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We would be working on these changes throughout the entire year and then release all of them at once.” Crawford has some thoughts on that, sharing, “In the past, we would always release our ‘yearly gameplay updates’ towards the end of the year (normally right after BlizzCon). After it was released fans on all fronts pushed back against it, and Blizzard just recently announced that they would remove it. I immediately moved on to the elephant in the room: the current weather anomaly. It was interesting to see another anomaly arrive so soon.” It just may take a couple tweaks (some are in-flight already) before we find her perfect spot. As for Mei, we believe she has all the tools to be a main Tank.
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We are doing our best to keep these cycles of Heroes fresh with our aggressive balance patch cadence. He elaborates: “We are listening to what the community is saying, and while there are a couple of staple Tanks right now, that has been a fairly consistent cycle with most Hero Roles. Although players do have issues with the current tank meta, Crawford says he and the team think that it’s “in a pretty good spot.”
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He states that at one point, Imperius and Deathwing were “potential main tanks” (imagine that!). After the designer put together the paper pitch, we all got super excited and the rest is History!”Ĭrawford says that the wait for a tank “wasn’t intentional,” but that over time, some kits naturally morph out of the tank role and into something else. Unfortunately, we were not super-confident in the general direction that was heading, and while we were working through that, another Hero designer chimed in with the thought that he could translate Mei’s Overwatch kit into a Tank role for Heroes. “At that time, we had already begun prototyping a Barrier Field ability to explore the possibility of bringing Reinhardt into the Nexus but were met with some issues. It was a long wait, and Crawford agrees: “We knew that it was about time to add another main Tank to the roster, and given it had been awhile since we brought an Overwatch Hero in, we were discussing the options for heroes that would be a good fit,” he says. Mei entered the Nexus to pretty much unanimous praise: both because of how fun her kit is and the fact that the game hadn’t had a tank in a long while. In case you missed it, a lot has happened with Heroes this past month. I caught up with Brett “Daybringer” Crawford - lead designer on Heroes - to get the rundown on where they’re at now and how bright the future looks. Although Blizzard unceremoniously declared that it was winding down its operations in late 2018 and killed off its officially sanctioned esports scene, the actual game is still very much alive and well. Heroes of the Storm has been down in the past, but not out.Īs someone who has played it nearly every week since its alpha, it’s very hard to actually call it “down” actually. They also talk tank meta and an end to the latest controversial anomaly