As mentioned in the intro, this video was meant to release almost a year ago in August of 2023. It's been a labor of love working on this video on and off for the past year, and I truly want to thank you all for continuing to support me in any way you have. EDIT: The source code used to generate some of the motion graphics in this video is now available at github.com/CactusPuppy/motion-canvas-projects !
My experience with this mode was that it was pretty fun for the first couple of days it was out until people started to learn the optimal strategies, then most of the games either became orisa traps rein in the basement the whole game or rein runs in circles camping powerups all game. The same thing happens with a lot of the official arcade modes though, and I still got an hour or two of enjoyment out of it. I hope blizzard tries putting workshop modes in arcade again sometime
One of the best seasonal modes for sure. The fact that you only worked on the mode for less than a month is crazy. Hopefully you get more chances to create some new modes, maybe with some of the canceled pve abilities we never got the see that would be sick.
the level of production value in this video is sooo good, so great to see the bts of this arcade mode. i definitely had fun playing both the demon and the heroes
Knowing you made a whole game mode was already incredible but seeing what all went into it? Holy cow :O! Very cool to hear about your process and analyzing the things you balanced or would have changed.
I had more fun with the custom mode when it was available compared to damn near anything glizzard themselves made (like the awful invasion mode they threw out before), hope they give you some more chances to make some custom modes in the future.
With all the stuff you mentioned that was cut due to time constraints or lack of testing, I'd love to see a revised and/or expanded version of Defeat the Demon Lord!
very noice. very noice to see how it all went, the ups and downs. It was a very fun game mode, not particulary my fav, but way better than Battle of Olympus and Mirrorwatch. The only thing that made the mode less fun was, like you said in 13:20, when the Rein player run arround the map and only showing up to ult. This happened to me at least five times. Five very frustrating matches. But overall, like I said before, it was a really fun mode.
Superb video and the editing is really excellent, I really enjoyed playing this mode, thank you for sharing the whole story of the creation, really exciting! Nice work! :)
Idk why blizzard still don't implement server-side code to interact with navmesh. I had same problems creating pathfinding mechanisms, crashed many and many lobbies 😂😂
I'd like to thank you again for this fucking amazing gamemode. Your vision is unparalleled and it came through beautifully in the true gamemode. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's wild to me that you created such a great mode with less than one month to work on it. 10/10 and thank you for making a great game mode. I hope they bring you back to do more modes in the future!
I didnt play during that season so i never got to know much about the gamemode. Its honestly so sick that the OW devs allowed a Workshop dev to make an official mode. I hope they do more of this in the future.
I enjoy assymetrical gamemodes, so I really liked this one. I really hope they contact you in the future because learning what you have, I feel like you could make an even better gamemode if given another chance. I'll be looking for your name in the arcade mode!
Cool and interesting video overall, but the credits section is S-tier. I think you did a good job with the mode too, and I hope Blizzard will do something like this again in the future.
LETS GOOOOO CAC ESSAY WOOOOO 🤩🤩🤩 eta an actual comment >.> This video is SO GOOD!!! The quality is insane and it's awesome to see your process for everything!! I loved the gamemode and had so much fun with it (iirc I think you were in VC with Vi and I and others I think too while I was fucking CACKLING while wallriding and fucking with Rein's LMFAO). But for real, as someone who loves talking game design and also someone who loves asym games (regrettably including Dead By Daylight and Evolve) I was so excited to hear about and play the mode and hearing you talk about all that went into it's development was delightful to me. Thank you for documenting it all in this wonderfully crafted video!! :3 Also 8:26 VYLT MUSIC LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO 🤩😍🔥💖💖 (for those unaware thats Therister from Overwatch Workshop and creator of hit modes like Glitch in the System/Junkenstien's Victory and her music platform, she's awesome and her music is fire >:3)
I would like to see how you did the coding part. I am a dev and want to try to make some game mode my self in custom games, but the "language" is so different from anything else I have used. Some insights from behind the scenes would be fun :)
No promises, since I have no idea how much time I can dedicate to UA-cam right now, but I’d love to do something on this channel diving into the actual process of taking ideas off the paper and putting them into the game.
You can always play the mode by importing the Workshop code into a custom game, but unfortunately that does require you to bring some friends to play with! Import code is YAR3X
I completely no-lifed this mode LOL A lot of fun, honestly though the things I remember being most frustrating was Eichenwalde with a lifeweaver. At that point it was a guaranteed loss and, honestly? I had a pretty positive winrate as rein without those.
(´･ᴗ･ ` )this mode *IS* the most fun arcade imo playing about 300 games was great cactus puppy you absolutely delivered it was really really balanced (´ ∀ ` *)the eichenwalde maps and theam and idea WAS SMART buuut I feel like rein was missing a "Come Back" mechanic maybe a last life buff or a last 30sec +500hp your unstunable +20% extra dmg because HE. GETS. BULLIED. but still you did great i can't wait for the next one the let you make mystery ults is a banger btw edited: alright i didn't know you already talked about a come back mechanic already sorry I'll just watch next time i wanted... you to know i enjoyed it sorry
It cool that your mode got official release but gamemode it self not very fun at all, we played it around 3-4 times and people just spaming orisas while every other hero is just trash.
