Overwatch 2 Hints at New Hero In-Game, Unveiling Significant Lore Developments

11 Jul at 23:07

A screenshot of the landing pod in the attacking team’s lobby on the map Dorado in Overwatch 2

Blizzard is teasing the arrival of Overwatch 2‘s following hero, a personality codenamed Space Ranger, for her arrival in the game’s following period. Earlier today, together with the launch of Overwatch 2‘s brand-new Transformers crossover, a (rather) strange things showed up in the game’s Dorado map: a vacant getaway case that most likely brought Space Ranger back to Earth.

That getaway case consisted of a couple of hints concerning the identification of Space Ranger, which Blizzard teased finally year’s BlizzCon. A Morse- coded message and a picture taped to the within that getaway case tips that the personality might be an old coworker of Mei’s– or a minimum of a person that understands Mei

Shortly after the getaway case was uncovered in Dorado– it’s slap bit in the assaulting group’s generate area– gamers translated the secret message rising from the spacecraft. It checks out:

J HAS LANDED

TRYING TRANSMISSION TO RPT

WAITING FOR ACTION

“J” might be a personality called Jiayi, that is referenced in among Mei’s voice lines in Overwatch 2 On the Lijiang Tower map, Mei will certainly often state, “My friend Jiayi works here. She and I had a lot of fun in grad school. Maybe too much.”

Lijiang Tower is the head office for Lucheng Interstellar, the Chinese firm that developed the Horizon Lunar Colony, where Winston and Hammond come from, in Overwatch tradition. Lucheng Interstellar likewise shows up to have actually been associated with creating a Martian nest; 2 parachutes linked to the getaway case in Dorado birth the Lucheng logo design and words “Project Red Promise,” showing a press external to Mars.

A screenshot of a photograph of Mei and another woman, seen from the interior of an escape pod, from Overwatch 2

A picture of Mei and an individual that might be Jiayi is taped to the inside of the getaway case. But Overwatch followers have actually likewise guessed that the “J” might describe a various personality, Jiayi’s child, considered that Jiayi would certainly, like Mei, remain in her early-to-mid 40s. The art work we have actually seen of Space Ranger so far suggests the brand-new hero might be more youthful.

Either means, Mei reaching see an old pal (or the child of her pal) would certainly be great information for the personality. All of her various other close friends are dead.

Artwork of Overwatch 2’s Space Ranger with various details from BlizzCon 2023

Space Ranger comes from a nest on Mars, and she’ll be a “highly mobile support hero who has quite a bit of vertical mobility,” the programmer claimed at BlizzCon 2023’s “Overwatch 2: What’s Next” panel. She’ll be equipped with a burst-fire clever submachine weapon and retracting shoulder-mounted projectile launchers.

We do not recognize Space Ranger’s real identification or what the hero’s last name will certainly be right now. But it’s most likely that Blizzard will certainly remain to drip out brand-new information in advance of her arrival in period 12 of Overwatch 2, which need to go stay in mid-to-lateAugust When she goes online, Space Ranger will certainly be Overwatch 2‘s 41st hero and its nine assistance.

If Blizzard remains to provide beta sneak peeks of brand-new heroes, as it made with Mauga and Venture, we might likewise obtain our hands on Space Ranger in the coming weeks, so to examine them out.

Source: Polygon