Overwatch 2 Players Point Out How Echo Has Been Overlooked In The New Game

Echo is, obviously, still a character in Overwatch 2 and she’s fully playable. All of her cosmetics and customizations are fully supported and transferred over to the new game. By no means has Echo been erased from Overwatch 2. Rather, Overwatch 2 players have noticed that certain things that other characters have received as part of the upgrade to the new game, Echo has been left out on.

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One area where players noticedEcho seems to have been forgotten is her portrait. In upgrading to Overwatch 2, Blizzard decided to change characters’ portraits from 3D icons to 2D art for each character. Echo’s portrait icon in Overwatch 2 remains her 3D render portrait. The decision to change the art hasn’t been provided by Blizzard, so it’s all the more difficult to understand why Echo’s portrait wasn’t changed while every other Overwatch character’s was.

The second, and perhaps more significant omission, is with regard to Echo’s default Overwatch 2 skin. More specifically, Echo doesn’t have a default “Overwatch 2” skin. She has her default “Overwatch 1” skin instead. All the original characters from Overwatch received an updated base skin for Overwatch 2. These skins feature small changes to textures or coloring, at the very least. Some default skins have been completely overhauled, with Blizzard promising more in the future. Echo received none of this.

There is any number of good reasons for Blizzard to have missed these things while shifting to Overwatch 2. Development resources are limited, after all, and Blizzard had a pressing timeline for getting Overwatch 2 PvP released. Why Echo ended up being the target of this is still a fair question.

It’s possible Blizzard simply went down a list based on character popularity, and due to Echo’s late release, her work was deprioritized. Perhaps she was even forgotten, or Blizzard decided it wanted developers to work on something else rather than spend time on her. That Echo is currently not very well balanced for Overwatch 2’s 5v5 gameplay certainly doesn’t help. Regardless, Blizzard should address the issues soon, if only to avoid accusations of Overwatch 2 being rushed and unfinished.

Overwatch 2 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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