Overwatch 2’s subsequent tank hero was teased on the finish of the Season 13 trailer and gamers have already discovered clues about their identification in early idea artwork.
Not a lot was identified about Season 14’s tank hero earlier than October 9 with the exception being a placeholder picture revealed at BlizzCon 2023.
Nevertheless, the Season 13 trailer lastly gave us some solutions whereas elevating much more questions.
On the finish of the trailer, a broken Oasis College could possibly be seen and the digicam panned to the wall the place the phrase ‘PHREAKS’ was written in graffiti.
“It’s trying like a revolution,” a voice with a Scottish accent says because the trailer involves a detailed.
Curiously, as gamers shortly found, this isn’t the primary time Phreaks or Phreak has been talked about in Overwatch. The truth is, its first look dates again to early idea artwork when Overwatch was nonetheless in improvement as an MMO, Titan.
The idea artwork lists the hero’s talents as being cannon, stomp, and entice. That mentioned, don’t put an excessive amount of inventory in these placeholders remaining, as this artwork was from almost 10 years in the past and lots might have modified.
Nevertheless, as creator Bro You Wack identified, Phreaks seems to be the identify of a brand new faction within the recreation, nevertheless it’s been proper beneath everybody’s noses.
The identify Phreaks is even seen on the jacket of a punk-like character in artwork of the Omnic Disaster when Paris was beneath civil unrest.
“Both going by the identify ‘Phreak’ or in a gang known as ‘Phreaks’. The gang identify showing on the jacket and ‘revolution’ scene on the Overwatch map Paris,” he famous.
Fortunately, we gained’t have lengthy to attend till we get to study extra about this mysterious new hero. Ever since Mauga, the devs have allowed gamers to check out new characters the season earlier than they launch as a part of an early preview and to do some steadiness testing.
Whereas we’ll in all probability want to attend till Season 13’s halfway level for extra data, there could possibly be extra clues coming as soon as S13 kicks off on October 15.
