Developer Update | Introducing Echo | Overwatch
Developer Update | Introducing Echo | Overwatch
Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan discusses Echo, the latest hero that’s flying into Overwatch, providing insight into her back story and abilities.
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Community: “New hero is support, damage or tank?”
Jeff: *Yes*
Can’t wait for my POTG to get stolen by a Reaper we don’t even have for a 3 man death blossom
As if a dps player is willingly going to turn into a tank or support.
That’s all and then some!
Nate I’m willing to bet 90% of her ults are going to be used on tanks
Jeff: She can turn into another character on the enemy team
Flex players: laughs in triumph
@Gus Fring true the 222 stops it but you can always still practice in other modes outside comp
Thats me right there
Ah yes, as a flex player I’m finally gonna rank up as DPS
*laughs in TF2*
Necros: *Copying enemy genji*
Necros: *You absolute fool you baboon you have fell for my trap card and for that i shall take your life*
“accurate”
“Flight”
“Rapid horizontal mobility”
“If the target has 50 percent or less health, it does a lot more damage”
Literally turns into a member of your team but better…
Supports are gonna need a support group…
Ethan Donnelly plus her fly seems like genji dash or doom fist where if you try to play agro with it, you’ll be left without an escape and hitscans will shut you down
@Marcus That’s if used incorrectly.
You CAN use Genji dash to engage depending on the map. If you’re somewhere with high ground and the target is on low ground you can dash into them and fan for damage then wall climb to safety. Its not as good as a dash to get out but it is something you can do.
Echos flight is kinda gonna be the same, you can use it to burst speed into the target and damage while flying but you need to have an escape planned out that you can use the last few seconds of flight to get to.
Mercy is like that, her Valk gives you freedom of movement but at the end you gotta reposition somewhere safer for you so when it does end you are relatively safe
@Priseterqua you get there by gitting gud
Doesn’t echo turn into a member of an enemy team?
Ethan Donnelly yeah that’s kinda what I meant. Just suck at wording things 😂
OW: our DPS times are broken so to get people to choose Tank and Heals more you guessed it….We are adding a new DPS character to the roster
There are to many dps is
See, what they should have done to fix the DPS queue was make Echo a support and have healing provide twice as much ult charge as damage and then they could change into a DPS with their ult.
You have to bait them away before they’re in the queue, not after.
it doesnt matter how many dps characters there are. If there are 13 support, dps, and tank characters, there will still be an overwhelming number of DPS queues. Not a lot of fps players want to be a reinhardt holding up a shield and getting bounced around the place, or stuck in the backlines while you get dove 24/7.
@Zakk but rein could potentially be replaced by a more fun tank…
flaws in your argument
Me: thank God 2-2-2 stuck around! Jeff: goats. Us: what? Jeff: goats is back 3 tanks. 2 rein ults in ten seconds here you go.
Two gravs in 10 sec 👀
My Rein: HAMMER DO… *_Slept by enemy Ana_*
Enemy Ana: We’re safe, LEAVE HIM ALONE
Echo Rein: HAMMER DOWNN!!!!
Summary :
There are already too many dps characters compared to tanks and supports, but since we’re stupid we add a new one… Thank you for your encouragement and enjoy the game.
A bit early for april 1st jeff
OW community: Force 2/2/2!
*Blizzard Introduces Role Lock*
Jeff: well yes but no, this hero can turn into any hero
Can’t wait for little 15 seconds spurts of GOATs variants to come back. Or for your Mercy to die, the Echo then to duplicate the enemy’s Mercy, res your Mercy and then have your actual Mercy res the next person that dies.
“We know for DPS, a barrier can get quite annoying”
Me: *staring at Orisa’s 600 health paper shield*
“look how the massacred my horse”
You think that’s bad? Look at Winston
you are plat and dont know how stupid two shields were
I thought shields were supposed to frustrate dps. They say overwatch is not about the killing, but they sure make it feel like it’s designed around the dps.
@Henrique Costa its designed around tanks if you still havent realized, they are also by far the most important and impactful roles
Can’t wait to play Echo and have my team still want me to use my ult on a support so I can heal instead of throw
Thats huge value though. Depending on Ult charge speeds for supports you could potentially build a Nano in seconds, or have beat to engage with while letting your own lucio keep theres or Coalescence.
Like the options echo has should make any support player interested
Disappointing, her personality in the McCree short seemed so healing, was hoping for a support character ):
Damon Seire I mean technically she can turn to any support so that counts I guess
@MoonGaming yeah but in reality what DPS player is gonna decide to change into a healer rather than, say, a tank with a strong ultimate (Dva, for example), or another meta DPS for double op damage?
Damon Seire A DPS who wants to gain SR
Our healer is trash and wont heal
Echo player: heroes never die
ARIAkhafan 2016 more like Echo player: It’s High Noon!!!
Caught a Darksiders fan over here! 😁
Wait I don’t have echo
@Garadares I’ve yet to meet a warrior among you
“And then we get a boost-io” 😂
I just heard lucio screaming BOOSTI-OH
“For a brief period of time you’ll have 3 tanks”
THE RETURN OF GOATS
@Le SpoderMan well technically if you have a soldier you can do zone healing wich is the point of the heals in the goat
@Phosphophyllite goats-ish
But only for 13 seconds at a time 😂
Martin Schrentewein imagine having 2 reins charging at you 💀💀💀
@SweetNight UwU This ult will sprout so much chaos, but mostly memes and I’m here for all of it.
Jeff: we are trying to fix the queue’s for DPS.
Overwatch Team: Add another one
You just don’t understand the higher intellect of team 4. This matter is very complex and the statistics clearly indicate that adding another fun dps character that is complete cancer to play against will actually lower the DPS queue times. And yes I know you are already asking yourself, these are the same statistics that lead to them banning Rein, Moira and Ana all in one week.
Overwatch better add like 7 more support and tanks by the time overwatch 2 is announced if they actually want some freaking normal queue times.
SO true
Finnツ the bans are random lmao just because its based of use percentage in OWL doesnt change the actual selection of the heros being random.
it wouldn’t have fixed dps queues if they had added a support or tank.
Jeff: now for the part that everyone has been waiting for.
Me: Ah yes, the SFM po-
Jeff: Her ultimate ability.
Finally… A man of culture in the comments.
@Okusar
At least, not a salty one.
2:53 “it was actually quarantined”
lmao us too tf
they’re protecting us from the omnics
So Omnics were the ones who spread Corona. All makes sence
Ahaha glad I’m not the only one thinking that
Why in the love of God they made her DPS
aw man, I was hoping she was going to be a support 🙁
Don’t worry, the next hero will be one (there IS a pattern to the release schedule) plus I’m sure they’re going to add multiple of both healers and tanks when OW2 comes out
“enemy team has a widow”
“We don’t have any long”
Echo: hold my oil
•The beam now doesn’t damage the enemies. Instead, it heals your allies. The beam heals more the less health your ally has.
•You can now stick stickies your allies to give them temporary shield.
Was it that hard, Blizzard?
why would sticky bombs give you shields?
@Primescape 16 I think he’s trying to show blizzard how to make her a support character :/
@Funky Villain but doesnt zarya and brig give temporary shields to allies?
Primescape 16 no he meant shields as in the blue health bar
@Swift doesnt lucio do that already with his ult?