What about Retribution and Uprising. I said just this year. If you want to go further back…
Retribution year came with Wasted Land (past), but also Rise and Shine, Masquerade, Searching, and The Plan. Honour and Glory was also both present and past.
Uprising year came with Legacy and The Last Bastion, but also came with Infiltration, Old Soldiers, Reflections, Binary, and the whole Sombra ARG and Doomfist arc.
If you want prelaunch… All of the shorts take and comics take place in the present day. That’s 5 shorts and 6 comics.
The “past” is a minority. And if you remove the Archives event, which fundamentally has to be based on the past, you get… 1.5 shorts and 2 comics that take place in the past, and 9.5 shorts, 11 comics, The Plan, Bastet, and an ARG that take place in the present.
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People replying to this thread don’t seem to understand what OP is frustrated with.
You can argue semantics all day, but the fact is that the story progresses very slowly. Even though quite a few comics and short do technically take place “in the present”, it still feels like we’re stuck.
People want an episodic progression. People want an event that will push the plot.
“Oh but these three cinematics are present day”, yeah, but the fact that this and many other similar threads exist just shows that they don’t feel like they progress anything.
Bastet was good. It added neat fluff and padding to existing characters. But it was “mostly” stuff we knew of. That’s why people latched on to the Mercy bit in the cat short. If it’s canon, that means Ana and Jack have revealed themselves. Which is a step forward.
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The thing is, they have to leave holes and gaps in the story so they can introduce new characters and plots. Or they’ll put themselves in corners / dead-ends (sorry, I don’t know the right words in english) and won’t be able to expand the game, the story and add new characters like they want to.
Look at Ana’s origin story : that old picture with the whole team and Mercy and McCree. And two mysterious characters. We only learned few weeks ago that the woman on the right was Sojourn! She had her face in Recall too, but no one knew who she was. They only introduce her to us with Storm Rising, and it was a perfect way to do it.
That’s how they tell their story. How they bring new characters in the game. Yes, it can be frustrating, but Overwatch wasn’t meant to tell a story, as in a linear story telling video game.
The most frustrating thing (to me) is the lack of comics. It was so great for Retribution and Uprising, I was so desapointed we didn’t get one with Storm Rising :’(
I’m really hoping they’ll give us more stories like Bastet and that the comics will come back one day.
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I really didn’t like that the end of Storm Rising was another character reveal. My reaction was “who is this and why should I care?” I don’t care about the new Omnic. I care about the characters we know about and that ending was really upsetting too because we all KNOW it’s just another cliffhanger that will never be resolved because that’s how things have gone for the past 3 years. I miss Chris Mentzen