We thought that the brawly engagement direction works really well for someone that is, you know, as the community calls her, the centaur horse lady.” We wanted to try to resolve that, so that if you saw Orisa and what she was doing, things just made more sense. “But the way she looks and the way she played, they didn’t really match. “The kit she had before could have worked in 5v5,” Brennan said in the same interview, citing Sigma as an example. Orisa’s centaur form and her defensive kit also led to a mishmash her new form is an “engaging, brawly tank,” according to senior hero designer Brandon Brennan. I’m just shooting all these barriers.’” Image: Blizzard Entertainment “Playing against a double-barrier combo of Orisa and and you’re like, ‘I never even get to shoot at players anymore. “ Overwatch could have this tendency to get really bogged down with these defensive abilities,” says Goodman. Her new ultimate, Terra Surge, can be channeled to force enemies towards her Orisa is immune to crowd control during the duration of Terra Surge. New ability Javelin Spin propels Orisa forward, destroying projectiles in front of her, and knocking back enemies in her path. Instead, she has Energy Javelin, which forces her enemies back - and they take extra damage if they hit a wall. She no longer has Halt!, Supercharger, or Protective Barrier. Orisa, on the other hand, is losing almost all of her old kit. Overwatch 2 will radically change Bastion, who has a hat now He’s really good about breaking up those fortifications.” “He’s very threatening and he causes you to be in positions you don’t want to be in, especially on maps where there’s a heavily fortified defensive position like a ledge. Either he needs a light rework - potentially even a heavy rework - as a DPS to somehow function correctly without just giving you a ton of crowd control while he’s killing you, or try him as a tank,” said Geoff Goodman, Overwatch lead hero designer, in an interview. Image: Blizzard Entertainmentĭoomfist’s ability to lock down opponents makes him difficult to balance as a damage class, Blizzard explained. His Rocket Punch and Seismic Slam do less damage, but they still get Doomfist in the middle of the enemy team to disrupt his foes. He will now have more health (increased from 250 to 450), and while he’s lost his Uppercut, he’s gained an ability called Power Block to protect himself from frontal attacks. Blizzard detailed those changes on Wednesday.ĭoomfist is an infamously irritating damage-dealer, and he’ll keep a couple of tools from his old Overwatch kit. There are two major hero reworks coming to bolster the tank class, Blizzard says: One is the centaur omnic Orisa, who has an almost entirely new kit, and the other is damage-dealer Doomfist, who has been shifted into the tank class. With this new composition, tanks are more important than ever each team will have two support heroes and two damage heroes, and tanks are tasked with protecting them all. Overwatch 2 is making some big changes to the team shooter, including reducing team sizes from six to five.