Hvis du er en fan av Overwatch vet du at det å legge til en ny helt i spillet er en ganske stor greie, da det kan påvirke meta, hvor effektive andre helter er og hvordan spillet fungerer i en esport-setting. Apropos esport, vi slo av en prat med 'production director' Chacko Sonny på Barclays Center i Brooklyn i forkant av finalen i Overwatch League, og spurte ham om selve prosessen med å legge til en ny helt.
"Absolutely, it's an ongoing process," fortalte Sonny. " It starts with the spark of an idea - generally a hero designer will say 'hey I think this might be something interesting' or is looking at the current design of the game and how the scene is playing out and says 'hey, I think we could do this with this type of hero'."
"And then the first thing that we do, because the easiest way to get a sense of what the impact of a particular hero would be is [to] get a prototype up as quick as we possibly can. A lot of times you will see - I think if you've seen any of the prior design stuff that has been made public from early on - you'll see these prototypes that use existing heroes but with different abilities, because we have the animations for them and we just tweak things, so we're modifying either abilities or weapons or things like that."
"And then it's just a process of constant feedback and iteration. You might have multiple playtests in a single day over the course of months that refine and tune the way that hero interacts not only with enemies but also with their own team and how it affects the current meta."
"I think the other thing that happens once we feel like we've gotten something that we feel [is] good and ready to be birthed, so to speak - we go out to PTR, and we have the community comment on it. Heroes are something I think the community is very interested in understanding how it impacts, obviously you've seen Wrecking Ball, so that feedback is tremendously important."
Hva synes du om prosessen de går gjennom? Liker du heltene som har blitt lagt til så langt?
