Paladins' developer responds to Overwatch comparisons

Hi-Rez Studios' Paladins recently entered open beta, but was quickly met with criticism from players based on the fact that there appears to be many similarities to Blizzard's Overwatch. Now, via a lengthy blog post, COO Todd Harris has shared concept art, early prototypes and the like, which seem to predate the development cycle of Overwatch.

Harris says that Paladins pre-production actually begun in 2012 under the code name Chaos.

Below you can see the latest trailer. Did you get a chance to play the Paladins open beta?