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Wrecking Ball’s automatic assault cannons tear apart threats at medium range.
Details:
First two shots have perfect accuracy; bullet spread reaches max at 20 shots.
Automatically reloads if Wrecking Ball is in his
Roll mode for 2.1 seconds.
Wrecking Ball launches a grappling claw, enabling him to anchor to an area and swing from it. If he strikes an enemy with a powered-up swing, they’re damaged and knocked back.
+100% buff (swinging) 18 m/s (rolling)
23 meters (eventually retracts to 6 meters)
Launch a grappling claw to rapidly swing around the area. Enables high speed collisions to damage and knockback enemies.
Wrecking Ball transforms into a ball, increasing his maximum movement speed.
Transform into a ball and increase maximum movement speed.
Wrecking Ball’s temporary personal shields absorb damage, providing stronger defenses if more opponents are nearby.
100 temporary shields + 75 additional shields per enemy within radius
Create temporary personal shields. Amount increases with more enemies nearby.
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Unique to Wrecking Ball, the shields do not give ult charge to the enemy team when they damage it.
B.O.B. counts as an enemy for creating extra shields.
Wrecking Ball slams onto the ground below, damaging enemies and launching them upward.
7.07 meters per second (charging) 98 meters per second (downwards)
Slam into the ground below to damage and launch enemies upward.
Details:
Bound to Crouch/Toggle Crouch, which is unique to this ability.
Wrecking Ball's altitude must be at least 2.25 meters to activate. For reference, jumping height is 0.98 meters.
Wrecking Ball moves 4 meters forward before dropping.
Affected enemies are knocked into the air, and they lose air control for 0.5 seconds.
Wrecking Ball deploys a field of long-lasting proximity mines which explode on contact with enemies.
0.1 seconds (deployment) 1.5 seconds (mines, after landing)
Deploy a massive field of proximity mines.
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Wrecking Ball passively generates 1% Ult Charge every 3.08 seconds.
Deploys 15 proximity mines around him, arranged into three rings of 1/6/8 mines.
Activating Minefield in the air increases the spread.
Mines stick to the first surface they contact, including walls and ceilings.
Mines emit a high-pitched noise to nearby enemies.
Wrecking Ball can regain ult charge while Minefield is deployed.
↑ 2018-06-28, Michael Chu . Twitter . Accessed on 2018-06-28
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↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 2018-06-29, Developer Update | Introducing Wrecking Ball | Overwatch . YouTube , accessed on 2018-06-29
↑ Specimen 8's room, Horizon Lunar Colony
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 2018-06-29, [NEW HERO – COMING SOON Wrecking Ball Origin Story | Overwatch]. YouTube , accessed on 2018-06-29
↑ 7.0 7.1 2017-05-30, NEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT POSSIBLE FATE OF HORIZON LUNAR COLONY . Blizzard Entertainment , accessed on 2017-06-18
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Wrecking Ball Live-Drawing & Art Discussion
↑ Specimen 8's room, Horizon Lunar Colony
↑ Junkertown posters
↑ The champion revealed.
↑ 2019-02-16, Michael Chu . Overwatch Forums , accessed on 2019-02-16
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Wrecking Ball is a Tank hero in Overwatch .
Wrecking Ball rolls across the battlefield, using his arsenal of weapons and his mech’s powerful body to crush his enemies.
As an offense-oriented tank hero, Wrecking Ball's greatest strength lies in his high mobility, which he uses to disrupt the enemy team by forcing them out of position and initiating team fights. A good Wrecking Ball is excellent at establishing area control, knowing when and how to engage and disengage the enemy to create opportunities for his teammates. He can do so at will by switching between walker and ball mode as the situation changes. The dual machine guns deployed in walker mode provide a hitscan-ranged attack in exchange for mobility, while ball mode allows Wrecking Ball to damage enemies up close and quickly travel across the battlefield. Wrecking Ball's grappling hook allows him to tether to a surface to either gain vertical positioning and acceleration or to inflict contact damage within an area at top speed. Should he find himself outnumbered, Wrecking Ball can generate temporary shields to block incoming damage, which increase with the number of enemies nearby. Lastly, Wrecking Ball has strong area denial by deploying a mine field, which inflict heavy damage to any enemy that comes into detonation range.
While Wrecking Ball is a more mobile tank than Winston , he has no means of directly protecting his teammates from damage, making him a poor choice as a solo tank. His high dependency on his abilities and mobility makes him a sitting target when they are being limited or disabled. Furthermore, his massive size also makes him an easy target for the enemy team to focus fire if he cannot escape.
