Overwatch Devs Confirm That Sure, Tracer Is Still The Game’s Mascot

We straight requested Overwatch’s Lead Hero Producer Kenny Hudson, in addition to artwork director Dion Rogers, if Tracer continues to be the mascot of the sport — or if she was ever actually thought-about its mascot, in any respect.

Their reply was agency and decisive: Tracer is, and at all times was, the mascot of Overwatch.

“Tracer continues to be the mascot for Overwatch. Very a lot. ‘Tracer orange’ is a quote that the crew makes use of on a regular basis. The little cheeto on high of the sigil is orange. She’s nonetheless that lady,” Rogers advised us.

Overwatch simply obtained a brand-new help hero in Doctrine, a vampire-inspired character who has a protracted historical past with Doomfist. No, he’s not an precise vampire, however that motif was a key a part of his design from the very starting, says Rogers.

“The concept got here from our lead narrative designer, Miranda Moyer, who truly requested the query of, ‘What would a vampire appear like within the Overwatch universe?’ We at all times do our greatest work on heroes after we get a very cool theme to rally round, and ‘vampire’ simply obtained the mind juices flowing on every thing from equipment, to idea, to artwork,” he defined.

“This one was enjoyable, as a result of with Hero 54, we’ve hit all of the archetypes like cowboy, knight, ninja. As soon as we thought in regards to the vampire, we had been like, ‘Yeah, let’s lean into it and see if we will make a hero out of this,’” Hudson added.

“He’s nonetheless a scientist or a mechanical engineer, even his cape nonetheless seems like a lab coat from the sciency a part of him. …we began him off as a scientist, a typical man, lab coat, glasses. Typically it takes a crew saying once they see a picture, ‘That’s the hero.’ He didn’t fairly really feel prefer it but. However we took the vampire factor that Miranda talked about, we utilized that, and he truly began to really feel like a hero. You’ll be able to see a theme, you’ll be able to see a fantasy, you’ll be able to see an archetype. Making him hail from Zimbabwe, Africa, provides him that instant heritage and connection to Doomfist. He labored for Doomfist’s household sooner or later in his life, and helped construct arms for Doomfist, so it made sense that he would attain out to him to get his arm again.”

Doctrine is the almost the final of 10 characters who’ve come to Overwatch this 12 months. With a lot content material dropping into the sport in 2026, we needed to ask about what peaks are left for Overwatch to climb, and what’s within the pipeline subsequent.

“There’s at all times room for extra heroes,” Rogers mentioned. “There’s much more we’re cooking.”

“It’s not a lot about hitting the targets we’ve already hit, however setting new ones and seeing the place we will take it,” Hudson added. “We’re actually excited with all of the crew has discovered over the past couple of years to have the ability to actually push ourselves into new territory and evolve in new, fascinating methods.”