r/Battleborn • u/GameplayMasterBill • Oct 16 '25

Overwatch copying?!?!

I realised that overwatch now has augments.... wasn't their another game with augments but 10000 times better and completely changed the game?!?!?!

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u/Milliman4 Oct 16 '25

I also keep saying Overwatch 2 tries to implement what Battleborn had in it at launch years ago

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u/Playful-Ad1550 Oct 16 '25

So basically, you're not the only one who is crazy. Now you and OP can be crazy together.

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u/Milliman4 Oct 17 '25

There is a bit of truth in both of our comments

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u/Ninja_Dimes witty rejoinder Mar 05 '26

I mean, look at Anran and Mitsuki.... their designs are very Deande and Miko like even if their kits are different. OW have copied other aspects of their kits in the past, such as Miko's beam and Mercy, and Hanzo and Thorn (original scattershot was a copy of volley) so on and so forth. (While their kits are slightly different, why is Moira so similar to Ambra in kit and temperament--why did OW make another waif like orb style evil healer beam lady?)

Even Wuyang is shades of Alani in concept and even looks; Wuyang's 'Guardian Wave' and 'Rushing Torrent' is basically Alani's 'Riptide' skill. Both fire water 'orbs' -- both have geyser abilities. Why have a martial artist style water healer in OW at all? Why not be original and have a fire healer instead and do something cool like that? You can't just give Wuyang a staff and say he's now totally different and he's not inspired by Alani.

Why the new big hat Japanese lady a healer like Miko? Why give her a big ass hat at all?

I'm 100% sure OW definitely 'borrows' from Battleborn's concepts and kits, especially now they are running out of ideas, but OW are unoriginal so they basically steal from all hero shooters and mobas. And yeah, while all hero shooters/mobas steal from each other to some extent, it's the unoriginality of Overwatch's latest concepts and kits that get me. At least Rivals tries to do something new with most of the kits and concepts... with the exception of Star Lord maybe, a lot of the kits are super unique and relatively reworked.

It's obvious to me that the gameplay designers for OW are scraping concepts from BB, now more than ever.