So, in TF2 we know that the Red and Blu brothers are using a team of mercs to fight over their fathers gravel pit, while using machines to keep the mercs alive and the fight going.
Its silly, but it makes sense and there is a reason why they fight.
Why the fuck are the Overwatch members fighting each other on these maps? I thought they were a team? What do the battles accomplish and why are both teams made up of the same people? Would have made more sense if they had a smaller cast with an Omnic copy for "blue team", then the game would be about humans vs omnics at least
They're fighting over whos the best girlits d.va
Training sims.
>>340802573
Is this the official reason? Winston got the team together and is making them do training sims?
Valve made a game and then after the fact came up with justifications for it in a story.
Blizzard has separated the story of OW and the game completely. The things that happen in game are considered "non-canon"
I thought the animated shorts were supposed to explain it in time.
>>340803362
>The things that happen in game are considered "non-canon"
Thats super disappointing and lame
Why even give the game a story if it doesn't explain the skirmishes?
>>340803362
I swear with the way they present the game, it was intended to be much more than just a team based fps as it is now. Maybe they'll make something like that in the future since Overwatch has had pretty good reception
They made a world and backstory for a good guys vs bad guys MMO and turned it into a TF2 style shooter without making much effort to tweak any of that stuff to fit better is why.
>>340803612
Well yeah anon. The project arose from the ashes of Project Titan, remember?
My inkling is that the gameplay isn't canon, and that what's actually happening is that the returning Overwatch agents are only doing half of each scenario, with the other side being whatever local opposition. Each map is a scenario presented in one of the comics, trailers, etc. canon has the heroes stopping the Deadlock Gang from bringing their haul to the base in R66, assaulting the place with the Anubis AI in Temple, stopping the Los Meurtos cartel from getting away/EMP-ing the place.
>>340802349
>So, in TF2 we know that the Red and Blu brothers are using a team of mercs to fight over their fathers gravel pit, while using machines to keep the mercs alive and the fight going.
It took valve like 5 years to think of that shit? Goddamn.
>>340804745
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340804745
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340804745
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340803345
The official reason is that the matches played in the game aren't canon, and that's that. The shorts and comics are canon. Pretty much everything aside from the actual game is canon.
Passing them off as VR training sims or something is a more sensible explanation, but not the correct one.
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>>340805532
Yeah I think he got it
>>340802349
Either the game is non-canon OR the game is a video game within the Overwatch universe itself.
Thems are your choices.
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Used to play TF2 a bunch back in 2010, how does Overwatch compare?
>>340802349
>Why the fuck are the Overwatch members fighting each other on these maps?
Maybe they will explain it to us a decade later, like in TF2.
>>340804745
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340805812
Its like a more casual TF2 with less content but people are actually playing it still.
>>340805293
>>340805295
>>340805532
You alright there, bud?
>>340805812
They're not really similar and I'm not sure why people compare the two.
>>340805293
>>340805295
>>340805532
>>340805907
What are you trying to say exactly?
>>340805812
You still have that shitter that won't play anything but Sniper.
You still have to deal with shitty payload maps that no one actually likes.
You still have fucking Demoman spam that no skill kills you around a corner, but when you do it you don't land a single pill.
Ults make breaking choke points and holding pushes a lot more interesting though, as the match is constantly building up to something.
>>340802349
>So, in TF2
>>340806069
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340806025
Mercury is cute! CUTE!
>>340806034
Yep, Overwatch was going to be their next MMORPG.
I'm guessing the omnics and the God A.I's would of been this game's burning legion, a.k.a. CORRUPTION, which what Blizzard plots are always about.
>>340803518
There's an explanation for pretty much every skirmish, what's happening on the map. There's no more reason for having members of the same team on opposite sides or entire teams of one character any more than there are in TF2. It is pretty much the same shit, i don't know why anyone is comparing the two.
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>>340805532
Ya lost me.
It's good that there isn't much of a story because Metzen is an insanely bad writer who should have his fingers broken.
>>340806153
>shitpost shill thread
Its literally just a thread about the lore behind the fights. TF2 only factors in because its most often compared to Overwatch and has pretty decent lore
>>340806769
>Implying there are not a legion of fanboys who wouldn't transcribe his dictation.
>People care about ignore lore in a team arena style fps
I mean, I do like all the back story and info found in each maps, but you dont need more than that.
If a team goes 6 D.Va, you can't possibly justify that lore-wise without some weird shit, and you shouldn't.
>>340805812
Remember the original Sandman?
Overwatch has that but with a splash radius on impact.
>>340807168
Or, ya know, a legion of speech software.
>>340807408
>arena style
Good joke
>>340807520
You forgot the part where unlike scout, he can unload all of his ammo in one second, then roll and do it again
>>340802349
Training simulation.
>>340807635
Scout has a high skill ceiling and can't teleport.
>>340807672
Arena shooters have every use the same loadout. Halo, Quake, etc.
CALLING IT NOW
Reaper and Widowmaker are getting redemption story arcs
Blizz is going to release a huge expac
It'll have mechanically similar villains of talon
This whole thing has just been training
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>>340806025
Not him but are you guys seriously struggling to understand what he said? Or are you justone guy playing funny buggers
>>340807168
"So, things were good...and then CORRUPTION!"
It wouldn't make sense otherwise. Think about this, in watchpoint:gibraltar, offense is made up of overwatch members pushing a satellite to the launch pad so it can be used to recall all overwatch members, while trying to be stopped by overwatch members.
>>340807972
I think the issue is more that he said it three times, not that the message was unclear.
There's literally no explanation or reason for it because the entire game is non-canon and essentially only exists to expose people to these characters and IP.
>>340806363
I've heard Titan was going to be a MMO with multiple universes, and the Overwatch universe was going to be apart of it.
>>340808080
It seems pretty obvious to me that they come up with the full story all at once and slowly reveal more and more of it, while changing some things here and there based on the community
>>340808080
Oh my, he did too, my apologies.
>mfw it turns out these matches are explained asTracer experiencing alternate timelines when her chrono mawhatsit fucks up
>>340807972
Newfag detected.
>>340808057
I liked the thought that it is training sims, but the one I thought of is we don't know the proper chronology and they keep getting recruited by Reaper for the Dark Overwatch we see in the trailer, and then getting converted back to the other side by Winston.
>>340808374
This idea also rocks, and plays with my idea that they are being recruited and what not to different sides.
>>340808374
>Tracer acts so goofy and upbeat to hide her suffering because she simultaneously exists in all timelines- meaning she experiences her own deaths over and over and over and over again
>>340808864
More like she's just psychotic.
>>340802497
How do you overlook her butterface and obnoxious voice?
>>340803362
TF2 at least had a barebones story on release, that RED and BLU were holding corporations that hired mercenaries to fight over land
>>340802497
She sound amazing on other languages.
>>340802349
Blizzard is making shit up as they go along. To be fair, so did Valve, but they did a better job of it.
>>340808374
Does that make all the alt costumes canon then?
>>340810187
That was part of my reasoning, like in DC/Mahvel elseworld stories like Pirate batman or Spec ops Spadermen
>>340812016
There's just no escaping that fucking cunt Mei.
>>340807853
>Reaper
Nope
>Widowmaker
No shit she's getting redeemed that so obvious it hurts.
Actual gameplay has very little standing on the lore, though each map has some story reason for taking place (launching a satellite, destroying an omnic settlement with a bomb, etc).
>>340812016
>Dying to Mei as Tracer
How bad can you be?
>>340805542
Wow, that's pretty fucking disgusting.
