It is now clear when Echo will be playable in “Overwatch”. You no longer have to wait very long.
Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that Echo, the 32nd playable character in “Overwatch”, will be released on April 14, 2020. Echo is currently still on the test server. “Echo is a highly developed robot with an extremely adaptable artificial intelligence. Thanks to its versatility, it can take on a wide variety of roles in combat,” it says.
Echo capabilities
- Tri-shot: Echo fires 3 bullets at once in a triangle.
- Sticky bombs: Echo fires a series of sticky bombs that explode after a short time.
- Flight: Echo storms forward and can fly freely for a short time.
- Bundled Beam: Echo channels a beam for a few seconds, dealing very high damage to enemies who have less than half their hit points.
- Gliding flight: Echo can glide when falling.
- Duplicate: Echo duplicates an enemy hero and gains access to their abilities.
Description of Echo: “Echo was created by Singaporean scientist Dr. Mina Liao, one of the first members of Overwatch. Before joining the organization, Dr. Liao was one of the world’s leading experts in robotics and artificial intelligence. She was dreaming from developing the original design of the Omnics further, and this was the vision that led to the Echo project: Dr. Liao created an adaptive robot that, depending on the programming, could learn a wide variety of functions – everything from medical support to building construction Overwatch used Echo with great caution and very rarely, but Dr. Liao had provided Echo with extensive and powerful artificial intelligence that enabled her to learn from observations, giving Echo much of Liao’s behavior – and speaking habits – take over en. “
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Echo lands in Overwatch on April 14th! pic.twitter.com/2fx4oQbpeH– Overwatch (@OverwatchDE) April 9, 2020
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