well, the next hero has a silhouette as her only clue. i’d like to adopt the name “sunny girl” like when we used the term “fox girl” for kiriko xD.
what do you think of her? will she be a melee hero? skill from above? human or omnic? do you have theories about her healing / utility of her in game? but above all: villain?
I’m starting to feel a certain heaviness in the overwatch lore that there’s only moira as a conceivable support villain in the talon/null sector faction. or in any case, zero mercenary healers to be proposed as hired by the villains, as can be done with the junkers instead.
I’d imagine she’ll be another hero rather than a villain if only for the fact that the sun is usually associated with heroes. It provides light, warmth and more that makes it a sort of natural symbol for those who take care of others. Doubly so if she’s a support.
From the little art we have, she looks human to me if you squint. She has skin, no visible sensors like most omnics do (I don’t think the little lights on her headdress are eyes, though I could be wrong) and we had an omnic fairly recently with Ramattra.
I think your right that she’s probably a melee character or at least a melee focused, though. That’s a very big sword for a character with no visible ranged weapons. Unless she’s a cyborg like Sojourn or Lifeweaver, I suspect she might be the support equivalent of a character like Doomfist or Junker Queen; big melee weapon that supplements some kind of spam damage primary.
Personally, it think its more part of the wider issue that Overwatch’s universe lacks villains in general. Ramattra is the central villain of the campaign, and even now after all the work they’ve done on him he feels like a bit of a rush job. More villains in general, please.
I feel it’s too early, for me at least, to even make a guess. So even the things I’m going to comment on could be completely wrong.
I’ve seen people mentioning that she could be from South America, and that would be cool to have more representants from that region since we only have Lúcio so far.
The Sun/light theme can be explored in many ways. We’ve seen this on skins for other characters and they usually turn out great, so her design should be striking.
Melee heroes always attract many fans because there are few of them in the game. But they are usually hard to balance so they are always given ranged options. I feel that fans like melee heroes in theory, but when comes to play against them they are the most complained about.
In OW2 the devs wants to add more diversity in gameplay and I think that is fun.
Like I said it feels too early. But the thing about light, UV light more specifically, is used to kill bacteria so it’s used for sterilization of equipment. The vitamin D production in our body is dependent on sun light, and our circadian rhythm is regulated by sun light. At the same time Sun’s radiation can cause many types of skin cancer. So from a lore perspective that’s what I see that can relate to the healing aspect. They could also mention photosyntheses, but we just got a plant hard light user so I don’t know if they’ll go the same route.
There are some religions that praise the Sun, and we associate it the development of life. But it can also be seen as a neutral force in the universe. So they are free to take her character to multiple directions.
I Heard the New Hero is a Native American from Peru. So that’s actually kind of interesting since we never really had a actually Native American Hero or just Character in General in terms of Games and Stories.