As mentioned in the intro, this video was meant to release almost a year ago in August of 2023. It's been a labor of love working on this video on and off for the past year, and I truly want to thank you all for continuing to support me in any way you have.
EDIT: The source code used to generate some of the motion graphics in this video is now available at github.com/CactusPuppy/motion-canvas-projects !
just like a real overwatch dev!!!
@@dirtspade hey at least I didn't cancel the video
@@CactusPuppy Ooooooooo, burn 🔥
COMMENTING FOR ALGORITHM. PICK THIS CACTUS PUPPY MAN UP RN
My experience with this mode was that it was pretty fun for the first couple of days it was out until people started to learn the optimal strategies, then most of the games either became orisa traps rein in the basement the whole game or rein runs in circles camping powerups all game. The same thing happens with a lot of the official arcade modes though, and I still got an hour or two of enjoyment out of it. I hope blizzard tries putting workshop modes in arcade again sometime
One of the best seasonal modes for sure. The fact that you only worked on the mode for less than a month is crazy. Hopefully you get more chances to create some new modes, maybe with some of the canceled pve abilities we never got the see that would be sick.
the level of production value in this video is sooo good, so great to see the bts of this arcade mode. i definitely had fun playing both the demon and the heroes
Okay. Why did the ENDING CREDITS MAKE ME CRY????? LIKE WHAT. Congrats man. Amazing documentation and an amazing gamemode. Thank you for sharing!
Honestly, I give most of the credit to Karu and Kalamity's amazing work on the music! Please do check out their music sometime if you enjoyed it
Knowing you made a whole game mode was already incredible but seeing what all went into it? Holy cow :O! Very cool to hear about your process and analyzing the things you balanced or would have changed.
I had more fun with the custom mode when it was available compared to damn near anything glizzard themselves made (like the awful invasion mode they threw out before), hope they give you some more chances to make some custom modes in the future.
With all the stuff you mentioned that was cut due to time constraints or lack of testing, I'd love to see a revised and/or expanded version of Defeat the Demon Lord!
The algorithm needs to pick up this video, its too good not to
so so proud! I remember seeing your name when the mode was revealed and I had to double check to make sure I was reading correctly 😭😭
I loved Season 5! It was one of my favourite seasons in terms of theme and mode, and I loved how this documentary was laid out!
this week on how its made
clean editing too, very cool
Dude. Dat production value doe.
Good job with everything; video and workshop mode
very noice. very noice to see how it all went, the ups and downs. It was a very fun game mode, not particulary my fav, but way better than Battle of Olympus and Mirrorwatch. The only thing that made the mode less fun was, like you said in 13:20, when the Rein player run arround the map and only showing up to ult. This happened to me at least five times. Five very frustrating matches. But overall, like I said before, it was a really fun mode.
I will never live down adding Lifeweaver and Orisa on a team against Reinhardt
Superb video and the editing is really excellent, I really enjoyed playing this mode, thank you for sharing the whole story of the creation, really exciting! Nice work! :)
8:27 Vylt!
Edited: actually getting teary-eyed at that end credit sequence, wow!
Awesome! I'm so glad the algorithm helped me find your vid!
Idk why blizzard still don't implement server-side code to interact with navmesh. I had same problems creating pathfinding mechanisms, crashed many and many lobbies 😂😂
I'd like to thank you again for this fucking amazing gamemode. Your vision is unparalleled and it came through beautifully in the true gamemode. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Really loved the presentation of the video, wish this gamemode would come back
this video is so good I never realized how much work went into every aspect of a game, even limited time gamemodes
AMAZING VIDEO! THAT KARQ CAMEO WAS AMAZING HAHAHAHA! ♥♥♥
I was so happy that KarQ agreed to lend his voice to the project, even if only for a completely unnecessary bit. Glad you enjoyed!
Love the Detroit reference at 3:03
It's wild to me that you created such a great mode with less than one month to work on it. 10/10 and thank you for making a great game mode. I hope they bring you back to do more modes in the future!
I didnt play during that season so i never got to know much about the gamemode. Its honestly so sick that the OW devs allowed a Workshop dev to make an official mode. I hope they do more of this in the future.
Enjoyed this game mode a LOT. Thanks for the effort and consideration you put into it! 🎉
Crazy good video, loved the game mode, good job on them both. Keep up the good work!
959 subscribers let us fix that bud. this guy is the goat only the best for you
YOU HAVE A UA-cam CHANNEL!! HELL YEAH 🎉🎉🎉
A fantastic piece, you really put a lot of time into making this polished. Well done!
The algorithm HAS to pick this up
this is so well made, thats crazy
Crazy good video! Very entertaining. Commenting for the algorithm!
I enjoy assymetrical gamemodes, so I really liked this one. I really hope they contact you in the future because learning what you have, I feel like you could make an even better gamemode if given another chance. I'll be looking for your name in the arcade mode!
too sad it's gone forever.. they should add a new category to have those annual/special/pve Modes Available forever
If you're able to get a group of friends together, you can still play the mode in custom games via the import code YAR3X!
