At the beginning of last year, the fist designers held a hero voting campaign here, with Udir having the highest vote and becoming the next hero to be redone. Now a new round of redo voting is about to begin, but Udir's redo is not yet complete. Some players may have forgotten about it, but many are still looking forward to Udir's return. So how much did Udir redo the job accomplish? When will it return?
Today's Fist Designers shared the Udir Redo progress report:
First, the designers shared about the goals of Udir's redo:
- Retain the characteristics of Udir attitude change, with automatic attack and melee-based positioning. In order to keep Udir's gameplay from being eliminated, it is also planned to add more changes to his posture and melee style to increase his highlight operation;
- Upgrade the Udir appearance to meet the alliance's existing standards. At the same time, the shaman warrior theme is retained, so this redo is based on the original appearance to improve, rather than tearing down and completely redone;
- Make Udir's appearance more in line with the description in the backstory and deepen the connection with Freirjod;
During the process of the Udir redo, the designer shared a new image of Udir. At that time, there were many people who complained that the antlers were not suitable for Udir, so the designers "removed" the antlers from Udir's head. The designer also made this decision after several versions of the comparison. Because no matter how it is designed, this pair of antlers does not seem to match. And Udir's focus is on the beast spirits, not the antlers.
In order to consider the subsequent hero update and skin difficulty, the designer used the same "skeleton" for the various morphological models of Udir, which also reduced the difficulty of future work.
Udir's redo took into account the recognizability and original temperament, but the designers also wanted each pose to resemble an independent hero with a distinct personality. After much deliberation, the designer came up with a design that would attack with the wind. This action is simulated with bird wings, but there are some problems. Because this animation looks more like a range attack, it needs to be redesigned.
So the designer changed the wind in the animation to ice, which looks more like a magic attack. But the design is biased toward spell casting, deviating from Udir's wild nature, so the designer also has to find a balance between the two.
The end result was the retention of the wings with ice, which also fit the flying wing demigod of Freird.
Attack actions in other poses:
Visual Effects:
The explosion effect when waking up passively has more visual impact and a sense of strength. The final result after several designs:
The visual effects used in the four poses are exactly the same, with only different colors:
New model:
When a player uses the Q skill, three situations arise:
1: Switch the giant bear form
2: The next two general attacks get extra attack speed
3: Gain extra attack speed for a certain period of time
For the giant bear form, the designers added a lightning effect on the bear's paw to highlight the attack speed bonus effect.
Visual effects for interacting with enemies, when the Urdir Bear pose is awakened, the next two general attacks produce a lightning chain effect:
When only one target is attacked, it deals more magic damage, like calling you a bear face:
About the skin aspect:
The Power of the Dragon God (not representative of the final form):
As just seen, the designers have laid the groundwork for Udir's image. Udir has several of the more sophisticated skins, and because of the reasons involved in posture changes, the development time of each skin will be longer than that of the average hero, not to mention the ultimate skin.
So it's still a long time before Udir returns from a redo. The designer also said that when new progress is made in the work, it will be shared with the players again.
It seems that the return of Udir's redo is still far away, I don't know what players think about the redo of Udir?