Summary
Overwatch 2almost had Starscream Pharah, Soundwave Lucio, and Unicron Wrecking Ball as skins for theTransformerscollaboration. Though these incredible skin concepts didn’t make it into theOverwatch 2crossover, there’s still a chance they could come back again ifTransformersever returns to the game.
The officialTransformerscollaboration just recently began inOverwatch 2. In addition to an in-game event that rewards icons, character cosmetics, and Battle Pass experience, theOverwatch 2xTransformerscrossover introduced four incredible new skins: Optimus Prime Reinhardt, Megatron Ramattra, Arcee Illari, and Bumblebee Bastion.
However, it seems likeOverwatch 2almost had a few otherTransformersskins that sound like they would have been perfect. During aninterview with ComicBook,Overwatch 2art director Dion Rogers mentioned a few skin ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor. “We did explore a few other heroes like Pharah as Starscream actually, and Lucio, we tried to make Soundwave work on him,” he explained. “There’s some favorites on the team that we landed on. The concept team did a really good job of just exploring a bunch of ideas.” Aimee Dennett, associate director of product management forOverwatch 2, also revealed that Wrecking Ball almost had a Unicron skin, but the idea was also scrapped in favor of more iconic Transformers.
Scrapped Overwatch 2 x Transformers Crossover Skins
Beyond these skins, Rogers also brought up Gimlock as another character he would have loved to use. “Grimlock is actually one of my favorite Transformers,” he said, “and I wish we had a chance to include Dinobots in some way in this collab.” Unfortunately, nocurrentOverwatch 2charactersresemble a T. rex yet, but that could always change in the future – and the developers aren’t against another run of this event down the road. “We’re definitely never counting out doing something again where there’s so much idea and passion for it,” Dennett confirmed. “The issue was much less like, ‘oh man, who do we do’ and is more like, ‘okay, we can’t do all of these.'"
“We did explore a few other heroes like Pharah as Starscream actually, and Lucio, we tried to make Soundwave work on him. There’s some favorites on the team that we landed on. The concept team did a really good job of just exploring a bunch of ideas.”
ManyOverwatch 2players were devastated to learn these incredible skin ideas that never saw the light of day. While theskinsOverwatch 2made for this collaborationhave been well-received, Pharah as Starscream and Lucio as Soundwave seem like natural fits, and Wrecking Ball as Unicron the Planet Eater is something fans would have loved to see. These skins also would have equalized the ratio of heroic and villainous skins, as the official collab only has a single Decepticon, but three Autobots. Either way, players are hopeful that, as long as theTransformerscollaboration is successful, they could see these skins some time in the future.
The recentOverwatch 2collaborations with other franchises have been quite popular. Before theTransformerscollab, it had done crossovers with anime in the form ofOne Punch ManandCowboy Bebop, the K-pop band Le Sserafim, and even with Porsche. Now that it has broken the seal on wild collaborations, fans can expect even moreexcitingOverwatch 2crossoversin future seasons.
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Overwatch 2 is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 battlefield brawl. Power up your railgun and disrupt the battlefield as Sojourn, or yield your axe and command attention as Junker Queen. Battle to take control of a robot and move it toward the enemy base in the new Push Mode. Bring the fight to new destinations across the globe in iconic locations like New York, Rome, Monte Carlo and Rio. Daily challenges and frequent updates mean there is always something new to play.
