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dire timber
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we still saw her squad - their names, their faces, their mechs

valid shell
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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.

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Gee thnx

valid shell
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I said barely.

dire timber
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and we still saw her fight the Kishin

rain arrow
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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.

obtuse star
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i'd totally play a dva mech team game

dire timber
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it did help her character

rain arrow
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What is her character?

little ether
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The guy in the Dva cinematic is a friend right?

dire timber
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did you miss the short?

sand kraken
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Yeah CBWrath

rain arrow
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No I wanted watched it.. what is her character

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Er I did watch it

little ether
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Ok ty 😃

sand kraken
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It's probably her partner at work and her friend

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Np!

valid shell
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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.

dire timber
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at first, Blizzard asked that question themselves - is she a pro pilot, is she an icon, or is she a normal girl?

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but then, they got their answer

rain arrow
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She's a prob pilot apparently

dire timber
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she's a girl who feels that everything rests on her shoulders

rain arrow
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Er pro

dire timber
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that she can't fail in any way, or else everything is lost

sand kraken
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Exactly

rain arrow
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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

dire timber
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uh

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the last time they fought

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they fought the big one

rain arrow
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Dva said they barely won and the enemy is getting better and better

dire timber
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this one

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is the one they barely beat

rain arrow
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Then why did she say that line? We barely won and the enemy is getting better and better?

dire timber
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and the others got badly injured

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... what?

rain arrow
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There would be no reason to say that if it would never be used

dire timber
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uh, the Kishin omnic is a recurring threat

rain arrow
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What's that term checkov's gun?

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That a lone pilot handled by herself

dire timber
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dude

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you're just confirming my earlier thesis

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that the ones complaining are the ones who don't know shit about the lore

rain arrow
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... 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?

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You can debate lore all you like, but this does very little to make dva fleshed out sadly....

dire timber
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it does make D.va fleshed out

rain arrow
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Okay...... How

dire timber
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like I said

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it fleshed out her personality, her life, her background, her MEKA squad

rain arrow
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Fleshed out means the character is brought to life with emotional or situational comparison

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Again.. How

dire timber
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watch the short again

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you'll see how

rain arrow
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.... I'm asking you how

dire timber
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you'll see the MEKA base

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which you've never seen before

rain arrow
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How did the animation flesh out dva

dire timber
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I literally just said

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learn to fucking read

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and actually process things

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instead of just being a child

rain arrow
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.... You have yet to explain it.. You only tell me to watch the short again and look at what's around her

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But nothing about her in general

dire timber
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we did learn plenty about her

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you just want to build up nonsensical "rhethorical" reasons for your dislike of it

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don't bother

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we get it

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you're disappointed

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due to your inability to pay attention to the details

rain arrow
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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...

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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...

dire timber
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D.va was also fleshed out

rain arrow
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Explain fleshed out by those qualities with example and result, with an obstacle that reinforces their character

dire timber
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she's part of the MEKA squad, tasked with defending Korea from the Kishin omnic, feeling that everything rests on her shoulders

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I explain it over and over

rain arrow
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.. Okay.. But that's her job...

twin pollen
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D.va short-👌 I thought it was awesome

rain arrow
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So...

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Her job is the character?

dire timber
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you know

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as of this short, D.va literally has more personality than you

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lmao

rain arrow
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.. Wow

cunning ledge
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oof

rain arrow
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You don't like how I don't like things so you have to insult me?

dire timber
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I'm tired of trying to get things through your thick skull

rain arrow
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Yeah but you couldn't even answer a single question...

dire timber
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I did answer

rain arrow
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.. You say her job is her character then

dire timber
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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

tepid abyss
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Pretty basic story tbh

rain arrow
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..... 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

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Yeah.. That's really....good...

dire timber
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holy crap

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can you like

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just admit you're not interest in D.va

rain arrow
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Are your saying thats not what happened

dire timber
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no, I'm saying that D.va was fleshed out

rain arrow
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Again.. How

tepid abyss
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I'd be more interested if she actually was interesting

dire timber
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that we got plenty detail we never had before

rain arrow
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@tepid abyss exactly..

