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Trail To Sombra Nears End In Overwatch

By Arjun Thulasidharan Pillai | Update Date: Oct 27, 2016 08:08 AM EDT

Overwatch players have identified the presence of Sombra. Expected to touch base amid the Halloween season, the trail of gamer's queries around the globe is suppossed to end. Blizzards orchestrated and complex easter egg hunt leads us to BlizzCon.

The complication started after months of Blizzard's coordinated character hunt that got serious with players. Hints were lying all over the internet including single frame teasers in videos.The recent hint of her arrival was revealed in a hacked information of fictional characters in the ARG. Apparently, in the fictional world of the game there is an energy company called LumériCo. Here two characters exchange important ARG texts. The cables mention a huge discussion and communication that is going to take place. An Overwatch player who is deep into finding the Overwatch hero can figure it is Blizzard's copious hard work for her arrival.


Adding to all this, just to make things a bit more complicated, game developers are hinting Mayan numbers and codes to crack for the players. Most of it leads to web pages with morse codes that were converted from Mayan pictograms. People have even gone to further extends like cracking the clues that are far too complicated for a Game. To cut the Long story short, it teases more of Sombra easter eggs in the ARG. 
The Blizzard Convention "Blizz con" is about to take place in Anaheim, CA from November 4-5. It is a Blizzard fan's dream come true. So we can conclude that the reveal of Sombra is a definite during this period. 


Dedicated Players with exceptional technical skills are combining a collective effort to find out all the information they can before the big reveal. Some are even predicting the disclosure to happen early on November 1. The next few days are going to be a test at a whole other level between a Game company and their players. 

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