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John Francis "Jack" Morrison, known by his code name Soldier: 76, is a character in Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch franchise, first appearing in Overwatch and its 2022 sequel Overwatch 2, both of which are team-based multiplayer first-person shooters. In the games, Jack is an American soldier-turned-vigilante and a founding member of the ...
Blizzard had teased Juno at BlizzCon 2023, then codenamed "Space Ranger", and described her as a mobile hero focused on vertical movement. Her character was teased with various map changes at the start of Overwatch 2 season 11, and was revealed midway though the season with an open weekend playtest in July 2024. She was released as a fully ...
[150] [151] [152] Changes made to online character bios following the launch of Overwatch 2 received criticism from fans. [153] On August 10, 2023, Overwatch 2 was released on Steam, garnering an "overwhelmingly negative" rating on Valve's platform which is the lowest rating any video game can get.
Overwatch 2 is a hero shooter, where players are split into two teams and select a "hero" from a roster of over 40 characters.Characters are organized into a "damage" class, responsible for offensive efforts; a "support" class, responsible for healing and buffing; and a "tank" class, responsible for creating space for their team.
Since the late 1990s, Blizzard has focused almost exclusively on the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series. All of Blizzard's games released since 2004 still receive expansions and updates, especially the long-running massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004).
The Overwatch developers stated that they found that many Mercy players were still holding back and using the immediate Resurrects granted by Valkyrie to swing control of the game and which was difficult for opposing teams to counter. [28] During the beta development period of Overwatch 2, Blizzard developers reworked Mercy's mobility.
The sequel Overwatch 2 was released in October 2022, and will continue the seasonal events. According to Kaplan, while the game will be a sequel, they want to allow all content from the first Overwatch to be brought forward into Overwatch 2, requiring them to slow down new content development for the original game, particularly new heroes and maps.
The series employed an anime art style, [13] with the series being one of the studio's first 2D animation projects to go "beyond" individual character backstories and instead focusing on the overarching narrative of the Overwatch franchise. [14] Genesis is also presented as a documentary primarily from the human perspective. [2] [5]