dire timber
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that we've seen who D.va is as a person

rain arrow
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... Again.. Where

twin pollen
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I thought she was quite interesting

rain arrow
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She was more devoted to the job than her friend, we barely even know what he does....

tepid abyss
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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

errant elm
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He’s a mechanic

dire timber
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jesus fucking christ

errant elm
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He’s a friend

twin pollen
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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

errant elm
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He cares about her

rain arrow
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@errant elm but she did not work on the mech than him...

errant elm
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But she did not work on the mech than him?

dire timber
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what the hell are you talking about

sand kraken
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Oh jesus what did I miss

rain arrow
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Sorry XD autocorrect @errant elm

errant elm
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At the end of the short we saw him working on a mech

tepid abyss
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They could've fleshed out the story more basically

errant elm
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Or some mechanical thing

rain arrow
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No.. She was still doing it...he was looking at her os?

dire timber
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@sand kraken just more denial of the fact that D.va's character was expanded on

iron plume
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how is "she is more devoted to the mech than her friend" an argument against her being developed?

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like

rain arrow
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@dire timber projection

iron plume
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that's a show of character

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you may not like it

dire timber
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@rain arrow watch the fucking short again

iron plume
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but it's there
and it shows a part of who she is

sand kraken
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I think it did expanded though it would've been nice if it was longer and had more story

rain arrow
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@iron plume it's not a matter of like... It's how it's done

iron plume
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yes it is

errant elm
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She’s more devoted to saving the town (which would mean also her friend) than talking to her friend

dire timber
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and quit acting like your dislike of something is an objective failure on the story's part

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it's not

sand kraken
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@errant elm Yeah

rain arrow
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@dire timber you still have to answer my question.. Using my examples, how is she fleshed out

dire timber
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I did

tepid abyss
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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

iron plume
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he's repeatedly answered your question

twin pollen
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I liked when she realized she had to self destruct to save lives-it was kind of that moment where she realized this isn’t a game anymore this is real

rain arrow
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No he didn't..I gave examples

sand kraken
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@tepid abyss Yeah I agree

dire timber
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scroll up

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and read again

errant elm
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Stereotype?

iron plume
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Slig
chill

sand kraken
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But still

dire timber
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sorry

olive karma
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I'm surprised that OW is the only shooter I know that has little to no lore correlation with gameplay

dire timber
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dealing with someone like this is pissing me off

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"but how? but how? but how? but how? but how?"

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it's like they're trying to be as dense as possible

rain arrow
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Again.. Compare her animation to bastion..bastion being the easiest

tepid abyss
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How is insulting helping?

rain arrow
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How much do you know about bastion without a single word

dire timber
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it's not

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answering is helping

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so I answered

tepid abyss
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So do that properly

dire timber
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and my answeres were followed with

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"but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how? but how?"

tepid abyss
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Your answers are about as fleshed out as dva OMEGALUL

twin pollen
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Basically all of d.va’s moves are now canon right? I think we saw all of them, but please let me pull out my blaster inside mech now😉lol

olive karma
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Will DVA get a new skin from her new mech?

sand kraken
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Yup

olive karma
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Ok

dire timber
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@twin pollen self-destruct isn't really canon

sand kraken
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It was shown at the end of the animation

dire timber
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in the sense that it's not an actual procedure

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more that she artificially made it happen

errant elm
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How is her character expanded on? We saw that she wants to protect the city no matter what, she’s even able to sacrifice herself for it. And that she thinks that she has to do everything alone, and that she can’t make a mistake. However her friend is trying to learn her that she’s not alone, she just needs to ask for a little bit of help.

olive karma
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@twin pollen I tried. Don't go there

dire timber
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in an emegency

twin pollen
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I guess that’s right, but still

sand kraken
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@errant elm YEESS

olive karma
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Really. Dont

dire timber
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@errant elm expect some more "that's her job." "but how does it expand?" etc.

