The turtle shell is cool but from the front he just looks bland and something about his muscles and proportions feel off, and also they did the same thing as mauga where they stuck random bits of metal in his abs but it looks worse here. Like I get that tank needs to be big, but think he would’ve looked better with some body armor or at least a shirt. Like watching the trailer I saw him getting ready to put the cannister thing in and it’s like okay now he’s about to transform and look cool, but he just doesn’t
It’s a shame because the omnic with the gang tattoos and the random woman with him looked cool, and the whole neon grafitti aesthetic they had for his group was sick, but then he’s just meh. And it’s honestly the first time I ever felt this way about an OW hero. Hopefully the kit is good at least
Also for some reason the Venture hater squad is out in full force in this thread
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I love his design.
He’s pierced. Muscular. Down for his alias.
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I think they went with sexy/Irish/punk to sell skins. He’ll have more skins than Venture on release day prolly
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lookin like rein and sigma had a baby
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I mean venture literally didn’t receive a legendary skin to spend money on yet
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They could have gone the JQ route with him where he doesn’t look ridiculous while still being a big lad (I know JQ is a woman lol but she’s a good example). Yes, Overwatch has a cartoonish artstyle but this new character has that Mauga problem of “looks like a Pixar villain”. While each of Mauga’s pecs are the size of a small country, someone on YouTube described Hazard as looking like a hunchback from the front with how weirdly-shaped he is.
Maybe I’m the one who’s out of touch, but I feel like the cyberpunk vibe is very 2018/19, so while we all knew it was coming, it’s not an aesthetic that impresses me - made worse by Blizzard failing to commit to the design which makes him look bland. He’s cyberpunk enough to be recognised as such, but not enough to actually be interesting to look at.
One thing I will say, though, is that I really like his voice, contrary to what some people have been saying.
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His design looks cool, I don’t know what people are so upset about. Is it because he looks traditionally attractive? Maybe that’s what they are calling basic, but blizz has gotta sell skins and they don’t want another venture problem.
Venture is as attractive as the rocks they are obsessed with. That’s why no skins.
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I’m shocked how many people are calling him conventionally good looking and a case of Blizzard selling sex. Like, I’d kill to finally get a hot guy, but Hazard is very much typical over muscled and downright deformed Blizzard male design.
More importantly, the trailer didn’t show anything interesting game-play wise. If he’s got a fun kit, they failed horribly at showing it.
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I think his design is mid, but im not sure theyre going for the “appeal to women” angle with it. Why even, just bc he has abs? Wtf? I think Hazard is just supposed to look cool, like an action figure. Cyberpunk Major Chip Hazard
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Tank is really just turning into “buff person”, and it’s really boring
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Cause it’s not the gameplay trailer
Duh, but he was still fighting in it. And compare with past trailers, they gave a hell of a lot more kit hype.
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It’s because his arms stick out like Bionicle pieces.
I also agree that he looks so basic and nothing like the mutant/phreak he was hyped up to be. They could’ve just made the character from the OG concept art and got a free W, but no that would be too “predictable.”
Classic Blizzard L
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It’s at least more interesting than Venture’s design, but that’s a pretty low bar to clear anyway. But yeah I don’t like his design at all and I’m getting pretty annoyed with how Blizzard seems to only be able to hit either extremes for tank design.
Junker Queen and Ramattera are great. Mauga is awful and Hazard seems to be as well. But we gotta wait for the kit reveal.
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I like his theme and armor design but I just feel like his face looks a little generic.
I was hoping for a “Phreak” player, like a hybrid monster or something. But he looks very much like Reinhardt, All-Might, Sigma or Soldier: 76.
Cool design but I wish the Devs took his whole appearance a little bit further.
His face at least could have been hot, but it’s just so big. Not to be vapid, but there are so many attractive female characters, and I know a lot of people think Baptiste, Cass, and LW are hot, but I’m still waiting…
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Eh, i see him as kind of generic, but still waiting to see what his abilities do and how they work.
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He has no real appeal to me beyond purple shards and what could be the kit.
But, he is very bara bara
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Not huge on the hair, but I like him a good deal outside of that. The brows are crazy lmao.
I don’t see the sigma resemblance people are drawing at all outside of “lol big white guy”… look at their models side by side and tell me their heads have remotely the same shape.
I’m a hazard defender, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t frothing at the mouth for his sidekick with the leg warmers.
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