Hey Jeff! My friend and I had an idea for an alternate version of Mystery Heroes awhile back. I think we were calling it “Mystery Draft”. The basic rules were:
- On the hero select screen, you can pick one of three random heroes.
- You cannot change your hero after you spawn. After you die and respawn, you have a new randomized selection of three heroes to pick. If you suicide, you still respawn as the same hero.
- Duplicate heroes are not allowed, and the three heroes available to you are not available to any of your teammates while you’re picking.
- Ult charge is reset on death.
We designed this mode to accomplish these things:
- Encourage playing heroes/roles outside of your comfort zone.
- Give players a better chance at counterpicking and forming reasonable comps, which is an important part of Overwatch.
- Reduce the possibility of super cheesy OP comps happening.
Would love to see something like this mode in the game eventually. Cheers, thanks for posting on the forums!