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Blizzard began teasing his next limited-time event for Overwatch, called Storm Rising. On April 7, a clipping of the fictional Havana Sun newspaper was posted on Overwatch's main website. The next day, Blizzard released a tweet detailing classified information from Overwatch – revealing the story of Storm Rising and possibly teasing a new playable hero called Sojourn. This tweet is visible below.
The Havana Sun newspaper clipping is written in Spanish. An English translation is provided below. The article details the takeover by an unknown company of Don Rumbotico, a popular distillery with a "controversial" history. Apparently, after the founders of Don Rumbotico, Clara and Basillo Diaz, refused to sell the Havana distillery to an "anonymous financial group", they faced repeated difficulties and eventually had to sell their business anyway. The article then states that Don Rumbotico is not the only icon of Havana to have been purchased by this mysterious group and ends with a weather warning indicating an impending storm. What all this means for Overwatch is not completely clear until the tracking tweet is also taken into account.
The tweet contains an audio recording decrypted for an archived mission briefing in the Overwatch team database. The message is addressed to Major Morrison, indicating the date of the recording before the fall of Overwatch and the conversion of Morrison into Soldier: Doomfist would prove a much easier task. The voice then indicates that Tracer will lead the team responsible for finding Maximilian, who will be joined by Winston, Genji and Mercy. The briefing ends with the voice that identifies itself as Sojourn.
The trailer ends with the rumor that Storm Rising will run from April 16 to May 6. Although Maximilian never appeared in the game, he has long been part of the Overwatch tradition as a board member of Doomfist's villainous group, Talon. Most likely, it is he who buys the local icons in Havana. Tracer and his team will try to investigate his assets under cover of the violent storm approaching the city. This story will probably be told during a four-person cooperative PvE mission. Blizzard has not confirmed this, but this style of narration has already been used in previous April events of Overwatch, Retribution and Uprising.
What is most convincing is the introduction of Sojourn, as it has never been mentioned before, but it looks like a person who has great authority within or over Overwatch. It remains to be seen if she will be a future playable hero, but it seems that she is playing an important role in the next event of limited duration.
Overwatch is available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
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