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Seriously, the threat to SK being one huge Omnic was the most interesting part of D.Va's situation, and ofc we just got some one-and-done squid looking jobbers.
Gee thnx
I said barely.
and we still saw her fight the Kishin
Remember that she's considered a big thing and she is so devoted to the mech in the animation that you don't get the vibe of a celebrity. She's very devoted to her job but that doesn't help her character...it makes her look bland overall. Compare her big hero moment to reinhardts. In reinhardts you felt more emotion because you actively saw Reinhardt in everything he could be.
i'd totally play a dva mech team game
it did help her character
What is her character?
The guy in the Dva cinematic is a friend right?
did you miss the short?
Yeah CBWrath
Ok ty đ
This short could have been D.Va fighting and nuking the kaiju, not some mooks, and nothing would have changed except her plot actually progressing.
at first, Blizzard asked that question themselves - is she a pro pilot, is she an icon, or is she a normal girl?
but then, they got their answer
She's a prob pilot apparently
she's a girl who feels that everything rests on her shoulders
Er pro
that she can't fail in any way, or else everything is lost
Exactly
Okay..... But that's not what actually happened...
The omnic attacked when her team was off duty.. And was still working and engaged. It makes her look diligent sure, but not normal.
She even started, 'we barely won last time' but she handled the problem so quickly by herself, the city probably never thought they were going to be attacked. It shows her being mechanically better than her team.
However...... This isn't anything that makes the character special. It was so...scripted in a way that made her seem like a role model but compare her to brig, and she didn't even compare
Dva said they barely won and the enemy is getting better and better
Then why did she say that line? We barely won and the enemy is getting better and better?
There would be no reason to say that if it would never be used
uh, the Kishin omnic is a recurring threat
dude
you're just confirming my earlier thesis
that the ones complaining are the ones who don't know shit about the lore
... This is about story telling, character design, this is about how you make a character feel stronger, alive, depth..
That's why Sombra, Reinhardt, even bastion are never argued, there was so much more in their animations that makes the story and the character feel more engaging and unique..
Are your saying that reinhardts animation is the same as this? Widowmakers? Bastion?
You can debate lore all you like, but this does very little to make dva fleshed out sadly....
Okay...... How
like I said
it fleshed out her personality, her life, her background, her MEKA squad
Fleshed out means the character is brought to life with emotional or situational comparison
Again.. How
.... I'm asking you how
How did the animation flesh out dva
I literally just said
learn to fucking read
and actually process things
instead of just being a child
.... You have yet to explain it.. You only tell me to watch the short again and look at what's around her
But nothing about her in general
we did learn plenty about her
you just want to build up nonsensical "rhethorical" reasons for your dislike of it
don't bother
we get it
you're disappointed
due to your inability to pay attention to the details
Brig was fleshed out.... She saw the injuries that happened to rein, she didn't understand why her mentor kept pushing himself despite his age. She lacked the understanding...
So she went and did it herself. She built her own vanguard armor to assist her mentor. She needed to understanding reinhardts devotion to saving those and answering the call...
Widowmaker was fleshed out. She is a cold blooded assassin .. She was made in that way, a struggle with her past.. She was devoted to her mission and showed her ability and deadly wit to accomplish that task compared to completely overwhelming odds...
Explain fleshed out by those qualities with example and result, with an obstacle that reinforces their character
she's part of the MEKA squad, tasked with defending Korea from the Kishin omnic, feeling that everything rests on her shoulders
I explain it over and over
.. Okay.. But that's her job...
.. Wow
oof
You don't like how I don't like things so you have to insult me?
I'm tired of trying to get things through your thick skull
Yeah but you couldn't even answer a single question...
I did answer
.. You say her job is her character then
we've been shown D.va's human side, we've seen how she interacts with others, we've the base she lives in, her squad, we've seen her struggle with the fear of failure
Pretty basic story tbh
..... She was more devoted to the mech and her job than her friend.... The base isn't a character... The squad was on a still frame, and against a situation that her friend said she should wait for backup over and over again, she ended up being right and he needed to have more faith in her
Yeah.. That's really....good...
Are your saying thats not what happened
Again.. How
I'd be more interested if she actually was interesting
that we got plenty detail we never had before
@tepid abyss exactly..
... Again.. Where
I thought she was quite interesting
She was more devoted to the job than her friend, we barely even know what he does....
I'm just hoping they only scratched the surface of her, otherwise I'd say the the omnic rowers on Rialto are just as interesting as her lmao
Heâs a mechanic
jesus fucking christ
Heâs a friend
Even though she could be out celebrating with the city and whatever, she wanted to be ready for the next fight-she was very devoted to the job
He cares about her
@errant elm but she did not work on the mech than him...
