Talking Mirrorwatch: Art, Concept, Lore! | Overwatch 2 Dev Interview

[@Skiesti]

This was such a fun interview to do! I'm always delighted to talk about art and design in Overwatch. Let me know what your favorite part was!

[@nailinthefashion]

The whole thing is very iconic

[@indeboss]

Mirrorwatch should definitely become a yearly event, with reimagined abilities and swapped factions.

[@Skiesti]

Fingers crossed!! I NEED to see more of these concepts they've got

[@KuletXCore]

Like Archives! Or maybe mashup season of Mirrorwatch Archives with the same PVE, only with different starter cutscenes and voice lines!

[@pexdark]

I'd like to see how they approached baptiste and mauga. The boring way is to swap their places. The cool way would be to make them both a part of Overwatch but bap later betrayed them and joined Talon

[@DarkCircles698]

@@KuletXCore With Archives they could give us more missions, like Overwatch taking down the Shimada Clan, or the fight with Jack and Gabby

[@naliskun4222]

a ton better than junkanstine better PVP just hits different

[@AbbyOW2]

I love how passionate Dion sounds whenever I listen to him, super cool dude and you did a great job with this interview, Ski! Was fun to listen to you and your enthusiasm towards the skins and such. :D

[@Skiesti]

Dion is always a delight to chat with! I'm so happy I was able to talk with him about art and design (and a little lore!) because it's a big interest of mine in Overwatch 😊

[@GuidedByCompassion]

Skiesti, you're doing the Lord's work for us Mercy mains out there. Pointing out real and valid balancing issues with her. Talking about potential changes that would make her more fun and more viable. Keep On Keeping On, we lesser Mercy mains love what you do :D.

[@floressa3504]

Amazing interview! But Ski, that Mercy cutout in the background.... Is haunting

[@Revanxbone]

The lifeweaver concept sounds sooo cool wtf. 😭 I NEED IT

[@blazemenace1208]

It's a straight up mythic skin concept

[@Revanxbone]

@@blazemenace1208 yesss, very much.

[@Skiesti]

It was SO not what I was expecting for him but I'm NOT disappointed at all

[@HawkknightXC88]

I like watching the Dev Interviews where they talk about the artwork of the skin designs for the heroes specially with Mercy and her Talon Mirrorverse Armor and unique abilities the overwatch heroes had during the Season 10 Event. I hope we see more of this great content in the future.

[@Revanxbone]

I think it would be really cool if we got a mirrorverse part 2 in the future or some other form of continuation of these designs and lore. Would be amazing

[@Kiesp]

Thank you, Dion! 😁 I really like how happy and passionate he seemed talking about it all!

[@neondead2.0.15]

Tbf Mythic is amazing but why no new ultimate like ?

[@fathead7000]

Ski your hair is SO ADORABLE AND I LOVE THAT TOP SO MUCH KABSKSBSKAV❤❤❤❤❤

[@austinm223]

This

[@stereobass_]

AAAA we NEED a part 2. Maybe focusing on Vishkar and Junker?????

[@redram6080]

They need to add more vishkar characters first. The only one is Symettra and she already has a junker skin. Lifeweaver quit vishkar.

[@LrnJade]

It's so nice hearing from Dion, great interview Ski

[@Revanxbone]

Really great interview. The passion from both sides really bounce off each other super well 😄☺️

[@mercymainly8996]

My fav unplayable character is Lynx17, the hacker omnic from the Zarya comic. i think the supportive abilities they gave sombra would make a great started to their kit

[@spaceforbrains]

great interview! Sad that Rocky had so many questions that were never answered lol

[@Skiesti]

Poor little man :( He was so curious :((

[@Muzick]

Awesome job Ski! That was a great interview!

[@Jayegato]

YOU'RE SO GORGEOUS SKIESTI

[@tycho_ow_]

Ahhh this makes me so excited!! 🥰

[@MoonlightBrillance]

Dion seems like a chill guy :) this was a really cool interview and thanks for doing it Skiesti. EDIT: I’m honestly shocked that the colour resemblance to Null Sector and Vishkar was a coincidence, I almost can’t believe it lmao. I wonder if it was subconsciously done on the artist’s part.

