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There’s definitely an Echo in here
Here we go again. Blizzard are teasing us with the tiniest pieces ofOverwatchlore and I can’t get enough of it. Yesterday, theOverwatchTwitter account tweeted out a personal log from a Dr. Mina Liao, who’s been building an Omnic codenamed “the Athena prototype”. Now, I don’t know about you, but this all sounds like we’re about to get our first proper look at Echo, the Omnic hero Blizzard have been teasing for over a year.
“The Athena prototype has been deemed a success,” the tweet reads.
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Accessing…> Fragment Recovered: Personal Log of Dr. Mina Liao> File status: Completepic.twitter.com/8pNW3RO1sp— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch)March 16, 2020
Accessing…> Fragment Recovered: Personal Log of Dr. Mina Liao> File status: Completepic.twitter.com/8pNW3RO1sp
If you’re not in the know, Athena is the name of the AI you can hear in the dropship when you’re playing Overwatch, and she’s popped up in a couple of animated shorts as well. Fans have speculated for a while that Echo is essentially Athena in a robot body (kind of like how the Normandy’s AI, EDI, gets a smoking hot body inMass Effect 3, but less creepy). While Liao doesn’t mention Echo explicitly, it’s been known for a while that Echo was going to be making her way to Overwatch, we just had no idea when.
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For seconds, we got an even better look at Echo alongside another new character, Sojourn,when Overwatch 2 was announced at BlizzCon last year. During the event, Blizzard said that at least one more character would be making their way to the original game. While they confirmed that Sojourn would be coming toOverwatch 2, they did no such thing for Echo - despite the fact we’ve known about her for longer.
It’s still unclear exactly what role Echo will be. To me, she lools a bit too petite to be a tank, and a bit too kind to be damage, so my money is on her being some sort of healer.
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I’m hoping she’ll be a cool flying character to be honest. When she appears in the above trailer for Overwatch 2, she’s flying around and shooting blue beams at that massive mech attacking the rest of the squad. It’s too soon to say right now, but this could be a glimpse of what to expect when she’s released.
If all this teasing has given you the itch to play some Overwatch, the story-based PvE missions are all currently live forthe annual Archive event. We’ll get more of these sorts of missions in Overwatch 2 as well, though right now Blizzard are keeping pretty quiet on the sequel’s release date.
