Here’s a quick rundown of the Overwatch reveals at Blizzcon:

• Simultaneous launch on PC, PS4, and XBox One
• Self contained communities (PC vs PC, PS4 vs PS4)
• Developed for console from the start

New Map: Hollywood

• Payload escort of omnic director, Halford Glitchbot
• Hollywood stars
• Goldshire Studios (WoW reference)
• Hollywood backlot with facades and cool overhangs and balconies
• Soundstage area featuring a silly alien movie stage set-up
• Hollywood sign

New Heroes:

Mei

• Scientist, adventurer
• Chinese
• Past:
  • Climatologist for Overwatch
  • Stationed at Overwatch’s Ecowatch point in Antarctica
  • Polar icestorm cut off their communication with Overwatch and stranded them
  • Running out of supplies, Mei set-up cryostasis chambers for her and her companions
  • No rescue came for years
• Mei was eventually found, but she was the only survivor from her team
• Travels to Ecowatch points to try to gather data and restore them
• Ice-based hero
• Drone companion named Snowball
• Hard to kill
• Low damage, good combat support

• Endothermic Blaster: Sprays freezing liquid from the canister on her back, deals low damage, but progressively slows enemies until they get stunned, frozen solid. Alternate fire shot that has a short delay before shooting an extremely accurate icicle
• Ice Wall: Blocks line of sight and projectives, acts like a normal  wall in the level for a short period. Can summon under yourself to raise yourself in the air. Flat on the top, so it works as a bridge as well
• Cryo-Freeze: Stops all incoming damage and blocks attacks, including Reinhardt’s charge
• Blizzard: Ultimate ability. Throws Snowball, who sprays the freezing liquid everywhere, damaging and slowing everyone in the radius, freezing those who stay in for too long

D.Va

• Former progamer, mech pilot
• South Korean
• Mobile Exo-Force of the Korean Army (MEKA)
• Korean peninsula under repeated attacks from a giant omnic from the ocean
• The omnic learned to control MEKA’s drones, so they switched to using pilots, recruiting many progamers
• Keeping with her gamer tendencies, D.Va live streams her combat for adoring fans
• FIghts in and out of her mech
• Pilot area is mech’s weakspot
• When mech takes critical damage, D.Va is ejected and can shoot with her light gun while her mech recovers

• Fusion Cannons: Blast cone-attack with large damage, but slows her movement
• Boosters: Low-cooldown flight that feels like a charge
• Defense Matrix: Projects large area that blocks all enemy projectiles
• Self-Destruct: Ulimate that ejects D.Va from her mech, which self-destructs in a huge, powerful explosion after 5 seconds

Genji

• Adventurer
• Hanzo’s brother, from the Shimada Clan
• Genji is seen as a disgrace to the Shimada Clan and Hanzo is forced by the elders to confront him after their father died
• The brothers fight and Hanzo fatally wounds Genji, then leaves him for dead
• Overwatch discovers the dying Genji and Mercy saves him with cybernetics
• He is recruited to eliminate and Shimada Clan, which he does and then leaves Overwatch
• Studied under Zenyatta to find harmony with his new form
• Can wall climb and double-jump

• Shuriken: Extremely accurate, quick fire. Grabs three at at a time and can throw them individually or all at once in a fan pattern.
• Swift Strike: Dashes the direction you are looking (including up) and slashes with a blade that deals damage over time, dealing damage resets the cooldown
• Deflect: Blocks all enemy projectiles for several seconds and redirects them as your own projectiles towards your cursor’s aim
• Dragonblade: Pulls out his blade and gains high melee damage and range