Well yeah, obviously. We know they work on multiple heroes at once. The question is how long it'll take and why we need yet more DPS heroes.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Overwatch New Hero "Echo" Revealed
- Thread starter NeoRaider
- Start date
i wonder if they are going to just have fixed ult charge and not adjust depending on hero.
because yeah, 2 trance? if you can get it fast enough for the first since trance last 6s anyways. and her ult is 15? they probably going to end up dropping it to like 10s.
PTR today? Can't wait to play 6x5 Echos (because the last red team dude decided to tryhard with McCree)
edit: at least we'll have someone to ult I guess
edit: at least we'll have someone to ult I guess
Primary, 3 projectile 51 total damage
E ability, focus beam that does 50 damage to heros, shields, Mei walls that are above 50% health, 200 damage when they are under 50%
alt fire, sticky bombs from the OW2 cinematic.
She has a fly ability and glide like Mercy
Ult allows her to duplicate and enemy hero for 15s and has increase ult generation
I'm in love with every single move and ability this character has. Wow.
I'm only mad about how long que times are about to be.
I'm only mad about how long que times are about to be.
NEW HERO: ECHO (DAMAGE)
Echo is an evolutionary robot created by Dr. Mina Liao and programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles. Having joined up with the Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged member of Overwatch for the first time. Echo fires three shots ( Tri-Shot ) at once, in a triangle pattern. Echo fires a volley of Sticky Bombs that detonates after a delay. Echo uses Flight to surge forward quickly, then can fly freely to avoid danger or maneuver to a more strategic location. Using Focusing Beam , Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to targets with less than half health, including barriers. With Duplicate , Echo targets an enemy hero and clones them, gaining all of their abilities and potentially changing a team fight in an instant.
GENERAL UPDATES
New Feature: Training Partner
Within the Practice Range, use the Training Partner Spawner to create a bot of any hero on which you can test your abilities.
General
Tracer
Blink
BUG FIXES
General
Blizzard World
Mei
Echo is an evolutionary robot created by Dr. Mina Liao and programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles. Having joined up with the Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged member of Overwatch for the first time. Echo fires three shots ( Tri-Shot ) at once, in a triangle pattern. Echo fires a volley of Sticky Bombs that detonates after a delay. Echo uses Flight to surge forward quickly, then can fly freely to avoid danger or maneuver to a more strategic location. Using Focusing Beam , Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to targets with less than half health, including barriers. With Duplicate , Echo targets an enemy hero and clones them, gaining all of their abilities and potentially changing a team fight in an instant.
GENERAL UPDATES
New Feature: Training Partner
Within the Practice Range, use the Training Partner Spawner to create a bot of any hero on which you can test your abilities.
General
- Added a "Patch Notes" button on the main menu and within the options menu. Selecting this button will open a web browser with the latest available game updates
Tracer
Blink
- Improved the accuracy of Tracer's blink movement such that Tracer will more likely end up where the crosshair is pointing
- Tracer will now blink around and over obstacles more easily to move towards the crosshair location. For example, if you aim alongside the corner of a wall, Tracer will blink past the corner
- Tracer cannot blink through a space where she otherwise cannot fit normally
- Tracer cannot blink over an obstacle which she otherwise cannot jump over normally, with the jump originating from Tracer's height at the start of the blink movement
BUG FIXES
General
- Fixed an issue preventing switching to the next hero when team spectating D.Va in Custom Games
- Fixed an issue preventing Team FFA settings and some Hero settings from being pasted back into Custom Game Settings via copy-paste
- Fixed a bug that could cause voice lines from opposing teams to be heard at Hero Select screens on certain maps
- Fixed a bug where knockbacks were not working correctly if the target was moving down a ramp
- Alt+Tab now will cancel saving a highlight, instead of causing problems with playback
Blizzard World
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to stand in an unintended location between the first and second point
- Fixed a bug that caused Sombra's translocator to float when thrown in certain spots
- Fixed a bug that could cause players can get stuck between the scooter and wall
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck on some bushes
- The capture area for the first capture point no longer extends outside of the visual capture boundary
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck between a wall, plant, and tree
Mei
- Fixed a bug where an already frozen enemy getting hit by Blizzard would cause the frozen visual effect to end too early
- Fixed a bug that prevented Moira's Fade icon from appearing disabled when she is stunned
- Fixed an issue preventing Big Message and Small Message from displaying messages in Practice Range
They made her a dps huh, well I'm a bit disappointed. Her ultimate really cool tho, remind me with morphling.
