[Hero Concept] - Hopes - (With drawings!)

[necogutz]

I'll try to get around next week to draw her portraits and work on interactions with other characters.

 

[volkgang]

Nono, it was mostly designed to be like a literal cone with range, similar to Genjis alt fire with the shurikens with a small dispertion in between them, it doesn't require to be that close to the enemy, I made this to try to imagine how it'd loo

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Yes, tho the numbers can be adjusted, I didn't want an op autoheal, if you wanna have the full heal effect it must count



I believe the ultimate is already pretty much strong in its base form so I thought of upgrades that wouldn't make it nerf worthy every single patch, for example more shooting or mevement speed, that's why in comparation with other levels up this specific ability needs to have more limitations


Tysm I made them in photoshop

Right so no shotgun. Bit of a shame since it could be funny but I get it.
With the ability, I see such lines:
"You should read more!"
"Check out my newest article!"
"Maybe by hitting you with the obituaries you'll join them."

Understand the purpose of healing over time.

That leads back to my point with the ultimate. It's incredibly strong and I think it needs more downsides. Maybe it takes time for her to use the camera during its second activation to give a way to burst her down?

 

[ape escape demo disc]

Never knew how much I wanted a sort of reporter character in Deadlock until now.

Although I think you dont need to travel too far for inspiration on what would make for some great camera themed abilities, DOTA had some abilities (Kunkka, Weaver, and Disruptor) that capture the theme Hopes has going for her. I think you could combine the newspaper and escape abilities into something familiar:

Catching the Latest!
Capture target hero on camera and you can choose to restore the scene while the picture is fresh. The target has their current position marked on the ground when it is cast and you can return them to it during a brief recast window. For enemies, you cannot recast this spell if you do not have vision of the target. Spirit Power increases buffs allied movement speed for the maximum recast duration. If you do not recast, nothing happens.
T1: Increases ally recast duration
T2: Deals spirit damage to enemy target per distance traveled when recast
T3: Recasting no longer requires vision of enemies and reduces cooldown

Based off of Kunkka's X Marks the Spot and would give you a lot of fun potential to play with in Deadlock with a simple efect.

Self-cast it before you scout out an area, wandering off to break boxes and teleporting yourself back. Play mindgames with your opponents, where they could move to defend where they believe teir ally will appear. Maybe instead you retreated or keep chasing the target that they thought was getting teleported back. This keeps that identity of tricky plays as well that you had in Scandalous Runaways without needing to rely on a Snapshot's movement.

Fond Memories!
After a short cast time, Hopes flashes the camera at herself and a target ally, storing a memory of the moment. As they disappear in a flash of light, you appear where you are targeting after a brief delay and heal for a portion of missing health. Deals damage around you and targeted ally on cast, then again where you select after the picture ends. Starts with 1 charge, with the cooldown between charge uses being higher than average.
T1: increases missing health healed and +1 charges
T2: increases cast range for allies and for teleport
T3: Purges debuffs

An alternative I thought of when I read your idea for her ultimate, a charge based variation that would be a lot more versatile with less setup. This would let her grab someone from imminent danger and teleport them out without needing to wrangle your allies. The added damage on the teleport could overlap up to 3 areas onto a single target to do good damage, as you all get together in a stylish group photo if they dont get out of the immediate area.

 

[ehomegiga]

Great artwork!
Very cool to see another reporter/journalist hero idea

I've also had some thoughts on the topic, even some abilities might be similar -
Marlow

 

[void404]

Does the ult actually rez? Like, if you take the snap but your teammate dies before the heal kicks in, do they come back or did you just waste ult?

 

[necogutz]

Right so no shotgun. Bit of a shame since it could be funny but I get it.
With the ability, I see such lines:
"You should read more!"
"Check out my newest article!"
"Maybe by hitting you with the obituaries you'll join them."

Understand the purpose of healing over time.

That leads back to my point with the ultimate. It's incredibly strong and I think it needs more downsides. Maybe it takes time for her to use the camera during its second activation to give a way to burst her down?

