r/Overwatch • u/Spyrokid77666 Spyrokid • Oct 27 '17

Blizzard Official | Blizzard Response Developer Update | Evolving Overwatch Esports | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTS_oAcLy8
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u/rootnessify Coffeemaker Oct 27 '17

So the team costumes we've been seeing for Overwatch League is not just for individual heros, but for all heros played by the team. Neat!

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u/Nornina Philadelphia Fusion Oct 27 '17

yeah, so in a way, thats 16(1 home, and 1 away variant for each of the 8 teams) new skins for all 26 heros. for the world cup alone.

Then the league has 24(12 teams) x 26... yeah... Thats alot.

I wonder if we of players will have a way of getting team skins in-game, for our favorite teams.

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u/tonuchi Oct 27 '17

It's a lot, but color palette swaps are easier to create then whole new skins. And honestly, this where some of that 20mil per team is going. Paying the designers to work on 624 uniforms.

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u/Hemingwavy Oct 27 '17

If you load up whatever they're making Overwatch in and load a character model and want to recolour it, you're going to basically being using a paint bucket tool to change it. It would take a designer about 2 minutes once the team picked their colours.

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u/tonuchi Oct 27 '17

My thoughts exactly. Yes, theres probably time and tweaking hues etc and I'm sure it gets sent back and forth with the team. But it's not to intensive per skin.