Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
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Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
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When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
Blizzard revealed the newest hero to affix the ever-growing roster of its shooter Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon 2023. During an interview on the conference, Polygon obtained extra particulars about Mauga, what gamers can anticipate from him, and the method of making a brand new tank.
“Mauga is a damaged-based tank, and how he sustains himself and his team is through damage,” stated lead hero designer Alec Dawson. He was designed based mostly on his weapons, with his talents centered round doing as a lot injury as doable. The designers hope this deal with injury will make him extra interesting to new gamers.
The crew wished to make sure his talents felt good when utilizing each chain guns, however additionally they wished to verify gamers couldn’t “wipe people out immediately.” To fight that, Mauga has a giant unfold on each of his guns. At the identical time, this makes him a risk in shut quarters. “You don’t want to play with Mauga up close unless you know you’re going to take him out,” stated Dawson.
Mauga’s Overrun charging potential makes him nearly unstoppable, even in opposition to sleep darts. “He uses it to get where he wants to go,” stated Dawson. For a pleasant cherry on prime, at any time when Mauga straight hits an opponent whereas utilizing Overrun, he’ll slam them to the bottom, beautiful them whereas different close by opponents will probably be despatched flying.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
Mauga’s final, Cage Fight, creates a zone that traps opponents and blocks therapeutic from the surface of it. What makes his final much more harmful is that Cage Fight stays energetic even when Mauga dies. Support hero Lifeweaver can pull Mauga out of the final word, however the enemy gamers will nonetheless be trapped inside till the power runs out.
Even although he’s a tank, Mauga can do extra injury than some DPS heroes, stated Dawson. To counter that, opposing groups can assault Mauga whereas he’s reloading or has burned by his talents. “He’s such a big body that he really needs support. He needs a high healing output to keep him up at times.”
When it got here to creating Mauga, the dev crew labored carefully with a tradition advisor crew to make sure the studio displayed him in a means that may be respectful to the Samoan neighborhood. “We worked with a traditional tattoo artist from the Samoan culture to guide us. We tried to get as authentic as possible and as close to real as our engines could handle. And it turned out great,” stated hero design producer Kenny Hudson.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment
When Mauga was first being examined, the crew initially had one iteration the place his proper gun solely dealt vital injury to enemies within the air to assist tanks struggle flying-based heroes. As time went on, the crew scrapped that, and now the suitable gun offers vital injury at any time when an enemy is ready on fireplace first with his left gun. But the thought to have him use two huge guns was one thing the dev crew all the time meant to do. “We always kinda knew that he was going to be a tank with two big main guns, and we wanted to make them just as important and just as useful to players as the other one. We didn’t want one to outshine the other,” stated Hudson.
One of the challenges the dev crew confronted was making the visible cues noticeable to gamers when Mauga makes use of his Cardiac Overdrive potential, which permits Mauga and his crew members to heal at any time when they injury an opponent. So the dev crew revisited an previous concept the place Roadhog’s potential would heal everybody round him. This helped them discover the “sweet spot” of not overwhelming the participant with an excessive amount of happening display. “We don’t like throwing things away. Even if it doesn’t work out for a certain hero, it can come back later on for another one,” stated senior check analyst Foster Elmendorf. To assist additional show their level, Elmendorf defined how Mauga’s final was initially D.va’s, which concerned her making “a dome of lasers.”
The crew has been engaged on Mauga for a while. Originally, he was speculated to be launched in season 2 as an alternative of Ramattra, “but the team really wanted to take some more time to get the kit just right,” stated Dawson. Pushing Mauga again allowed the dev crew to shine him up and guarantee his talents performed easily with each other.
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