Wrecking Ball is all about disruption, quick engagements and disengagements, and denying area. Use Grappling Claw and Piledriver to roll through masses of enemies to quickly gain ultimate charge and scattering the enemy team. For example, Wrecking Ball can smack a Reinhardt away from his team, leaving them vulnerable. Roll and Adaptive Shield help to survive and disengage. Once Minefield is ready, Wrecking Ball can combo it with Piledriver to prevent or even end team fights. Wrecking Ball can also target specific enemies by slamming down with Piledriver, shooting them with Quad Cannons, and hitting a quick melee.
Described as "witty and conniving," Hammond is capable of speech, just not in any human language. His mech (named "Wrecking Ball") translates his comments into English, [2] via a soundboard. The mech itself is equipped with a minor AI. [3] Winston is the one individual Hammond can converse with normally as they're both animals.
In one of the many experiments carried out at Horizon Lunar Colony , animals were given genetic therapy to assess their adaptation to extended periods of habitation on the moon. As an unexpected side effect, several of them exhibited exceptional growth in physical size and brain function. While most of the test subjects were gorillas or other primates, there were some exceptions, including a hamster designated Specimen 8, [4] but whom the staff named "Hammond". [3] He was contained in a large cage in his own room. [5] [6]
Like the others, Hammond's intelligence grew. [3] He demonstrated impressive problem solving skills and adaptability, [6] and he became more curious about the world around him. Much to the puzzlement and amusement of the scientists, Hammond would frequently escape into different parts of the moon base. [3] The staff had more trouble keeping track of Hammond than any of the other test subjects, and in at least one case, it was days before he was returned to his holding area. [4] Though they'd always find him and return him to his cell, they never figured out the true purpose behind his nightly escapades. What they didn't know was that Hammond was busy teaching himself the skills of a mechanic, which would soon come in handy. [3]
In time, Hammond became good friends with one of the gorillas, Specimen 28 . [4]
Before the base's fall, Hammond escaped from his cage. Dr. Zhang noted his absence, but few within the base gave it much heed. Hammond possibly escaped into the base's ventilation system, as in the same timeframe, Flores noted strange noises coming from the system. [7] The colony was eventually thrown into chaos when some of the gorillas rose up against the human scientists and took control. Not all of the animals participated, however, and Specimen 28, taking the name "Winston", was making a plan to escape to Earth. Hammond sensed his opportunity, prototyped a basic build plan using toys in his room, then finalized his build onto a blueprint with sticky notes. [6] Ignored in the uprising, [6] he converted an empty fuel pod into a makeshift escape capsule with a claw arm and tether, [8] and secretly hitched it to the bottom Winston's craft as the gorilla blasted off from Launch Bay 14. As the two entered Earth's atmosphere, the tether broke; [6] while Winston landed at Watchpoint: Gibraltar , Hammond landed in a different location: the wasteland of the Australian Outback, on the outskirts of Junkertown . [3] [4]
One of the primates would eventually break down the door of Hammond's room for whatever reason, but by that time the hamster was already gone. [6] [9]
Hammond modified his escape pod to become the cockpit of his own mech, which he built around it, [6] to enter the lucrative mech battle arena of the Scrapyard . Working his way up the ranks amongst the Junkers , the competitor known as "Wrecking Ball" went from contender to champion and had fun winning numerous times, [10] [11] [4] though the pilot's identity remained a mystery to all. As much fun as he had, Hammond never considered himself to be a Junker. Gathering his winnings, Hammond was able to upgrade his mech enough to survive the dangerous trek out of the Junker-controlled Outback.
