

"Some people felt Brigitte was a response to high mobility characters and that certainly would be the case," Sonny tells us of a past addition to the Overwatch roster before stating that game balance wasn't the main reason for bringing Ashe into Overwatch. Gadgets 360 spoke to Chacko Sonny, Production Director on Overwatch to find out what makes the game's heroes tick.įirst up, we had to ask how does the Overwatch team decides on which heroes to add to the game.

We've seen this with popular heroes such as Symmetra and Mercy with varying degrees of success. Both tend to ruin the experience of game that's built on the checks and balances of one hero's abilities being able to be countered by another's.īut with 29 heroes and counting, Blizzard has on occasion gone back to the drawing board and reworked certain heroes from the ground up to ensure they remain effective without players feeling like they're up against insurmountable odds. Some can be too effective while others are perceived to be far from useful. With Overwatch being over two years old, its heroes form a large part of the community discussion. Ashe is the 29th addition to Overwatch's expanding roster of heroes. At BlizzCon 2018 last week, Blizzard announced that its shooter Overwatch is getting Ashe, a new playable character, or hero as they're known.