With the ability, I see such lines:
"You should read more!"
"Check out my newest article!"
"Maybe by hitting you with the obituaries you'll join them."

Totally!! I'm actually working on her voice lines atm.

That leads back to my point with the ultimate. It's incredibly strong and I think it needs more downsides. Maybe it takes time for her to use the camera during its second activation to give a way to burst her down?

I was thinking about this, I'll be back with the new sheet, it can have a cooldown of 20seconds like you said before the second activation.

 

[necogutz]

Great artwork!
Very cool to see another reporter/journalist hero idea

I've also had some thoughts on the topic, even some abilities might be similar -
Marlow

Thank you so much! It means a lot ^^

 

[necogutz]

Does the ult actually rez? Like, if you take the snap but your teammate dies before the heal kicks in, do they come back or did you just waste ult?

This is an amazing question, thank you so much! I haven't thought about it to be honest, but the short answer is no, it will set the ability on cooldown.

 

[necogutz]

I revamped and worked on all of Hopes abilties taking the insights I received from this forum, first of all I wanna deeply thanks all the people interested on my concept who interacts with this, it truly means a lot.


Special thanks to volkgang for all the input, ziz4030 for the fleshed out abilities that inspired part of this and ape escape demo disc.

Also a visual idea of Hopes' Great Momentum flash visuals:

 

[volkgang]

Also a visual idea of Hopes' Great Momentum flash visuals:
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Is it supposed to be some clever play of "rose-tinted glasses" where she looks at crime and murder with a strange reverence while she writes about them? They seem so cool and interesting but in reality horrible, but she doesn't want to confront that?

I like the 1 where you pick up newspapers to get a speed boost. (Though "stomp"?) I do think you could change the 1st upgrade and have it be the firerate boost.

 

[necogutz]

Is it supposed to be some clever play of "rose-tinted glasses" where she looks at crime and murder with a strange reverence while she writes about them? They seem so cool and interesting but in reality horrible, but she doesn't want to confront that?

I like the 1 where you pick up newspapers to get a speed boost. (Though "stomp"?) I do think you could change the 1st upgrade and have it be the firerate boost.

I'd love to say "Yes" but actually the pink tint is just the filter I use in all my games lol, but here you can see the difference between no flash and flash

I like the 1 where you pick up newspapers to get a speed boost. (Though "stomp"?) I do think you could change the 1st upgrade and have it be the firerate boost.

Here's with the change! I might note english is not my first language, so I don0t know if stomp would be the correct word to put there

 

[volkgang]

I'd love to say "Yes" but actually the pink tint is just the filter I use in all my games lol, but here you can see the difference between no flash and flash

Pretend you said yes then and keep that idea for the writing.

Why do you play with a pink filter?

I'd just put range since it's not a stomp. It's a projectile. Though reading it, does it cause an AOE explosion? You specify it deals bonus damage when hitting someone, so that means it could hypothetically deal damage while missing a direct hit.

"Throw a newspaper that deals bonus damage when hitting an enemy directly. The newspaper remains after thrown, and can be picked up by you and allies for stamina and a firerate buff."
Then put the number details below instead of the description.

 

[necogutz]

Pretend you said yes then and keep that idea for the writing.

Why do you play with a pink filter?

I'd just put range since it's not a stomp. It's a projectile. Though reading it, does it cause an AOE explosion? You specify it deals bonus damage when hitting someone, so that means it could hypothetically deal damage while missing a direct hit.

"Throw a newspaper that deals bonus damage when hitting an enemy directly. The newspaper remains after thrown, and can be picked up by you and allies for stamina and a firerate buff."
Then put the number details below instead of the description.

Lol, I like the idea tho! Let's keep it

Why do you play with a pink filter?

I love pink. it also gives the game a pretty glow.

No filter


Filter

"Throw a newspaper that deals bonus damage when hitting an enemy directly. The newspaper remains after thrown, and can be picked up by you and allies for stamina and a firerate buff."
Then put the number details below instead of the description.