mellow olive
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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.

errant elm
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Nah I think I’ve made it clear now

dire timber
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they don't argue in good faith

sand kraken
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@mellow olive yeah I agree

errant elm
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I’m sorry boyos, but not everyone is going to join Overwatch suddenly

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There are stories all over the world

twin pollen
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@dire timber even though it was an emergency, she still did self-destruct, it might not be her normal ‘protocol’ but it is something she can do if needed

dire timber
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yea

olive karma
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DVA is obv going to be investigated right or wrong. Just like Sully SullenBerger

dire timber
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I guess

iron plume
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it's canon that mechs can do that

dire timber
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it is?

sand kraken
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yea

iron plume
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but what happens in game isn't

errant elm
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And if you don’t like that you can argue with blizzard and not with some guy trying to enjoy lore

olive karma
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Don't talk about weapon lore. It goes bad fast

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Sam knows

rain arrow
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@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

dire timber
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like, it is canon that the core can be overloaded and explode

twin pollen
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Do they have to officially stat that it’s canon? Or can it just be in something in lore like the shorts

dire timber
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but, like, some people been trying to suggest D.va actually just launches them to explode

iron plume
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At least it'll bury those "they get sent mechs from orbit" theories

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as fun as that would be

dire timber
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@rain arrow be a bother to someone else

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I'm done

rain arrow
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I win! Wooooo

dire timber
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your question was answered by @errant elm

errant elm
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Dva doesn’t go in public

iron plume
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"But they do nothing to show how involved she is with the cleb status"
They do show it

sand kraken
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hey guys

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chill

iron plume
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the answer is "she isn't"

errant elm
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Dva doesn’t want the fame etc

sand kraken
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No one wins and no one lost

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Exactly

rain arrow
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@iron plume fair point

errant elm
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She just wants to protect the city

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Why can’t you understand that?

sand kraken
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^^^^^

olive karma
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Ya stop. Weapons lore sucks. I've tried. They asked a mod to ban me

dire timber
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@rain arrow you didn't win shit, being an obnoxious douche to the point people are sick of talking to you isn't "winning"

rain arrow
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@dire timber I will!

errant elm
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Why would they show her gamer side if that is not what’s going on atm?

sand kraken
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She wants to protect her home from harm

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And her family

rain arrow
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Sorry you don't like my detail. It's meant to create conversation

sand kraken
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Everyone she loves

rain arrow
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But I guess that was too much

sand kraken
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It it wasn't

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It's alright

errant elm
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You are not having a conversation, you are asking questions and ignoring the answers

olive karma
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FFS TAKE IT FROM ME WHO LITERALLY TRIED ARGUING THIS EARLIER. STOP

twin pollen
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Also, she’s very competitive, “I play to win” not for the glory and fame, but to win

iron plume
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we aren't arguing the same thing remotely

rain arrow
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@errant elm no I did answer them.. He just for really mad when I did, it's up there

dire timber
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you didn't acknowledge any of the answers

iron plume
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slig pls

errant elm
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No you asked question like “how did it expens on it?!” And than you ignored his answer

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I fk wrote a whole paragraph answering your question and you ignored it

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That’s not a conversation

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That’s what kids do

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That’s what kids do when they think they are right but they just aren’t

rain arrow
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@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.

olive karma
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Just stop. I've tried this dude.

worthy rose
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I take it you guys were disappointed too :/

olive karma
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I said I was right about smtn

errant elm
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BUT SHE DOESN’T LIKE THE SPOTLIGHT

olive karma
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Hi leggo

rain arrow
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@worthy rose no.. Lots if people here looked6 it..