[@fightminunfight]

Rocky was just trying to remind you to get an answer to his question. He really wants to know what it would be like if Hammond had landed in Gibraltar and joined Overwatch instead of the Junkers. Really appreciate all of the information you got for us, Ski. Also super proud of you for getting time with a dev. Hope you get opportunities like this in future seasons.

[@living386]

SKIEST UR SO PRETTYYY OMG???

[@zerocool7141]

What a great interview

[@notreya]

Great interview ski ^_^

[@mercymainly8996]

this is by far the best season theme weve had whether you like the skins or not. we need to see this theme come back with more additions to the skins in the pass. its way too amazing of a concept to not return to it,

[@WheelsOfDeath]

I like to imagine that not even the devs could think of a universe where Moira was a good guy. Lol

[@Skiesti]

LMAO I like to imagine that too just like how they can't imagine Soj ever joining Talon

[@strawberrygemz2020]

Yooooo DJ Sym tho??????? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@austinm223]

Lol the cut out 🤣

[@marcusbullock2753]

I need that mercy mythic trailer theme music asap.

[@hiimishie]

2 IN A ROW,, KRAZY !!! 🔥

[@Skiesti]

AND IN ONE DAY?? UNHEARD OF

[@Revanxbone]

Time jump overwatch sounds also really cool!

[@0darkwings0]

Hi, Great interview :) A questions not related to the interview, are you using the Logitech G Fits True Wireless? if yes, does it comfortable to use those for many hours?

[@Skiesti]

Oh yeah, I am! It's comfortable to me. It takes a while to get used to them at first but they're good!

[@0darkwings0]

@@Skiesti thank you very much for your reply :)

[@DxXNA]

Why is the audio not lined up?

[@neondead2.0.15]

We really need a Vishkar Hog.

[@WizardKitty723]

❤❤❤

[@pitblackbird3169]

I just wanna know where Cass and Echo fit into things here😭😭is Longhorn Cass even a part of the Mirrorverse? Cause Bap’s battle pass skin isn’t, so now I’m confused💀I can only assume Echo is with Bastion as part of the Gwishin, but she doesn’t entirely match the color scheme so idk, but I don’t think either are part of Mirrorwatch Talon at the least

[@Skiesti]

I'm ASSUMING that Longhorn Cass is either like.... Cass if he never joined Deadlock or Cass if he was an actor or smth like that

[@slordar]

Mercy skin is poggers ong!

[@des-tg3ey]

What the fuck

[@kirk1643]

❤

[@PurpleChicken]

i was just think of junker winston the other day haha, maybe we'll see overwatch leader wreckingball to go opposite of him

[@GuidedByCompassion]

Yo is one of your dogs named Murphy? You really are an Overwatch nerd lol. Just teasing, it's a good Sojourn reference. And Murphy is a cute name.

[@Skiesti]

Yup! The one that's black/brown/white is named Murphy! She's a little Chihuahua that's about 9 months old now I think and she was definitely named after Soj's Murphy 🐕

[@ogeraldo1388]

Does he mention talon soldier at any point?

[@Skiesti]

I do ask about Soldier, Winston, and Reaper (there is a timestamp/chapter for it in the description)

[@ogeraldo1388]

​​@@Skiesti thx

[@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs]

man i wish i caught this stream. i wanna ask Dion about what the Turtle Asset is all about....

[@Skiesti]

The Turtle Asset??

[@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs]

@@Skiesti From the 2022 Talantis stream: Andy: "Dion... we're in the Galapagos Islands, do we have any turtles?" Dion: "Ahhh, yeah I think we might have something." Andy: "Okay. Cause you gotta have turtles in the Galapagos Islands, right?" Dion: "Hmm... The turtle is an asset we're not ready to share." Andy: "The turtle's not ready to share? I understand." Dion: "It's not ready to share." Aaron: "Ohhh is that, like, a secret, Dion?" Dion: "... yeah." (all laugh) ------ It could've been for Mauga's plushie/weapon charm, but if they were gonna use it as an underwater animal, I doubt it's the same asset? (who knows though). It could have been scrapped too. But this is just one thing towards the conspiracy for an Atlantic Arcology map (i think my previous reply got deleted because i had a link, here, but if you want to read the reddit post on it, i can send it to you on twitter!)

