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[MrRoboto75]

There's been four new characters.  Two offense heroes, one tank, and one support.  Only category that got nobody was defense.

And sombra's largely been played as a support, with her improved health packs, fast ult, and hacking abilities over her DPS.

[EvilTwin]

doomfist would've been way cooler as a sort of defense/tank hybrid imo

[MrRoboto75]

doomfist would've been way cooler as a sort of defense/tank hybrid imo

I too thought DF was going to be a bit more stalwart.  The Talon gang doesn't really have a tank.  The shields he gets from abilities help a tiny bit, but outside of his ult its rare he keeps all that much.  I honestly feel like Reaper's life steal is more impactful, as subtle as that is.

Although if you want a tanky Doomfist, tag team up with a Zarya.  DF is always in the thick of things, and as big and loud as he is, people can't help but shoot at him.  Its an easy way for a Zarya to charge up.

[hops]

Sooooo.... who do you think the next hero will be? There are a few heroes namedropped already, but so far most of them sound like NPCs made up to give a sense of scale to the worldbuilding. I mean, "Soundquake" and "Fusionator" sound like rejected superheroes.

[Egan_BW]

Talon also very conspicuously lack a healer. Guess it's hard to make a medic character seem evil?

[PTTG??]

Talon also very conspicuously lack a healer. Guess it's hard to make a medic character seem evil?

Well, TF2 did make Medic officially Not A Nazi, But Close.

[Egan_BW]

I mean difficult for Blizzard designers, not creative people.

[MrRoboto75]

You got sombra's hacked health packs, but that's about it.  Much like a bad team comp, Talon is like 4 DPS characters and a sniper, no healers or tanks.

[Egan_BW]

So the good guy's victory is basically inevitable, right? Talon have no coordination, just lots of power.

[MrRoboto75]

Most successful thing they did recently was break DF out of prison.

[EvilTwin]

if you wanna make a healer that is evil just make something like a vampiric zenyatta, with some sort of buff they put on people to give them livesteal. or maybe a kinda tech-necromancer that molds hard light into shields and minions of some sort. there's plenty of ways to do it^^


EDIT: actually thinking about it, katya volskaya is making deals with the omnics, maybe we are gonna get an evil omnic hero? that would be kinda cool.

[MaximumZero]

...Omnic Crisis Bastion?

[EvilTwin]

...Omnic Crisis Bastion?

would be cool, but I don't think Blizzard would do that since the new Bastion would probably be too similar in shape to - well, Bastion.


But maybe some sort of newly developed prototype omnic thing. It would continue the Volskaya/Zarya story arc, maybe Sombra gets her hands on it and recruits it for Talon.

[hops]

I mean... arguably, Sombra could be the healer for Talon.

Also I wouldn't mind a character based on the Eradicator.

[EnigmaticHat]

if you wanna make a healer that is evil just make something like a vampiric zenyatta, with some sort of buff they put on people to give them livesteal. or maybe a kinda tech-necromancer that molds hard light into shields and minions of some sort. there's plenty of ways to do it^^


EDIT: actually thinking about it, katya volskaya is making deals with the omnics, maybe we are gonna get an evil omnic hero? that would be kinda cool.

Blizzard seems to have decided that every character must have a gun that works in a different way, and healing too.  Its hard to keep coming up with different healing mechanisms apparently.

Your idea reminds me of the mad milk from TF2, I wouldn't mind that.  My only complaint is that a lifesteal healer could never be anything other than an off healer, so if we get that we should get another primary healer.  Else comp players will get mad at support mains for not picking Ana or Mercy (lord knows it already happens).

I think the original intent was that Symmetra would be an evil healer.  She works for a villainous faction yet is well intentioned, and her kit used to include direct targeted "healing".  Of course as we all know, Symmetra would be better categorized as a defense hero.  I remember back on release, in quickplay people would get mad if you had Mercy, Lucio, and Sym all on the same team because the warning would come up that there was "too many supports."