Now free to travel and do as he pleases, Hammond is exploring the world and finding new adventures along the way. [3]
Years later, Lucheng Interstellar was able to retrieve information from Horizon's still-operating monitoring system. Hammond was noted to be missing from the base. [7]
The concept for Wrecking Ball actually originated early in Overwatch's development, during the game's original character design phase, as "Ball Guy," a spherical robot Arnold Tsang created while exploring circular robot designs, which stemmed from an early unused concept of Junkrat wearing a bomb-shaped suit. Geoff Goodman began designing this version of the hero as a "junkyard magnet bot," a robotic tank hero with a kit themed around magnetism, including abilities that allowed him to attract and repel bullets. At around the same time, the concept artists were doing preliminary ideation for a "cute hero," which included several prototype designs of robots, rodents, and a robotic monkey, as well as precursors to D.Va ; this same ideation phase would eventually produce Jetpack Cat . Eventually, these two lines of ideation would converge on the idea of a hamster in a hamster ball, and Arnold Tsang illustrated the first iteration of Wrecking Ball, as a robotic hamster piloting a quadrupedal robot that could transform into a sphere. [8]
The illustration was emailed out and clicked with the designers, but this new direction proved to be controversial within the Overwatch development team, with some loving the idea and others believing it would ruin the game. In 2014, Jeff Kaplan, Jeffrey Brill , and Randal Dumoret had a disagreement over the hero's inclusion, with Dumoret falling into the latter camp. The discussion resulted in Brill scheduling a meeting in 2024 to determine whether or not Wrecking Ball had ruined the game, and that if he had, he would be removed from the game at that point. Though the team fully intended to eventually release the hero, they didn't feel it was the right time, and so Wrecking Ball remained shelved until some time in 2017, when he was brought back up and they started seriously discussing his implementation. [8]
Revisiting the concept, they decided that a mechanical hamster couldn't be as cute as an actual hamster. Using Tracer as a reference point they produced a number of hamster concepts to hone in on a specific style that suited Overwatch's "East meets West" aesthetic, ultimately deciding on a design that fell in between Hamtaro and Zootopia . [8] According to Kaplan, they also deliberated over Hammond's size, eventually deciding that he should be " Pikachu -sized."
From there Wrecking Ball went through various design iterations with mechanics that focused on rolling around on the ground and down slopes to gain momentum and smash into enemies. Eventually, the grappling hook was incorporated into his kit, which fit into his wrecking ball theme, and his final design began to take shape with the Piledriver, Adaptive Shield, and Minefield abilities pulling everything together.
While designing Wrecking Ball's legendary skins, because the hero concept was already quite different from the other heroes in the game, they decided to ground his default legendary skins in the existing Overwatch story, with his Junker skin reflecting his time as the Champion of the Scrapyard and his Lunar skin reflecting his time as an experimental test subject on the Horizon Lunar Colony. [8]
Prior to his release, an Overwatch tweet was released containing a video that featured several posters on a wall, one of which was a Horizon commercial displaying most likely a chimpanzee or a similar specimen flying in space. [15] This led to speculation that this was teasing Hammond as a playable hero. [16] With the release of the Patch 1.25, a new room was added to Horizon Lunar Colony neighboring Winston's room with the text "Specimen 8" written on the door, confirming that this was Hammond's room.
For more information, see Patch Notes
Developer Comment: This change allows Wrecking Ball’s enemies to regain control of their movement more quickly to try and avoid attacks, making Piledriver combos a bit less deadly.
Developer Comment: Wrecking Ball has a very active playstyle, but it often felt difficult to make good use out of his ultimate. This change allows him to spread out his Minefield further if he wants (especially from high in the air), while still allowing for a tighter cluster if he activates it near the ground.
Developer Comment: This will make Adaptive Shield a more powerful survival tool, since being forced out of Roll mode left Wrecking Ball more susceptible to fire.
Test subject (formerly) Mech pilot, mechanic
Hammond: Dee Bradley Baker Wrecking Ball: Jonathan Lipow Wrecking Ball: TuTeHaMeng (Mandarin (China)) [1]
Journal Entry 1963-4. Harold Winston. Status update on Specimen 8. By now, we're all used to our super-intelligent gorillas on the colony. But the hamster...we've named him Hammond...continues to be one of our biggest surprises. Even though he's grown from the genetic modification, we have more trouble keeping track of him than any of the other animals. Somehow, he managed to get out of his cage again. It took us days to find him. I can't help but wonder what it is he's looking for when he gets out there. He's shown impressive problem solving skills and adaptability to new situations. And he's overcome all the challenges that have been placed in front of him. I for one can't wait to see what trouble the little guy gets up to next.
Absorb 1500 damage with Wrecking Ball's Adaptive Shield without dying in Quick or Competitive play.
Roll through 4 enemies within 2 seconds as Wrecking Ball in Quick or Competitive play.
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Wrecking Ball , also known as Hammond , is a fictional, playable character in the 2016 video game Overwatch . He is an intelligent hamster who controls a quadrupedal robot mecha that can transform into a high-speed wrecking ball equipped with a grappling hook . The character was introduced in late June 2018 as the title's 28th hero, and made available for all players in late July 2018.
