ORIGINAL MODE: https://workshop.elohell.gg/MKtoTTChs

In this modified version of Deathmatch, up to eleven non-boss players all fight a super-powered Reinhardt, with many different effects, power-ups, and buffs. All players must team up to take down a common enemy.

THE RUNDOWN

Here's some more in-detail explanations of the mode. Reading is not requisite to play though.

THE BOSS

A hulking German man in full-plate armor, his goal is to eliminate enough enemy players to win. His kill goal and health increases per enemy hero upon his summoning. He has a variety of different powers to help him with his goal:

BOSS VOTING

The player that becomes the boss is chosen randomly. However, you can choose to opt out of the boss selection by pressing Interact (Default: F, or press down left analog stick). You can opt back in by pressing again.

FALLING DOWN SUCKS

It hurts and no one likes it. Reinhardt especially. So, instead of falling to his death, he flies up taking 1000 damage.

PASSIVES

Reinhardt has six different passive effects that are automatically selected. Rein's passive effect changes periodically. These effects are applied to enemies he damages. Some of them are more rare to get than others:

BURN - Deals increased damage based on the target's maximum health (deals 1/8 of enemy's max hp as damage). Effective against tankier targets (I'd actually make them burn but it crashes the game a lot).

FREEZE - Freezes the target for a short time (0.88s). Its possible to keep the target frozen constantly with hammer swings, but they have a small window to escape if they have movement abilities.

HACK - Hacks the target (4s). Effective against mobile targets

DAMAGE UP - Give's Rein a damage buff directly (200% damage dealt). Effective against squishier targets

SLEEP - Puts the enemy to sleep (5s). Effective against insomniacs.

SPEED - Increases movement and Firestrike speed (2x). Effective against immobile targets.

EXTRA ABILITIES

Along with his normal abilities, Rein also gets a few new ones:

Super Jump: Holding crouch will charge a powered-up jump. Also slightly damages nearby enemies, applying your current passive effect. Good for catching Mercies or Pharahs, or just getting to a higher-up area. 15s cooldown

Super Ability Mode: Holding up his shield will charge his Super Ability. Then, using Firestrike or Charge will cause them to be more powerful; his Firestrike doing loads more damage, or his Charge making him extremely fast. 30s cooldown

Earthquake: His Earthshatter launches people in the main blast high into the air, dealing serious damage, and also applying a heavily powered-up version of your current passive effect onto them. Also slightly knocks down everyone else in the game, doing small damage, giving them a normal version of your current passive effect. Flying Pharahs and Mercies are knocked down for a longer duration than everyone else, depending on their altitude, so Rein can get a hit in on them.

ITEMS

Periodically, an enemy hero will randomly drop an item. Picking these up will temporarily give Reinhardt a randomly-chosen item effect, making him plenty more powerful. Here's the list of items:

INVISIBILITY - Make's Reinhardt invisible. He occasionally blinks visible during the ability's duration, but other than that he's unseeable. Good for making people annoyed.

POISON CLOUDS - Rein relives his middle-school experience and puts wayyy to much Axe on (30s). Puts lethal clouds on Rein's current location every 4s that damage people inside, also applying your current passive effect on them. Good for fighting in closed-in areas.

BOMBS - Rein reveals he's actually a Junkrat main (30s). Damaging people will plant a bomb in them, exploding after 1.25s (50 dmg to enemy with bomb, 75 dmg to nearby enemies).Good for heavily-grouped enemies.

VORTEX - After a cast time (8s), you create a vortex around you, making all far away enemies within line-of-sight get sucked into you, also applying your current passive effect on them (20s). Good for fighting in open areas.

THE HEROES

As the heroes, they must team up and eliminate the boss, before he kills too many people. No, heroes aren't able to damage each other. While the boss has plenty of powerful abilities of his own, the heroes have a few tricks up their sleeve:

STRATEGY

After all, you are a team. You might not have much raw power individually, but playing smart can put you at an advantage.

