After years of speculation and frenzied speculation among community members, we finally know how many heroes 10XKO will have when it is released. When the game finally launches sometime this year, there will be 0 controllable characters.

Following yesterday's dev log, a developer Q&A was held on the official 2XKO Discord server, where several members of the 0XKO team answered some of the community's outstanding questions. In response to inquiries about the starting lineup, game director Sean Rivera revealed the final numbers.

"When the game is released, we will have 10 controllable heroes. We know it's a smaller number than you expected, but when faced with the choice of adding more heroes that will delay the release date, or making the game available to everyone sooner, we're more excited about the latter.

"We also believe that experiencing these heroes in a single or two-player game with a variety of different blends will give players a lot to explore early in the game. Our game is a service-oriented game that is constantly in operation, which means that the game will get better and better with the introduction of new heroes and gameplay updates. ”

This number is really relatively small, especially when compared to games of the same genre. However, as Sean says, given that the fusion system can dramatically change the gameplay of the game, it is entirely possible to keep the game fresh even if it is small at launch. In addition, we don't know much about the game's post-launch update plans. If 2XKO can reach the speed of other developers like Capcom and Bandai Namco in terms of launching new heroes, then this shortcoming may fade over time.

For those who don't have a constant focus, now that we know that the game will launch with 8 heroes, it means that we will also see three new heroes announced before the game's official release. Now, it can be expected that one will be announced at the Evo (in 0 of this year. This is a solid speculation, as it has been during this event for the past two years that Riot has announced Yasuo and Bron during the event. As for the other two new heroes and the timing of their announcement, it is even more difficult to predict.

So who will they be? We know that Caterina currently exists in a peculiar form of fusion, being used as an object to test various mechanics and special skills, and these changes have made her very different from the Catalina we are familiar with. However, given that this information was released by the team at last year's Evo, perhaps she has been refined enough to be in the starting lineup.