After seemingly weeks of speculating, Blizzard has finally revealed the next hero who’s joining the Overwatch roster. Internet and Overwatch fans, meet Orisa and she will be listed in the tank tier of the roster. Check out the character reveal below!
In addition, game director Jeff Kaplan gives us some insight into Orisa’s back story, abilities, and overall strategy. Check it out!
Here are some takeaways that we took from the video above:
- Primary Fire: Fusion Driver
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- A projectile-based machine gun
- Has good range and rate of fire
- Alternate Fire: Pulse-Based Utility
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- Sends out a pulse and hit the alt-fire button again to bring in all affected enemies within its radius ie. Zarya’s Graviton Surge
- Use it to position or reposition targets
- Can pull people around corners
- Fortify
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- A tank ability
- Makes her tougher
- Prevents crowd-control abilities ie. Pharah’s concussive blast
- Protective Barrier
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- Has range
- About the size of half of Winston’s protective bubble
- Can be placed anywhere wherever she targets it
- Ultimate: Supercharger
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- Damage boosts anyone who’s in line of sight of the supercharger
- Enemies can destroy Orisa’s ultimate ie. Symmetra’s Shield Barrier ultimate
- Heroes are being adjusted to be more effective against barriers
Sadly, we don’t have any word on Doomfist coming or if Terry Crews is involved in it at all.
What do you think of the brand new character? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments section below!
Orisa is now available to play in Overwatch’s PTR (Public Testing Region) but the official release date is TBD.
from Nerd Reactor
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