But she did not work on the mech than him?
what the hell are you talking about
Oh jesus what did I miss
Sorry XD autocorrect @errant elm
At the end of the short we saw him working on a mech
They could've fleshed out the story more basically
Or some mechanical thing
No.. She was still doing it...he was looking at her os?
how is "she is more devoted to the mech than her friend" an argument against her being developed?
like
@dire timber projection
@rain arrow watch the fucking short again
but it's there
and it shows a part of who she is
I think it did expanded though it would've been nice if it was longer and had more story
@iron plume it's not a matter of like... It's how it's done
yes it is
Sheâs more devoted to saving the town (which would mean also her friend) than talking to her friend
and quit acting like your dislike of something is an objective failure on the story's part
it's not
@errant elm Yeah
@dire timber you still have to answer my question.. Using my examples, how is she fleshed out
I did
But it's just one facet of her character, that's all we really know of her, that's so boring. I wanted to see more about her, otherwise she is just a stereotype
he's repeatedly answered your question
I liked when she realized she had to self destruct to save lives-it was kind of that moment where she realized this isnât a game anymore this is real
No he didn't..I gave examples
@tepid abyss Yeah I agree
Stereotype?
Slig
chill
But still
sorry
I'm surprised that OW is the only shooter I know that has little to no lore correlation with gameplay
dealing with someone like this is pissing me off
"but how? but how? but how? but how? but how?"
it's like they're trying to be as dense as possible
Again.. Compare her animation to bastion..bastion being the easiest
How is insulting helping?
How much do you know about bastion without a single word
So do that properly
and my answeres were followed with
"but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how?"
Your answers are about as fleshed out as dva 
Basically all of d.vaâs moves are now canon right? I think we saw all of them, but please let me pull out my blaster inside mech nowđlol
Will DVA get a new skin from her new mech?
Yup
Ok
@twin pollen self-destruct isn't really canon
It was shown at the end of the animation
in the sense that it's not an actual procedure
more that she artificially made it happen
How is her character expanded on? We saw that she wants to protect the city no matter what, sheâs even able to sacrifice herself for it. And that she thinks that she has to do everything alone, and that she canât make a mistake. However her friend is trying to learn her that sheâs not alone, she just needs to ask for a little bit of help.
@twin pollen I tried. Don't go there
in an emegency
I guess thatâs right, but still
@errant elm YEESS
Really. Dont
@errant elm expect some more "that's her job." "but how does it expand?" etc.
I feel like it took so long for this short to come out that people expected way more than what we got, so they can't really take the time to appreciate what we got.
Nah I think Iâve made it clear now
they don't argue in good faith
@mellow olive yeah I agree
Iâm sorry boyos, but not everyone is going to join Overwatch suddenly
There are stories all over the world
@dire timber even though it was an emergency, she still did self-destruct, it might not be her normal âprotocolâ but it is something she can do if needed
yea
DVA is obv going to be investigated right or wrong. Just like Sully SullenBerger
I guess
it's canon that mechs can do that
it is?
yea
but what happens in game isn't
And if you donât like that you can argue with blizzard and not with some guy trying to enjoy lore
@dire timber your answer.. About fleshed out dva... Is that she's part of a squad who we never hear or get their impressions of dva...look at reinhardts squad for example..
You only see them in a still shot so we get nothing but atmosphere, world building, not character... Same goes for the base..
Now her? She stayed to work on her mech.. She ate a chip and drank her own drink.. But they do nothing to show how involved she is with the cleb status... What if we saw her more in public? Saw that side of her? She looks happier just working on the mech. The same with the 'gamer' side... Something that's big in Korea.. Never shown..
So that's 2/3 of her defined character NOT EXPANDED
like, it is canon that the core can be overloaded and explode
Do they have to officially stat that itâs canon? Or can it just be in something in lore like the shorts
but, like, some people been trying to suggest D.va actually just launches them to explode
At least it'll bury those "they get sent mechs from orbit" theories
as fun as that would be
I win! Wooooo
your question was answered by @errant elm
Dva doesnât go in public
"But they do nothing to show how involved she is with the cleb status"
They do show it
the answer is "she isn't"
Dva doesnât want the fame etc
@iron plume fair point
^^^^^
Ya stop. Weapons lore sucks. I've tried. They asked a mod to ban me
@rain arrow you didn't win shit, being an obnoxious douche to the point people are sick of talking to you isn't "winning"
@dire timber I will!
Why would they show her gamer side if that is not whatâs going on atm?
Sorry you don't like my detail. It's meant to create conversation
Everyone she loves
But I guess that was too much
You are not having a conversation, you are asking questions and ignoring the answers
FFS TAKE IT FROM ME WHO LITERALLY TRIED ARGUING THIS EARLIER. STOP
Also, sheâs very competitive, âI play to winâ not for the glory and fame, but to win
we aren't arguing the same thing remotely
@errant elm no I did answer them.. He just for really mad when I did, it's up there
you didn't acknowledge any of the answers
slig pls
No you asked question like âhow did it expens on it?!â And than you ignored his answer
I fk wrote a whole paragraph answering your question and you ignored it
Thatâs not a conversation
Thatâs what kids do
Thatâs what kids do when they think they are right but they just arenât
@sand kraken you know what I would have loved? I wanted to see her be a celebrity. Doing shoots commercials.. All those things, and then having her desperately try to retreat to the base. A city who appreciates her but doesn't see her as a human. I wanted to see her balance that stress and then when the city is attached to show that despite what the city sees her as, she's human.
Just stop. I've tried this dude.
