then cooled to its natural freezing point, the dissolved additive prevents the liquid from crystallizing into a solid... until a thorough enough stimulus such as a shockwave is able to disrupt the homogeneous distribution of chemicals in the solution, causing small crystallizations to form which then expand rapidly through the entire mixture, effectively "flash freezing". SO! With that brief explanation out of the way, it's entirely feasible that Mei is just carrying around a supersaturated mixture that is accelerated slowly to firing speed inside the gun (without rattling it enough to cause it to freeze), then allowing the accelerated mixture to spray out. Upon contact, the force exerted on the spray by interrupting its motion causes it to freeze on contact, allowing a generous application to coat the target in a thin, icy, movement-impeding shell that doesn't freeze the enemy throughout (which would just kill the target instead of allowing them to bust out with "Super Saiyan Power"). SCIENCE!

No no no, you've got it all wrong! All you need to do is create a vacuum inside a chamber which is then pumped full of Hydrogen that is then propelled through extremely high PSI through a nozzle with multiple holes barely larger then the hydrogen atoms. Because of the pressure difference between the two zones, the hydrogen is cooled to nearly subzero temperatures, which is then expelled by the pressure in the vacuum chamber in a spray that hits the enemy and crystallizes on impact. Think about how when you breath out with your mouth wide open, the air is hot, but purse your lips like you're whistling, and the air expelled is cooler then the surrounding air. It's how Superman's frost breath works; you just need enough pressure to push the atoms through the opening into the higher pressure zone.

SonOfMyths73 Subzero temperatures wouldn't be enough to freeze a human body that quickly, and in the event that it did the effect would not be temporary like what we see in gameplay. What we are all getting at is that there is more variables at play than just temperature. Also, the icicle shot wouldn't work with that method.

Also this explains why she has 2 different canisters on the gun. When you reload there is the cell on the side and the ball holding what I assume is either the aerogel or the cryogenic liquid. You may say that thats just how it reloads that ball but then why does it stay there after the reload, has a capacity display thing that goes down the same speed as the ball and doesn't appear to refill the ball during use.

why not?

Are you telling me I have been doing maths wrong so far? God dammit.

No wonder i keep getting low scores in maths, i havent sacrificed enough!

Top Goat

It was for comedic effect.

Nice

British / sweedish gamer His name. Is. SNOWBALL! 😡

That’s actually a very good explainiatuon

The video would be 10 minutes longer from trying to explain how she would freeze the hydrogen because it is the coldest thing (praticaly) but nice theory

I know this comment is old but the theory behind this video has been debunked-- it's actually not just water alone, but a mixture of water and an in-game substance called hard light. It encases the enemy briefly, just covering them in ice, not freezing them all the way. that's why people are still fine after it breaks and why Mei uses the gun as a peaceful way to capture wildlife in the arctic for studying.

Pretty much.

Nah they are different shows that are similar but have different goals. A great example is their Mirrors Edge episodes. They both covered the game but different aspects of it. Plus both of them are amazing

He's not doing KZfaq Red. And this is actually a game.

a discount version of game theory

"a discount version of game theory" funny. This is MUCH better from a scientific standpoint. Also, Game Theory focuses more on lore and concepts behind games and bullshit interpretations of random shit.

also, next week play Overwatch

YES! THAT WAS BOTHERING ME SO MUCH. He does click it once on a reaper towards the end but that's it

navels ♥ probably just discovered it by then!

Yeah that bothered me...especially since it makes Mei that much...colder. Ugh. That she freezes someone in place and while they're still conscious and watching, looks at them, winds up a big sharp icicle, and buries it in their skull.

It's worth noting that you should always go for a headshot with this on frozen players

The dragon is pure fucking MAGIC! There you go, science can't explain magic so that is the best answer.

+PronetoDeath Games DO YOU BELEIVE IN MAGIC

IN A YOUNG GIRL'S HEART

The Theory of Hanzo's dragons... Magic. It's magic. There's no realistic way to create two burning red/blue dragons from an arrow without a supernatural force. In the short animated movie "Brothers" we see that when he fires his Dragon Arrow his fancy arm tattoo lights up.

+Dr Ukato You mean 'Dragons.'

SQUID LORD Woah! I was watching the video too! What else did he say that everyone else heard? /s^10

That's true, my personal theory is that the cold condenses water in the air and then freezes that. It then melts allowing the target to move again. That explains why you can freeze Reinhardt's shield despite it being made of energy.

