Note: Please don’t report this as spam or anything, this is simply a creative writing exercise coming up with new heroes and framing it like I am leaking the info online!
Greetings! I bring you fellow gamers some OW2 info…
I’m a now ex-dev on the project who got moved to work on CoD stuff a while back so things might have changed since I was moved.
These were the fleshed out heroes when I was on team:
New Tank Hero Junkerqueen -
You already know what to expect. Big burly Aussie woman with ripped Mad Max clothing, warpaint. She has throwable explosives and an axe weapon. I heard some voice interactions with her and Zarya and they were really funny, I remember laughing a lot
New Tank Hero “Aura” (codename) -
Heavily reworked and altered over time on the dev team. The original idea was to have a tank who shifts between two or three “modes”. He’s a First Tribes man “Native American” with some kind of large exosuit, whose main weapon is a gatling gun or a single powerful laser shot thing depending on your mode.
This evolved into having two auras (hence the codename) right before I left, where team mates in proximity get certain effects such as a percentage of their HP loss is instead taken by Aura, like he “eats” a portion of everyone’s damage.
The other aura mode was supposed to revolve around damage output for him and they were trying to make a Zarya-bubble system where you absorb the power of incoming damage and convert it to move speed/fire rate/powering up your shift (it was all really up in the air what the damage aura would do)
New DPS Hero Morgan -
Arabian “twink” assassin with poisonous daggers. His big thing is that he is mute and can’t talk. He’s a sneaky assassin as a concept and was supposed to be Sombra’s male counterpart
His shift would apply a temporary poison that made his attacks apply a DoT damage, and gave a slow damaging aura if you were in range. This was a counterbalance to let you know he was behind you since he has no voiceline announcing himself like Sombra.
He can’t fully invis but he can become transparent and have low footstep sound.
New DPS Hero “Kim” -
A female Vietnamese character, was still in concepting.
New Support hero Corinth -
A female half-omnic (yes Im serious, just wait until the OW2 campaign, you’ll get it) She looks a little more human than omnic and has black hair. She is kind of a reincarnation of Aurora, the first omnic to gain sentience in the lore.
She has an energy gun thing that has two modes where one mode heals who you shoot, and a stacking buff applies if you shoot same ally multiple times. Other mode pierces enemies so good for grouped up enemies
Her shift is a dash similar to Genji’s swift strike. It interrupts enemy abilities for like 0.2 sec when you pass thru them.
This is the only hero with a concrete ultimate so far “Aetherflow”
You become an energy form, floating around with fast speed. You can’t be shot but you can still use your primary weapon and it has increased healing/damage/rate of fire. You get three charges of your dash instead of the usual one while in this mode.
New Support hero “Guy” -
Not sure if his final name but everyone took a liking to it so we just used the name. It’s a happy, always laughing jolly tan dude with a Spanish accent (idk if he’s from Spain). He is an old friend of Reinhardt. I didn’t really see his kit when I was still on the team but I do remember some kind of bazooka or slow moving missile?
Fox girl is planned. I don’t think Mauga is planned to be playable. That’s all I know about new heroes boyos!