I take it you guys were disappointed too :/
I said I was right about smtn
BUT SHE DOESNâT LIKE THE SPOTLIGHT
Hi leggo
@worthy rose no.. Lots if people here looked6 it..
@errant elm yes but you have to show it
for what
No they donât have to show it
Blizzard does whatever they want they donât have to show anything
This short doesn't deserve to have been made.
it does
Wrong
There is nothing of substance that was gained from spending 8 minutes of my life watching D.Va ask for help.
@worthy rose they like it, I don't, we just had an argument on it and they are trying to villianize me for it
It has shown thing like the other Mekaâs, a side of Dva we havenât seen earlier and a sudden Omnic attack which took the city by surprise
how do you show someone not doing something
@worthy rose it expands on D.va, shows her human side, shows us her real personality, show us where she lives and what she does, shows us the rest of the MEKA squad
we've seen her not go into spotlight
Unless there is some lore that I missed i.e. with that casino dude
@worthy rose they omnic right
no one is trying to villainize you
@iron plume you can say that but insults and saying I didn't do something when I did says otherwise
They have shown a sudden omnic attack which people are ignoring for some reason
Dude you are ignoring answers on your questions
that's
not the same thing
@errant elm there you go... Again
Of course people are not going to like you
you're staring this again, no one else
Your not going to like me because the dva short is no where near any of the other shorts when explaining a character?
her human side
not much of it. she thinks she couldve done better then asked for help
real personality
fights for whats right. blah
where she lives
in korea? man im glad we never wouldve figured that one out
what she does
pfffft i NEVER wouldve guessed
rest of meka squad
only true thing but 5 seconds on a screen to be X'd out isnt much
How is that villainizing?
@worthy rose THANK YOU
@rain arrow the problem isn't that you didn't like it, the problem is that you're claiming it expanded on nothing, which is simply not true
It expanded her world and her job
.
Guys remember: we had nothing, now we have something
it expanded like fucking bubble gum when reinhardt expanded like the universe
reinhardt's short*
there is so much more to a character than being sad about 1 incident
But you could have had any of the other mech pilots there and it wouldn't have changed a thing @dire timber
i disagree with the other meka pilots thing
We never even said that it was better or even to Reinhardtâs short
I'll just start blocking the whiners
That's what I thought..
im comparing it to rein bc it was an average short imo
You don't like it. So you need to block.. Protect your opinion and you bubble, not with conversation, but insults and safe spaces
@worthy rose rein short had so much more...
@rain arrow cry about it
im saying reins was average
@dire timber XP only your are throwing out insults
You canât deny that the short expanded
@rain arrow no one wanted him on the podcast for a reason, ignord him
@worthy rose xD who?
im not saying it didnt expand im saying it expanded in a manner that doesnt really take 8 minutes
@dire timber I didn't listened pretty well (english is not my native language) but the short implies they're more Meka pilots? And only dva was the available during the fight?
Yeah but this âgamemasterâ was saying: âHow did it expand?â And when we answered he ignored it
okay can we stop shitfighting about shitfighting now
if they made an 8 minute short about lucio and how he was sad that he accidentally stole some kid's lollipop by accident and then returned if in the end id be pretty mad
spent 2 years with 0 lore and finally when he got a short its just that
@white cobalt the others were off duty getting rest and relaxation.. But dva stayed behind to work
@white cobalt yes
the other four have their mechs damaged in previous fight and inoperational at the second attack
relatively 0 lore
@white cobalt the others were injured in the fight against the colossal Kishin omnic
But we didnât get 0 lore
bam thats all the lore you got out of the short^
Weâve seen other mechs, weâve seen her friend(who likes her?), weâve seen another side, weâve seen that the omnic attacks are now suddenly
if theres stuff im missing, tell me
@worthy rose which is barely anything.. And The others were getting rnr dva was given the opinion as well but she decided to stay..
HOWEVER they did state that she can get back up so it's safe to say there are more pilots
aside from character development, we also see the nuke origin story
and the way Meka is treated by the government/media
Not every character is struggling with stress or whatever you want to happen
character development of "i should probably ask for help"
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I felt we learnt a lot. Human side-she feels she can always win, this time she realized she needed help. Personality-she plays to win, sheâll do anything to protect the city, even possibly die by jumping out of mech in the sky. Lives in Korea(obviously) in a mech shop-not some glamorous mansion, even though she probably could.
@iron plume okay.. What's her friend's name
ill give the mansion thing
oh hey someone actually bothered again
let's see how you ignore them this time
who gives a shit about her friend
he's a side npc
@iron plume okay.. What's the other members of her squads name?
d.mon, casino, king and overlord
they were in the short
but that's still not relevant
i know i complained they were in there for like 3 seconds but they were still in there
@iron plume was that explained in the short?
This conversation is pure bs, it all started because this âgamemasterâ was denying the fact that the short expanded on Dva. We never claimed that it expanded much, we just said that it did.
yes?