Wrecking Ball is one of the playable "hero" characters in the team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game Overwatch . The character is a tank-class mecha robot driven by a genetically engineered hamster named Hammond. [1] The mech's move set includes a quadpedal combat mode with automatic assault weapons known as the "Quad Cannons", and a high-speed "Roll" mode in which the mech condenses into a ball armed with a "Grappling Claw". The grappling claw can attach to surfaces and use the mech's rolling momentum to launch into enemies and the air. While in the air, the ball can slam into the ground, sucking in and damaging enemies using his "Piledriver" move. Wrecking Ball also has an "Adaptive Shield" ability, which adds temporary shields based on the count of nearby enemies. His ultimate ability is "Minefield" that scatters a proximity mine minefield around the character. [2] [3]
Hammond does not speak human languages, however the Wrecking Ball mech translates his voice into English. [2] Dee Bradley Baker provides Hammond's squeaks, while Jonathan Lipow voices the mech's translation. [4]
In the "Storm Rising" special event during April 2019, Wrecking Ball was given a new highlight introduction that parodied the Dramatic Chipmunk meme. [5]
The concept of Wrecking Ball had been proposed early in Overwatch ' s development cycle, though never given significant development work until after release, according to Geoff Goodman. [6] Writer Arnold Tsang said that the idea came from two different tracks of thoughts when they were designing the first set of characters of Overwatch . [7] One track was for a demolitionist character which would ultimately become Junkrat. One proposed idea was named "Ball Guy", a robot that could transform into a sphere and roll around. His skill kit would have included aspects of magnetism , with one ability to draw in enemy bullets, store them, and then fire them back at opponents. However, at the time, the game already had several other Omnic characters and developers did not feel the need for an additional robot. [7] The rolling aspect became the basis of Junkrat's ultimate ability, his Riptire. [8] Another train of thought was to see if Overwatch could support a "cute" character, and their artists came up with several animal-based concepts, including the infamous Jetpack Cat. However, none of these ideas worked within the Overwatch theme. At this point, the groups working on these two tracks came up with the idea of making a robotic hamster to be combined with the spherical tank idea, playing off the idea of a hamster ball . [7] While they liked the idea, they decided to put the design on hold to focus on the initial roster of characters for Overwatch ' s release. [7]
The team came back to explore Wrecking Ball while developing out the Horizon Lunar Colony map, which features into Winston's backstory, while at the same time planning on a new Tank hero. Previously, they had considered Winston, a super-intelligent gorilla who was part of an experimental study at Horizon, to be their most out-there idea. [6] They were able to revisit the robotic hamster idea, but to fit into the Horizon setting, made the hamster a living creature - one of the Horizon test subjects with boosted intelligence - and gave him the spherical mech to pilot. [7] Hammond’s design was meant to be a mix of Western and Eastern art styles, somewhere between Zootopia and Hamtaro . [7]
One ability that was tested involved Wrecking Ball gaining momentum as the character rolled through the level, causing more damage to enemy heroes. However, this had unintended consequences as Wrecking Ball's momentum could be redirected by certain abilities, like Pharah's "Concussive Blast", and damage unintended targets; as Overwatch was developed to avoid friendly fire , the ability was scrapped. [9] During this period, developers came upon the idea of including a grappling hook as part of the character's skill kit, which Goodman believed cemented the character. [6] For the grappling hook feature to work, Blizzard had to refine some parts of how the Overwatch game was run related to their physics engine ; most physics calculations were made on the client side, so how objects moved under the control of physics may appear different to all players. Blizzard had previously explored a full server-side physics engine, which was helpful for testing, but was a strain for regular matches. Enough of Wrecking Ball's physics were conducted server side for consistent behavior for all players. [9] Developers also experimented with several variants of what would become Wrecking Ball's adaptive shield, which at one point involved the character firing off up to four beam turrets that would provide shields for the hero, but like Symmetra 's turrets, these could be placed in difficult-to-hit locations, making it hard for opponents to destroy them. As Wrecking Ball was designed to fare well in clusters of opponents, the design team ultimately went with shields boosted in accordance with the number of nearby opponents. [9] Wrecking Ball's piledriver ability was originally envisioned as his ultimate. In this iteration, the ultimate would launch Wrecking Ball up before slamming into the ground, and would have left opponents hanging in the air for five seconds. Once they added the grappling hook, these additional effects were deemed unnecessary and piledrive eventually became a regular ability. [9]
