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Hazard has his Omnic pal inject him with the substance, powering him up with the ability to wield purple spikes. He fires a rail gun at the security guards, slashes at them with a purple blade that emerges from his left arm, creates a large purple rock out of thin air, and launches a massive volley of purple spikes to finish the job. And thus, we get a loose idea of what the hero's move set may look like. Along with the awesome cinematic reveal, Blizzard announced that Hazard will be in players' hands this weekend as part of an early play test, following a trend of other recent hero releases, ahead of their official launch in season 14 next month. The new hero was teased last month as part of the reveal trailer for season 13, when the very end of the video showed the aftermath of Hazard and co.'s raid. They appear to be loosely based on an early OW1 hero concept named Phreak, and it appears as though that name stuck around as the name of Hazard's group. 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Hazard has his Omnic pal inject him with the substance, powering him up with the ability to wield purple spikes. He fires a rail gun at the security guards, slashes at them with a purple blade that emerges from his left arm, creates a large purple rock out of thin air, and launches a massive volley of purple spikes to finish the job. And thus, we get a loose idea of what the hero’s move set may look like.<\/p>

Along with the awesome cinematic reveal, Blizzard announced that Hazard will be in players’ hands this weekend as part of an early play test, following a trend of other recent hero releases, ahead of their official launch in season 14 next month.<\/p>

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