I mean obviously there is more we could have been given in the short, but I felt we got a decent amount of info
where else would we get it
@errant elm if your happy with what you got, by all means! Be happy! That's good! But I would like to have more of her... This didn't feel like it did her Justice, and that's a real shame
Brig got more than she did
So you are going to go into this channel and deny that the short expanded on her?
compared to other shorts... its like barely anything. my complaint is it fell faaar short (pun not intended) of my expectations of a short for a character with laughably little content for 2 years. im not saying it did nothing but im just mad they had so much time to develop her story that they gave us this.
and if dva has no lore then choose another deep hero like genji/zen, lucio/sym, etc etc
...I didn't say that, the other person did..I said it expanded on her job and the world.. But not her.. Don't assume something that I didn't say @errant elm
(i understand deep is subjective)
And I can see that, but to deny that the short didnât expand is going to far
well, has no lore to expand that much upon*
You kept asking âhow does it expandâ while we answered it like 3 times
@errant elm again.. You are the one saying that. I did not..I explained myself and you are saying I am gulity of something I didn't do.. That's your problem
it expanded a lot of other things though
it expanded upon dva a little bit to be fair
I said it explained the world and her job but NOT THE CHARACTER that's the focus of my arguement @errant elm
her team died in the last mech fight and she wants to prepare for later fight while trying to take it on her own and finally accepting that she needs help. movie trope #45.
But it did expand her character
Before the short: NERF THIS after the short: I protect the city at all costs, I canât make any mistakes etc
people are incapable of analysis, or digging into the details
Her team didnât die I think
...is it? before the short we knew she fought the mechs
Mechs were damaged
most regulars here are used to it
@rain arrow the character is developed through her actions, it can be subtle things you have to think about why she did everything in the short. Theyâre not just gonna state d.va is a hard worker or something, itâs shown
Her team were seen after the fight
@errant elm they explained her job...meis was the same but she still has so much more to her through that whole short...
At a conference
oh shit whoosp, then decommissioned
@twin pollen shown? Again..look at the love the other characters for, can you honestly admit the same was given for dva?
How is, feeling that you are alone and canât make any mistake or youâll disappoint your team and the city and you canât ask for help, just her job?
Wait so what happened to the other mechs?
They were damaged
They were damaged very badly
i assume destroyed in the last mech attack
@errant elm she never ever said she was alone or anything like that, you are putting this in that aren't there
They werenât expecting another attack for months but the omnics suddenly attacked
@twin pollen no, you see, people need everything stated outright with a bunch of boring exposition
it happens with Star Wars too, lmao
@dire timber bastion short, try again
Dude she had that feeling, didnât you see how big pf a moment that asking for help was
hes got you there
does he
because I think he'd have complained about Bastion's short if it were released today
@errant elm where? How? She's not real. You need to state that, you are trying to add something in that is never explained or referenced
"HURR WE LEARNED NOTHING!"
guys this isn't about "who wins the argument"...
thats some heavy reaching lad
"DIDN'T EVEN MEET UP WITH THE OTHERS!"
bastion short has information in it tho
"BEING A WAR MACHINE IS JUST ITS JOB"
@worthy rose your should have seen the beginning.. The insult and trying to get people to mob me
đż
@rain arrow dude she litterally was in her mech and needes the dude to blow up her mech and than it was like a whole moment where she was asking for help
"JOB ISNT CHARACTER"
@dire timber oooo you fell right into this trap.. Thank you....
i mean in bastion we saw ptsd in action, his acceptance of being happy, learning nature, learning history, etc
is this about if the new short had enough info/lore in it?
@rain arrow what trap
Omg guys
this is stupid fucking nonsense
and bastion was almost universally well received to my knowledge
Yeha
@dire timber didn't you say that you hate other who don't understand the lore... What was bastions lore again?
bastion short is the best one lol
@worthy rose and nothing was said except beeps and boops
I'm done explaining the shorts to you
I liked Mei the most because of snowball
lmao
what are you explaining
@dire timberLOL
Also when she blew up the mech-you realize how much she cares about the mech-She practically lives in it for some time-it was probably pretty hard for her to not only ask for help, but ask to blow her precious mech up
youre just sitting on a high pedestal throwing insults
@twin pollen is that satire
my opinion is that it didnt expand AS MUCH as other shorts
@errant elm yes, snowball was interesting..it was surprisingly detailed on how snowball was used
@twin pollen exactly. Tbh this canât be denied
@twin pollen again, she never said any of that.. You are putting things into the character to flesh her out..
"but she blows it up all the time in game lel xd"
@worthy rose sure I understand that but this other guy is denying character expansion
fair enough
@rain arrow but it doesnât have to be said, itâs called context clues
@rain arrow dude we donât need her litteral words to understand how she felt
You can easily pick it up from the short
she doesnt really need to go "im gonna miss you" to the meka and kiss it sweet dreams for you to realize she hesitated before pulling the trigger
All the things to guys are saying NEVER HAPPENED your are only thinking it did because without it, it makes her look week, she never started she was alone, there's no context to the mech because she just rebuilds it, no memorial or anything else was there? @errant elm @twin pollen
@errant elm exactly
exactly what I was talking about, lmao
The moment and the way she talked said enough
they need dull exposition
everything blandly stated outright
@worthy rose it's an example
or else it's not fleshed out
@dire timber where? In the hesitation?