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@errant elm yes but you have to show it

worthy rose
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for what

errant elm
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No they don’t have to show it

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Blizzard does whatever they want they don’t have to show anything

worthy rose
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This short doesn't deserve to have been made.

dire timber
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it does

errant elm
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Wrong

worthy rose
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There is nothing of substance that was gained from spending 8 minutes of my life watching D.Va ask for help.

rain arrow
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@worthy rose they like it, I don't, we just had an argument on it and they are trying to villianize me for it

errant elm
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It has shown thing like the other Meka’s, a side of Dva we haven’t seen earlier and a sudden Omnic attack which took the city by surprise

iron plume
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how do you show someone not doing something

dire timber
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@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

iron plume
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we've seen her not go into spotlight

worthy rose
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Unless there is some lore that I missed i.e. with that casino dude

rain arrow
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@worthy rose they omnic right

iron plume
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no one is trying to villainize you

rain arrow
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@iron plume you can say that but insults and saying I didn't do something when I did says otherwise

errant elm
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They have shown a sudden omnic attack which people are ignoring for some reason

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Dude you are ignoring answers on your questions

iron plume
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that's
not the same thing

rain arrow
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@errant elm there you go... Again

errant elm
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Of course people are not going to like you

iron plume
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you're staring this again, no one else

rain arrow
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Your not going to like me because the dva short is no where near any of the other shorts when explaining a character?

worthy rose
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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

errant elm
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How is that villainizing?

rain arrow
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@worthy rose THANK YOU

dire timber
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@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

rain arrow
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It expanded her world and her job
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errant elm
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Guys remember: we had nothing, now we have something

worthy rose
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it expanded like fucking bubble gum when reinhardt expanded like the universe

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reinhardt's short*

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there is so much more to a character than being sad about 1 incident

rain arrow
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But you could have had any of the other mech pilots there and it wouldn't have changed a thing @dire timber

worthy rose
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i disagree with the other meka pilots thing

errant elm
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We never even said that it was better or even to Reinhardt’s short

dire timber
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I'll just start blocking the whiners

rain arrow
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That's what I thought..

worthy rose
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im comparing it to rein bc it was an average short imo

rain arrow
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You don't like it. So you need to block.. Protect your opinion and you bubble, not with conversation, but insults and safe spaces

errant elm
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It might have been average

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But it did expand

rain arrow
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@worthy rose rein short had so much more...

dire timber
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@rain arrow cry about it

worthy rose
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im saying reins was average

rain arrow
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@dire timber XP only your are throwing out insults

errant elm
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You can’t deny that the short expanded

worthy rose
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@rain arrow no one wanted him on the podcast for a reason, ignord him

rain arrow
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@worthy rose xD who?

worthy rose
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im not saying it didnt expand im saying it expanded in a manner that doesnt really take 8 minutes

white cobalt
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@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?

errant elm
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Yeah but this “gamemaster” was saying: “How did it expand?” And when we answered he ignored it

iron plume
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okay can we stop shitfighting about shitfighting now

worthy rose
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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

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spent 2 years with 0 lore and finally when he got a short its just that

rain arrow
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@white cobalt the others were off duty getting rest and relaxation.. But dva stayed behind to work

iron plume
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@white cobalt yes
the other four have their mechs damaged in previous fight and inoperational at the second attack

worthy rose
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relatively 0 lore

dire timber
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@white cobalt the others were injured in the fight against the colossal Kishin omnic

errant elm
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But we didn’t get 0 lore

dire timber
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D.va was the only one available

worthy rose
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bam thats all the lore you got out of the short^

iron plume
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@worthy rose That comparison doesn't make any sense

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and no it isn't all the lore

errant elm
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We’ve seen other mechs, we’ve seen her friend(who likes her?), we’ve seen another side, we’ve seen that the omnic attacks are now suddenly

worthy rose
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if theres stuff im missing, tell me

rain arrow
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@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

iron plume
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aside from character development, we also see the nuke origin story
and the way Meka is treated by the government/media

errant elm
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Not every character is struggling with stress or whatever you want to happen

worthy rose
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character development of "i should probably ask for help"

iron plume
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twin pollen
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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, she’ll 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.