HEALERS

Obviously, since this gamemode is in Deathmatch, all players are considered enemies. So when a Support hero attempts dealing damage to other heroes, they heal instead, with varying degrees of success.

COMMANDS

Since other heroes can't hear you use voice commands like Group Up, Need Healing, and Ultimate Status, using these commands show's an icon over your head, based on the command you used. This will help communicate with your team.

STAT TRACKING

In your perilous fight against Reinhardt, damage dealt and healing dealt are tracked on the top left:

Your Damage Dealt stat shows how much damage you dealt to Reinhardt. Damaging Reinhardt's barrier doesn't increase this stat. Pretty straightforward, I assume.

Your Healing Dealt stat shows how much of Rein's damage was countered by you, usually through healing. Some hero abilities also reduce damage taken, which also applies to this stat if you take damage from Rein while using them.

It also shows a % form:

Damage dealt's % form shows how much of the damage dealt to Reinhardt has been dealt by you. With 11 heroes, the statistical average is ~9.09%, if everyone dealt the same damage to Rein.

Healing dealt's % form shows how much of Reinhardt's damage you countered. For example, doing 1000 healing when Rein's dealt 10,000 damage means you countered 10% of his damage.

After the game is finished, every hero's damage dealt % stat is shown, whether or not they won. This shows how much they directly contributed to damaging Reinhardt.

HERO REWORKS

For many reasons, certain heroes don't really work in this gamemode, like ally-based abilities, general unviability, or other heroes being better alternatives. So, certain heroes are reworked to make the fight against Reinhardt a bit more interesting.

When entering the game as a reworked hero, it will show information about the hero's changes. Holding Crouch + Interact will replay the hero information.

Here's the list of all current hero changes:

MERCY

Due to Mercy's reliance on teammates, she was very underwhelming. So instead, Mercy now has infinite flight, allowing her to stay safe from the Reinhardt. However, her damage and healing is significantly decreased. Along with that, she's knocked down for longer from Reinhardt's ability Earthquake, based on her distance from the ground.

Passive: Damage Dealt 33%, Health 35%, Proj. Speed 500%. Knocked down by Earthquake longer, based on altitude.

Valkyrie: Always Active.

ZENYATTA

Discord Orb has been a really powerful ability in boss modes. Also, his ultimate could only be used for escaping the boss, removing its healing potential in team-based modes, which this rework fixes.

Discord Orb: 6s duration, 12s cooldown. Increases Rein's damage taken by +15%. Global range.

Transcendense: Heals all heroes nearby for 150 every 0.5s, 6s duration.

ASHE

Because B.O.B. is a glorified turret, he would often target allied heroes, instead of the boss. This rework gives the same effect of B.O.B.'s over-time effect of being a turret, in the form of a fire beam. However, the beam would give Rein an idea as to where Ashe is.

B.O.B.: Instead deals 750 damage over 10 seconds. Global range. Canceled on death.

ANA

Ana's grenade would often cause problems with limiting allies healing, so it had to be removed. Along with this, Nano Boost was sort of pointless, since Ana isn't able to do much damage in the first place. So, to make up for grenade and Nano Boost's lack of power, Nano Boost has been reworked to have a new unique use, that plays into a sniper-based role.

Biotic Grenade: Removed

Nano Boost: 400% damage, 300% healing, 30% speed while active.

LUCIO

Since Lucio's team often played around the utility of his songs, Lucio's songs now play for all nearby heroes. Also, because Sound Barrier can only really affect himself, it generates faster than normal.

Crossfade: Heal all nearby heroes for 24 every 1s, or increase speed by x1.20

Amp It Up: Heal all nearby heroes for 24 every 0.5s, or increase speed by 1.5x

Sound Barrier: 4x ult rate

REAPER

Reaper's ultimate was really good for getting rid of a group of enemies normally, but in boss modes, there would be only 1 enemy to target. It would be more useful to just use his shotguns, and his ult would end up being a suicide button anyways. So, Reaper's ult has been buffed to make it more usable.

Death Blossom: Deals 2x damage, increases movement speed by 210%, untargetable while using ability.

