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Overwatch’s new hero Echo is officially “coming soon"Is there an Echo in here?
Is there an Echo in here?
Alright alright, you can stop speculating now because Blizzard have finally confirmed that the long-teased Echo will beOverwatch’snext hero. Or, perhaps continue speculating because they’ve told us next to zilch about her. Although we’ve seen her pop up in previous animated shorts, today’s very brief teaser does not much more than confirm that she’s en-route to the game.
Here’s the teaser for ya, so go on and watch that before we talk more.
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In today’s teaser, Dr. Liao, co-founder of the fictionalOverwatch, reminisces during what were probably her final moments about her life’s work completing Echo. Blizzard’s description of the blue-faced AI is pretty vague so far: “An evolutionary robot programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, Echo represents the cutting edge of technology.”
Imogenspeculated about Echojust a few days ago and although we’ve got the confirmation she predicted, the other details are still up in the air. Will Echo be a healer? Some sort of flying laser mage as she appears in theOverwatch 2 trailer? Dr. Liao’s personal logs, from Blizzard’s hintson Twitter, do lend some credence to the idea that Echo will be a helper more than a fighter.
Liao definitely wanted people to stop fearing Omnic AIs, which you’d imagine might come in the form of one whose purpose is to help or heal. Ah, but it is Overwatch so she’s got to be involved in the fight somehow, right?
That’s all we know so far, but as Echo is supposed to be “coming soon” we’ll likely hear more specifics about her play style before too long.
If this has all got you in the mood to play a bit, Overwatch’s story-based PvE missions are currently live forthe annual Archive event, which we know we’ll see more of inOverwatch 2when it launches.
