In addition, many players will likely make the jump to coaching or retirement before the sequel upends the status quo of the league. Unfortunately for most fans, this means it’s time for the most difficult part of the year: the offseason “rosterpocalypse.”īecause Overwatch 2 runs on a five-vs-five competitive system, teams may consider downsizing or adjusting their rosters.
With news that the fifth season of the league will kick off in April 2022 on an early build of Overwatch 2, teams are now looking to build rosters worthy of taking on the Dragons next year.
I also wrote The Earthborn Trilogy.The end of the 2021 Overwatch League season and the victory of the Shanghai Dragons gave a proper send-off to the first “era” of competitive Overwatch. Though fans have been well ahead of the game on this one from the start.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. It may not mean that much for the game itself, but it’s a rather cool moment all the same that both the male and female figureheads of a game this big have been written to be queer. It took two years for Overwatch to reveal its second LGBTQ character, and in two more years maybe we’ll see another. Though again, that just isn’t what Overwatch is or has ever been, as much as I would like it to be. The point being an “official” reveal like this feels like sort of an upgraded version of fanfic, and because we’re not experiencing it in-game it lacks a bit of weight, so I sort of understand some of the Dumbledore comparisons from that perspective. It’s so prevalent I sort of actually assume some of these fantasy pairings are real like Mercy is dating Pharah or D.Va is dating Genji. Overwatch is kind of an interesting case for this kind of reveal because it has a fan community that is avid about “shipping” all its various characters since day one, and there is fan art and fanfic for pretty much every male/male, male/female, female/female pairing there is out there, including robots, gorillas and hamsters, I might add. But I think this is a different situation because Overwatch simply does not have a real in-game story, so information like this almost has to be dropped in bite-size chunks like this whether it’s a character’s favorite food or their sexuality.
Some are accusing of Blizzard pulling a JK Rowling with an “actually, Dumbledore is gay” reveal after the fact, despite that it never came up in the books or movies. And romantic relationships only come up sporadically, if at all, as it never did when both Soldier: 76 and Tracer had their own animated shorts, for instance. Since Overwatch is a multiplayer shooter, practically all of its story and character development occurs outside of the game in cinematics, comics or stories like the Ana one. I’m genuinely not sure about which characters have even been confirmed as straight at this point (Torbjorn and Ana come to mind first as their children are in their game and we’ve seen their spouses in the lore). There are, of course, currently 29 heroes in Overwatch, and only two are confirmed queer in canon, however high profile they may be. The list is painfully short, and the highest profile character on it is probably Ellie from The Last of Us. So to have both Tracer and Soldier: 76 be gay, that’s rather significant in an industry where almost no major gaming icons are confirmed to be LGBTQ. Solider: 76 is one of the founding members of Overwatch and the ultimate OG of the squad, not to mention he’s effectively the game’s “starter” character as he’s who you play the tutorial with, and who most players will use to learn the ropes. Even though Overwatch is an ensemble game, Tracer is literally the box art character and the most iconic OW hero. This is a big deal because Soldier: 76 also joins Tracer as an LGBTQ character, who was revealed to be in a relationship with a woman two years ago in a comic release. Jack’s big reveal is far from the point of the story, despite the fact that it’s the main takeaway everyone is running with. There’s a passage where Ana questions Jack about a past flame, Vincent, in a conversation about how having relationships in their line of work is tough.
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