The new Overwatch hero coming in Season 2 is Sierra, a DPS with a full-auto energy rifle, drone, and targeting dart. She seems to have a cool kit based on her teaser trailer. Unfortunately, she was a bit overshadowed by Emre.
In “Summit Breach,” Sierra can be seen scaling a mountain on a mission for Overwatch, attempting to keep Deadlock from escaping with a cache of weapons. Sierra is in contact with Sojourn, who says heroes are being sent in to help her.
However, Emre comes in and secures a weapon soon after. The two get into a fight, showing off Sierra’s abilities. While she uses some kind of targeting dart to identify Emre’s location and reign down bullets on him while he hides behind a barrier, he activates his ultimate and knocks her down.
As if this already isn’t embarrassing enough in her own trailer, Freja then restrains Sierra with a Bola Shot. She begs Emre to stop since she is already neutralized. Humiliating. Freja and Emre then leave with the weapon. HUMILIATING.
Sierra did use her drone to track their location, and seems determined to find them. But her trailer was already pretty much all about Emre.
“The concept of losing in your own hero trailer,” wrote one fan on YouTube.
“In her defense, she got solo ulted twice,” another added.
“The entire trailer is just Emre aura farming,” said another player.
I have to say, I do agree. While we can argue that Sierra lost “on purpose” to distract them and get intel on their future location, I’d argue it’d be easier if she just beat them right then and took the weapon back. That’d take away the whole tracking thing… Of course, two against one isn’t fair, and she probably had to think fast.
Either way, it was a pretty comical hero trailer that seemed a lot more focused on Emre than Sierra. It started some interesting debates and discourse.
When is Sierra coming to Overwatch?
Sierra is joining Overwatch when Season 2 launches, which is April 14th.
We currently don’t have any official gameplay footage of her, but she seems like a highly mobile damage hero who may break the game. From what we can see, she can grapple onto her drone, load up a massive energy shot, and track enemies.
The ability to auto-aim onto those tracked enemies may end up angering a lot of Overwatch players. Depending on how it works, this could feel quite overpowered, since it won’t require aiming to reign damage down on certain heroes. On top of being able to mark enemies and see them through walls, Sierra feels a bit broken.
We’ll have to wait a week and see.