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The mechanism to deploy Viper's abilities is a key pain point for the character. We know that they have been working on non-trivial buffs and/or reworks for viper. One of the first things that you might think of would be to develop a prototype that allows Viper to use the Omen smoke interface to deploy her abilities to see how she would play if she was free to place her abilities anywhere she likes. They would need to allow her to place her poison orb and wall from the Omen UI.
If you take that prototype, change the color to purple, and go to an overhead perspective, you are fairly close to the new agent. Just replace the poison orb with the stars and move the wall to an ultimate and you have the basics of Astra.
If it's true I don't think it's a bad thing at all, Astra seems like a really unique and dynamic character that I'm excited to play. I'm very interested in what direction they are going to go with Viper if this is the case though. If they went that far I'm sure they have other technically intensive changes for viper in prototype.
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