@rain arrow When did we say she said it? I said that she feels that way about her being alone
@worthy rose that shows how close she is to her mech? The hesitation?
Have you seen this poster? https://i.imgur.com/Yrq2DBq.jpg Do you know where is it from? Is there a hq version?
the short should have just been D.va stating a detailed description of her personality
lmao
@errant elm but she's not.... She's got her friend
you double guess yourself when you hesitate
so that people don't miss it
thats the point
@dire timber lol
@worthy rose yeah but is that about the mech?
@rain arrow BUT SHE DOESNâT UNDERSTAND THAT
@errant elm... But she does.. She speaks to him with history
smh my complaints are different from this guys
The most you get is that she is confident and he didn't think so
@worthy rose no no.. Watch.. It's going to get better
@rain arrow You really know nothing bout emotions and humans do you?
@errant elm ahh there's the insult.. Can't counter, guess
Gotta attack the character
i mean i hated reinhardt before his short to be fair
i thought he was just a loud obnoxious prick
@rain arrow what did you want? An interview where she talks about herself? This short provides a animation that can watch for fun, or look at all the clues to really understand d.va.
@errant elm again.. Nothing you said is true..her friend is already with her..
@rain arrow Dude you are not even countering our points. You are just denying
she seemed like an obnoxious "gg nerf this ;)" gamer girl
I want her friends to be playable
didnt they show her fighting the mechs
If they arent dead
while in the short, we've seen she's not all that
@errant elm projection? I did... You just don't think they are good enough
@rain arrow Remember the short isnât only for lore, it has to be entertaining
they already made her the gamer but actually works and tries hard to fight for korea
@worthy rose yeah they showed this exact same thing in the we are overwatch trailer
my biggest gripe with the short was embracing the stupid doritos and soda meme lol
with how she speaks to zarya
@tidal musk that was around for a while
obviously
Gotta love the memes
@errant elm .... So now your saying that it's supposed to be more about the entertainment than the lore? But they've been able to do both.. Multiple times
i just think the gremlin dva meme is stupid and didn't like how it's officially part of her character now
Seriously is no one else interested in the other pilots?
well, we are
they're interesting but we won't hear about them again lol
in the sense that we like the designs
she gets deep in her in game interactions n shit so thats not really new. reinhardt does too but his story expanded upon his line of (i paraphrase) "many soldiers fought and died here may they rest in peace"
for them, and for their mechs
@rain arrow Dude I say: âShe thinks sheâs alone and canât any mistake or sheâll lose and has difficultties asking for help.â This is seen in the way she asks for help. You: âBut she didnât say that!â
they're like mech power rangers
but otherwise, I don't think they're going to be expanded on
do you think they can join together to make one big robot
@errant elm she never ever thinks that.. Ever. She goes out alone because she needs to act quickly..
Dvas got the worst design of them all imo
maybe they'll show up in a comic or something
@worthy rose oh shit...
Please no...
@worthy rose definitely not
MEKAzord
no shitposting
oh fuck off lmao
as for rein's short
it was pretty neat to see him use his abilities
@rain arrow She couldâve waited for back-up (donât know how long thag would take) and she clearly has problems askibg for help
i see they put in dvas missiles too
Soooo were those things omnics?
as controversial as they may be in game
@worthy rose I really like how defense matrix was portrayed in the short
yeah as broken and OP and boring as it is in game as well lmao
i dont think they did a good enough job of showing that D Matrix is dvas inhuman reactions
DM inhuman reaction?
i thought matrix was automatic
no
Nah she button mashes
Lol
You can see it ingame
she shoots down incoming projectiles
@errant elm but that's fair. She needed to act quickly, there was no time.. But she is not alone... Her friend wanted her to, but she said she can handle it.. And she was right
^
Well they showed that it can block anything
part of why she was recruited was her high APM
yeah i was confused that the short's DM is different from how it appears in game
which is used in activating defense matrix
@rain arrow But she couldnât handle it. If nor for her friend the city wouldâve been damaged
they exploded in dm in the short but in game they just get eaten
Hmmm
Sooo what exactly traumatised dva?
her squad got rekt
her friends mechs got destroyed last fight i guess
I mean we saw that her crew was still living didnt we?
yep
a lot of abilities work differently in the lore than they do in the game
yeah, they're still alive
they won but the omnics are getting stronger over time i think was mentioned
@errant elm okay.. But let me ask you this... Wouldn't any of her other mech pilots do the same thing? What makes this her thing?
Most likely! XS
All Iâm saying is that the short expanded on Dva
yeah in lore reins charge was displayed almost like fucking speed skating lol
Nai is saying she left quickly bc mechs approaching. this is true. sam is saying she understands the connections with her friends. thid is also truem
@worthy rose no he says dva thinks she's alone
Mei can climb structures
they can both do that in game too...
Tracer can blink upwards
Someone from the general discussion channel said people were going âin on eachotherâ here
Yes she feels like she has to do anything and canât make any mistakes
And clearly has problems asking for help
tracer blinked upwards in a short?
