Does anyone have any ideas for a new type of mobility a new character could have?
There isn’t much you can do beside walking, flying or some sort of teleportation.
- Deployable jump pad (horizontal or vertical)
- Deployable ramp/bridge/elevator
- Low grav. Maybe a self-cast, maybe a deployable low-grav field
- Something like the speed paint from Portal 2 (remember when people were suggesting Mei could get speed from walking on her ice paths?)
- Elastic grapple, kind of a mix between Widow’s and Hammond’s. See Titanfall 2 for a good example, or Liero
- Skiing/sliding, i.e. keeping your momentum even if you touch the ground. See Titanfall 2 again, or Tribes.
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i like this, maybe a lucio sorta thing were they can speed up and slow down
Maybe a hero who can build bridges and elevators or high speed lanes or something.
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Low grav might be fun … the question is how practical it is.
i mean its quite similar to echo or mercy’s passive
hovering in the air
walking on walls and ceilings
remote controls
vehicle controls
moving underground
Or wall running. Or wall grappling. Or super fast movement but only in straight lines, or a hero which can multi jump far more than the regular ones. or tunneling, or possession between heroes, or the “phase” abilities which paladins likes to have or…
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would be a type of flying
walking
Don’t think that this is actually mobility.
Not really possible, there is nothing programmed sub floor lvl … you would have to redesigne every map. And it’s still walking or teleporting.
Grappling would be an other option … still nothing new. The rest is some type of walking or teleportation.
Portal through walls, skating.
Some sort of bouncy hero like when doom punches a wall you shoot the opposite direction like a pooltable ball.
From what I can see the guys is just asking for new ways to experience movement.
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Jumping off teammates would be cool
If we got a support dog, this would fit in with tricks you can get a dog to do.
I just want support dog, ok?
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You know when you’re swimming in a pool and you push off the wall to go real fast?
Something like that. Help you get in and out of range and into and between cover.
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If it’s a deployed field, it would let teams easily reach high ground that they otherwise couldn’t. Also, if you get a chance to try lowgrav mode in the arcade, you’ll see the (pretty powerful) bastion strats it enables.
Being able to attach yourself to a wall and quickly jumping over to another wall
we dont need new characters, they have absolutely no idea how to balance the roster we have, more additions to that roster is the last thing we need, the game has never even once been stable, stabilize it and then we can talk about adding more stuff.
I made a tank hero who’s primary utility was mobility. she gave her teammates wall climb and zipline to counter divers.
Phasing through walls would be neat, but that would require a ton of engine and level re-work.
Teleporting to a team-mate could be a cool tank or support ability. Or conversely, swapping places with an enemy could be a nice disruptive DPS move.
Free, unhindered ghostly moving (in all 3D directions) after dying, unhindered by enemies, re-incarnating after some seconds. I.e., a character that doesn’t use the spawn-room.
Actual flying like a jet/airplane, complete with tilting/yawing of the screen.
Catapulting yourself could also be fun. I.e., like throwing a grenade, but you throw yourself. Or shoot yourself out of a cannon. Or order an actual catapult from ACME corp and use that (Warranty disclaimer: 10% chance to just flip over and kill you.)
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