Developer Update | Juno, Clash, Mythics, & More

Join the OW2 Dev Team and discover some of the exciting new updates coming in Season 12: New Frontiers!

Narrative Designer Joshi Zhang and Senior Hero Designer Andre Abrahamian take us on a journey through Juno’s development process and give us some insight into what inspired her Hero design.

Senior Level Designer Konstatin Löffler and Lead Level Designer Ryan Smith give us an in-depth look at the new game mode, Clash, and dive deeper into updates coming to the mode based on the Season 10 Clash Trial.

Lead Concept Artist Morten Skaalvik and Game Producer Lauren Soanes show off the new Mythic Anubis Reaper skin, and share a glimpse at the new Midnight Sun Ana Weapon Skin coming later in the season.

Voyage into Season 12: New Frontiers when it arrives Aug 20.

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[playoverwatch]

Anyone else ever mistake soy sauce for a drink? Yeah, us either 👀

Juno mains! Drop a 🚀if you're ready for Juno's arrival in T-6 days

[cursedchild]

Now we know why ram says “suffer as I have”

[mynamejeff]

Venture not having a single legendary after 3 seasons is crazy- Also Ramattra (who’s concept art was almost entirely Egyptian-themed designs) not getting an Egyptian skin- tho the Reaper skin is genuinely one of the best Mythics so I cant complain there

[indeboss]

9:22 so now we know that not a single person on the team actually thought Ramattra should get the Egyptian-themed mythic, I see I see

[DieWortwandlerin]

How can Ramattra (a character who was designed by the Anubis AI) and Venture (a literal ARCHAEOLOGIST!) not get any skins this season?

[LilyChiDraws]

Gotta love how they admitted they didnt actually discuss more then 5 minutes over who should get the Anubis skin.

[MrKlausbaudelaire]

1:40 honestly they friggin' NAILED the "medical feel" of Juno's weapon, that thing looks straight up like it's an injection pistol and I love it!

[H-tp]

It’s understandable that the mythic skin could go to reaper instead of ram given the context and what it ended up being. However what is unforgivable is that ram doesn’t have a single skin in the battle pass despite the theme being what inspired his concept in the first place.
Edit: Wait wtf I just realized ram hasn’t had a skin in the battle pass since season 2. He’s had emotes, victory poses, etc but never another skin.

[plasma]

"INSTANTLY knew it needed to be reaper" oh okay so you guys really did forget about ramattra's concept art

[Bacchus]

We will never get to know Juno better because we're not getting any cinematics or animations. Just comics that tell us 90% stuff we already know.

[uncleben]

"It was supposed to be a 30 minute meeting but ended up being 5" Probably explains how they Fumble Better Hero Choices for egypt theme.

[Marti-]

I wish we got an origin story cinematic for Juno 😢

[crazytiger]

“You can’t have a character from space without actually doing something from space”
Idk, Winston and wrecking ball don’t really have anything like that

[Cleo-hx]

9:29 so you guys made ramattra's initial concept art based off anubis, looked at anubis and thought, "hm, yes, the reaper guy".

[mystical]

I absolutely love that my main is getting a mythic but like bruh. STOP GIVING MERCY SKINS. Rammatra and venture deserve skins not mercy. She gets skins EVERY SINGLE SEASON

[garrettbates]

The weapon flourish being locked behind a mythic skin AND one of its extra tiers is ridiculous. It was literally an advertised feature of Overwatch 2

[DaanNull]

9:20 maybe it should've been a 30 minute meeting anyway

[turtle_man_bob]

Just wondering if you guys remember that new hero venture you added. I think it’d be cool if you gave them a skin

[KorianBossMonster]

Kinda odd that Ana, an actual Egyptian, doesn't get an Egyptian styled skin, but a japanese one instead.

[ItsGeo]

9:13 that isnt the flex you think it is. That just tells us you couldn't be bothered with coming up with an alternative idea and speed ran the creation of the skin.