+Mike Troxel She is spraying a Freezing agent...aka the Cryofluid. Its more possible that the cryofluid is what freezing Not them and it would explain Its very short lifespan and how they can breakout slightly unharmed.

i guess that would make more sense than water vapor

"You made this video based of a MASSIVE jump in logic, you assume their" They're. "being frozen solid. Their" They're. "being frozen to the point in immobilization, not to the point of being frozen solid."

I... think it proves you were using the wrong version of "their"? I'm also not sure what argument I lost... I didn't really make much of an argument, just a vague implication that your grammar wasn't correct and, gosh, I think I won that one. Well done for the correct version of "your" there, by the way. So many people mess that up!

"Heros never die...for a price" - Devil Mercy 2016

ever watched the medic's secret from arrayseven

She's not resurrecting the dead. Ever notice the skulls with timers over your bodies? She's pulling them back from the edge of death.

tracer doesn't reload her clip, she simply rewinds the bullets she shot out, meaning those bullets have a shit ton of blood and possibly passing around AIDs

+TheAkatsukitobi I don't think she fires bullets out of her PLASMA pistols but let's say she does. If those bullets had no blood on them before they were fired they would not have any on them after being rewound since it would reset them back to their pre fire stage.

He is also 7.3 ft tall

He has 5,280 oz of water, 1306.8 oz organs, 1320 oz of fat, and lastly 893.2 oz of skeleton. Correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

also the air temperature would be competing with the stuff she is shooting out.

Yes the air would also be turned solid because it is made of mostly oxygen and nitrogen both of which have a higher freezing/melting and condensation/evaporation point thus freezing the air around her. Jeez Mei could be trying to stop global warming (that is what she was researching) but she has basically made a ray of pure DEATH! Anyone want a Earth-sicle, because Mei is slowly making one. Yep she may be overpowered now but if it was realistic everyone in a foot radius would be frozen solid (and dead)

Gavin Hersom which is why I think its just the gel freezing around the person til they are forced to break out of it.

That is already explained in her backstory

I don't want backstory, I want SCIENCE!

I'm not sure if that's something you can science

Time is often portrayed as a river, but it is closer to a delta. Each choice creating splits, it branches outward in a infinite number of possibilities. However, while space and time often intersect, even being described as a fabric, not everything fits in this weave. Tracer is stuck outside of normal time, and is connected to us by the big shiny thing she puts on her chest-plate. Think of it as a splinter breaks off of a board, and nailing it back roughly into place. I'm not exactly sure how such a device would work, nobody is, but that gives a lot of flexibility for how she flows through time. Her rewind ability is likely a combination of the shiny thing with cybernetics, and it gets complicated. If you play with two tracers in the same team, you can see how they talk to each other unlike other characters. This means that multiple tracers exist and have entered the same timeline with the shiny thing malfunctions. This is key. The rewind ability works by exploiting this trait, by bring the past tracer (15 seconds ago) to the present and giving her the memories of the previous tracer, and removing the later from the timeline. AFAIK. I could be dead wrong, blizzard may retcon this.

yep the talking to each other really surprised me the first time I heard it, great attention to detail from Blizz almost as if overwatch was supposed to be a much bigger game :)

Purzton Plays World Of WorldCrack. Of course

*Addiction Jokers*

Yes.

Always has been.

HAI HAMMEH!!!

+Ember Shine Hi! :D

Sah dude

HAMMEEEEH

I always thought she shot the combination of water and the cryo fluid, not very researched but that explains the ice spike she can shoot

and hanzo's tattoo dragons

And Bu-TRACER

But Racer?

The only explainable one is Mercy's revival since it her staff uses nanotechnology to "restart' the body of her fellow heroes as far as I know.

Samta Klaus Aka Tech-Magic. When something is so vaguely explained as 'Cuz nanobots' its just magic under a thin veil. And I'm ok with this. Like how Genji can reflect light balls and fire.

Crap, I couldn't find his weight anywhere. Oh well. Hahaha, yes it does.

Roadhog can hook and pull fucking heavy mech with little to no trouble, I'd like him to explain that

automatic chain reeler-inner.

Derpy Dude He clearly pulls it and even in art it shows him pulling the chain with one hand.