OP
OP
Just watch the live gameplay. It's not nearly as good/strong as it looked in practice.
I think regular players will struggle to find optimal value with the ult, but this ability as is will disrupt the entire pro-level meta game
While I haven't been playing OW since the whole Hong Kong deal, I really love her character. I'm sad she's not support (as that is what I normally play as) but she look sooo fun to play with.
She sounds great doing all the enemy ultimate voice lines, too.
OP
OP
Mina LIao created the Omnics
ORIGINS
To chart the origins of the Echo project, it is important to delve into the personal history of Singaporean scientist Dr. Mina Liao, who would later become perhaps best known as one of the founding members of Overwatch. But prior to joining the organization, Dr. Liao was widely considered one of the preeminent experts in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, and an employee of Omnica Corporation. There she worked on the team that was responsible for the design and creation of the omnics that would ultimately wage war against humanity during the Omnic Crisis. Ultimately, it was this expertise that led her to be recruited into Overwatch to help stop her creations.
Even that catastrophe was not enough to dissuade Liao of her firmly held belief in the potential artificial life and its power to transform the lives of humanity for the better. She dreamed of improving upon the original omnic designs. These theories would become the foundation of the Echo project. However, due to Overwatch's restrictions on artificial intelligence research and development after the Omnic Crisis, Liao was forced to limit Echo's capabilities. What she created was a multirole, adaptive robot that could be programmed to learn different functions: anything from medical support to construction: but had serious limits to its independent decision making. Critically, Echo had multiple layers of protections, failsafes, and security to keep it under control. Echo was used successfully on test missions alongside Overwatch strike teams, but Overwatch leadership was reluctant to put it into full service.
REUNION
However, the truth was that Liao had programmed Echo with a powerful, general artificial intelligence that learned by observation. After thousands of hours in the scientist's presence, much of Liao's behaviors (including her speech), were adopted by the Echo robot. This secret that was known by very few, including Blackwatch agent Jesse McCree, who had, at times, been assigned to guard the scientist. When Liao was killed in attack on an Overwatch facility, Overwatch's leadership was reluctant to continue pursuing such a dangerous project, and all development on Echo was shut down, and the robot was placed into quarantine.
OVERWATCH 2
Having joined up with the new Overwatch team to defend Paris against the Null Sector incursion, for the first time, Echo is seeing action as a full-fledged team member. But as she is exposed to new people, new ideas, and new situations without Dr. Liao to guide her, no one knows how she might evolve in the future.
Damn, i was expecting her to be support... fucking omnics....
With that ult she better be a glass cannon.
This, also buff the matrix.
With that ult she better be a glass cannon.
This, also buff the matrix.
Last edited:
OP
OP
Around 2-3 weeks.
I would expect Echo to be released mid April tho.
So after playing some minutes, she looks like a mix of a lot of things, and she is awesome.
Primary fire is strange, is there something similar in the game? The closest thing is zen's orbs I think.
Bombs are tracers ult on a cooldown and less damage.
Beam seemed a little too finicky on where you're aiming. But can be very powerful.
First time I used an ultimate I was like WHAT. I need to try it on a real game.
Primary fire is strange, is there something similar in the game? The closest thing is zen's orbs I think.
Bombs are tracers ult on a cooldown and less damage.
Beam seemed a little too finicky on where you're aiming. But can be very powerful.
First time I used an ultimate I was like WHAT. I need to try it on a real game.
Thanks :)
So, probably around the next event.
You have to do damage. She doesn't get ult automatically.
Next event is end of May, Anniversary, probably mid april