@@CactusPuppy 👌
I love your game mode! I try and play it with my friends in custom games as often as possible.
Comment for the algorythm. I'm astonished by the quality of the video.
It's better to please someone than to please no one, so I think your gamemode did fine. Great job!
Cool and interesting video overall, but the credits section is S-tier. I think you did a good job with the mode too, and I hope Blizzard will do something like this again in the future.
I had far too much fun making the credits section, to be honest. Glad you liked it too!
@@CactusPuppy Time well spent.
11:15 The AI just knows lucio tech we don;t 😔
Aimbot Lucio joining an OWCS team when
Absolutely amazing!
I played this mode so many times i wish we got these custom modes returning. At least we got prophunt
Man I was expecting to see like 250k views at least why hasn’t anyone seen this masterpiece
actually amazing
This makes me regret so bad that I completely missed this season
yooo I always wondered about this!
good vid 👍
LETS GOOOOO CAC ESSAY WOOOOO 🤩🤩🤩
eta an actual comment >.>
This video is SO GOOD!!! The quality is insane and it's awesome to see your process for everything!! I loved the gamemode and had so much fun with it (iirc I think you were in VC with Vi and I and others I think too while I was fucking CACKLING while wallriding and fucking with Rein's LMFAO). But for real, as someone who loves talking game design and also someone who loves asym games (regrettably including Dead By Daylight and Evolve) I was so excited to hear about and play the mode and hearing you talk about all that went into it's development was delightful to me. Thank you for documenting it all in this wonderfully crafted video!! :3
Also 8:26 VYLT MUSIC LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO 🤩😍🔥💖💖 (for those unaware thats Therister from Overwatch Workshop and creator of hit modes like Glitch in the System/Junkenstien's Victory and her music platform, she's awesome and her music is fire >:3)
I would like to see how you did the coding part. I am a dev and want to try to make some game mode my self in custom games, but the "language" is so different from anything else I have used. Some insights from behind the scenes would be fun :)
No promises, since I have no idea how much time I can dedicate to UA-cam right now, but I’d love to do something on this channel diving into the actual process of taking ideas off the paper and putting them into the game.
+999 for the Journey track.
this needs to get picked up by the alg so much more!!
wowzers!! this video really is something
Man, watching this made me want to play it again! I hope we get another chance sometime to experience the mode, maybe with some adjustments? >:D
You can always play the mode by importing the Workshop code into a custom game, but unfortunately that does require you to bring some friends to play with!
Import code is YAR3X
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Well *&^%, finally something that made me want to play overwatch again after 4 years
I completely no-lifed this mode LOL
A lot of fun, honestly though the things I remember being most frustrating was Eichenwalde with a lifeweaver. At that point it was a guaranteed loss and, honestly? I had a pretty positive winrate as rein without those.
Glad you enjoyed enough to keep playing Rein even despite the challenges he faced in that mode!
@@CactusPuppy are you joking? It was practically a drug haha, I like difficult challenges to wrap my head around :) You did great
underrated channel thsi video was sick
Oh i loved this game mode.
Its finally here ❤
well done
thought I had autoplay on because I suddenly heard KarQ.. lol
KarQ jumpscare
i refuse to believe this mode was playtested.
very good video, thank you cactuspuppy for absolutely carrying what was by far the worst season of OW2
also fuck the prophunt mode, all my homies hate the prop hunt mode, defeat the demon lord is so much better than the prop hunt mode
underrated vid.
great video
hidden gem
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really good
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Great video
omg new cuppy
(´･ᴗ･ ` )this mode *IS* the most fun arcade imo playing about 300 games was great cactus puppy you absolutely delivered it was really really balanced
(´ ∀ ` *)the eichenwalde maps and theam and idea WAS SMART
buuut I feel like rein was missing a "Come Back" mechanic maybe a last life buff or a last 30sec +500hp your unstunable +20% extra dmg because HE. GETS. BULLIED.
but still you did great i can't wait for the next one the let you make mystery ults is a banger btw
edited: alright i didn't know you already talked about a come back mechanic already sorry I'll just watch next time i wanted... you to know i enjoyed it sorry
I appreciate the enthusiasm, and thanks for watching through the video!
great video ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
What's a workshop?
getting paid $1500 for 40 hours of work is insane.
swag
yeee... I wasn't a "fan" of this gamemode, rather hater cuz of all clumsyness it has, but for single person project it is a good job!
Despite not being a fan of the gamemode, I'm glad you decided to check out this video. Thank you for the compliment!
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When you do a better job at creating a fun, balanced experience than Blizzard themselves. With just their workshop no less.
It cool that your mode got official release but gamemode it self not very fun at all, we played it around 3-4 times and people just spaming orisas while every other hero is just trash.
see how the guidelines doesnt say it needs to be balanced. sorry but it really wasnt.
this is fure
Nice video!!! ❤ You're literally one of my biggest inspirations for game dev 🫡