Overwatchis a game that embraces diversity among its heroes and their various playstyles. Even with its sequel officially announced and on the way, it retains a large playerbase and continues to update regularly. One of the more recent updates introduced Echo, a hero who can mimic other heroes andhas a lot of nuances to master.
Another recent new addition toOverwatchis the Workshop, which allows players to experiment with the game and create their own custom modes. It was creative engines like this that led to games likeDOTAandBattle Chessin the originalWarcraft III, and players are already creating new game modes and ideas with it. One creation, by Andy Bohan, has taken Echo’s power of putting multiple hero powers into one hero to a completely new level.
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One function in theOverwatchWorkshop allows one hero to be attached to another hero, letting the first hero carry around the second one. Utilizing this feature, a team up of Genji and Bastion could form anincredibly powerfulOverwatchduoin the form of a highly mobile turret. Bohan did not stop at two heroes though: he combined the entire team, sticking five heroes onto a sixth who carries them around. The result is a terrifying monstrosity that has all the players controlling their heroes as normal except for movement.
To say the possibilities for this are endless would be an understatement. High damage, low mobility heroes could be attatched to speedsters. Torbjorn could ride Winston into battle. You could even haveOrisa climbing wallswith the aid of Genji. For the game mode he was creating, Bohan mostly used the slow, high-health, high-healing heroes used for the GOATS meta. This led to the creation of a mode currently titled 1v1 GOATS.
The idea of heroes being combined into one is incredibly entertaining, and does not have to end with Bohan’s new custom game mode. The teamwork necessary to coordinate one player moving and another shooting is worth exploring, and team compositions will look vastly different.Overwatchis already experimenting with competitive play changes, and a new mode might spice things up.
Obviously it would be a casual mode, at least to start. With thehuge changesOverwatchis making to the hero pools, no more avenues of serious competition are needed in the game at the moment (especially with more GOATS). Still, there is no doubt that combining all the heroes on a team into a Mechazord style creation will appeal to a lot of players, if only for the spectacle. But after the spectacle, who knows what strategies might arise?
Overwatchis available for PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One.
