“We created Maximilien for the Doomfist comic, and he’s one of our favorite characters,” says Tasng. This is likely the origin of Maximilien, the omnic serving on Talon’s board of directors. Presumably, these omnics worked as couriers, service staff, and other face-to-face work whereas models like the Bastion were solely built for battlefield combat. “Back around the omnic crisis, the omnics were less varied and more military based - Bastions, ones with guns and rockets - but then you’d have more civilian ones like Zenyatta who were built to look more human and go around doing human streets doing human stuff. “Zenyatta and the waiter omnics come from an older generation of omnics,” Tsang explains. We also learned a little bit about Zenyatta’s life before he became a monk. The Gwishin are dramatically different than Zenyatta, Bastion, or Orisa. “It was interesting to get to expand the ecology of omnics,” Tsang says. Tsang spoke about the Gwishin, a faction of omnics assaulting Korea. The omnic cast is pretty broad, and they all have interesting origins. The Last Bastion was a story about PTSD, told in very simple terms. Overwatch is about human stories and emotions, except when, well, we’re dealing with the omnics. If not all roads lead to Overwatch, they could go, well, potentially anywhere. Korea not being connected to Overwatch is interesting and it means that Zarya’s story up in Russia likely has a similar scope. “All I can say is we have plans for the story and bringing it all to something, that’s all I’ll say there.” Not everything is related to Overwatch.” Characters like Hanzo and D.Va don’t connect to the Overwatch/Talon story, and that doesn’t make them a B-story - they’re just another layer. Tsang explains: “We want to make the world feel large and big, and we want to have a lot of different things happening. The MEKA squad aren’t connected to Overwatch, at all, and that’s intentional. “We started immediately talking about how the characters connected to each other and the stories, so it’s something we can’t wait to do more of.
“We knew MEKA was going to be big, because as soon as we showed our team, people were like oh my god!” Tsang laughs. The fanbase has seized on MEKA, and is already hard at work shipping them in various configurations, coming up with backstories and AU, and otherwise speculating as to what they’re up to. We drew a lot of inspiration from robot anime, Korean dramas, stuff like that.” Blizzard Entertainment
We worked with Michael and Ben to come up with each archetype. We’ve always told ourselves that the MEKA squad could be their own game. “Ben Zhang, our lead concept artist, designed all the characters and it was something we always wanted to do.
Instead, it didn’t even bring the organization up, and we got a whole new supporting cast for D.Va instead. When her cinematic arrived, many fans thought it would follow the trend set by Mei and Reinhardt, and depict a character joining Overwatch. Korea, Russia, and moreĭ.Va is, in many ways, one of the most isolated members of the Overwatch cast. Heroes Never Die had a chance to speak with Arnold Tsang, a concept artist at Blizzard Entertainment, about the world of Overwatch and why its creative borders are much broader than we think. So much of the lore has been heading towards Talon and Overwatch, and their inevitable conflict. One of the biggest surprises in recent memory was the D.Va cinematic, Shooting Star, because it hinted at a much wider world than we expected. Sombra had an entire months long ARG announcing her imminent arrival, and Doomfist was teased since the very first trailer for the game. Ana Amari was KIA, sure, but that didn’t stop two other Overwatch founders from joining the main cast. Some of the heroes have been exactly what we expected, with clues carefully laid out beforehand to ensure that we would expect them before their timely arrival. The world of Overwatch has been slowly expanded since the game’s launch, with a cinematic here and a new hero there.
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