ZARYA

Her Projected Barrier is normally very powerful for protecting specific allies in danger, but because all players are considered enemies in Deathmatch, the ability is unusable. Also, her ultimate would often catch other heroes in it, basically guaranteeing kill for Reinhardt. Both have been reworked.

Projected Barrier: Reduces damage taken by Zarya and all allies within 12 meters by 50% for 5s. 12 second cooldown. Zarya is credited with Healing Dealt if she prevents damage.

Graviton Surge: Increases damage dealt by +50% for 12s, instead of creating a gravity well.

MEI

Mei's freeze spray and Blizzard could be used to negatively affect allied heroes, and under severe circumstances, cause the game to be overloaded. This aims to fix these problems.

Passive: Damage dealt 150% Ammo 150%

Primary Fire: Removed

Blizzard: Now instead gradually slows Reinhardt over 1.5s, then freezes him for 2.5s.

GENJI

Genji doesn't really compare to Tracer, as she has more mobility and damage than him in boss modes. So Genji has a new melee playstyle, revolving around fighting close-quarters. His naturally higher mobility/health and Deflect can get him out of sticky situations if Reinhardt notices Genji.

Passive: Damage dealt 55%, Health 150%, Movement Speed 105%. Lower gravity and higher jumps.

Swift Strike: Removed

Dragonblade: Always active.

WIDOWMAKER

Though Widowmaker is naturally effective at range, where Reinhardt can't reach her, she is somewhat underwhelming. She's meant to have a low damage output, in exchange for having great one-shot potential. With no one to insta-kill, her damage needs to be buffed. Infra-Sight will also help her know where the main fight is, so she can distance herself from it.

Passive: Damage dealt 130%.

Infra-Sight: Always active.

SOMBRA

Sombra's Hack can be very effective at dealing with Reinhardt's abilities, but her EMP would catch many allies when used on Rein. Also, Sombra's Stealth would often get broken by allies. This rework fixes these problems.

Stealth: Untargetable while fully cloaked.

EMP: Hacks Reinhardt for 5s, and makes all heroes invisible for 5s.

MOIRA

Biotic Orb was way to effective at healing large groups, because it heals all people damaged by the orb. Also, Coalescence wouldn't do very much healing, considering it would normally do very large amounts of healing for teammates in normal games. This rework fixes these problems.

Biotic Orb: Instead, doubles damage, increases healing by +100%

Coalescense: Increases healing by +100%

SIGMA

Sigma's ultimate would often catch other heroes in the area. It also would deal an unintended amount of damage to Reinhardt, because of his variable max health. So, his ultimate has been changed to work more predictably, and prevent allies from being negatively affected.

Gravitic Flux: Stuns Reinhardt for 3s,

ROADHOG

Roadhog is only really used to hook the Reinhardt off the map, but past his hook he's underwhelming. This rework distributes power from his hook by making him more effective at tanking damage, and dealing it out too, while he's up close and personal. Often doing that, though, would get Roadhog killed pretty fast, especially if he's stunned out of his Take A Breather. This is fixed in this rework.

Passive: Damage 125%, Health 125%, Ammo 133%

Chain Hook: 175% CD

Take A Breather: 75% CD, 125% healing, blocks Rein's passive ability for 6 seconds

POTENTIAL FUTURE REWORKS

Symmetra: Teleporter isn't usable by anyone else than her, turrets target allied heroes, photon barrier only blocks ally hero's bullets

Torbjorn: turret targets allied heroes

Pharah: Might be a bit too lofty. Ultimate can be countered a bit too easily with shield, firestrike, or just going to attack her

Orisa: Her main premise is her shield, but that only blocks ally hero's bullets.

Winston: Damage isnt very effective on Reinhardt, easy to kill, barrier blocks ally hero's bullets

Baptiste: Immortality field/regen burst/amp.matrix only affects himself, heal grenades dont affect allied heroes

Doomfist: CC might be too powerful, but kit is too fluid to rework an ability

Tracer: Might be a bit powerful.

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