Overwatch's Next Hero Comes With A Badass Grappling Hook (And Juicy Lore Alternatives)

Earlier this yr, Overwatch broke the web (and its personal concurrent-player data) by including 5 new heroes to its ranks. Two of those heroes, Anran and Jetpack Cat, joined the fray on the aspect of Overwatch, the sport’s titular group of do-gooders. The opposite three, nonetheless, had extra nefarious intents. Now, Blizzard is balancing the scales with the introduction of a brand new Overwatch member: Sierra.

The studio formally revealed the upcoming hero within the animated brief Summit Breach, by which Sierra makes an attempt to cease Impasse, against the law syndicate working within the American Southwest, mid-heist. Sierra is in the end unsuccessful in her makes an attempt, and Emre and Freja take off with the stolen items. Nonetheless, this trailer does give us a primary glimpse at how this new Harm Hero would possibly play.

Just like Emre, Sojourn, and Soldier 76, Sierra seems to be like your commonplace run-and-gun hero, outfitted with a pulse rifle of types. Whereas the gun has a speedy principal hearth, Sierra can seemingly additionally take purpose with the weapon and dish out a robust, high-caliber spherical that embeds itself in her enemies. What really units her aside, nonetheless, are her tech capabilities, as Sierra appears to own the power to unleash a drone strike in addition to ship her drone to a choose location than use it as a grapple level. Blizzard has but to launch a full overview of her package, however ought to achieve this forward of her April 14 debut.

Along with a primary have a look at Sierra, Summit Breach additionally introduced us with some fascinating bits of lore and an surprising path the sport’s story might go in. Within the trailer, Sierra refers back to the vault that Emre broke into because the Naughton Vault–presumably in reference to Victoria Naughton, the Overwatch scientist who led the Soldier Enhancement Program and experimented on each Solider 76 and Reaper, resulting in their heightened skills. It is also value noting this is similar vault that Solider 76 broke into previous to Overwatch’s launch, i.e. the vault the place he stole his pulse rifle and tactical visor. As ex-Overwatch members turned Talon brokers, it could possibly be that Emre and Freja are merely utilizing their information of Overwatch’s base areas to serve Talon. Nonetheless, the continued story across the pair leads me to imagine there’s extra right here than meets the attention.

Freja solely joined Talon when she realized Emre, who has all however misplaced management of himself, was basically getting used as a device by them. She opted to affix Talon and keep beside her buddy somewhat than abandon him, and to at the present time, she appears to be the one one who can nonetheless attain out to his humanity. In truth, Freja stops Emre from killing Sierra within the clip, disarming him after which telling Sierra, “You do not need this struggle.” This looks like an nearly compassionate warning to the most recent Overwatch member from somebody trapped in a state of affairs past their management. Might their journey to Naughton Vault be self-serving somewhat than in Talon’s curiosity? It would not shock me if Freja is desperately searching for a approach to free her friend–a approach to restore him to the particular person she as soon as knew.

After all that is all hypothesis and we’ll have to attend till extra unfolds earlier than we get any solutions. At the moment, Overwatch is in Season 1 of its Reign of Talon occasion, although this new chapter involves a detailed in only a few days. On April 14, Season 2: Summit kicks off, bringing with it Sierra and loads of different updates.