[@SabrinaBoss]

Just release dark mercy. All black mercy skin 🖤

[@nicolebauer6746]

I'm not such a big fan of the skin itself to be honest, the mask I hate, she looks like a German rapper with that, haha, but the effects on the beam are so cool and the wings, omg. In the mirror watch when I first went into valk I was in panic because I used it to heal and I couldn't, but the feeling to actually be able to cause real damage and still heal as Mercy is sooooo good. She has damage boost, but you don't see the damage in the stats, you always just see the 12k heal, but then your Moira, for example, also has 10k heal PLUS 10k damage and that's so frustrating because it makes it look as if you contributed less than her, so I would love to keep the damage boost dealing damage as well - actually I think I would be cool to keep everything, especially the bombs instead of res, that's such a fun thing. "I'm right behind you...."

[@SirenRyan]

The skin would be perfect with a third hairstyle option, a mask free option, and if the VFX colors matched the color scheme

[@nailinthefashion]

@@SirenRyanif they updated the bullets/heal beam to change color I would be so pleased as someone who prefers the purple with a green staff vs red/blue with gold

[@bigfudge2031]

I think a potential fix would be to just count damage amped as damage on the scoreboard.

[@jamesgilleylen4142]

I think the Mercy skin is bad, it has some good stuff but not really for me, Sombra got a bad treatment which is just her generic skin now painted in Overwatch 2 colors, Widowmaker was the most interesting one in the season pass, I would love to see why Sombra joined Overwatch would be the reason that Talon mentally abused Sigma, Reaper would just turn into the Raven since he has one crow skin, Echo was a lazy development too, all they gave her was just Stealth skin. Winston should have a Junker skin and Hammond was the one that issued the Talon recall notice (everyone can agree that RATS are just EVIL) Zenyatta should have became the leader of Null Sector or Echo? IDK which should have been better. Soldier 76 should have been put in charge of the Blackwatch variation called Deathwatch? Claw? IDK really but Moira has to get a skin as well!

[@bigfudge2031]

The audio is quite out of sync with the lips, it's not a big deal, but just a bit jarring.

[@EJW2003]

I think that’s only on your end, looks great for me

[@Skiesti]

That's why the video took longer to upload after the interview happened It was fine on Twitch VOD but for some reason Adobe unsynced everything so my editor had to go back and try to sync it up as best as they could

[@tycho_ow_]

ALSO YOU LOOK SO PRETTY!

[@masterchiefyoumind]

Lucio on his wall riding wheelchair or walking stick

[@rogue350]

Your chihuahua made an appearance!

[@Skiesti]

Both of them did LMAO and Murphy was playing with her toys for a while too

[@chunk1179]

i wish they put more effort into the story, but i think that team was laid off :(

[@Janime_OW]

i might be firsttt

[@damianxd720]

guys, they're just skins, their sole purpose is to make money

[@amgkv2.025]

Just wondering, youre not trans Skiesti? I couldn’t remember if it was just Eskay. You don’t look or sound trans, but I just wanna check

[@bigfudge2031]

That is a very invasive question, not everyone is comfortable answering something like that. Why does it matter to you what gender somebody is?

[@Blueskies_7]

EXCUSE ME??

[@coumil]

That is really rude and invasive to ask someone that. Why does it matter if Ski is trans or not???

[@colecassideeznutz]

I beg your pardon

[@Skiesti]

I'm not trans but if I was or not shouldn't make any sort of difference to anyone

[@MrSoBitchy]

The mercy cutout in the background took me OUT lmao

[@Skiesti]

LMAO she's my prized possession

[@theanalqueen]

They really should have made Mei fire instead of ice.