.... But that's her job @errant elm
unless you mean comic bc i never read em
@rain arrow that's how she feels about her job*
and that's why she accepted this job*
well its also her job to respond quickly to stuff like this
because she wants to protect her country
Her job is not: âfeeling like you have to do everything and feeling like you canât make a mistake or ask for help
2 different points
@dire timber .... Okay... But I thought the lore said they drafted gamers for this specific program.
literally arguing different things
What i wanna know is why is dva the only one of the crew who is so largely praised and celebrated?
bc vidya games
She is higher skilled
yep
DVA was a celebrity beforehand
if only they expanded upon that
She got her face on buildings and drinks, she even stars in movies
@dire timber did she enlist by choice or was she drafted?
dva has more subscribers
She's probably PR type thing
@rain arrow what we do know, is that she gladly joined
oh is that so
chu 
Dva is just the better mech fighter
that she felt it was her duty
true, higher apm n shit
@dire timber THaTâs jUsT heR JoB
One of the mechs even looks similar to a racecar
BUt HoW
Anyone else get a DVa Unleashed vibe from this cinematic? Creator DillonGoo made a DVa short a few weeks ago like this.
in general, her job is to protect against the mechs. she wants to be able to do it on her own so that no one else gets hurt (can be seen by her working all day).
@errant elm @dire timber nice try.. But was she enlisted or drafted.. You guys sure your not the one ignoring things?
that is just but how her job
@rain arrow I never said anything about the way she became what she does now
i would assume if its just fuckin 5 people she wasnt drafted
job how is this
@worthy rose it wasn't 5 according to the lore, hundreds of gamers were brought in
just job
how many were meka
@rain arrow um, source?
Her being drafters doesnât mean that she canât be happy for taking the job and feeling like itâs her duty
@worthy rose I dunno the number, but the program was to use gamers to pilot the mech program
ok so source it
@errant elm drafted would mean she didn't have a choice
we don't really how the recruitment went - just that the military turned to pro gamers for recruitment
@dire timber that's why I asked your earlier, was she drafted or enlisted
whether it was a draft or not is mostly an assumption
@rain arrow But still could be happy about having the job?
So it's never explained fully, so I guess that is up to assumption at that point
"Top stars were drafted" from dvas overwatch page lol
@errant elm there's a reason for it, but since it's never explained, it won't matter
In fact the mech of "casino" looks kinda like a jet
historically, there were plenty drafted soldiers who were happy to accept their assignemt
but I doubt it's draft
@tidal musk thanks for finding that
. Looking up things from the phone is.. Annoying
"Seeing her new mission as a game, D.Va fearlessly charges into battle alongside the rest of her MEKA unit"
they wouldn't spend all these resources on drafted troops
@rain arrow Youâre just stating your own facts and opinions without countering ours. While we are saying that youâre not countering ours
In general, I think the short didn't expand nearly as much on anything really that "unknown" as say Soldier's or Reinhardt's. It didn't do "nothing" but it sure as shit wasn't as in depth as the others. 8 minutes to expand on upon like 2 or 3 key points which were already known/hinted at in-game
cause draft results in a high risk of desertion
Idk what the other guy is on about
which in turn, is a high risk for losing the equipment they were supplied with
@worthy rose what you said
@dire timber no.. Not really.. drafted means your enlisted by force in times of emergency. Some are happy to do it
@worthy rose this short didn't really make me care more about dva like some of the other shorts did for their respective characters. i dont hate dva for the record
@frank gorge yeah, same
she had personality... in game...
yep
NO HAX REQUIRED HAHA GAMER GRILL
listen to her interactions with zarya and some others
but in the short she acts like an actual hero
she had brief signs
she talks about how the mekas destroyed the village similar ro her countey
@tidal musk I love dva actually, I wanted to see more of her
but very minor
I think she has like 2 different personalities like everyone: one online and one irl
personally i loved the new short
it didn't expand too much on the current lore
but it was still really good
@worthy rose dude, you're complaining about this short not expanding on her character... while being satisfied with those breadcrumbs?
also we got the REAL busan finally
fuck you lucioball we have busan for real this time
how is reins a breadcrumb
what
Leggo is not compalining about it not expanding
I'm not talking about Rein
i literally said it didnt do nothing
lets be honest reinhardt's short was a retelling of something we already knew happened in the lore
even if it was probably the best short
Can we drop this discussion? Its going nowhere
@frank gorge yup but was great to watch
well, we've seen that sweeet Omnic Crisis OR14
was it told before?
and we've seen what Balderich looked like
if in comics then i hadnt read it
@worthy rose yeah, everyone is free to have their own thoughts
we did get some new info, like how balderich was originally chosen
Letâs just say we should be happy that we got lore and hope weâll find more in the map
@worthy rose it was in Rein's bio
and we've seen Crusaders battle omnics in The Last Bastion
we know Balderich died in the battle from the start
i meant his understand that his stupid stunt got his best friend killed and that hes honoring the call since it was trusted to him
aka the non exposition, which you love to tout
i want to know more about the recall, personally
really, D.va short gave us more new details than Honor & Glory and Rise & Shine combined
who else answered the call, blah blah blah
imho
for someone trusted for being active in lore you sure do tunnel vision a lot when it comes to lore
@dire timber that's.... subjective but if you think so.. That's fine
I want more lore on Zenyatta and I want to see Mei trying to activate an ecopoint
what are you basing that statement on?
