Exactly whom the new 24th Overwatch character was going to be was the subject of some controversy. It was once rumored that Terry Crews was going to make an appearance as Doomfist, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
In the official Overwatch forum, the game’s director Jeff Kaplan wrote: “24 is not who you think it is.” Thar doesn’t necessarily mean a Terry Crews voiced-Doomfist won’t ever be a thing; it just probably won’t be this upcoming character. However, fellow athlete-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson advocated for Terry Crews voicing Doomfist.
The previously released characters via DLC are the hacker Sombra and the sniper Ana.Kaplan has said that there could be more characters coming via DLC in the future.”We have multiple new heroes being worked on right now plus numerous events and event-related content,’ said Kaplan.
In other Overwatch news, Roadhog and Winston received tweaks, as well as Bastion, D. Va and Mercy, all detailed below:
Roadhog
- Scrap Gun
- Spread decreased by 20 percent
- Chain Hook
- Targets are now pulled to a location 3.5 meters away, up from 2 meters
- Cooldown increased from 6 to 8
Winston
- Critical hit volume reduced by 15 percent
Bastion
- Configuration: Sentry
- Deploy time decreased from 1.5 seconds to 1.0 second
- Bullet spread increased by 50 percent
- Bullet spread is always at maximum (it no longer increases as the weapon is fired)
- Magazine size increased from 200 to 300
- Headshot damage multiplier has been removed
- No longer deals critical damage
- Configuration: Recon
- Bullet spread decreased by 25 percent
- Magazine size increased from 20 to 25
- Self-Repair
- Can now be used while moving
- Now bound to secondary fire (formerly Ability 2)
- No longer interrupted by taking damage
- A new resource meter has been added that deplete while Self-Repair is active and recharges when not in use
- Configuration: Tank
- No longer grants bonus armor
- Bastion has a new passive: Ironclad
- Bastion takes 35% less damage while in Sentry or Tank configuration
D.Va
- Defense Matrix
- Projectiles (like Roadhog’s Chain Hook or Tracer’s Pulse Bomb) no longer need to travel a minimum distance before they can be blocked
Mercy
- Resurrect
- While performing a resurrection, Mercy now becomes temporarily invulnerable along with the allies being revived
- Caduceus Staff
- Zenyatta can no longer be targeted when Transcendence is active
- New Hero Option: Guardian Angel Sensitivity
- Allows players to adjust Guardian Angel’s targeting sensitivity
- New Hero Option: Beam Sensitivity
- Allows players to adjust targeting sensitivity on Mercy’s Caduceus Staff beams