Overwatch 2 - New Hero ROVER Concept | Abilities & Backstory
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
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Horizon Moon Base specimen number 14, Rover.
Make way for your favorite little furry support hero.
A genetically enhanced dog from the Lunar Horizon Moon Base program, Rover has an interesting kit that relies on his Rocket Pod. From being immune to traps such as Junkrat's Steel Trap and Roadhog's Pig Pen via his passive, to firing off healing and damaging rockets, to launching him and his teammates into orbit and to a swift victory.
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00:00 - Rover Backstory
01:16 - Rover's Abilities - Hry
so "mans best friend"(e) just sounds like a pocket mercy but with more issues. if he can only cancel or get knocked back if hes with say a phara or echo its gonna be hard to get him away however if it was say 10 seconds he could lock onto a target that would be plenty of time (50x10=500) so that would be at least one full healthbar.
Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback! 😄 I did contemplate this, hence why in the vid i put a 'may change this' under the immune to damage part. Making him more of a meat shield could be a bit more balanced...was just worried that he'd be dying wayyy too quickly if he was pocketing a tank and up near where the enemy team is hitting the hardest, he just wouldn't last long and it wouldn't be too fun for players playing him.
Also, I didn't even think of that during drafting...orbiting a Pharah while she's flying would be really fun hahaha! 😆
Luckily this is just a concept, so many tweaks would be needed before he could work in game!! 😁
But hear me out, a Dinosaur
Hahah! We're getting into League of Legends territory now! 😆😆
@@jezjhart i still want one
@@JoeBallsDGreat Horizon Moon Base specimen number 16, Reptar? 'Rugrats ref' 😂😂😂
A thought came to mind now... totally optional of course, but should you choose to accept...
I challenge you to create a kit concept of a support hero with the basis of a merchant.
Like I mentioned though, just a thought. I made something along these lines a while back and am a tad curious to see your interpretation!
Keep going with yours! They're thought-provoking!
I'll add it to the list! 😁😁I'm planning this mini event story over the next few videos with 4 heroes already planned involving Talon. Hopefully I can do it justice to how I'm envisioning it.
Though, a merchant support hmm... not really something I'd initially think of for an Overwatch 2 style of hero. Though, did think of a few cool ideas but I don't really want it conflicting with what I'm currently doing at the moment! 😆😂
@@jezjhart no pressure at all! I already thought you had a list haha. Can’t wait to see what you have planned!
I’ve been a constant believer that Hammond and the apes weren’t the only animals experimented on at the Horizon Lunar Colony, just that the section we saw was only where the apes stayed and other areas had other subjects
So for Rover it’s nice to see other people have similar abilities
Also hell yeah a new mech character that can actually eject
Real good idea, I’d love an idea of a dog in a pod, but seems “a bit op” idk- tho the game isn’t balanced as is so not a big deal just seems like a mercy pocket extreme LOL I love the content
Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback! It is a concept, so he'd definitely need to be tweaked before he could work in game. I did try to nerf him as much as possible, considering his passive and a few other things which could be considered OP. I'd say he's more balanced than Mauga at least hahaha! 😅😂
@@jezjhart no I totally agree, I’m loving your videos I been watching them after this one- keep it up you got amazing ideas!
@@jonbarreca7167 thank youuu! 🥹🤩 Next hero I’m working on is from Italy, so shall be interesting. Her kit is very unique! Quite happy with it, especially her ult as it’s super fun! 😁
In my opinion, this is a great idea! Not only the abilities but also the concept and how useful he might be! I love it!!
Wow thank you so much!!! I was really worried about this idea at first, as a talking dog flying in a rocket pod seemed a little ridiculous! Then I was like wait... we have a 'talking' hamster rolling in a ball and a monkey that can talk. Why not a dog, as dogs have been to space (sadly)! 😂 I reckon he'd be a super popular support hero IMO! 🤩
Yes cook man's best friend is a bit overpowered because if he doesn't leave unless he gets stunned your teammates basically not going to die
imma use orbit to kill my whole team ngl
Lifeweaver’s lifegrip ft the entire team!! Letsgoo! 😂😂😂 Thankfully he does have a bit of a junkrat ultimate style freeze when he’s looking for a new location. So there is warning to get out of the way or stay if you want to! 😆
hmm... it's an alright concept but his passive is broken. nothing should stop someone from hitting you with their ult.....unless obv you were immuned by an ability otherwise it makes the hero legit broken.
the healing rockets are way to weak. as bap's launcher heals 25-75 healing on hit/splash
him being immune with his E is also pretty broken aswell, due to the state of OW2. this would cause a very scary pocket themed meta, if rover can just not take damage by latching to an ally... and if they ally is being focus healed by both supports... and one of them you can't even kill or damage? where as kiriko can just pop in and out of existance lol.
