Overwatch 2 tank hero release date, character speculations, and more

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Blizzard recently announced that they would be revealing the new Overwatch 2 tank hero during the Grand Finals of the Overwatch League, which is scheduled for November 4, 2022.

It's been almost a month since Overwatch 2 went live. The game was plagued with issues at launch, and the community wasn't too happy with it initially. However, the developers have worked tirelessly to fix the bugs and glitches, and they've even offered free rewards to players to compensate for the buggy launch. From free skins to double XP weekends, the developers have done their best to placate the gaming community.

There were a few small instances that gave the community some insight into the new hero before Blizzard even talked about the new hero reveal. The first instance took place during an OWL broadcast when Aaron Keller, the Game Director for Overwatch 2, accidentally revealed that the character would be male.

Alec Dawson, the Lead Hero designer for the game, also mentioned in one of his tweets that the goal with the new hero would be to diversify the playstyle for tanks and find new spaces for the role in general. Keeping these two factors in mind, there are only a handful of characters in the Overwatch Lore that fit the bill.

The very first character to fit this bill would be Mauga, a character that has only been seen in short stories and comics related to Overwatch so far. Although there are other candidates like Null Sector and Omnic who are also potential candidates, a popular Overwatch 2 leaker on Reddit u/OW2leaks4u claimed that the next character to arrive in the game would indeed be Mauga.

Although the leak does need to be taken with a pinch of salt, the leaker who made this statement has rarely been wrong in the past, so there's a