lol
Iâd say Zenyatta short and Mei comic
with dvas short we learned that she wants to try harder to be able to do things on her own and to finally accept that she needs help against the sudden omnic invasion, and the names of her crew
no more mei lore please
"in the opening arc, Zen talks with Mondatta, and decides to leave the Shambali
then, some time passes, and Zen meets Genji
they clash, and get into a fight, which Zen wins by outsmarting Genji, in part due to Genji's impatience
from that point onward, Genji accepts Zen's offer to become his student"
yes
@worthy rose Sudden omnic attack. Nobody expected the attack to be so quick after the last one
in reins short he learned not to be reckless as it got his best friend killed, and watched him learn how to properly protect his team, to honor the overwatch call because of balderich, why the armor is still there, and the OR14 introduction (i think)
@worthy rose I think we are just not understanding something
mei's short showed her teams death, learning how much time has passed, trying to restart ecopoint, snowball's thingamajig, and i forgot how it ended
im summing them up generally
they dead bro
Meiâs team is dead
there's this one theory that zen was a null sector omnic
we also learn that winston probably saved mei's life with the recall
nah meis
I dunno why
they dead af
Leggo summed Dvaâs short up quite good
lemme edit to unclude the sudden thing
canonically d.va's fusion cannons do more damage far range than her light gun close range

im surprised the light gun made an appearance at all tbh
forgot to unclude balderich
but being sad because your team got decommissioned vs getting your best friend killed because of your mistake... id rather have expansion on the latter than the former
I just... seriously, outside of like, two-three lines, D.va was 99.9% gamer girl trope
and now we've seen some actual character from her
and people are saying
that there's no difference
it's bizarre
I think this short is enough for Dva, maybe Dva just doesnât have so much lore
his grandiose personality is still a personality though
i can accept that as a reason
Iâd rather have blizzard expanding on the Meka team as a whole
"gg winky face" isn't
it isn't
2018: i bet we'll have flying cars in the future!
2077: talking soda cans
it kinda made her seem like a psycho
Dva has 2 personalities: online (XD winky face) and irl (protect the city)
same for rein, id rather heroic rein than rein who just boasts about his kills and goes in alone
... is another reason why you dislike her in the short is because she's not a "gg winky face nerf this" gamer girl trope in it
Tbh just leave Dva as is, and expand on the team overall, learning all the characters as we go
are we all going to ignore the talking soda can
this is what technology has become in the future
well, I mean
i dislike that they chose to expand very little on a shallow character when other deeper plots are begging to be told
Isnât it just an audio tape?
hoverbikes and not flying bikes
and a lot of levitating stuff
hovering is objectively less cool than flying
@worthy rose maybe blizzard wants to expand on the meka team and not Dva herself
i hope so
fingers crossed
*lucio wall rides to the top of the building, using his soundwave to push his foes off the edge. with a gritty expression, he leans over the side of the building, uttering grimly:
"i could do this all day."*
i need more than 8 minutes of dva learning she needs to ask for help
Iâd be happy if we got a bit of a power rangers esc comic thingy for the meka team
//shot
and I think now we can move on to characters like Pharah, Zen, Lucio, Symmetra
what happened to symmetra
and the overarching storyline
she has yellow eyes, but her archives spray confirms she did not have them as a child
is symmetra like partially brainwashed or some shit
Orisa lore when?
in the comic i think they're orange or yellow
vishkar, some friend/brother of hers (i forgot), her conflict with lucio's father, the fight in brazil, etc
idfk
aka depth
@frank gorge it's just a stylistic choice
oh
contacts
well there goes about a million theories
there's no need overthinking stuff like that
with this story
Guys whatâs up with Orisa is she just going to defend Numbani against Doomfist and thatâs all?
shes learning from others
is widow's brainwash shit running out or something?
people used to believe that Pharah is a quadruple amputee
in game she asks a lot of questions
because of her legs and arms in the armor
there are a few hints to widow regaining her will
Widow's complicated
orisa asks tracer about right vs wrong and zarya about her dislike of omnics and so on and so forth
But what would happen with Orisa I mean?
rose over her husband's grave, the photo of them in her house
it's not exactly mind control per se
Just realized, I think we got all the d.va lore we needed, remember she is only 19, there isnât too much about her that can be made
widow appears to be regaining emotion, possibly regret
it's more that she's incapable of feeling anything, and she's now in Talon for the thrill of the kill
nah
I don't think so
what about gerard?
I think she's trying to make herself feel anything
Iâd like widow to like eventually become good again
ah
living in her ancestral home
Yes
visiting her late husband's grave
Slig agrees with my theory
she surrounds herself with the things from her past
trying to get an emotional response out of it
Like have widowmaker and Reaper become good, Doomfist and Moira locked away, Sombra doing her own thing and make the omnics an even bigger threat
i like the idea of reaper being a double agent trying to take talon down, but its probably far more likely that he's just a dick
Not now but eventually
we know the first doomfist was a good guy
the second one was a dick
the third one is alright but he's still a bad guy
personally i'd like to know more about the first doomfist
all we know is that he was a hero of the omnic crisis
as far as we know, Reaper is driven by revenge
Maybe the first doomfist can help take down the current doomfist? Like have torbjorn make him a new gauntlet?

