After years of speculation and fanatical speculation by community members, we finally know how many heroes there will be at the time of release of "2XKO".When the game finally launches sometime this year, there will be 10 controllable characters.

After yesterday's development log was released, a developer question and answer event was held on the official 2XKO Discord server, and several members of the 2XKO team answered some unanswered questions in the community.In response to inquiries about the starting lineup, game director Sean Rivera revealed the final figures.

“When the game is released, we will have 10 controllable heroes. We know that this number is less than you expected, but we are more excited about the latter when facing the choice of adding more heroes that lead to a delay in the release date or letting the game meet you faster.

"We also believe that leveraging these heroes through single-player or two-player games will allow players to have a lot to explore in the early stages of the game. Our game is a service-oriented game that continues to operate, which means that the game will get better and better by launching new heroes and performing gameplay updates."

This number is indeed relatively small, especially compared to similar games.However, as Sean said, given that the fusion system can dramatically change the game’s play, it’s entirely possible that it will keep the game fresh even if it’s smaller in the first place.Additionally, we know very little about the update plans after the game is released.If 2XKO can reach the speed of other developers such as Capcom and Bandai Namco in launching new heroes, then this deficiency may gradually disappear over time.

For those who don't keep paying attention, since we now know there will be 10 heroes when the game starts, it means we will see three new heroes announced before the game is officially released.Now, it is expected that one will be announced in Evo in August this year. This is a relatively reliable speculation, because in the past two years, Riot announced Yasuo and Bron during this event. As for the other two new heroes and the time to be announced, it is even more difficult to predict.

So who would they be? We know that Katerina currently exists in a peculiar fusion form, used as an object to test various mechanisms and special skills, and these changes make her very different from Katerina as we know it.But given that this information was released by the team on Evo last year, maybe she has been refined to a certain extent enough to make it into the starting lineup.