Battlegrounds Cosmetics & Features - Developer Interview By Ninaisnoob!

Battlegrounds Cosmetics & Features - Developer Interview By Ninaisnoob!

Today we've got the last part of the content made for the mini-set reveal schedule, but this one is a little bit different since it focuses on Battlegrounds instead of the actual mini-set. Let's look at what the Hearthstone developers have to say.

New Skins & Bundles

All of these new cosmetics will be separated into multiple bundles:

Live with the Patch 22.4 - February 15

  • Jade Gardens Board

 

Live On February 22

  • Algalon Bartender (top middle)
  • Celestial Hero Skins (in the middle)
  • Cosmic Study Board (top left)
  • Astral Impact Finisher (bottom right - looks like a scroll)

Bob is back with another way to add flair and personalization to the Tavern: Battlegrounds Finishers! Battlegrounds Finishers are animations that replace the default Attack animation whenever your Hero wins a round of combat.* Bob’s first Finisher, Astral Impact, is a two-stage Finisher. That means that it shows a special animation whenever your Hero wins a round and then an even bigger animation when you deal 15 or more damage to your enemy! Keep a look out for more cool Battlegrounds Finishers in the future.

* Battlegrounds Finishers are equipped globally, so any Hero you use will use your equipped Finisher whenever you win a round of combat. Both players will be able to see the winning player’s Finisher at the end of any round of combat.

Design Process Behind The Battlegrounds Cosmetics

The process of making a new set of cosmetics

  • It takes around 9 weeks just to find the perfect narrative for a set of skins (what heroes, what's the theme, what heroes will be available in that period of time in BGs,...)
  • After a theme has been selected, they start working on other cosmetics or ideas that the team come up with
  • Then it takes around 2 weeks to visualize how the most important parts of the animation will look like
  • At the end, they start working on the VFX effects and cooperate with the art team to deliver the best quality of a product, this takes around 3-6 weeks
  • In the last week, the QA team looks at the final product and evaluates if it meets the quality conditions set by the company
  • The whole process can take up to 6 months
  • They started working on the Celestial set in late May 2021

An idea for an Old Gods' skins

  • Apparently, It's really hard to create skins for some heroes - for example Old Gods, because they don't fit with a lot of themes
  • This was an idea they had a while ago, but unfortunately scraped off this idea - a Y'Shaarj with a saddle on the globe of Azeroth and riding it across the stars

 

What's their dream board?

  • Puppies! What did you expect? This might be only a matter of time before we get a board with puppies.
  • Alicia would also love to create a theme park board in the future.
  • Chadd would like to explore more of the outside of tavern stuff with space, Nebula, stars, but he's happy with the Cosmic Study board for now.

The Cosmic Study board

  • The theme is that you're one of the citizens of Dalaran that saved Azeroth, you have the power behind you and you look to the stars and you see the heroes of Battlegrounds be part of the magic.
  • This board is Celestalon's favorite set of skins.
  • They wanted to make sure that these celestial skins will attract people of all kinds - players that don't know about the lore and easter eggs behind this board but will love the theme and the art and also for the people that do know some background stuff around these skins.

Random board selecting feature

  • They're thinking about it, but so far we don't have that many boards available, hence we won't see that in a near future, but apparently, we're slowly getting there.

Animated Portraits

  • They hear the feedback, they have been thinking about it, but nothing to announce right now

The Celestial Bundle Skins - Description

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