rain arrow
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@iron plume okay.. What's her friend's name

worthy rose
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ill give the mansion thing

iron plume
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oh hey someone actually bothered again

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let's see how you ignore them this time

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who gives a shit about her friend
he's a side npc

worthy rose
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i didnt think about the choosing mech shop thing

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ok so what im gathering is

rain arrow
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@iron plume okay.. What's the other members of her squads name?

iron plume
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d.mon, casino, king and overlord

worthy rose
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they were in the short

iron plume
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but that's still not relevant

worthy rose
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i know i complained they were in there for like 3 seconds but they were still in there

rain arrow
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@iron plume was that explained in the short?

errant elm
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This conversation is pure bs, it all started because this “gamemaster” was denying the fact that the short expanded on Dva. We never claimed that it expanded much, we just said that it did.

iron plume
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yes?

twin pollen
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I mean obviously there is more we could have been given in the short, but I felt we got a decent amount of info

iron plume
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where else would we get it

rain arrow
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@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

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Brig got more than she did

errant elm
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So you are going to go into this channel and deny that the short expanded on her?

worthy rose
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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.

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and if dva has no lore then choose another deep hero like genji/zen, lucio/sym, etc etc

rain arrow
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...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

worthy rose
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(i understand deep is subjective)

errant elm
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And I can see that, but to deny that the short didn’t expand is going to far

pearl portal
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it didn't expand d.va

worthy rose
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well, has no lore to expand that much upon*

errant elm
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You kept asking “how does it expand” while we answered it like 3 times

rain arrow
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@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

pearl portal
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it expanded a lot of other things though

worthy rose
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it expanded upon dva a little bit to be fair

rain arrow
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I said it explained the world and her job but NOT THE CHARACTER that's the focus of my arguement @errant elm

worthy rose
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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.

errant elm
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But it did expand her character

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Before the short: NERF THIS after the short: I protect the city at all costs, I can’t make any mistakes etc

dire timber
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people are incapable of analysis, or digging into the details

errant elm
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Her team didn’t die I think

worthy rose
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...is it? before the short we knew she fought the mechs

errant elm
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Mechs were damaged

dire timber
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most regulars here are used to it

twin pollen
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@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. They’re not just gonna state d.va is a hard worker or something, it’s shown

sand kraken
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Her team were seen after the fight

rain arrow
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@errant elm they explained her job...meis was the same but she still has so much more to her through that whole short...

sand kraken
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At a conference

worthy rose
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oh shit whoosp, then decommissioned

rain arrow
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@twin pollen shown? Again..look at the love the other characters for, can you honestly admit the same was given for dva?

errant elm
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How is, feeling that you are alone and can’t make any mistake or you’ll disappoint your team and the city and you can’t ask for help, just her job?

twin pollen
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Wait so what happened to the other mechs?

errant elm
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They were damaged

sand kraken
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They were damaged very badly

worthy rose
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i assume destroyed in the last mech attack

rain arrow
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@errant elm she never ever said she was alone or anything like that, you are putting this in that aren't there

errant elm
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They weren’t expecting another attack for months but the omnics suddenly attacked

dire timber
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@twin pollen no, you see, people need everything stated outright with a bunch of boring exposition

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it happens with Star Wars too, lmao

rain arrow
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@dire timber bastion short, try again

errant elm
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Dude she had that feeling, didn’t you see how big pf a moment that asking for help was

worthy rose
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hes got you there

dire timber
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does he

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because I think he'd have complained about Bastion's short if it were released today

rain arrow
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@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

dire timber
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"HURR WE LEARNED NOTHING!"

sand kraken
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guys this isn't about "who wins the argument"...

worthy rose
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thats some heavy reaching lad

dire timber
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"DIDN'T EVEN MEET UP WITH THE OTHERS!"

