Overwatch 2 lead hero designer Alec Dawson joined a pair of content material creators and their followers to debate the upcoming Roadhog rework at present, Nov. 13. And when speaking about experimentation for the tank’s new capability, one concept that was left on the slicing room flooring left everybody laughing.
Whereas Roadhog’s new ability, Pig Pen, is a deployable lure that does a mix of injury and crowd management, it may also be used to assist execute a possible one-shot combo, as soon as once more returning that highly effective side to Roadhog’s equipment.
However, based on Dawson, there have been quite a few different concepts that his workforce examined out, together with one thing much like a hysterically foolish fan-theorized capability Dawson known as “Butt Slam.”
“We went actually large early on,” Dawson mentioned. “We did even, I feel there have been a whole lot of theories about ‘Butt Slam’ and issues like that, we really did one thing the place Roadhog was leaping into the air and slamming down. It felt just a little odd total to how he was taking part in and added complexity to his equipment.”
The concept is that, given his measurement, if Roadhog have been to leap within the air aggressively, akin to the Floor Pound capability the Nintendo’s Tremendous Mario character is thought for, he would in all probability disrupt these round him and generate some type of crowd management impact.
Ultimately, the workforce took the strategy of making an attempt to contemplate how Roadhog gamers take pleasure in taking part in the hero and what the workforce may do to boost that have, which led to the inclusion of Pig Pen, and the re-establishment of one-shot potential for the hero. Provided that the upcoming new hero Mauga’s capability Overrun has the same crowd-controlling stomp to it, it is sensible that the workforce would attempt to give Roadhog one thing just a little bit completely different to boost his equipment.
Roadhog’s rework is about to go dwell in Overwatch 2 tomorrow, Nov. 14.
