So, a couple of things first; I enjoy, as a mental exercise, to come up with different concepts. (And for those who read my first post, this is a different hero idea.)
Second: I wanted to incorporate something that affects a hero’s vision (and not just put ‘Blind’ in the hero bio/lore), while still letting the hero ‘see’, and thus it became a fun challenge (for me at least).
The tricky bit is figuring out how to fundamentally change the hero’s world perception in such a way that it becomes both fun, and intuitive, cause let’s face it; making a hero actually blind, and unable to see would be a deal-breaker for just about anyone.
So how about some sort of echolocation, not being able to see colours (think black, and white). This shouldn’t affect things in the HUD, because the HUD displays info to the player, not the hero.
But the ‘blind’ hero could possibly see the outline of things, and possibly “see” enemies through obstacles as long as they’re making sounds.
It could possibly be a Vishkar trouble-solver, using Lucio’s father’s sound technology to do their dirty work in a silent way.
Something like Shriek from Batman Beyond.
Nothing more fleshed out than just a foundation concept, but posting to hear (pun intended) and share the idea
The hero has an extraordinary hearing ability and thus can sense his environment by sound.
If there’s no sound, everything is black but if someone makes a sound, a soundwave radiates though each object, making the surroundings visible for a short while.
If someone makes a noise, they cause their surroundings to be visible and the hero is visible for a second.
The new hero would basically have an infinite window ult but as a drawback, he lacks the visibility of the environment.
It would basically be like how you see in this game:
Could have enemy heroes leave behind a trail of mist which represents smell. Could be fun for a hunter / tracker dog style hero… you know, like a close ranged, fast but weak hero that can leap across distances. A real adrenaline fuelled hero. Oh, and it should be able to crawl up walls.
Eh, who am I kidding, I’m just asking for the Runner alien from AvP2.
cool idea, there is a LoL champ that barrows underground and can tunnel around. wile they are under ground their fog of war is increased to where they can only see somone right on top of them. however they gain tremor sense, and little pings go out in a massive area where enemy champs are. there is a catch the tremors only go out if they are moving. champs called Rek’Sai if you wanna look her up might give you some ideas.
Wow, lots of cool thoughts and ideas.
Makes me happy that I decided to make this thread ^^
Did not expect finding a new game I want to try out when I made this post, thanks FatBluDragon! ^^
Could be cool, and if not a hero, as a special event scenario
Like “One blindfolded Genji training vs. several Omnic monks”
Could also be fun, but I kinda wanna see something like that with a hero that also fights alongside a dog
Ooooh, what if it was someone using a revised version of the Slipstream technology that caused Traces condition could be plausible, and the pings is how they locate targets in current reality
kinda funny that i just watched this shortly after i posted.
its pen and teller fool us with a blind man, first of watching it is the most wild thing i have ever tried to wrap my head around, small spoiler tho hardly the point pen and teller are stumped so hard they absolutely have nothing to say to each other or him. but a cool thing he says that could make for a cool hero is, i may not have 2 eyes but i can see with my fingers i have ten eyes. or basically that he says it better. a hero with like sensors or even eyes on their fingers pan’s labyrinth style would be wild.
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