Blizzard tweeted a heads-up announcement about the hero reveal, along with details of a developer interview with lead hero designer Alec Dawson and art director Dion Rogers ahead of the finals. You can tune in to the Overwatch League Grand Finals today, November 4th, at 7pm PDT/10pm EDT on YouTube. That’s 2am GMT/3am CET tomorrow for viewers in the UK and Europe, if anyone’s getting up early to catch the fireworks. We’ve known - since Blizzard released a roadmap for Overwatch 2 earlier this year - that a tank hero was coming in season two, which begins in December. Murmurings have suggested that the next Overwatch 2 hero, hero 36 for the game, will be Mauga. Mauga’s a Samoan character and former friend of support hero Baptiste, introduced in a short story back in 2019. Whoever the new hero is, they’ll be the first to join the game following season one’s trio of Kiriko, Junker Queen, and Sojourn. Ollie had a fun enough time with the game for his Overwatch 2 review-in-progress, but didn’t think much of it as a sequel. “For a content update, Overwatch 2 does an absolutely phenomenal job. For a sequel, it feels pretty underwhelming,” he said. “I wonder, would it have been better to use chapters like Fortnite did? Something between a content update and a sequel?” Overwatch 2 is a free to play download from Battle.net. Heroes take a fair bit of grinding. Activision Blizzard are currently the subject of a number of legal actions, labour disputes and allegations of workplace harassment. Rock Paper Shotgun will continue to write about these issues, as well as covering Activision Blizzard games as part of our commitment to cover subjects of interest to our readers. The latest news can always be found under our Activision Blizzard tag.
