I’m still baffled that all the story we have still doesn’t even answer the more prominent questions, even when grafted together? What even IS the Doomfist mantle? How did the destruction of the Swiss HQ occur? What was Overwatch like in its heyday when they were legally allowed to do things.
Do they really intend to tie up all these previous loose ends in OW2.0’s story? If so, that’s setting up for failure as that’s a lot of topics to cover in a detailed manner for a ~12-14 hour story (guesstimate)? That’s not even mentioning if they add MORE story elements…
Oh, I already read it beforehand, but I mainly made the post as a means of conveying how scattered their lore is. Do they even have an official timeline page with all their works? I don’t remember.
The ones that interest me most are character-related: I really want to understand what makes someone a “Doomfist” as there’s been three iterations of the mantle.
Or how the Junkers or other third parties relate to the overarching narrative.
I strongly, strongly believe that the Junkers won’t be featured at all in the first complete OW2 story arc. I don’t know if you have seen their OW2 2019 blizzcon interview, but they use the Junker’s specifically as an example for how all heroes won’t be playable or even appear in the story. Which is total bs as they can be put in as NPCs, or perhaps have their presence be known from something like junkrat traps being laid around a place he visited.
If the third parties get fleeced from the story, then I’m sorry, but they have 0 imagination then. Not everyone needs to be playable in the campaign, but everyone should have a presence of sorts.
I don’t really expect the Junkers to be major players in the overall narrative, but rather a key component to a part of the story.
For instance, let’s say Junkrat’s treasure is a component that allows for humans to understand Omnic language/code, granting them access to Omnic technology. This would explain why so many mercenaries are after Junkrat, and serve as a potential narrative as to what humans could do with Omnic technology and knowledge.
Additionally, Wrecking Ball would reunite with Winston, and while Winston wants Hammond to join him, Wrecking Ball just wants to explore the world and satisfy his own curiousity—not really caring about human-omnic relations.
Yes. They will probably do this by adding a new campaign about the past of Overwatch from formation to destruction. Hopefully free but if its an expansion I’ll get it anyways.
Nothing is new, even the OW2 Widow concept art was shown in the blizz online presentation. This is misleading marketing and Blizzard should be scolded for this.
I know I was not expecting much, but every word of information in here is not even close to a sneak peek, to begin with. It is entirely misleading and we should all have learned our lesson now. If an art book or any form of outside media is planned for the end of any given year, it has nothing to do with OW2s launch date at all. This further proves that we can’t use products to theorize the release of the game. Totally disappointing though.
This is what not interacting with your community does. They are operating like we don’t know this stuff already and haven’t known for years lol. Its not tone deafness anymore, its deliberate cluelessness.
Welcome to how modern blizzard devs operate. They genuinely believed we don’t already know this information. Communication is SO BAD there that they can’t even communicate within their own departments about what’s already out and what isn’t.