Overwatch – unknown assailants wreak devastation at airport, steal gauntlet of Doomfist

Blizzard continues to tease its new Overwatch hero, Efi, and the most recent data out of each the official Twitter account and the PTR will hopefully attain a climax quickly.

To put the brand new Overwatch teases of their correct place, we’re going to inform the story from the start. We received’t embrace the spider tank idea, as the sport’s producer Jeff Kaplan has stated neither it nor Doomfist are the new hero. It’s Efi, and by hero we imply she’s going to create the brand new hero.

The story up to now is beneath, and in the event you don’t really feel like studying, watch Arekkz’s video above.

Efi Oladele is an 11-year-old robotics prodigy from Numbani, which simply so occurs to be the situation of the Unity Celebration – and the place the gauntlet of Doomfist is situated.

Efi’s objective in life is to “build something that can keep us safe, like the new OR15,” and plans to consumer her award grant cash to create one thing particular.

To have a good time successful the genius grant from the Adawe Foundation, she has determined to make a journey. Well, a humorous factor occurred when she arrived on the Numbani International Airport: a significant confrontation occurred, resulting in OR15 defense robots being destroyed.

It needed to have been one thing tremendous robust to trigger all the destruction, as a result of as you see within the screencap taken from the video, one robotic was smashed into the wall. Like it has been “punched” or one thing. Hrmmmm.

Efi, who was on the airport ready on a airplane, took an image of the aftermath and submitted it to the native information.

The picture above, as you’ll be able to see, reads: “OR15 defense units destroyed in confrontation with unidentified assailant at Numbani airport. No civilian casualties reported.”

Now, right here is the place issues get a bit fascinating: not solely has the destruction seen above has been added to the Overwatch PTR, Doomfist’s gauntlet is now lacking from the Numbani Payload the place it was encased within the adjoining room. Even the hologram of the gauntlet has disappeared.

You can take an excellent take a look at the payload wherein the gauntlet was encased beneath within the picture taken by PCgamesN. The website has some fairly good photographs of the scene from the PTR over on Imgur.

As you’ll be able to see, the glass case has been shattered, which is inline with the wire mesh file added to the PTR earlier this month.

Something or somebody appears to have used the gauntlet to trigger all the destruction on the airport. That, or the carnage was brought on by these chargeable for stealing the gauntlet. Either approach, Doomfist’s gauntlet is gone, the airport has taken a beating, and the culprits have gotten away.

And that’s the story up to now.

Going by earlier Blizzard reveals, it’s fairly doable the brand new Overwatch hero might be revealed in full this coming week. We hope. Or, the studio might resolve to make a full reveal at PAX East which takes place Mar 10-12 – if it needs to make use of a venue for the announcement. You by no means know with Blizzard.

We’ll simply have to attend and see, however till then, anticipate loads of teasing.