tidal musk
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bastion short has information in it tho

dire timber
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"BEING A WAR MACHINE IS JUST ITS JOB"

rain arrow
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@worthy rose your should have seen the beginning.. The insult and trying to get people to mob me

twin pollen
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🍿

errant elm
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@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

dire timber
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"JOB ISNT CHARACTER"

rain arrow
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@dire timber oooo you fell right into this trap.. Thank you....

worthy rose
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i mean in bastion we saw ptsd in action, his acceptance of being happy, learning nature, learning history, etc

tidal musk
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is this about if the new short had enough info/lore in it?

dire timber
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@rain arrow what trap

sand kraken
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Omg guys

dire timber
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this is stupid fucking nonsense

worthy rose
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and bastion was almost universally well received to my knowledge

errant elm
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Yeha

rain arrow
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@dire timber didn't you say that you hate other who don't understand the lore... What was bastions lore again?

tidal musk
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bastion short is the best one lol

rain arrow
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@worthy rose and nothing was said except beeps and boops

dire timber
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I'm done explaining the shorts to you

errant elm
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I liked Mei the most because of snowball

dire timber
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lmao

worthy rose
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what are you explaining

rain arrow
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@dire timberLOL

twin pollen
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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

worthy rose
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youre just sitting on a high pedestal throwing insults

tidal musk
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@twin pollen is that satire

worthy rose
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my opinion is that it didnt expand AS MUCH as other shorts

rain arrow
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@errant elm yes, snowball was interesting..it was surprisingly detailed on how snowball was used

errant elm
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@twin pollen exactly. Tbh this can’t be denied

rain arrow
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@twin pollen again, she never said any of that.. You are putting things into the character to flesh her out..

worthy rose
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ok but like

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does she need to say it?

dire timber
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"but she blows it up all the time in game lel xd"

errant elm
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@worthy rose sure I understand that but this other guy is denying character expansion

worthy rose
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fair enough

twin pollen
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@rain arrow but it doesn’t have to be said, it’s called context clues

errant elm
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@rain arrow dude we don’t need her litteral words to understand how she felt

twin pollen
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You can easily pick it up from the short

worthy rose
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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

rain arrow
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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

twin pollen
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@errant elm exactly

dire timber
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exactly what I was talking about, lmao

errant elm
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The moment and the way she talked said enough

dire timber
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they need dull exposition

worthy rose
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memorial for a mech

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i am

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befuddled

dire timber
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everything blandly stated outright

rain arrow
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@worthy rose it's an example

dire timber
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or else it's not fleshed out

rain arrow
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@dire timber where? In the hesitation?

worthy rose
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yes

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theres an art to subtlety

errant elm
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@rain arrow When did we say she said it? I said that she feels that way about her being alone

rain arrow
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@worthy rose that shows how close she is to her mech? The hesitation?

unreal onyx
dire timber
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the short should have just been D.va stating a detailed description of her personality

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lmao

rain arrow
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@errant elm but she's not.... She's got her friend

worthy rose
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you double guess yourself when you hesitate

dire timber
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so that people don't miss it

worthy rose
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thats the point

twin pollen
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@dire timber lol

rain arrow
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@worthy rose yeah but is that about the mech?

errant elm
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@rain arrow BUT SHE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THAT

rain arrow
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@errant elm... But she does.. She speaks to him with history

worthy rose
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smh my complaints are different from this guys

rain arrow
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The most you get is that she is confident and he didn't think so

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@worthy rose no no.. Watch.. It's going to get better

errant elm
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@rain arrow You really know nothing bout emotions and humans do you?

dire timber
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@errant elm I wouldn't expect someone clearly disinterested in D.va's character in the short to suddenly flip and start genuinely analyzing D.va's character in the short

rain arrow
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@errant elm ahh there's the insult.. Can't counter, guess
Gotta attack the character

worthy rose
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i mean i hated reinhardt before his short to be fair

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i thought he was just a loud obnoxious prick

twin pollen
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@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.

