The horrors of war have hounded Angela Ziegler since childhood. In Overwatch, this healer would ultimately become Mercy, a bastion of angelic serenity-but before she could complete her transformation, she first needed to become Angela Ziegler. They would be heroes.Īs the team revisited concepts from their past work, they drew inspiration from an early iteration of a healer class that had been called the Guardian. The idea soon blossomed into a first-person shooter where the characters were more than just their classes they would have backstories and names, identities inextricably tied to the rich world they inhabited. But I wish each of the classes was very focused, and had a certain set of abilities, and they could all be wildly different from one another.’” “‘I wish,’ he said, ‘instead of doing a game with six, or maybe nine classes, we could do a game with 50 classes. 'We had a class meeting, where Geoff Goodman said something that just really.stuck with me,” game director Jeff Kaplan recalled during a 2017 BlizzCon panel. Years ago, when we were exploring ideas for what would eventually become Overwatch, one of the areas the development team had been focusing on was the concept of a class-based online shooter-an idea that stemmed from an unannounced game that had shuttered, codenamed Titan. Ziegler’s past and explore how this iconic hero became who she is today. As Overwatch players around the world take on Mercy’s Recall Challenge, there’s no time like the present to look back at Dr.

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