Hello Extinction Elites!
It’s been a while since we’ve given you an insight into some of our dev practices here, so the release of Pre-Season 4 Man vs Beast seems like the perfect time to rectify that and run through the creation of a whole new character. Introducing Jack!
Character Brief
Voiced by Star Wars, Home and Away star, and all-around lovely guy Jay Laga'aia, Jack marks our first new hero since launch and joins Rosy as our second Enforcer on the Extinction Unit roster. While Jack shares the same class as Rosy, allowing him access to the same heavy weaponry, we wanted to make sure that he supported a very different gameplay style while remaining true to the core of what an Enforcer is.
With Rosy, the intention was to create a character that performs the Enforcer crowd-control role by fortifying an area and keeping enemies at a distance through the use of her Static Barrier ability. With Jack we wanted to do essentially the opposite, encouraging players to get right in the thick of the fight, and his toolkit was shaped around that. Charge gets him in the fight quickly, carving a path through the horde while his passive, Scrum Down, keeps him alive once he’s there and his Kinetic Converter acts as an explosive finisher to a fight.
Continue reading the full letter on how Jack came to life here.