The idea is good. tho imo i think rover should orbit the player and become more of a meat shield that passively heals the target. example... same thing but instead of the silly damage immune you make his hp just bump up to 500 and once rover loses all that hp he unlatches, loses mech and has to hide till it's back, this way rover acts like a shield, doesn't actually die if he is focused during it.
also his canine form he really should have like 100 hp if you're gonna give him super sonic speed like that.
mind you this is just my opinion i have a graphic design background so i know at least enough about character designs to not break games lol xD
Hey! Thanks for the feedback! 😁😁 Luckily with Reinhardt you can still knock Rover back quite a way and thankfully his ult is the only one that Rover is 'immune' to. It just means that the rest of your team needs to have better counters or teamwork to take him out...or just have a Ramattra to ground him.
50 health per hit with Healing Rockets and 25 splash heals, I thought, was pretty reasonable for a support hero considering he can essentially fire off 12 rockets per round before reload. Though definitely can buff that if it works, it is a concept after all, so not everything will be perfect straight away without testing.
I did contemplate this immunity HAHA! Hence the bracketed 'May change this' in the vid! 🥲Perhaps making him able to take damage would be wiser with his pocket and just make it more a skill that rover players need to avoid damage. I was just worried though that he'd die wayy to quickly if he was stuck within an orbit of 4 meters of say a tank taking the heavy fire from the enemy team, which to me sounded less fun if he insta dies all the time. 🥲🥲
I do love that idea! Though during drafting I had a similar thought and was worried he'd be too similar to D.va in this regard.
The 100 HP for the canine form I LOVE! I think that fits so much better, as he is just a little pup.
I reckon Rover would be more balanced on his debut than Mauga was at least! hahaha! 🤣🤣
This seems like a fun idea but damage reductions & immunity have always been problematic in the past.
Doomfist block, Orisa Fortify, Genji Deflect (basically), Zarya Bubble, Baptise No kill zone, Ana's Nano, Mauga 🤮, Kiriko, Ramattra block, Roadhog's breather and Zenyatta ult?? Even Lucio ult could tech be counted 🥲🥲 But I do get what you're saying. I was really contemplating to just make him more a meat shield in his Man's Best Friend ability, but was really worried that he'd die too quickly for it to be of any use, hence giving him the semi weakness to abilities, that 60-70% of heroes have...just didn't add them all in the video and thought it was a decent balance out. 😆😂
The attach to be immune mechanic would be problematic, just look up Yuumi from league of legends and there would be a good amount of videos on why this kind of mechanic is not healthy for the game. While it is not a complete immunity like Yuumi's.. abilities that prevent a good amount of interactions is just not healthy, just take a look at Zarya's bubbles haha
Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback! 😄😄 I did contemplate this... a lot. Hence in the video the 'May change this' part on that immunity area, though was just worried that Rover while pocketing a tank that's taking the brunt of the enemies attacks would die wayyy to quickly if he didn't have some sort of immunity. Hence why I gave him a semi weakness to abilities, that and gameplay wouldn't be too fun for him if you kept dying quickly. OMG Zarya's bubbles make me so mad!!! 😡😡 I get what you're saying hahah!!! 😂😂
@@jezjhart also for the ult i think it would better if you let teammates decide where they want to go. Make it so it doesn't force your team to got with u, instead the ability will lift ur team and give them the ability to relocate themselves, or just sends them up to the air and give them a high speed flying passive for a short duration (not sure how this would look in game, maybe mini rockets in their feet? hahaha)
@@slavchems4759 Hmm that's an interesting take and could definitely work, I'd love to see it...I do worry though about giving allies too much credence with his ability. As it would kinda be like giving allies the ability to decide their trajectory with a Lifeweaver's Lifegrip, as it has a similar forced pull/repositioning function.
I think it adds a more team friendly mechanic to rely on Rover to position your team to somewhere safe or tactful, or just leave his 4 meter radius when he's charging. As after all he is meant to be a support. I'd be sad if everyone left him...again *backstory ref* 😩😭😭
A flying Reinhardt with rocket boots would actually be hilarious! 😂
Jetpack Cat before Jetpack Dog
Someone got the reference!!! Well done! 😁😁😂
not another rien counter XC
I'M SORRY!!! 🤣🤣 We all know Rein has a weakness for tiny puppies 🤫
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@@jezjhart it's ok THEY can cook
I just don't understand the exit pod ability, you can't use any moves so whats the point in using it. If it's just ment to run away. Having the same ammo for healing and damage rockets drastically reduces the amount of healing doggo can dish out, it might be better to find a different form of healing like having him shoot a sludge of healing on the floor that creates an aoe healing so he can have two seperate ammo's . Also his ult might be a bit bad cause of the amount of time it takes to prepare. If you want to save your team it has to be instantly or else everyone dies. That won't be possible with an ult that takes time to charge.
It's an escape movement ability pretty much. I didn't want to overcomplicate it or make it too OP, though I did contemplate having his pod on impact either knock or do damage, or both...sort of a Helldivers 2 ref. I get what you're saying with the ammo though, that's why he has Man's Best Friend as another ability, which essentially makes him immune to attacks, but not certain abilities and he gains the ability to mercy pocket. Albeit only one hero at a time and slightly less healing, as I thought two Mercy pockets with the same capabilities would be broken.
I'd say a good combo would be pocket heal ally, when they die, exit pod to escape quickly, wait out cooldowns, repeat, also the benefit of the basic attacks to aid when back in pod for a secondary healer to a team. He is a support after all.
