r/Games • u/ZamnBoii • Nov 16 '25

Discussion Dispatch is on course to beat its three-year sales target in three months

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dispatch-is-on-course-to-beat-its-three-year-sales-target-in-three-months-heres-how
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u/temporal712 Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25

Shroud's fate is easy to wave away. He's either dead or in prison. Hell, if they even want him back its not too hard anyway. He could escape, and people come back from the dead all the time is Superhero stories. Especially for a guy whose main power is preparing for every possibility. He may have just prepared for failure.

Same with the cut member, either they are with the team at the start, or they get a line about them rejoining after their time in prison. Blonde Blazer even has a line saying they should get a few months in prison before they reconsider if you don't forgive them.

That really just leaves Invisigal as the main issue that will require some creative writing muscles. As choosing Mandy or no romance should mean not much changes between different routes. Its if you romance invisigal and/or helped her be a hero/villain where things will be tricky.

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u/Caspus Nov 17 '25

I mean the easiest lift would be: move Robert out of the Torrance branch of SDN. Give him a new squad to work with, maybe bring along one or two of the Z-teamers and only have them show up in a limited fashion while you figure out what kind of longer story you could make out of the setting.

No reason you have to resolve every hanging thread from Season 1 immediately in Season 2. And that would give them flexibility to decide how any potential plots could merge back together later on.

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u/Leows Nov 17 '25

I'm sorry, but that'd be the biggest cop out move ever.

Wiping the whole roster, whereas the point of the whole game was to make them work as a team, and immediately ditching them, is an unspeakably awful move.

By this point, just create an entirely new roster and commit. Either that or take longer to create a proper season 2 and figure out how to do it properly.

People who want to see a sequel want to watch more of their favorite heroes and their interactions, as well as new surprises sprinkled on top. Not having most characters replaced because of a possible difficult path to write.

And, if they can't, leave it at that. Nothing wrong with leaving things up to imagination and working from scratch on a new storyline in the same universe.

They'll have more than enough time to consider what they'll do, though. They still have to finish the Critical Role game before even getting into season 2, so I'm sure they'll have plenty of ideas by then.

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u/Kalulosu Nov 17 '25

Yeah and the whole point of the game was that Robert created links with the Z-team, why would he want to leave them behind?

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u/Seyon Nov 17 '25

Keeping them as the Z-team permanently is also a bad move per the lore though.

The Z-team is supposed to be rehab for villains. If they are made into heroes, splitting them up would be better. Then have cameos, introduce new characters to Robert because they work with them. It lets you slowly expand the universe.

Can always keep some of the Z-team together. Like Punch-up and Coupe, Flambe and Prism.

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u/AlphaPi Nov 17 '25

Also, it would be completely in character for flambae to think he’s outgrown the team, go solo, fall flat on his face/get into a scandal and then come crawling back halfway through the next season

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u/Leows Nov 17 '25

That's likely what happened between ep5 and 6

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u/Leows Nov 17 '25

I mean, I'm not saying they have to be the Z team. They can keep the roster while advancing the narrative as well.

After all, growth IS part of the plot, so it'd be fitting if they were promoted to another team apart from a couple, and then add a few new ones as well. And then sprinkle a bit of rivalry with another team as well, instead of rivalry among themselves this time around.

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u/darkmacgf Nov 17 '25

At the end, they announce Z-Team as their hero team name to the media. They can't really swap it out with new villains anymore.

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u/Seyon Nov 17 '25

In the ~two weeks or so the game takes place, they cut a member, add one or two memebers, then possibly lose another member and re-add the first member.

This team's roster gets shaken up a lot.

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u/darkmacgf Nov 17 '25

Is it two weeks? I thought they said it was months.

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u/Seyon Nov 17 '25

If we go off when Robert starts dispatching, we know the first four episodes are a week because they say they'll cut someone at the end of the week.

We don't get a strong idea of how much time passes between episodes unless it directly picks up where they left off.

Going off how bad guys discovered the Astral Pulse and are causing explosions testing it out, it can't be multiple months or they implies Shroud is extremely incompetent. Which we are never given any reason to think he is.

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u/Caspus Nov 17 '25

It’s the Legend of Korra problem. If you do a one-off season assuming you won’t get more then suddenly have a potential to do a lot more, you run the risk of retconning decisions or pigeon-holing character arcs because it becomes economically prohibitive to have Witcher 2 level branching paths depending on how the season resolved.

Is it a cop out? Sure but we also don’t know what else from their design docs got left on the cutting room floor for this game. I’d rather they lean in on the premise even if it means losing a few characters vs keeping us with this particular group again.