As Overwatch Season 2 welcomes Sierra, Blizzard says "we're proud to continue expanding our hero roster and the communities around the globe we get to represent"

Overwatch Season 2: Summit comes out later today and adds yet another hero to the game's rapidly expanding roster in the form of DPS Sierra, but after 10 years and 30 new playable characters, the developers are still excited about representing communities across the world.

Sierra swings into the fight later today, bringing with her an automatic rifle that can occasionally turn into an auto-aiming killing machine, a cute little drone she can grapple to, and an expectedly tragic backstory that can be traced to Overwatch's origins. That aside, she's also notable for being the game's first-ever African American hero.

"We're proud to continue expanding our hero roster and the communities around the globe we get to represent," developer Blizzard Entertainment writes in a new social media post welcoming the damage dealer. "Sierra is a proud Black American woman and adventurous soul whose life has taken her all across the states--but she's always happy to return to her roots with a hike through Virginia. We’re excited to continue her story as the Reign of Talon arc continues in Season 2."

From the very start, Overwatch set itself apart by attempting to be a truly global representation of heroes, and it slowly continued with that mission statement over the course of the past decade. Today, you have French ballerina assassins and Chinese elemental-benders fighting with or against Turkish operatives and a flying cat.

And it sounds like the Overwatch developers have no plans to stop making their hero shooter as diverse as possible. Director Aaron Keller even suggested that new playable heroes are one of the most important things Blizzard could possibly add to Overwatch, so expect plenty more previously underrepresented communities and countries to join the fight.

Elsewhere in the Season 2: Summit launch, players can slowly unfold Sierra's backstory and ongoing narrative with a three-week event (that also includes cosmetics goodies, of course). Overwatch is also getting a dedicated Switch 2 edition later today.

Overwatch will free Anran from her "baby face" in Season 2, director confirms, and her voice actor approves: "She looks much more like the strong older sibling we knew her to be."