Game mode idea: "body swap"

General Discussion
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Imagine an “infection mode” deathmatch with a twist.

Getting killed will respawn you as the hero of whoever killed you,

BUT

Killing an enemy immediately turns you into your victim’s hero,

AND

Killing an enemy teleports you to their position, while they insta-respawn in yours.

So basically, killing an enemy “swaps bodies” with them.

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Sounds interesting, but I would add a timed invincibility to each other upon spawning so you can’t just farm each other

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This made me think of a mode that might be fun. Whenever someone gets a kill, the victim switches to the hero of the killer, and they’re considered on the same team for scoring. The game ends when the time runs out or when all players are one hero. It’s like zombies but everybody is a different zombie already.

4

Infection? Yea thats a super popular mode in custom games lol, i bet youd enjoy it

5

Boy do I have a workshop mode for you…

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I was thinking infection. I’d love it to hit Arcades officially but play it a lot in customs.

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I more meant every player starts as a different hero and they can infect eachother from there. Eventually everyone will be the same hero.

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Yeah, that’s exactly how Infection works. It was a popular custom game mode even before Workshop, although back then people had to manually switch heroes to the one that killed them before respawning.

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Yea thats a game mode you can play, theres at least one up almost all the time so chances are you can play it

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Imagine bunker but all Bastion’s if a Bastion starts winning.

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Imagine swapping positions with someone you booped off the map

12

Would you two just keep swapping back and forth?

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Depends on if teleporting into the abyss counts as a self kill or not. If current OW logic is anything to go by it’s a self kill unless you get hit by a knockback source before you hit the ground.

Sooo theoretically if someone melees you at that exact moment they’d be credited for the boop kill, and be next in the drink. I wonder if you could create an infinite 12 player cycle if the map is small enough.

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Honestly Bastion usually wins midway through the hero roster, since the winning hero gets greyed out for the subsequent rounds.

Torb Sym and Zarya are usually the last heroes to ever win.