HoN Hero Spotlight: Gunblade

[Urith]

And can someone give the man/woman responsible for the soundwork on Xeno Predator an award? Cause that must be the most awesome **** ive heard with my earorgans ever. So please fix the animations on that guy too! Its like a stick hopping around

Would be my favorite alt avatar if the walking animation wasn't so stiff, the tail looks like a long stick.

[KingIsRey]

Gunblade is such a bore. Epic copy and paste on skills, cliche hero. Essentially has same combo as Parasite.

[Keris]

looking at alt avatar............................

OMG it's damn space marine...Gonna throw my money on the monitor hoping i would get it as early as i could.

[Draconid]

There are a few suggestion

1. Walking animation, it is very lame and boring now

2. First skill don't need that aim mark as it is not a vector skill

3. Second skill, needs to be a more creative shield skill, for example, a higher level of skill make more blades floating, each blade block only a attack from a direction

4. Third skill, auto switch to a melee attack in close range is great, adding bashing/ministun to the melee attack is even better, a toggle would not be good in this case, then it will require skills on positioning and microing to get the bash.

5, Ult, as a matter of fact, the skill now is not cool, i suggest to add a blade dance as a second part of the skill, or make the first skill having a melee version in close range as a blade dance then it gives a very great combo animation

[[PxV]MEGATRON]

HawkeyeBR, judging by your "hero concept suggestions" you have no room to criticize S2 or any of their hero releases. There's more synergy on the New York Knicks than in any of your hero concepts.

[BrainF1ow]

Just shut up and take my money!

p.s. When does pink name's gona be fixed? D:

[[VVCL]TAKERONEGUBA]

NICE!

[[OhN]HawkeyeBR]

HawkeyeBR, judging by your "hero concept suggestions" you have no room to criticize S2 or any of their hero releases. There's more synergy on the New York Knicks than in any of your hero concepts.

If you have any critic, your post will be welcome on the respective hero and I'll be glad to see it, but I can guarantee that I tried to avoid doing what S2 is doing with the new heroes as much as I can and trying to make something actualy different, funny and viable.

[[TECH]Gorb]

Two heroes in a row that have shields is clearly different from two heroes in a row that have Stun. You are making such illogical comparisons.

Edit: No offense !

What is different between stuns and shields? Stuns are more accepted (/are an older, more established mechanic), and thus people don't mind when two heroes in a row have stuns?

[MadPianist]

i hate this hero, HATE. please don't do this to the game.

[[999]colondee]

Youll be all crying for Nome you shits.
You will regret your hate.
For Buro instead of Nome.
And you know what?
YOU DESERVE IT

as far as I go, im gonna enjoy the space marine avatar

[Jeroz]

Soundwizard said in his twitter that most if not all of the hero sounds in spotlight is temporary place holders. He will sound much different once he comes out. It's like those snippets of electrician shields that pops up now and then in the spotlight.

Though I wonder why can't they get the animation and the sound finalised before the spotlight... It just paints a bad image as we can see here.

[Ceriss]

Though I wonder why can't they get the animation and the sound finalised before the spotlight... It just paints a bad image as we can see here.

because the games featured in spotlight happened a long time before they decided to release that hero

[AzureKaiser]

very bad spotlight

Wow, the spotlights gets worse and worse...

Not gonna lie, worst spotlight S2 ever made , sorry.
Plus the animations, the sounds , it's just .... really guys u're getting Lazy.
I mean... His auto attack sounds like flint's ULT , and his First Skill Shots sounds like Flint's auto attack, Sweet, , Anyways lets see and wait the release they probably gonna change it.

You guys need to read through the thread before posting these idiotic comments about how bad the spotlight is. Learn to read before replying.

[Jeroz]

objectively speaking though, from some random internet user's point of view, this one is not good as the other ones.

as much as i sympathise with what they had to work with, most people just want results.

hopefully this is just a small blip in what is a series of awesome spotlights.

[ProtoProtoss]

Though I wonder why can't they get the animation and the sound finalised before the spotlight... It just paints a bad image as we can see here.

They rush it out to create early hype and have people preparing to buy him. Calm down people... it's really not that serious.

[[bZrK]Crimzn]

This hero really is disappointing. The moveset is ok, but the character design looks like a copy paste of Witch Slayer with Rorschach's face. And he doesn't even use his "blades".

Anyways, with the Harpoon shot being his ult and all, seems like it would've been more logical to design the character around that. Make his graphic like Captain Nemo or something.

[Vendetta1903]

Except that other ranged heroes have methods that allow them to dominate at range. This is a ranged hero who is weakest at range. He has to get into melee range to be most effective, making melee counters that much stronger by comparison.

Why?

Because if he's not near you, he's not taking advantage of most of his skillset.


I'm guessing DotA was massively creative when they introduced successive heroes that all dealt damage with their abilities? Or perhaps when DotA/HoN/LoL introduced two heroes in a row that had a stun?

Yoo man, do you feel the difference between Engima/Sven/Ske/Vengeful spirit stun abilities in dota(Yeah all stun targeted skills)? Shield is just the lamest and pathetic skill in HoN. Why? It saves the player and pissed off the ganker

[[WxB]giullyfishez]

copy and past it into lol and nobody would notice... big disappointment s2 ;(

[Skinsword]

I think the concept is cool and that his skills have synergy. The synergy isn't as forced as gravekeeper's but isn't as versatile as Valkyrie's.

Basically, the character relies on lethal range for dps. Since most agility heroes are squishy, thats what the shield is for. Since many characters can run away if GB is in close range, thats what the slow is for. And since gosu damage is dealt at close range, thats what the ulti is for.

The skill set doesn't have much utility, save for the shield, but i find the character design to be unique.