Due to Wrecking Ball having two sets of voice lines (one for Hammond's squeaks, another for the mech's translation), Blizzard had to rework the system that characters would use at the start of matches to account for Wrecking Ball's lines. [8] Other sound effects for the character were taken from various weapons firing recordings, and from the sound of rolling metal balls and bowling balls alongside the spinning of a hamster wheel. [8] For voicing Hammond, Blizzard had constructed a fictional language of hamster-speak and was looking to use a mix of animal noises, such as coyotes pups, to create the voice lines. Blizzard then received an audition tape from Dee Bradley Baker , a voice actor well-known for his work doing animal sounds, and Blizzard changed direction to incorporate Baker's lines. [10]
Goodman considered that, at the time of Wrecking Ball's release, the hero would become disruptive to the metagame at the time. [11] A frequent strategy at that point was for defenses to stack up at an objective with shield-bearing characters like Reinhardt and Orisa providing sufficient defense to make it difficult for the attacking team to break through. Existing characters like D.Va and Winston can hurl themselves behind or within enemies lines, but without support, these characters do not survive long on their own. Goodman said that with Wrecking Ball's combined abilities, the character has a way to get into a defensive line, survive long enough, and escape quickly due to the mech's mobility. Goodman said that Wrecking Ball is still fragile, as if the character is trapped or slowed, it becomes very easy to take down. [11]
Wrecking Ball's release was an interregnum from preceding Overwatch add-on content, which was based on new villains and geopolitical conflict. [12] While Overwatch developer Blizzard had hinted at the character's existence, [13] [14] the game's official Twitter account conspicuously teased the character in the days prior to its announcement in late June 2018 as the 28th playable hero on the roster. Wrecking Ball was released for public testing on the Public Test Region (PTR) the same day as the announcement. [1] Wrecking Ball was fully added to Overwatch on all game servers on July 24, 2018. [15]
Hammond's backstory was first introduced through changes made to the Horizon Lunar Colony map in May 2018, and later expanded upon the character's announcement. [16] [1] [12] [2] In the game's story, Hammond is a hamster and one of the test subjects at the Horizon Lunar Colony, given heightened intelligence by the human scientists, from which he gained a liking for mechanics. Amidst a test subject uprising, Hammond planned to escape to Earth alongside the gorilla Winston by tethering an escape pod to Winston's capsule. Approaching Earth, Hammond's capsule broke loose and fell into the Australian Outback, near the fictional city of Junkertown. He modified the escape pod to become a battle mech, through which he competed in Junkertown's robot combat arena under the ring name Wrecking Ball, becoming its champion. [12] [2]
Within gameplay, Wrecking Ball's Grappling Hook ability was described as a positive addition to the game by gaming journalists. The hook enabled players during testing in the PTR to pull off previously unused flanks on certain maps. [17] The ability not only allows Wrecking Ball to be more mobile than previous tanks , but enables him to get to elevated locations that are out of reach of most characters. [18] This also enables the player using Wrecking Ball to pull off previously unused flanks on certain maps, which some gaming journalists expect to affect the metagame of Overwatch . [17] Players also experimented with a custom game type in which they race in wrecking ball mode to traverse the game's levels the fastest. [19] [20] PC Gamer described the character as the game's most inventive. [21]
Wrecking Ball had been introduced after the conclusion of the Overwatch League 's inaugural season, but was available to play in 2018 finals for the Overwatch Contenders, a type of minor league to the main League. Players there had tried experimenting with Wrecking Ball, and while some of their attempts ending up costing their teams certain matches, the hero was found to fast enough to move from spawn to a control to help sustain a team's attack or defense, but required strong coordination with the rest of the team to make his other abilities useful. [22] [23]
While many journalists were struck by the outlandish premise of a hamster commandeering a mecha robot, [17] [14] [24] the character's introduction was well-received by the game's community. [25] Lead game producer Adam Gershowitz said that Blizzard knew the character would likely be divisive within the Overwatch community, but they worked to establish a backstory and an interesting set of powers that would make Wrecking Ball's introduction fit within the game. [26] Kaplan said that even within Blizzard, Wrecking Ball was a controversial character to add, with some developers thinking they had gone too far and wrecked the game. Kaplan reiterated that Wrecking Ball was designed to explore the edge of how far they could take a unique character in the game, and does not anticipate that there will be a hero more "wackier" than Wrecking Ball for future heroes. [27]
Through the game's story, which unfolds through the release of new in-game assets, players had expected the character to be a monkey companion to Winston, based on his scientific facility's backstory, rather than a hamster. [14] Many players complained about the name choice of "Wrecking Ball", preferring "Hammond" instead, which is shorter and easier to use in callouts. [25] [28] However, Goodman stated that Blizzard would be unlikely to change the name, as the lore established that Hammond would want to keep the name "Wrecking Ball". [29]
Dee Bradley Baker (Hammond) Jonathan Lipow (Wrecking Ball)
Developer update introducing the character
Wrecking Ball origin story , an official, animated short
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