Jungle Inferno the real TF3.0 part 2

Welcome back to Day 2 of Jungle inferno
I will say when this came out I DITCHED overwatch
So what did Day 2 bring?


Campaign 3 is here. Dubbed the Mercenary park campaign.
This contains a Choose your own Adventure style where you select what contracts you do as long as you've unlocked them, (much like the guardian missions in operation hydra).
These contained 3 objectives which earned stars to unlock more contracts

 They also included an enhanced co-op way to complete these. With contracts being for maps, gamemodes, classes, and weapons. And although the campaign ended, you can still purchase a contract-only pass to get access to the contracts, and the OG pass holders still get to do their contracts too!
And that's well and good but everyone only cares about REWARDS, So what did we get here?

It came with a set of cosmetics so you could wear a saxon hale hat, or dress heavy up as a yeti. But the more important things were blood money (which was earned from contracts) could be used to purchase WAR PAINTS and War paints were the big addition to today. We get skins but they can be applied to almost any weapon you choose (including non-stock) with new looking ones and familiar ones from tough break and gun mettle! Then there was the contract-exclusive DRAGON SLAYER war paint(which as of last checking the steam market dropped below $6)


And Lastly they introduced the cosmetics for today which looked pretty nice overall.


New unusual effects, unusual weapons, My rating for today was a solid 890/1000

(Really Blizzard?)

What I am about to show you is from Overwatch and Paladins, Paladins was released first, however they did a game design overhaul from alpha to beta and appeared to copy Overwatch. However, in recent updates, Overwatch has been appearing to copy more and more off of Paladins original character designs.

The above two are from the original cast of Paladins: Fernando is on the left (who has a rectangular barrier) and Evie is on the right (who has an ice block ability) These two were revealed before blizzard revealed similar abilities. 

Below( left, Reinhardt with a rectangular barrier, and Right, mei with an ice block ability)

But due to blizzard fanboys, Paladins was called the Overwatch Clone, even though they had a capture the cp to unlock the payload mode before the Assault/escort hybrid mode in Overwatch.

But Overwatch has been copying for a while as this hasn't stopped. Below was Ruckus and Bolt from the original paladins cast, (a person in a mech with repeating gatling guns) and The post-beta character D.Va (person in mech with repeating guns.) from Overwatch. 

But that was only at launch. what else?

Post launch Characters featured a stealth assassin Sombra (who copied Skye, a launch character, left, in design)

Later, Moira in Overwatch had a very Witch-like design (not to mention being a strongly damage-oriented healer which attained lifesteal) and used orbs and phase shifting to manuever. Much like Seris from Paladins (top)

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Now the two most recent comparisons honestly look like shameless ripoffs.

For The paladins World championship The owl-styled stealth Sniper Strix got a special skin called the Coldsnap. (pictured top), a month or two afterwards, in the Winter Wonderland update, The Sniper Character Ana got a skin called Snowy owl (below) look familiar?

And Lastly, Their newest Hero which is meant to be a front line tank. Brigitte (top) has a strong resemblance to a character in Paladins named Ash (below) that came roughly 9 months ago. THE FLAGS EVEN HAVE GAMEPLAY SIGNIFICANCE FOR AOE BUFFS. THEY BOTH USE BARRIERS AND CAN BASH AN OPPONENT BACK.

 

And yet in all this, Paladins is still called an Overwatch Clone. Stop it Blizzard, please.

In addition a post was added to Reddit a couple years ago from a Hi-rez Employee detailing that they did not copy Overwatch. Check it out here.

I've also learned it's best not to make a roadmap because I just flunk it anyways.