{"id":89422,"date":"2026-09-14T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89422"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:38:55","slug":"overwatchs-tracer-once-shot-lasers-from-her-eyes-and-it-could-happen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89422","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch\u2019s Tracer Once Shot Lasers From Her Eyes, And It Could Happen Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If early iterations of characters had survived the development process, Tracer could have been a very different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/overwatch\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"389545\">Overwatch<\/a> hero. Speaking to GameSpot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">BlizzCon 2026<\/a>, game director Aaron Keller mentioned that he had been playing Overwatch since 2013, &#8220;since Tracer was shooting lasers out of her eyes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When questioned about such a strange sequence of words, Keller explained that the bizarre version of Tracer came from the first days of Overwatch&#8217;s engine development in late 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When we were creating the Overwatch engine, you know, so this is late 2013, the first day we got Tracer in we all ran around but we didn&#8217;t actually have a projectile system yet,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So when you would fire, just like straight out of her eyes, [it was] two red lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There weren&#8217;t even any proper visual effects involved at that point. According to Keller, it was &#8220;literally two red lines,&#8221; because the game was firing the weapon from the camera&#8217;s position. &#8220;And so we had a blast running around, just shooting lasers at each others,&#8221; he recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the laser-eyed Tracer was ultimately replaced by the pulse pistols players know today, the idea apparently hasn&#8217;t been completely banished from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If early iterations of characters had survived the development process, Tracer could have been a very different Overwatch hero. Speaking to GameSpot at BlizzCon 2026, game director Aaron Keller mentioned that he had been playing Overwatch since 2013, &#8220;since Tracer was shooting lasers out of her eyes.&#8221; When questioned about such a strange sequence of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":89424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89425,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89422\/revisions\/89425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}