00:05Welcome to another developer update. This is a particularly great one. I think this is the one that you guys
00:10have been waiting for. We're here to finally talk about Doomfist.
00:14So I'm Jeff from the Overwatch team. As you guys know, Doomfist is one of the most anticipated heroes that
00:22I think we've ever talked about. He's our 25th hero. He hails to us from Nigeria, so he's West African.
00:29One thing you may not have known is that Doomfist is a prominent member of the Talon leadership.
00:36So contrary to popular belief, Reaper is not the sole leader of Talon. There's actually a council of leaders who
00:43oversee Talon.
00:45And sometimes they agree with each other, sometimes they disagree with each other. And Doomfist is a very important member
00:52of that Talon council.
00:53Now Doomfist's ideology is that he wants to see humankind become more powerful and he thinks the way for that
01:02to happen is through conflict.
01:04So it's kind of a harsh world view, but he really believes that we as humans get stronger the more
01:10conflict that we endure.
01:14Obviously Overwatch is a world group that's very opposed to conflict and is trying to create peace throughout the world.
01:20So therefore it leads to Doomfist and Overwatch definitely being at odds with each other.
01:26You add to the fact that it was Winston who put Doomfist behind bars for many, many years,
01:32and Doomfist's hatred of Overwatch is at an all-time high.
01:37Now that Doomfist is free, he plans to use Talon to implement his world view on the rest of not
01:45only Talon but mankind altogether.
01:47So the story is going to get very interesting now that Doomfist is in the mix.
01:51I think it's going to be awesome that we learn more about Talon through Doomfist and his interaction with heroes
01:57like Widowmaker and Reaper.
01:59But let's talk about his abilities and what type of hero he is.
02:03So Doomfist is in the offensive category. He's a very tough offensive type of hero.
02:11He has a number of great abilities that he can do.
02:15So probably his most defining ability is his Rocket Punch.
02:20By default we've bound Rocket Punch to Alternate Fire.
02:23It's a wind-up attack so the longer you hold the button down the more powerful and the farther you'll
02:29go with that Rocket Punch.
02:31He uses that huge gauntlet that he has on his right fist to throw the Rocket Punch.
02:37Now there's a couple cool things about it.
02:38One, you'll go through barriers if you do it. So if Reinhardt's holding his shield up, it doesn't matter.
02:43You're going to punch Reinhardt directly through that shield.
02:46The other thing that's really cool about Rocket Punch is it does more damage if you knock a hero back
02:54into a wall.
02:55So you're really trying to line up those exciting billiard shots with other heroes and inflict heavy, heavy damage with
03:02the Rocket Punch.
03:03Now he has some other abilities he can do as well.
03:06He's got an ability called Rising Uppercut, which as you guessed it, is a giant uppercut that leaps him into
03:12the air and will knock his enemy up into the air along with him.
03:18Now to mix with this ability or combo with it really well is an ability called Seismic Slam.
03:24The way Seismic Slam works is Doomfist gets a targeting reticle whenever he's in the air or has any sort
03:30of altitude.
03:32And he does a giant attack with the backhand of that gauntlet that stuns the enemy very, very briefly.
03:40Not so much stuns him as brings them closer to Doomfist.
03:44So it allows him to do a lot more sort of combo abilities with that Seismic Slam.
03:50It's kind of a small cone shape that you'll see.
03:53You'll immediately recognize it by the visual effect that we put on the ground when you do the ability.
03:59Doomfist also has a primary attack that's a simple gun that he has,
04:04which is a shotgun that's loaded into each knuckle of his left fist.
04:10And you can basically fire off four shots very quickly, one out of each of his front knuckles on that
04:16left fist.
04:17Or you can sort of save them up and do them in a more rhythmic fashion.
04:22We'll give you a user interface element that lets you know, you know,
04:25how many shots does he have in each one of those knuckles before he can unload with them.
04:32We're not intending for Doomfist to primarily use this attack as the main thing that he's doing
04:38or where he's getting all of his kills from.
04:39It's sort of to fill in the other space as he's using those really fun dynamic punch mechanics.
04:46Now, the thing you're probably wondering and caring the most about is what is Doomfist's ultimate ability.
04:53He has one of the funnest ones in the game. It's called Meteor Strike.
04:57When Doomfist uses Meteor Strike, he shoots up into the air.
05:02He gets an amazing targeting reticle that he can draw across the map and sort of gauge where he wants
05:08to land.
05:09And when he commits to it, Doomfist will come crashing out of the sky,
05:13stunning and knocking down everybody who's in that radius as well as doing some damage to them.
05:20So, not only might you just kill them outright when you Meteor Strike on top of them,
05:25if not, they're immediately laying down and you can use abilities like Rocket Punch, Seismic Slam, etc. to do additional
05:33damage right away.
05:35So, we think Doomfist is going to do a lot of flanking and do a lot of diving into enemy
05:41teams,
05:41so we needed to give him a passive ability to encourage and enable that type of behavior.
05:47So, he has a passive ability called the best defense.
05:51What this ability does is whenever Doomfist lands a punch on somebody, Doomfist gains a temporary shield.
05:59And the shield can increase, you know, as he's doing more punches.
06:03Over time, the shield will decay and go away, so Doomfist is not permanently shielded by this.
06:09But if you're really getting in there doing a lot of great combo abilities,
06:14you'll notice that your survivability is much higher.
06:17So, this lets Doomfist get in there and rumble a bunch before he's just taken out.
06:23It's really hard, you know, diving in on six enemy heroes, you're not always going to live.
06:27But if you dive in on two and land some punches,
06:30you'll stand a chance of surviving because of that passive ability called the best defense.
06:37So, we think Doomfist is really going to shake up the lineup.
06:40Even more so, we think Doomfist brings tremendous character to Overwatch.
06:46He's a really important figure.
06:47You've known about him since the announced cinematic where that battle happened over his gauntlet.
06:53You've escorted his gauntlet in Nubani, it showed up stolen.
06:57Doomfist is very core to Overwatch.
06:59We think both his gameplay and his story is going to make the game really great.
07:03We hope you have a blast playing him,
07:06and we look forward to hearing all of your stories about what you've accomplished with Doomfist.
07:11Thank you.
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