Dota 2 (opens in new tab) announced a new hero at the World Championship The International 11. Revenant gunslinger Muerta plans to increase the total number of Moba heroes to his 124 early next year. She’s a black and gold creature, perhaps some sort of automaton, that wields her pistol and moves between life and death.For now what we have is trailer (opens in new tab)but that trailer is packed with some neat details.
“The Persistent Revenant reveals itself with the promise of a devastating reckoning to follow. Break through the veil between the living and the damned as Muerta, a new hero who haunts Lane in early 2023.” I will,” he said. official explanation.
With a flowery aesthetic that fuses the skulls of Mexico’s Day of the Dead aesthetic with video game neon, Spanish-speaking players are already getting excited over the video comments and clamoring for a Spanish voice pack. Muerta promises to be a hero that has a lot in common with the current Dota 2 stable.
It turns out she’s been teased since February when the Revenant brooch item was added to Dota with the description “A cursed brooch of a fallen guardian who lurks forever between the veils of life and death.” is. In the trailer, a portrait of Muerta, supposedly painted on a candlelit altar, wears a revenant brooch. Given that item focuses on attack damage and speed, and Muerta uses guns, my money rests on heroes with auto-attack carry rolls that can use or utilize ether effects. increase.
Muerta’s design, color scheme, and visual effects share a lot in common with two other characters, Death Prophet and Wraith King, whose theme is spirits that periodically rise from the dead. Also, is she the first normal sized hero to use a gun? Other members are smaller Keenfolk such as Sniper, Gyrocopter, and Snapfire.
last year’s new hero primitive beastthat of a big angry alligator.
In other Dota 2 news, Valve announced in a very strange video that there will be an announcer pack for Portal 2’s Cave Johnson (Aperture Laboratories’ weirdly bright CEO played by JK Simmons). You can watch it on YouTube, but I’ll embed it below.
