Echo Fighters-like system.

[tredavidson77]

Could a system similar to that work for this game if the devs wanted to add characters that are similar to others with only slight differences in abilities and power sets like Miles and Peter, Tony and Rhodie, Red Hulk and Hulk, etc or is that just a filling the roster with too many redundents?

[Kamakura]

Functionally a "variant" thing where the new character is an "Ultimate" skin, that changes them visually, gives them unique voice lines, and maybe adjusts their kits, like a War Machine would be more bullet based than using repulsor blasts like Iron Man, but the abilities function the same. I think that makes more sense than having similar characters fill up a roster when I'd rather see all new characters in that spot instead.

That way you could probably see more characters show up than you normally would if their kits aren't all that different. Spider-Man could have Miles, Gwen, etc...Iron Man could have War Machine, Iron Heart, Rescue, etc...

[tredavidson77]

I got the idea from the echo-fighters

Originally posted by Kamakura:

Functionally a "variant" thing where the new character is an "Ultimate" skin, that changes them visually, gives them unique voice lines, and maybe adjusts their kits, like a War Machine would be more bullet based than using repulsor blasts like Iron Man, but the abilities function the same. I think that makes more sense than having similar characters fill up a roster when I'd rather see all new characters in that spot instead.

That way you could probably see more characters show up than you normally would if their kits aren't all that different. Spider-Man could have Miles, Gwen, etc...Iron Man could have War Machine, Iron Heart, Rescue, etc...

I specified the echo fighters from smash bros because from what I remembered from when I played they were basically that I think.

[Risotto]

Originally posted by Kamakura:

Functionally a "variant" thing where the new character is an "Ultimate" skin, that changes them visually, gives them unique voice lines, and maybe adjusts their kits, like a War Machine would be more bullet based than using repulsor blasts like Iron Man, but the abilities function the same. I think that makes more sense than having similar characters fill up a roster when I'd rather see all new characters in that spot instead.

That way you could probably see more characters show up than you normally would if their kits aren't all that different. Spider-Man could have Miles, Gwen, etc...Iron Man could have War Machine, Iron Heart, Rescue, etc...

War Machine should be his own hero.

[Cpt Obvious]

Danny Rand.

[Kamakura]

Originally posted by Risotto:

War Machine should be his own hero.

Eh, I don't know, I'm sure they could figure out a way to make his kit different enough, but in the end he'd still be basically Iron Man with a different weapon set unless they went for something drastically different, like they go for a unique design that is more tank built instead with heavier armor, no flight mode, etc...

Originally posted by tredavidson77:

I specified the echo fighters from smash bros because from what I remembered from when I played they were basically that I think.

Sort of, I think Echo Fighters still had some unique aspects to them, they aren't 1:1 in everything next to their counterpart, where the skin variant idea is more of a straight palette swap. I think new Heroes should be added more for what their kit can bring to the game, and heroes that can't really do that would be skin replacements.

The only downside of this is that I think new heroes are going to be free for the game, so if they did a variant character, they'd probably be a minimum of 20 bucks to get. It's a tradeoff though, because I think the variant skin idea allows for there to be way more characters added to the game to play, over waiting on new hero releases that involve a ton more work.

[tredavidson77]

Originally posted by Kamakura:

Originally posted by Risotto:

War Machine should be his own hero.

Eh, I don't know, I'm sure they could figure out a way to make his kit different enough, but in the end he'd still be basically Iron Man with a different weapon set unless they went for something drastically different, like they go for a unique design that is more tank built instead with heavier armor, no flight mode, etc...

Originally posted by tredavidson77:

I specified the echo fighters from smash bros because from what I remembered from when I played they were basically that I think.

Sort of, I think Echo Fighters still had some unique aspects to them, they aren't 1:1 in everything next to their counterpart, where the skin variant idea is more of a straight palette swap. I think new Heroes should be added more for what their kit can bring to the game, and heroes that can't really do that would be skin replacements.

The only downside of this is that I think new heroes are going to be free for the game, so if they did a variant character, they'd probably be a minimum of 20 bucks to get. It's a tradeoff though, because I think the variant skin idea allows for there to be way more characters added to the game to play, over waiting on new hero releases that involve a ton more work.

Sorry if I’m sounding like a prick but they wouldn’t be the same. They would have slight differences like Mile’s venom blast added to his kit or War machines minigun. They wouldn’t be too different but they wouldn’t be one to one either with some new voice lines as well.