I also get what you're saying with Orbit, I did think about that. Though if quick enough, Orbit can be activated within 1 or 2 seconds if you're okay with a shorter distance travelled. Him gaining that unstoppable and 80% damage reduction during the orbit charge will allow team mates to hide behind him as he takes the brunt of the damage. Remember also this completely heals allies that come with him so it can be a real game changer. That and, I didn't wish to completely copy Doomfist's ultimate... 🤭😅
@@jezjhart Thanks so much for replying, I did have the exact same thought with mans best friend since it's basically yet another annoying flying thing you gotta shoot down but because you can't attack anymore it might be a bit balanced, however I just came up with this thought since it does basically mean the enemy team is gonna be forced to pick a character that can counter that ability since doggo could just sit back and pocket heal someone like doom that flies everywhere if the enemy team has no way of getting him out of the pocket heal.
Hahaha the moment I heared the first sentence in your video about his ult my immediate reaction was, isn't that just doomfists ult but with extra steps? 😂 But I actually didn't think about the hiding behind cover part. Since I was unsure how big the rocket was gonna be, is it gonna take a lot of space like LW tree of life? Since it might be useful that way, other than that I do think that you could annihilate doggo during his anim since if I remember correctly doom also has an 80% dmg reduction from his block and if he goes in the middle of the enemy team he also gets shredded pretty easily. Seems balanced in theory.
If your open to suggestions i'd like to add that for the exit mech ability, it might be cool so that instead of breaking the mech it will dash forward and damage enemies before ultimately breaking down (this doesnt deal any damage) whilst you shoot your mech forward rover will be forcefully removed but the trade off will be that if your health is already under the 200hp that mechless rover has, it will just stay that way. so it's not like dva's ult where you gain an extra life or something.
My idea to improve the ult would be to make it so the lower hp you have the faster it will deploy. Atleast in that way youll actually be able to use it if youre low. Since otherwise you will be killed instantly.
@@randomdude4360 Luckily there are quite a lot of counter abilities that can pull him away from his target, so the team is bound to have at least one, even ones I didn't mention in the video such as Lucio, his uhh ...boop could do it...i forgot its ability name hahahah! 😆😅 Even Ana's sleep darts would work. So I think being weak to abilities wouldn't be so bad in the long run and him being immune, now that I think about it, isn't so bad and quite balanced, as at least 60-70% of heroes have a counter.
Agreed with Orbit, but we can't make the doggo too OP. I think the 80% damage reduction is fine and it will play more into team based strengths where you get a Zarya to bubble or get your tank to shield...or another healer such as mercy to pocket him while everyone hides behind him and escapes. It's all in the timing and the skill like all heroes.
Rover isn't huge, but his pod is large enough to cover quite a bit of space as it rearranges itself. Smaller than Tree of Life, but not far off in width but not in height visually.
Only problem with the mech shooter is that I feel its largely similar to D.va and her ult, which I was trying to avoid, as I'd already taken some liberties with doomfists ult haha. 😆
I took more inspiration from Helldivers 2 for this ability and envisioned it as such, with enemies even being alerted to when he calls his pod back down.
But I do actually love the idea of a faster deploy with lower hp...though from a game developer stand point they might find that too annoying to code, as there are already so many steps with his abilities already. 😆
I've got another support hero coming next video. She's quite unique IMO, so quite keen for it and hope I do her justice. 😁
@@jezjhart Hahaha I love your enthousiasm, also even tho it seems like all i'm doing is criticizing you I really do love the idea. And you're right Forgot about the other support just healing rover whilst he is using his ult, it's a team based fighting game after all. I also found myself with the same trouble of trying NOT to copy any existing mechanics I just don't get how developers come up with these kinds of things 😂. His low hp mechanic is so that you don't get an ult that's similar to trying to use pharrah barrage with low hp since you would get sniped in no time, if you didn't warn your support beforehand. But these are just some little improvements that you are free to do with whatever you want. I am excited about your next idea tho. Can't wait!
@@jezjhart If you wanted to avoid the similarities to D.va, perhaps instead of having it act like a mini-missile, it could keep its hitbox so that it could be used to block damage in a similar fashion as Symmetra's old throwable shield. If the mech was too small then you could implement some sort of mechanic where bullets curve toward it (playing into the whole orbiting theme too). In addition, Rover could get a small boost in the direction he's moving toward, while gaining a 140ish% movement bonus.
There would be 3 different ways of using it, 1. as a temporary way to protect yourself from enemies that are shooting at you as you try to run away. 2. as a way to provide some sort of cover to an ally that's some distance away from you 3. as a diversion, making the enemy team think you are going one way when you are really going in the opposite direction 4. as a situational engagement, providing cover while you rush someone.
I personally love this series and have a hero concept of my own id love to share. Maybe you could create a discord where people could came and share said ideas.
Hey!! That's actually a really wicked idea! I could do competitions and concept chats, and maybe early access views to videos. I do have a discord but would have to watch a few tutorials to get more know how on how to use it properly for something like that 😭☹
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