... what
eh
Is the first doomfist dead?
not sure if that would work, unless the first one was affiliated with overwatch
Did I do a stupid again?
we know literally nothing about the first doomfist other than that he was a good guy
I dont think we know if the doomfists are dead or alive
and that his name literally was doom fist in Swahili
Idk I just wanted to see Doomfist vs doomfist action
xD
doomfist 1: unknown
doomfist 2: dead
doomfist 3: alive
Do we even know where the 'gauntlet' came from?
What happened with the second?
i assume the first doomfist made it or had it made for him
the second doomfist was a member of talon, and the current doomfist killed him and took the gauntlet for himself
the gauntlets all look pretty different, especially the first one
Oof
Jesus Christ
the first Doomfist is known as the Savior, and he was said to be a hero of the Omnic Crisis
maybe
And Busan
no, not presumably
The first Doomfist's "gauntlet" was spiked knuckles
he was specifically stated to be a hero and a "really good guy"
So it is possible to have the first doomfist take down the current?
Wait... it turned from spiked knuckles, to a mechanical gauntlet???
Hes either dead or alive... Or neither
Like do things say it isnât possible?
the first Doomfist is probably dead
^
Source?
Fair point
Lmfao
well, possibly not
he was probably killed by the Scourge
their gauntlets are very different
Maybe heâs retired and old
the scourge probably took the title after doomfist 1 retired the name
Maybe the doomfists adapted the gauntlet to suit their style...
Guys aside from lore, how cool would doomfist vs doomfist be?
Oh yeah of course
doomfist 1 is probably old, about reinhardt age
Orisa will be the one to take down doomfist
aside from lore in #lore-discussion
considering he was active during the first omnic crisis
Lol
Wew lad
I kinda wish we knew something about the first Doomfist, besides his name, title and apperance
like, Doomfist was supposed to know about his predecessors
if he even exists in the lore anymore
âNANO COLA, Enjoyyyy!!! :3â
I kinda what him to be a part of whatâs happening now in some way
but he never brought them up
God dang these shorts are so gud
Smh Nano Cola
A scientist
who apparently could destroy skyscrapers in lore
A monkey/ gorilla
Better then Lucio-ohs
how much does winston's power vary
A smart monkey scientist
Lucio-ohs in Nano Cola ?!
He gets mad and basically any talon guy dies
Lmao monkey
Loved it
He doesn't even have tail
also if he's a scientist why doesn't he increase the voltage on the tesla cannon
Reaper got defeated, Widow got Rekt, even fudging Doomfist
so he can actually do damage
So Winston with no glasses is pretty strong
To OP
which Winston we on about here
Gameplay isn't lore
i know
Also the tesla cannon looked pretty deadly in his cinemtic
ok true
Ikr
Lmao
Wasnât useful with anyone else tho
I donât even know where the general story could go from this point
Maybe he has more weapons to counter other heroâs?
yeah, his primal punch
Lucio or Sym short
and thats about it
Lucio short will be nice, ngl
Yes but like the Overwatch story
i want to see zenny boy lore
we know more about lucio than zen
I want Lucio to fight Sym with her new ultimate reeeee
So Vishkar is bad?
@frank gorge bruh zen has his own map tho
i think its actually yahi param vasta viktar hei
lucio's VA doesn't even speak portugese but he recorded lines for lucio
give us german reinhardt smh
I think there is less lucio lore than zen lore
can't stop, won't stop
Because zen has a map, a genji...
âA DJ who stole from Viskarâ vs
âA monk who left the sanctum with different idealsâ
Hm.. What sounds better?
lucio's dad built shiny roller skates and then got ripped off by a big evil company and then he stole it back
that's lucio lore for ya
Lmao
so lucio's dad was a genius engineer, and we dont even know his name
@frank gorge Winston was only able to beat Doomfist once enraged
and I mean
he's a genetically enhanced gorilla
why doesn't winston get enraged more often then
cause he can't get enraged on demand
i mean sure he did it in every short he's in
@frank gorge maybe torb is Lucio's dad..
You canât just get mad
I mean can u control when ur enraged
@muted rune no
The hulk could kill anyone with his rage if he had enough of it
he's not
He got mad cuz tracer got hurt I think
xD
But he canât just âGET MADâ
shitposting will result in loss of access
winston got mad in the doomfist short because there were 2 dps on his team and he had to solo tank
//shot
but uh
Smh, no fun v.v
back to lucio
yes she does but that's not important right now
oK CAN WE NOT SPEAK ABOUT FUCKING TORBJORN RIGHT NOW LMFAO
Torn is best tho
a N Y WAY
Toxic
But what hero could Blizzard add to expand on the lore?
since you want lucio lore, we-
Torb*
oh god damn it
Moira heroâs are good heros
everyone wanted junker queen for all the wrong reasons
@errant elm Zen and Lucio are the ones that need lore now
people wanted junker queen because big strong lady, not because expansion of lore
No junkerqueen pls

