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Kaan Serin

One of Overwatch's most infamous abilities, Mei's freeze, may be coming back as a perk "in a different, less overwhelming way"

Overwatch Mei.

Anyone who played Overwatch at launch is probably riddled with bad (secretly awesome) memories of how chaotic and borderline broken it could be at times. It felt like competitive shooters went the way of the party game, but that was all thanks to wacky abilities like Mei's primary fire, which could properly freeze foes in place, and it's set to make some sort of comeback in Overwatch 2.

Overwatch 2's associate game director Alec Dawson essentially confirmed it in a new blog post. While discussing the pros and cons of the game's newly introduced perks - mid-match upgrades that let you slowly buildcraft - Dawson says that "players have responded well to perks that bring back old components of a hero's kit, like Orisa's Protective Barrier and Hanzo's Scatter Arrow."

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