The subsequent hero coming to Overwatch 2 isn’t precisely new. Gamers acquired a glimpse of him, an Omnic activist referred to as Ramattra, greater than three years in the past, on the conclusion of an Overwatch Archives occasion known as Storm Rising. That occasion’s cliffhanger reveal of a menacing Omnic teaming up the villain Doomfist lastly paid off on Friday on the Overwatch League Grand Finals, when Blizzard Leisure revealed the new tank-class character coming to Overwatch 2 subsequent month.

Ramattra will be a part of the Overwatch 2 roster on Dec. 6, debuting alongside the sport’s second season. He’ll be the sport’s eleventh tank character, and can deliver a singular mechanic to the tank group: Ramattra has two types, an ordinary Omnic type and a hulking second type, known as Nemesis.

In his customary Omnic type, Ramattra battles utilizing a employees that fires projectiles and may create a barrier to guard his crew. However when Ramattra hulks out, utilizing a capability on a cooldown, he turns into a big brawler able to highly effective melee assaults that may strike worry into “squishies” on the opposing crew. Overwatch builders described Ramattra’s transformation as “scary” and “menacing,” turning him from a reasonably standard-sized hero into one of many recreation’s largest. That become his extra aggressive Nemesis type makes him deadlier, nevertheless it additionally makes him a a lot greater goal for assaults like Ana’s sleep dart or Zenyatta’s orb of discord.

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However Ramattra will provide tank gamers new gameplay alternatives, letting them resolve between defending their crew with longer vary assaults and boundaries, or aggressively main the cost into battle. His punches, whereas in Nemesis type, can pierce by means of boundaries, lead hero designer Alec Dawson mentioned, offering counters to “bubbles” from heroes like Winston and Zarya.

Blizzard didn’t expose an excessive amount of about Ramattra’s capacity package or his stats throughout a press briefing on Thursday, and as an alternative centered on the Omnic’s narrative place in Overwatch’s world.

In accordance with Blizzard’s official origin story, Ramattra was constructed as a warfare machine for the Omnic Disaster, however he put down his weapons, looking for tranquility alongside Zenyatta. For a time, Ramattra adopted that peaceable path earlier than in the end main Null Sector, and preventing for the survival of his folks by any means mandatory.

“Omnics and people have tried to coexist, however as you’ve seen within the lore, that has not been going effectively for them,” lead narrative designer Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie mentioned. “Ramattra is bored with ready and has grown impatient. He has fashioned this group with some allies to battle for the freedom of the Omnic folks and win their security at any value.”

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Like Kiriko, it seems like Ramattra will roll out to gamers through Overwatch 2’s battle cross. Gamers who pay for the premium model of that cross will get him instantly, whereas different gamers might want to stage up the free model of the cross to unlock him. Requested whether or not Blizzard plans to vary the required battle cross stage — which was 55 for Kiriko — for Ramattra’s launch, artwork director Dion Rogers deferred, saying that the Overwatch crew is often evaluating its plans. “It’s a relentless dialog for our crew,” Rogers mentioned.

Ramattra will arrive in season 2 alongside a new map, one which builders mentioned has unspecified ties to the new hero. Extra heroes, together with a new support-class character, are deliberate for Overwatch 2 in 2023.