Some of Junker Queen’s abilities are riffs on other Overwatch heroes. “You can see in her eyes, there’s always that glimmer of ‘I’m ready to go, let’s do this, let’s get in there.’ Her gameplay kit is really reinforcing her character and to get in close.” “She’s got this awesome personality we wanted to maintain in her animations, and in her gameplay kit,” Goodman said. Overwatch 2’s approach to tanks like Reinhardt and Orisa has been to make them less defensively focused and to get them into the fray more often and more aggressively, Goodman said. I think that that’ll probably be at least an initial strategy we’ll see right away.” “We have to worry a little bit about how fast people can ultimately go, but right now you can get going really fast with those two together. “She’s also the first character since Lucio who is able to speed boost people, so I’m not entirely sure if that will mean that she will create alternate comps to Lucio or if people will play both,” Goodman said. Goodman said that Junker Queen will pair well with anybody else who wants to get in close, including Reaper, Mei, Junkrat, and Brigitte.

Junker Queen’s Rampage ultimate pushes her aggressively into enemy territory, doing damage and inflicting a debuff Image: Blizzard Entertainment And a lot of that was helping guide our philosophy in tank design changes for Overwatch 2.”

“She’s very aggressive as a tank - not really the hold back/hold-the-shield type. “We had been experimenting with her kind of idly for a while, but we didn’t really start on her in earnest until really pushing toward Overwatch 2’s release,” lead hero designer Geoff Goodman told Polygon in an interview last week. She both epitomizes Overwatch 2’s new approach to tanks and helped guide the design team’s philosophy to make the game’s bruisers more aggressive as Blizzard reworked Overwatch’s meta. “One of the coolest things about Junker Queen is that she’s unique, in that she makes the rest of the team deadlier,” said Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie, lead narrative designer and writer on Overwatch 2. She charges into battle, can heal herself, and can even boost her allies’ health and movement. But setting her apart from the armor-clad and shield-bearing remainder of Overwatch’s tank lineup, Junker Queen is fast and in-your-face, blurring the line between a tank, damage, and support character. And she’s hardy, in her back story, her personality, and in her role on the battlefield. She’s unquestionably tank-sized Junker Queen stands an imposing seven feet tall. Junker Queen - real name Odessa “Dez” Stone, and voiced by actor Leah de Niese - is a spicy new addition to Overwatch’s tank lineup, unlike any other hero in the game so far. “They’re probably wondering what sort of changes I’ll make,” Junker Queen says, standing over the defeated King in the final moments of her cinematic. But it appears Junker Queen will rule benevolently, rallying the citizens of Junkertown to build a strong community in Australia’s irradiated wastelands. The lore trailer tells the story of a girl exiled from Junkertown who returns to face the King in a Thunderdome-esque battle, with the spoils being rulership. But Junker Queen was finally, fully, and thoroughly revealed on Thursday, and she’ll be playable later this month when the beta for Overwatch 2 goes live.īlizzard fleshes out the Queen’s backstory in a new cinematic, “ The Wastelander,” the first new short film for Overwatch in years.

As the disembodied voice of Junkertown’s ruler, she’s only been seen, officially, in scraps of artwork. Overwatch’s newest hero, revealed just a few days ago, has been a presence in Blizzard’s hero shooter for nearly five years now.

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