Overwatch 2’s newest hero, Ramattra, is an omnic robotic who largely doesn’t adhere to conventional human ideas of type and form. However somebody over at Blizzard determined that didn’t should be the case for his new pores and skin for the sport’s Greek mythology-inspired occasion, and so they gave him human ft.
Ramattra’s pores and skin is predicated on Poseidon, the Greek god of the ocean. It comes full with a trident emote, tentacles that develop off his again when he modifies into his tanky Nemesis type, and two units of 5 little piggies courtesy of his new human ft. Blizzard, apparently not content material to let that simply be an unlucky piece of information all of us have and may neglect except we’re actively enjoying Overwatch 2, posted a close-up of the ft in query, and requested us to “talk about” them. So, right here we’re.
The bizarre factor is, Overwatch has a weird, ongoing fascination with ft, each in-game and in its neighborhood, and folks had been fast to remind whoever is working the sport’s social media of this within the feedback. One response included a chart of all of the heroes’ ft Overwatch has proven (though it may want some updating, as that is the unique sport, not the sequel).
One other notorious occasion of the Overwatch neighborhood going batty for ft was a consumer named Tyrone, who spent numerous time on the sport’s boards asking for emotes, spotlight intros, and skins that may expose sure characters’ ft—although nobody is aware of what occurred to them. Hopefully nothing is afoot, and Tyrone is doing okay.
Regardless of all this, whereas a number of characters have traditionally gone shoeless as they run towards the payload, Sigma, the final tank character added to Overwatch’s roster earlier than the shift to its sequel, is maybe probably the most infamous for letting the canines breathe as a result of it’s a close to fixed for his character. Initially, the floating, rock-throwing scientist left his footwear at residence as a part of a questionable design selection meant to symbolize how sufferers in psychological establishments usually go with out footwear to mitigate self-harm by way of laces. Within the years since, and with Overwatch 2 getting an entire refresh of its character interactions, Sigma’s naked ft have turn out to be the butt of a number of jokes, corresponding to Widowmaker remarking somebody ought to get him some footwear after touchdown a kill.
So Overwatch and its neighborhood’s fascination with ft continues effectively into 2023, and now they’ve dragged Ramattra into these sinful methods. He’s an harmless robotic. He doesn’t deserve this. Haven’t we suffered, as he himself says in-game, sufficient?