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