Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, the success of Overwatch probably won’t come as much of a shock. The game has already attracted more than 10 million players , is competing with League of Legends for attention in South Korea and the game’s roster is inspiring cosplayers around the globe. Now, you don’t even have to play Overwatch to get your fix of the game’s colorful roster, provided you’re also a fan of Street Fighter V .
Thanks to a handful of creations from two modders, four Overwatch characters can now be used to deliver a beatdown in Street Fighter V . The mods are only aesthetic, altering the appearance of four existing SFV combatants while leaving their movesets completely intact. (Sorry to disappoint anyone hoping to bring Mei’s ice gun trolling over to a new genre.) And it probably goes without saying but all four mods were designed for the PC version of Street Fighter V . To our knowledge, there’s currently no way to add the Overwatch cast to the PS4 version of SFV .
Modder TheJamK’s Overwatch conversions began with an overhaul for Cammy , transforming her into Tracer, but has quickly spread to include replacement textures for other members of the roster. Right now, three characters are available for download -- Mei (R.Mika), Reinhardt (Zangief) and Tracer (Cammy) -- from TheJamK’s Patreon page . Something tells us this won’t be the last we see from the dedicated Street Fighter V modder, either.
Unfortunately, Oscar “Ozci” Gunnarsson only has one SFV mod available for download, replacing Karin with a mech-less D.Va, but the quality of his first mod definitely has us hoping to see more in the future. The quantity isn’t shocking, given that Gunnarsson apparently just joined the SFV modding community earlier this month, but does make the quality of his Karin replacement that much more impressive. Ozci’s D.Va mod is also a free download on his Patreon page .
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