Last night time, the Overwatch Twitter channel tweeted an “after-action report” of an outdated Overwatch operation. We reckon it teases a brand new hero, a brand new map, and, the sport’s subsequent lore occasion, which is due a while in April.
Here’s what we learn about who might be Overwatch’s next hero.
The declassified operation known as White Dome, and the report says it was a strike towards “a remaining pocket of omnic resistance” in Turkey. This doubtless means White Dome passed off throughout Overwatch’s heyday within the omnic wars, very like final yr’s Uprising occasion.
[DECLASSIFIED] After-Action Report: Operation “WHITE DOME” pic.twitter.com/fvnUQQEFDC
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) February 23, 2018
The Uprising occasion starred 4 heroes, and the White Dome report mentions 4 Overwatch brokers: Ana, Reinhardt, Torbjorn, and “private first class Emre Sarioglu.” That final identify is clearly not a present hero.
Perhaps Emre might be launched alongside a brand new lore occasion primarily based on Operation White Dome? When we spoke with Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan in December, he mentioned constructing on Uprising was a “challenge, because that was a very specific lore event. I think we have some interesting plans to evolve what we’ve done in Uprising, but I’m gonna leave that a bit of a surprise for now.”
Blizzard have to provide Overwatch followers one other probability to seize the Uprising skins, and reissuing them alongside some new ones from one other lore occasion on the similar time would make plenty of sense. If we’re going to re-enact Operation White Dome, meaning we additionally want a brand new map, since there isn’t a Turkey-based map within the sport proper now. And by the way, notice that identify: White Dome. Perhaps the Turkish map will characteristic the Hagia Sophia?
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