In a considerably surprising change of tempo, Blizzard gave followers extra particulars than anticipated concerning the new heroes coming to Overwatch 2 in 2024 throughout the BlizzCon opening ceremony on Friday, Nov. 3.
After revealing the sport’s newest hero, Mauga, who served as one of many recreation’s worst-kept secrets and techniques, Overwatch 2 recreation director Aaron Keller teased a little bit of a roadmap for 2024, which is ready to incorporate three new heroes.
It shouldn’t shock followers an excessive amount of that Blizzard is including three new heroes to the sport in 2024. They’ve been open about including a brand new hero as soon as each different season, and seasons have constantly lasted about two months. So with 12 months in a 12 months, that’s six seasons, and if half of them have a brand new hero, we’ll get three new heroes.
However what possible shocked most followers was how a lot element Keller was already prepared to present us concerning the characters coming to the sport. Sharing some paintings for the primary two heroes coming in 2024, Keller famous the primary hero of 2024 shall be a DPS hero named Enterprise. The second doesn’t have a proper title but, however Blizzard has been utilizing the codename “House Ranger” for the help hero. Keller didn’t share particulars on the third hero coming in 2024.
The official Overwatch Twitter account adopted up the opening ceremony by posting pictures of the 2 heroes for everybody to examine. Primarily based on the image of Enterprise, we would anticipate the hero to be a close-range DPS hero. With what seems to be an unlimited drill of their hand, the dimensions of Zarya’s Particle Cannon, Enterprise offers off an aesthetic combining a bit little bit of Zarya and Mei.
Given the timeline of Overwatch 2 seasons, we will anticipate to see Enterprise in Overwatch 2 across the first or second week of April with the beginning of season 10. The outer-space-themed help hero ought to observe in August with the beginning of season 12.
Blizzard beforehand acknowledged they intend on releasing two help heroes back-to-back because the function catches up with the remainder of the roster when it comes to illustration. This could lead us to imagine the third and last hero coming in 2024 shall be a help hero in December for the beginning of season 14.
We don’t anticipate Blizzard to present us too many extra particulars concerning the brand new heroes this weekend, however the recreation’s “What’s Subsequent Panel” tomorrow at 2:30pm CT will hopefully present us with no less than just a few extra morsels of knowledge for us to hold onto whereas we wait.