+TheAkatsukitobi enhanced muscle fibers, some sort of super strong chain, and a giant belly as a counterweight so he doesn't get pulled forward. That's what I can think of atm

Wizardporn2008 Until they see your cold eyes before an icicle pearces their skull. But just freezing yeah.

RyanB006 You can't see people when you're frozen, also you can't feel pain.

Wizardporn2008 I meant in game but IRL yeah

Wizardporn2008 well, WHEN you are frozen you don't feel anything. But the process of getting frozen probably hurts a lot more than getting shot by a bullet.

+AwesomePineapple not if its like 2 seconds, you'll basically go numb instantly, freezing over a long period of time is a different story.

*pocket dimension*

Idk if Mei deals with that type of technology because it was Winston that made that chestpiece for Tracer.

way to go buddy, the next we ever gonna hear is that Winston creates Doraemon and the anywhere door

Overwatch's doctors and scientists were stumped, and Tracer's case seemed hopeless *until a scientist named Winston designed the chronal accelerator, a device capable of keeping Tracer anchored in the present. In addition, it gave Tracer the ability to control her own time, allowing her to speed it up and slow it down at will.* With her newfound skills, she became one of Overwatch's most effective agents.[6] At some point she was stationed at Watchpoint: Gibraltar. -Overwatch wiki

he does :|

Although he does have a Ph.D., his super villain name is just Mr. Freeze. Still, just in case some overreacting nerds do not see the next scene, I would run.

His name though is Dr. Victor Fries, so it still works?

He is a doctor though.

At least he didn't say Captain Cold

If you looked he briefly had a subtitle saying he knows it's Mr. Freeze he just forgot in the video

Not 5:20

i did

Yep

Yeah XD I just went into the comments to see if anyone else noticed that

Exactly! World of war crack... I want to photoshop that now... Some actual crack humor...

I'm wondering if you think it's possible to make a video on video game science that's free of assumptions.

***** Yes, but they don't have to be ridiculous assumptions. They can be reasonable assumptions.

+Polymeron It seems more like Mei's cryogun Encases the enemy in "ICE" not that she is compeltly freezing the enemy. Cause How could she freeze Bastion otherwise.

Blue★ That's what I'm saying. But for some reason the calculation in this video assumes that every last gram of the enemy is turned down to -1 Celsius.

@polymeron I totaly agree

Makes sense

Her healing and resurrection is because of nanotech

+Excalibur Prime NANOMACHINES, SON

Dullahan2 It had to be done

You know, nanobots could be WAY OVERPOWERED if used correctly. For instance, they can infuse in your muscle tissue, and reprogram your muscle memory to have any skill you could imagine (Parkour and Jujitsu sound like a good combo) as well as replace the twitch and flex strands to give you superhuman speed, strenght, and flexability; They can copy DNA data and rebuild missing limbs from scratch, and while we're at it, even build entirely new objects, say, a gun (You'd still need bullets, unless the nanobots can also generate explosive charges equal to gunpowder, but that creates a host of other problems, namely the possibility of self destruction) and store neurological data, being able to restart your BRAIN if there was a problem. Then, nanobots could also replace nutrients the body needs to function, and because they aren't organic, they don't break down, so you don't need to eat or breath again; although, let's go out on a limb and give these nanobots the ability to break down the core components of ingested foods and use them to make MORE NANOBOTS.

Because it is a video game

Oh cute mei. Freezes you solid....then look at her innocent stance and soft smirk as she fires a giant icicle into your face.

You forgot the "hi" you're supposed to do before that

Don't worry about him. He probably doesn't even know how to use her ice wall correctly. Us Mei-lovers are in a leauge of our own! We're all a-Mei-zing!

+Crimson Ichor wow, whenever people play Mei like you its Mei-kes me want to kill myself

+Grantastic sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry..

Sounds like he did. The important question is whether he *meant* to call it that, or if it just slipped out. ;)

Eitherway, i can understand him ^^ I´am an addict since 11 years now, WoW i mean :)

Kay, thanks :) never watch with subtitles but now i know my ears still work fine :D

The captions said it. Either Austin took some crack, or Blizzard made the game stimulate crack.

Knirrax how does junkrats hair stay smoking

Sam Levy asking the real questions here

I too love seeing arrows not actually in my character's corpse on the floor, but rather floating in the air next to it.

the arrows hitbox is so big it can headshot around corners. im serious

or her skills. which make the least sense.

