Overwatch devs commit to stop making new heroes too OP, after learning their lesson from "perma-banned" Jetpack Cat: "We're trying to find that right landing zone"

Overwatch's Jetpack Cat hero, a ginger cat sitting on a floating blue vehicle, looks into the camera.

Now that Season 1 is underway in Overwatch, we're going to see further changes echo through the long-established hero shooter. As the new roster takes shape, Blizzard's going to be a little less heavy-handed when it comes to adding characters, because the team wants to avoid situations where the freshest faces are the most rarely seen.

"We used to lean on this philosophy of safe, size, strong," Alec Dawson, associate game director on Overwatch, told PCGamesN. "So, when we had hero releases, we'd make sure that they were pretty high up [performed well] in whatever the role would be - tank, DPS, support - and they would be very, very competitive."