Who is First Hero Created

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It is Soldier: 76 or Winston or Tracer or Reaper or Mercy or Sym or Torbjorn?

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Pretty sure they said Tracer was the first hero design they had started and had finished.

I don’t think it’s a Pokémon kinda deal, to my knowledge.

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Pretty sure it was Tracer

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well starting from Project “Titan” should be Reaper maybe :thinking:

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Don’t know if it was Tracer since most likely, multiple heroes existed in Overwatch early concepts and prototypes but there’s an imo, extremely, extremely (yes I said that twice :P) fun video of Overwatch in early development where she doesn’t even have guns in her hands: BlizzCon 2017 Virtual Ticket | The Making of Overwatch - YouTube (watch the whole vid, it’s worth it :wink: ).

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So Soldier 76 is not in Early Concept or Prototypes?

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Genji and Hanzo. They used to be one fusion like Gogeta but then they split them. It used to be Genji’s cyborg body with Hanzo clothing.

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Soldier 76 wasn’t even among the initial 12 heroes shown during the announcement of overwatch at blizzcon 2014

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Who are 12 Heroes in Announcement of Overwatch?

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Tracer, Reaper, Widowmaker, Pharah, Reinhardt, Mercy, Torb, Hanzo, Winston, Zenyatta, Bastion and symmetra

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Wait, I am Confused why do Soldier 76 Appear in Tutorial, but not Original?

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That’s like asking why make easy to learn or play characters after initial release. They can’t just make everything harder to use after the release heroes.

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They added 9 heroes between initial announcement and release (Zarya, Cassidy, Soldier, Lucio, Roadhog, Junkrat, D.Va, Mei and Genji) and the tutorial was probably one of the later features. Since soldier is the basic fps hero it makes sense to include him in the tutorial.

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So 13th is Zarya then 14th is Cassidy?

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If I remember correctly Zarya and Cassidy were announced at the same time, same goes for Roadhog & Junkrat and Mei, D.Va & Genji

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I thought Soldier 76 is 13th.

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Soldier 76 is the oldest character design, but not the first added to the game. He wasn’t originally designed for Overwatch or even Titan.

Tracer was the first Titan concept repurposed for the new project that would become Overwatch but not necessarily the first hero implemented in game.

A lot of the early heroes (like Tracer) were just character-class concepts from Titan given a name and personality after-the-fact. Many of the early Overwatch heroes probably existed in-game before they were fleshed-out characters.

If you’re asking which hero was first to be implemented in-game, I don’t have an answer for you. If you’re asking which character has existed for the longest, it’s Soldier 76.

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I know. But thank for Telling me.

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Tracer was designed before Overwatch was even put together. They actually were making a completely different game before OW but it got scrapped quickly adn they reused the Tracer design.

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wish momma hong would have been added. Jeff Kaplan said there was some difficulties, wonder if it was a culture thing with china