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Overwatch - New Hero: Wrecking Ball (AKA Hammond) - Update: Out Now!

Vire

Vire

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Oct 27, 2017
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YES YES YES, this new hero is legitimately awesome and got me excited to play again. I felt complete indifference to the last few, but this looks really unique, fun to play and cute!
 
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AlexFlame116

AlexFlame116

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Nov 17, 2017
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So apparently he and Winston are actually good friends. Nothing malicious. He's just a curious hamster.

But Winston doesn't know that he hitched a ride on his escape pod.
 
gig

gig

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Oct 25, 2017
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His name is Wrecking Ball because literally no one knows there's a hamster named Hammond inside.
 
Pepito

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D.Va reporting for duty!

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Conciliator

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Oct 25, 2017
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Crazy kit

Wasn't he going to be like a chimpanzee or something though? For some reason I'm kind of disappointed by that
 
Acidote

Acidote

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Oct 26, 2017
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That hook has the potential for a high mobility skill ceiling that we lost on the Lucio update.
 
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AlexFlame116

AlexFlame116

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Conciliator said:
Crazy kit

Wasn't he going to be like a chimpanzee or something though? For some reason I'm kind of disappointed by that
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Well to be honest, that was all speculation by the fans. The thought process was that since it was mentioned that Winston was ONE of the many gorilla and simian specimens, and the name drop of Hammond, people assumed that he was probably a simian. Then an image in Horizon showed a chimpanzee looking at a camera so people assumed that the chimpanzee was Hammond.

The newest version of Horizon gave us Specimen 8's room (Specimen 8 being Hammond's code name) and people saw various fruits like bananas and oranges which fueled the chimpanzee speculation.

But the thing is, Blizzard never stated that Hammond was a chimpanzee or even of the primate family. And those fruits and toys could easily belong to a hamster since hamsters eat the same kind of food.
 
Zomba13

Zomba13

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Oct 25, 2017
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Only thing I don't like with Wreckingball/Hammond is the cooldown on his grapple. I want to Spider-Man all about the place, forever.
 
Hero

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Oct 25, 2017
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Wrecking Ball is literally the ball mech from Metal Warriors on SNES. Love it.
 
gig

gig

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Oct 25, 2017
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Man once you master his movement, you can get pretty much anywhere quickly. People who were asking for a high skill ceiling, here it is.
 
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