Today's Highguard major update delivers a new hero who's a wolf in all forms including physical, awoooo

Fearsome howler Ekon arrives alongside a 3v3-only ranked mode

Genre soupy shooter Highguard's 2nd large update arrives today, February 6th. It'll present a caller leader to defender those pesky highs successful the signifier of Ekon, a bloke who tin alteration into a wolf. Developers Wildlight person besides aimed to guarantee the game's pack of established heroes don't consciousness near retired by adding a escaped wolf mount, alongside a caller representation called Skydrift and a 3v3 ranked mode.

"Ekon doesn’t thrust an carnal into battle, helium becomes one—transforming into a almighty direwolf that tracks, hunts, and runs down mounted enemies," Wildlight wrote of the caller leader successful the notes for whjat they've dubbed the occurrence 2 patch. "While successful this form, Ekon’s velocity is unmatched by different mounts. Through a afloat third-person constituent of view, the direwolf tin spot astir cover. When moving successful for an attack, weapons are laid down successful favour of Ekon’s deadly wound attack, which volition dash guardant and wound a prey earlier instantly transforming backmost to quality signifier to decorativeness disconnected the job. Attacking without a people volition let Ekon to execute a tiny aerial dash to traverse maps much athletically. In addition, portion successful Wolf Form, Ekon tin way an enemy’s scent that they permission successful their path."

Naturally, his eventual attack's a large howl that makes opponents scared, with different abilities including a keen consciousness for foes' heartbeats and the enactment to nonstop a wolf tone to way them down. Those each dependable similar they'll travel successful useful during 3v3 oregon 5v5 battles connected the Skydrift map, which is comprised of a floating mislaid metropolis you conflict your mode up via plentifulness of bouncing around, zip-lining, and span crossing.

Or, you tin paw your mode into the caller ranked mode, which sees you vie to ascent a histrion of 7 titles successful 3v3 battles. Wildlight wrote that they've opted to bounds this mode to trios due to the fact that that setup is "the much tactical operation of the crippled and fits best", but are unfastened to feedback arsenic to whether they've gotten that right.

Naturally, the higher up the ranking histrion you get by the extremity of each ranked "split" - of which there'll beryllium 2 per "episode", which looks to beryllium the silly sanction Wildlight are instrumentality with for periods betwixt large updates - the amended rewards you get. On the taxable of loot, this spot sees the devs rotation retired 4 improvements designed to augment the lootage. These are adding masterwork weapons to the reddish limb chests astatine points of interest, making the barrels that incorporate eventual chargers glow, adding waypoint markers to usher you towards determination with gear, and ensuring velocity gates are permanently powered on.

If you've yet to springiness Highguard a spell contempt Geoff Keighley advocating for it much vocally than I bash for that Fallout crippled astir the feline from Friends leaving you for dead, marque definite to cheque retired James' impressions of it.