Overwatch 2’s has a second railgun character now, however as a substitute of a DPS like Sojourn, she’s a help who harnesses the ability of the solar.
Illari is Overwatch 2’s new hero coming this Thursday with the launch of season 6, and he or she appears to be constructed for sturdy harm output, much like helps like Zenyatta and Kiriko. As a substitute of purely therapeutic like Mercy, Illari slots into the hero shooter’s widening definition of help—which regularly calls for a steadiness of DPS and therapeutic.
The Peruvian healer’s skills are slightly tough to decipher from the trailer launched in the present day, however I feel it is secure to say she’ll function equally to different damage-and-healing helps, with a main offensive assault and one or two methods to heal allies.
This is Illari’s skills based mostly on what I may see within the trailer:
- A main hearth that shoots a beam of solar vitality to deal harm
- A leap capacity to succeed in excessive floor
- A therapeutic drone that sticks to partitions
- An final that launches her into the air and lets her shoot an explosive ball of vitality
It is potential that therapeutic drone is the crux of Illari’s therapeutic package, however it’s extra doubtless she has yet another capacity not proven within the trailer, maybe a secondary hearth on her gun much like Baptiste and Ana.
Overwatch 2’s sixth season, Invasion, can even convey a battle move themed across the evil Null Sector robots you would possibly’ve fought in its earlier PvE missions. There are a number of skins proven within the trailer, together with a customizable Mythic pores and skin for everybody’s favourite senior healer, Ana. The sniper help is now a robotic sniper help with a white faceplate and no eyes. Evil robotic Ana is not my jam—I want Cabana Ana—however possibly it is yours.
Invasion features a record of latest modes and maps coming to the sport together with:
- Three story-based co-op PvE missions for $15
- A co-op PvE occasion mission that takes place in King’s Row
- A multi-capture level mode known as Flashpoint
- New Junk Metropolis and Suravasa maps for Flashpoint
- Singleplayer hero mastery missions to apply abilities with choose heroes (coming subsequent month)
Overwatch 2’s annual Anniversary occasion can even return to line up with the launch of the sequel final October. Up to now, Anniversary occasions marked the return of restricted time Arcade modes from earlier occasions, so possibly I am going to get one other probability to play Battle for Olympus.
In a weblog put up final week, sport director Aaron Keller teased among the steadiness modifications coming in season 6. Armor will now cap out at a 50% harm discount, which ought to make sturdy tanks a lot simpler to deal with after they’re in your face. Lifeweaver, the help hero launched in Season 4, may have “extra survivability” and his therapeutic tree ult will give as much as 100 further well being to allies in the event that they’re already topped off.
Overwatch 2 season 6 goes stay this Thursday and coincides with its launch on Steam.
