My biggest qualm with Combiner Wars so far are the consistent repaints. I get the cost and the need for repaints, but its kinda jarring at this point. Sky Lynx should be coming out this year along with Bruticus instead of Optimus Maximus(?) and the original Optimus Prime voyager.
If I was browsing and came across Scattershot, I would think it was just a Silverbolt with some third party addons; but maybe I just need clearer pics of it.
And aside from colors the re-tooling on Victorion isn't enough to distinguish . Bruticus looks distinguished.
Although I do love that Victorion has ankle pivots.
I get the complaint, but for the main (Non Sky Lynx, Optimus, Galvatronus, etc), I feel like the remolds have been amazing enough to distinguish them. That's for me anyway. Offroad into First Aid is incredibly different. Almost every body panel has been touched. Break Down into Streetwise is a little less, but I feel each character is distinguished enough for me. Same for the Victorion choices. The colors, heads, weapons and other remolds go far enough to make them their own characters.
Scattershot I feel is impressive mainly on the vehicle mode. The way the entire front end of the jet has been changed so the gun can be used like Scattershot's weird cannon plane is awesome. The wing differences give them a different feel as well. The bot mold could have used a few extra touches, maybe in the shoulder armor or chest, but the head sculpt makes him feel far enough for me.
I agree on the Autobot repaints, though. Those feel incredibly cheap and most don't capture the intended character. I'm not buying those for that reason.
Also, Bruticus is listed as "early 2016" which means he'll hit late this year. You'll be able to buy him this holiday season if history is to go by. I think the problem right now is Titan Wars seems to be coming early-mid next year and Hasbro is unable or unwilling to show it. Most of these molds aside from Bruticus feel like end of line filler molds, which I guess is what they totally are.