Thats because he was talking about her gun

Bert The Derp Yeah but her gun shoots out icicles too

I doubt the icicles to be as creepy as the blast thingy. At the very least it's more conventional.

It's not a bloody character guide is it.

Thats what a lot of people are saying.

*solid layer auto-correct....

exactly what i was gonna comment but simpler

+Damonizcool How it feels to chew 5 gum *Person flailing their limbs around falls in a pool* Stimulate your sences

Congratulations, that's what Mei explains on her blog, which is canon and run by Blizzard, which Shoddycast either didn't bother to look up or ignored for shock value on OMG THIS WEAPON IS SO OP!

Aerosol?

Nope, sorry, I actually included phase change joules into my math. :) I just didn't mention it in the video, because as you can see, it's already long enough.

***** Nope. Just porn.

better then the mess that's fallout 4 tell me how much money you spend on a barely working product let alone paying for something modders can make in seconds for 10 fucking dollar

Lolz

+enclave commander that sadly i can't deny, Fallout 4 was a disappointment and counted on the hype to sell

I am the why the fuck you going off topic god, here to say why the fuck you going off topic?

explains how enemies can simply crack open the ice layers without actually being dead.

Also allows mei to coat her enemies, then she'd simply be spraying water at her enemies instead of liquid hydrogen. She'd be caging enemies in ice rather than cyrofreezing them.

thats what i also assume that it is liquid Hydrogen which is sprayed and that way encloses them in ice, which would also give a possibility to the spike shot, and also at least makes it more likely for her to carry it arround^^

+Cryosardonic Duh

It's made of precision German engineering and manliness

Hasselhoffium, obviously

Reinhardt is strong because of all the Currywurst he eats every day. Considering, that Currywurst is his most beloved meal (like for Winston and other normal gorrillas it's a banana) it might just have enough vitamins to let him carry this huge fuck-ass armor. And for the shield: He's possible to activate it, because of all the "Ketchup + Curry powder"-Sauce he has eaten with all the Currywurst (obviously). The Sauce in his body transforms into a blue mass of an (for normal people unknown) material, which then gets pumped into his arm device, which then finally activates the shield by let the blue mass aka "energy shield" out. The form of the shield is because of the good old "Transmitter and receiver"-part. The arm device acts like the transmitter, sending off the "saucenergy" to four receivers, one for each corner of the energy field aka the shield. So that's that. And now get ready to move. Let us prove ourselves in GLORIOUS combat!

Umm, I hate to break this to you, but he makes that shield with Faith, because he's a Palladin.

Combinemon Lucio cause he can do it at range

Combinemon Mei, she would be able to cryogenically freeze herself safely (with enough ice around her) while Lucio blows himself up

PenutButterCat21 right, because a nuke is stopped by a little block of ice

It's almost impossible to hit lucios projectiles at the Mei icicle range

bae

Mei is gei

+Meme Creep thats y ur mom left u

eduardo masangcay Okay?

explanation? From Russia.

Because Russia

smaller a singularity the greater the energy, a portable black hole would almost instantly suck the world in it and possibly create a super Nova, I think.

+No. pull

+No. No.. That's just so wrong.. A black hole isn't stronger if it's smaller, it's actually quite the opposite. The smallest black holes in the universe are the size of an atom but with the mass of an asteroid, they are weak as shit compared to supermassive black holes. Gravitational pull is directly affected by the mass of an object and a black hole with the mass of an asteroid would have the same gravitational pull as an asteroid. If the sun disappeared and a black hole with the same mass took its place nothing would happen to Earths orbit. All that would happen would be Earth freezing to a gigantic block of ice due to no heat from the sun. But we wouldn't be sucked into the black hole.. The size of that black hole would be pretty small, like somewhere in the range of 5-10km in diameter, compared to the diameter of the sun which is 1391400 km In the middle of galaxies are supermassive black holes, our galaxy has a black hole the size of the sun but with the mass of about 4 million suns. This black hole is called Sagittarius A and our solar system is orbiting around it. A supernova is an exploding star and black holes are created from supernovas of really big stars. The black hole itself will not create a supernova. A black hole isn't some magical sucking machine that sucks everything into it magically.. It's just a really really dense object with a really high gravitational pull, mostly. Most black holes are around 15-20 times the mass of the sun but they are like 100000 times smaller in size. But as I said earlier, there are small black holes with very low mass in comparison and thus they have very weak gravitational pull. There are theories that say dark matter is made up by atom sized black holes.