Custom Gamemode | Requested Features (Crazy Ideas)
So ever since the new additions to custom gamemodes, I have been working on trying to figure out what type of things people would like to see, and how I can modify and change the base game to essentially make brand new gamemodes in OW. (kinda like how you can with TF2). Then it hit me, there are some things that would be amazing to see as "modifiers" for abilities, heroes, and maps which aren't currently in. Here is a list of what I think would make an amazing addition to the custom gamemode update!
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Ability modifiers beyond cooldown.
a. Duration of how long each ability lasts, example being Sombra's invisibility.
b. Size of AOE abilities. (Reinharts smash (thinking more like a 360 effect possibly as well as extended range), Lucio's ult, Sombra's emp) - potentially have ults like lucio/sombra be map wide?
c. Mix abilities together. As funky as this may seem, i'm thinking of abilities like sombra slowing enemies like mei, disable healing like ana, and stopping abilities like usual, to make a very specific "boss" ability. I know this seems specific, but if they are going to give us tools like this, why not go all out???
d. Allow hero's to have other hero abilities. Something like a boss having widow's wallhacks to always see enemies (possibly have it as infinitely enabled), or even for specific situations. I don't desire them to have custom voice lines, (maybe allow us to define one?)
d.1 Allow for abilities to more then just do their function. For example, if a player wants to do something like ult, have it do self harm first (kinda like mana maybe?), or maybe slow down the player, make them take more/less damage, etc.
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Allow us to have hero's have each other mechanics. ex; a sombra being able to climb walls, or a roadhog being able to double jump.
2.1 Allow us to bring back old game mechanics like genji's old wall climb reset.
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tbd, I will update this when I have more time. my mind is running wild with ideas.
TLDR; Dear Bliz, please give us your tool to make abilities do whatever. Let us go ham. If I wanna make an ability that does features from others, hell, why not? Imagine the kinda things people could come up with??? To be honest, I would love to see you give us that ability, then host competitions to see who can come up with the best custom gamemodes!
I could imagine seeing a repository for ideas and gamemodes people can come up with. Maybe have something kinda like the nexus where people could post their gamemodes for others to "download" or access and use.
As stupid as it sounds, we all know its the crazy ideas that are the most successful ones!
Posted Feb 16, 2017, 11:19 PM UTC · edited