Overwatch 2: Introducing the Origins of Lifeweaver, a New Support Hero

Xbox can exclusively reveal the Origin Trailer for Lifeweaver, the newest hero coming to Overwatch 2. This new Support Hero arrives as part of Season 4 on April 11th and offers some very new options for players looking to help their team and brand. A new thread to the Overwatch storyline.

Niran ‘Bua’ PruksaManee is a Thai scientist who combines nature and technology to provide both himself and his team with new ways to heal, move and damage. Like all Overwatch heroes, he also comes with a rich backstory. You can see this in the new trailer below.

All Lifeweaver’s abilities come from its background as a naturalist. Having grown up wealthy in the protected world of Chiang Mai, her Lifeweaver came to love the natural world, but once she left home, she saw the devastation brought to the environment outside her home. He developed a new technology, biolite. This uses the hard light wielded by the likes of his fellow heroes Symmetra, but fuses it with living vegetation, which he believes his parents and his Vishkar co. Refusing to use it for any purpose, he fled home.

To learn more about creating this unique new hero, we spoke with Overwatch 2’s lead narrative designer, Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie. He explains that, like all Overwatch heroes, Lifeweaver came about as a series of gameplay ideas, around which a story had to be built.

“He was in charge of the design first, and the story developed from there. Then his story developed when he saw an early prototype and realized it looked more like a hard light than a plant. You can really see how they are developing the heroes, and they are very supportive.”

The solution was to create the Biolight idea, a new iteration of Overwatch’s existing hardlight tech. It has already been used by the likes of Symmetra and Lucio.Lifeweaver created it to heal wounds and damaged plants and wanted it to be freely available for use around the world.

This means Lifeweaver’s stories provide an associative way to learn more about Symmetra. “She was the only person at school that he understood and understood him,” says Jurgens-Fyhrie. I can’t say much about the future, but Vishkar is especially important to his Symmetra and Lifeweaver. ”

At the time of their introduction, the Lifeweavers were not part of the cosmic Overwatch team, but Jurgens-Fyhrie knew them when they were alive as fugitives, and “loosely tied” them in the same way as Torbjorn. It is said that Jurgens-Fyhrie wouldn’t reveal if his story will be part of his PvE story going forward in the game, but said, “At the time of this announcement, Lifeweaver lives in the Atlantic Arcology and Heal the disease, heal the world.”

Play for free as Lifeweaver for a limited time Starting April 11th, an in-game event celebrating his addition to the roster will run until April 24th. The event, which also celebrates the Thai New Year, adds Arcade Modes, BOB and Weave (where the player will only be able to play as his Lifeweaver). ), and for participating, you’ll earn Lifeweaver’s Cassia skin (based on his Ratchaphruek, the national flower of Thailand).