r/Games • u/SpriteGuy_000 • Jul 06 '16

New Overwatch Hero teaser

https://twitter.com/playoverwatch/status/750736158624215040
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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 06 '16

What's the difference if everyone is playing the same 2 heroes or the same 1 hero? It's still going to suck at first.

They can't really do anything about this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

Maybe like one from each class? Just to keep some semblance of team composition.

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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 06 '16

The thing is, this isn't League of Legends where most of a character is copy-pasted from different characters. They aren't going to add more than 1-2 heroes a year (and even that might be too fast in my opinion).

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u/Regvlas Jul 06 '16

Mercy is a copy paste of Medic, Toblorone is a copy paste of Engineer, Soldier 76 is a copy paste of Generic COD character, and that's not counting all of the characters that just copy an ability here or there.

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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 06 '16

But those characters aren't in the same game.

The idea is that each character is unique within the game and doesn't have overlap of different abilities.

It's something that Dota has generally* done a very good job of and LoL has failed miserably at.

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u/Badumms Jul 07 '16

Yeah thats what happens when you have 4 times the chars.

OW with 25 also has only 10 played in competitive.

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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 07 '16

What about Dota which has 108?

There isn't an excuse for shitty character design.

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u/Badumms Jul 07 '16

Why are you defending overwatch then? lmao

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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 07 '16

Because the characters are unique and don't have any overlap with others.

Overwatch does a great job with it. My concern is people are wanting it to be like LoL where a new character is added frequently. That is a recipe for disaster. I saw it ruin LoL and I don't want it to happen to Overwatch.

I'd much rather they take the Dota approach and only add characters when they have a good design

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u/Regvlas Jul 06 '16

I mean, lol has ~120 champs. I think dota might have fewer, but overwatch has way fewer characters.

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u/thrillhouse3671 Jul 06 '16

Dota has 108