To say that Overwatch revolutionized the face of gaming would be an overstatement. However, to say that Overwatch was a culmination of years of great games into one package would be right on the mark. Combining aspects of a battle arena with a first-person shooter, Overwatch entices many to pick it up and give it a try. Plus, the addition 🉐of snazzy characters with personality does not hurt e♒ither.
Of all the characters (and there are many great ones in Overwatch's roster), Tracer is the one that fans are most familiar with. She has become Overwatch's icon. Similar as to how Pikachu is the face of Pokémon games, Tracer is the face of her game. And I can't honestly picture any other character taking up that mantle. Tracer's extraordinary in-game abilities are unique and intuitive. Playing as her reminds me why multiplayer g🔯ames can be so much fun. (Pharah is usually my jam, but dang, I just can stay on the ground with her.) Tracer's joyful personality creates an even more gleeful experience when I play as her.
One of the things that makes the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:characters of Overwatch so brilliant is the time the game developers spent making backstories for them. (If you haven't checked out the lore for Overwatch, you are 𒆙definitely missing out.) Tracer has her own backstory too, and, as with any fictional origin story, there are some flaws in it. Read on if you want to check out some insane nitpicking on Tracer, her fic🎃tional bio, and her gameplay.
25 𝐆 How Old Is She? 💮
Tra𒐪cer's abilities, Recall and Blink, rely on the concepts of teleportation and time travel. Her entire back story is taken up with how she had a bad encounte💛r with an exploding teleportation matrix and she almost got lost in space and time.
In order to survive, she has to wear a device that keeps her fixed in time. If the device functioned in that manner, wouldn't she remain the same age for as long as she wore that device? She would never get any older.
24 Survival O🐭fไ The Timeliest
Tracer's harꦬness is called a chronal accelerator. It is this device which gives Tracer control over time. If she was not wearing it, she ꦰwould lose the ability to remain steady in space and time.
However, despite this being common knowledge, Tracer has lost the harness a couple times and managed to be brought back. Now, I'm not saying I want Tracer to be lost forever. But consistency in how her condition works would be nice. Is the harness able to come off at all or is it stuck there permanently if sh🎃e wants to live?
23 ♎ Her Favorite Saying
While playing Overwatch as Tracer, she will chirp out a, "Cheers, love! The cavalry's here!" This has become one of her signature lines. As it turns out, the grim engineer of the team, Torbjörn, is the person responsible for giving Tracer that line.
When he was welcoming her onto the team, he mentioned how the cavalry is♔ now here. Tracer must have liked the sound of that so much that she now utters that all the time on the battlefield. Thanks, Torbjörn. Thanks a bunch.
22 Merry Christmas, Tracer ♎
Tracer has a girlfriend named Emily, and in an Overwatch comic that was released, we find out that Tracer forgot to get Emily a holiday gift. The comic shows Tracer zipping from store to store tryi🗹ng to find the right present.
Tracer has time powers. Are you telling me she couldn't go back in time a bit and get a present that way? Many of the stores she v🗹isited were just closing. Going back a minut꧒e would have allowed her to purchase something. And honestly, she waited a tad too long to buy a present in the first place.
21 Escape ✅The Frost
Mei was created to serve as a counter to characters like Tracer. Her freezing abilities are meant to slow down or halt completely characters that are strongly movement-oriented. However, the encounters between these two characters are always a strange sort of toss-up.
Tracer can always Recall away before she's frozen completely, but there is the possibility that Mei will catch Tracer off guard and land a h💮eadshot. But if you step back and look at this situation from a fictional standpoint, you have ice powers versus time powers. There should be no contest.
20 The Irony Of Time Powers 💦
Lag is an issue that affects all video game characters negatively, but I find it to be sweet, sweet irony that it especia♓lly affects a character like Tracer.
When you play as Tracer, timing is absolutely vital.
(We would expect nothing less from a character wearing a chronal accelerator.) But lag completely throws that off. It is almost funny to see a c🦋haracter who should have total control of time be derailed by an accidental stuttering of the game's time.
19 Quicker Transportation ꧒
Tracer's backstory states that she got her powerဣs whe𓆉n she was test-flying a jet that had a teleportation matrix. The matrix malfunctioned, catching Tracer in the explosion.
I won't even begin to question how an exploding matrix could make someone become lost in time and space. But I will question why in the world someone thought it would be a good idea to have a teleporting jet.💯 A jet is already moving at the speed of sound. Why not make a teleporting chair?
18 Artificial Sup🌌port 𝓡
The conflict in the world of Overwatch revolves around the advent of artificial intelligence. the Overwatch team was created to combat this menace of unchecked robots. Tracer was born during the Omnic 🦂Crisis, the height of robot hostilities with mankin🅺d.
Despite being brought up during this tumultuous time, Tracer apparently harbors no ill-will toward robots. She�𓃲� even attended a speech by Tekhartha Mondatta, a monastic omnic who preached equality and peace.
17 𓆏 The Blink Charge
As part of gameplay, Tracer has three charges of her Blink ability with whic✱h to use. When she 🍌Blinks, she teleports rapidly in whichever direction she is traveling. It's a handy way to avoid enemies or to circumvent them.
But given how her powers were bestowed on her by an exploding teleportation matrix, you would think that she wouldn't need to have a charge in order to Blink. You would think that she could do it naturally. This is w🅠here necessary gameplay functions mess📖 with a credible story.
16 Beware Cliff Edge 🐻
Sometimes, it is player agency that messes with a game's f✅iction. As a character, Tracer is known for having precise control over her abilities when she uses them in combat. When players take control of her, events can take a turn for ♒the imprecise.
If Tracer were in total control of her actions, she would never Blink herself off of a map. Of course, without those little mistakes, Overwatch would not be as fun a game as it is. In factܫ, it wouldn't even be a g♌ame if Tracer had control. So own those mistakes with pride.