Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fanse, took time to s down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversy our favore team based shooter.
Contents:
- OUR THOUGHTS ON OVERWATCH'S TRACER BEG GAY
- Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
- BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC
OUR THOUGHTS ON OVERWATCH'S TRACER BEG GAY
* is tracer from overwatch gay *
Soldier 76 – Gay.
Much like Tracer, Soldier 76 was revealed to be gay a medium outsi of the official Overwatch game. Both intify as gay. Wh the release of Overwatch’s holiday ic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer.
Heather: I thk they’ve been tellg about gay characters sce Grayson: They’ve hted at this specific reveal for months. I mean, I uld be super crass and poke at the panel layout: we cut to Tracer talkg to someone out of ame and then a whole ame of ‘look, ’s another woman’ as a fe narrative beat, and then we build to a kiss and cut away aga, closg out the brief arc as a story about Tracer beg gay.
Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
There’s a fely a ‘surprise, gay! But I do agree that there’s an element of, “surprise, gay!
I was super aaid that the “surprise, gay! For me, I’m happy to give props to velopers who thk about how I’ll feel as a female I almost ma a GIF today of scrollg down the Tumblr tag for Tracer—100% of is “Tracer is gay and she saved my crops and cleared my sk. But I also regnize that one gay character is more or ls the bare mimum.
BLIZZARD CONFIRMS TRACER IS GAY NEW OVERWATCH HOLIDAY COMIC
Tracer is gay and that is wonrful.
Here’s a du that’s fely gay, and embedd gay culture, but his problems don’t revolve around beg gay and datg. Soldier 76 (Gay). Overwatch 2’s rint veteran is gay, though not many people know .
Soldier 76 was nfirmed to be gay a few years after the game’s release, and while he isn’t as well regnized as Tracer, many fans were pleased at the announcement.