dire timber
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I didn't like D.va before this short

rain arrow
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@errant elm again.. Nothing you said is true..her friend is already with her..

errant elm
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@rain arrow Dude you are not even countering our points. You are just denying

dire timber
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she seemed like an obnoxious "gg nerf this ;)" gamer girl

worthy rose
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I want her friends to be playable

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didnt they show her fighting the mechs

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If they arent dead

dire timber
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while in the short, we've seen she's not all that

rain arrow
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@errant elm projection? I did... You just don't think they are good enough

errant elm
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@rain arrow Remember the short isn’t only for lore, it has to be entertaining

worthy rose
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they already made her the gamer but actually works and tries hard to fight for korea

rain arrow
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@worthy rose yeah they showed this exact same thing in the we are overwatch trailer

tidal musk
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my biggest gripe with the short was embracing the stupid doritos and soda meme lol

worthy rose
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with how she speaks to zarya

dire timber
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@tidal musk that was around for a while

tidal musk
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obviously

twin pollen
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Gotta love the memes

rain arrow
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@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

tidal musk
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i just think the gremlin dva meme is stupid and didn't like how it's officially part of her character now

worthy rose
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Seriously is no one else interested in the other pilots?

dire timber
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well, we are

tidal musk
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they're interesting but we won't hear about them again lol

dire timber
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in the sense that we like the designs

worthy rose
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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"

dire timber
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for them, and for their mechs

errant elm
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@rain arrow Dude I say: “She thinks she’s alone and can’t any mistake or she’ll lose and has difficultties asking for help.” This is seen in the way she asks for help. You: “But she didn’t say that!”

tidal musk
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they're like mech power rangers

dire timber
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but otherwise, I don't think they're going to be expanded on

worthy rose
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do you think they can join together to make one big robot

rain arrow
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@errant elm she never ever thinks that.. Ever. She goes out alone because she needs to act quickly..

worthy rose
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Dvas got the worst design of them all imo

dire timber
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maybe they'll show up in a comic or something

tidal musk
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@worthy rose oh shit...

twin pollen
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Please no...

dire timber
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@worthy rose definitely not

tidal musk
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MEKAzord

worthy rose
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All of them look way cooler than her

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why not

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i want mekazord

dire timber
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no shitposting

worthy rose
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oh fuck off lmao

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as for rein's short

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it was pretty neat to see him use his abilities

errant elm
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@rain arrow She could’ve waited for back-up (don’t know how long thag would take) and she clearly has problems askibg for help

worthy rose
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i see they put in dvas missiles too

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Soooo were those things omnics?

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as controversial as they may be in game

twin pollen
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@worthy rose I really like how defense matrix was portrayed in the short

worthy rose
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yeah as broken and OP and boring as it is in game as well lmao

tidal musk
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i dont think they did a good enough job of showing that D Matrix is dvas inhuman reactions

worthy rose
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DM inhuman reaction?

lean silo
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i thought matrix was automatic

tidal musk
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no

worthy rose
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Nah she button mashes

twin pollen
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Lol

worthy rose
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You can see it ingame

peak escarp
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she shoots down incoming projectiles

rain arrow
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@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

worthy rose
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^

errant elm
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Well they showed that it can block anything

peak escarp
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part of why she was recruited was her high APM

worthy rose
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yeah i was confused that the short's DM is different from how it appears in game

peak escarp
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which is used in activating defense matrix

errant elm
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@rain arrow But she couldn’t handle it. If nor for her friend the city would’ve been damaged

worthy rose
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they exploded in dm in the short but in game they just get eaten

twin pollen
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Hmmm

worthy rose
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Sooo what exactly traumatised dva?

tidal musk
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her squad got rekt

worthy rose
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her friends mechs got destroyed last fight i guess

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I mean we saw that her crew was still living didnt we?

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yep

peak escarp
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a lot of abilities work differently in the lore than they do in the game

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yeah, they're still alive

tidal musk
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they won but the omnics are getting stronger over time i think was mentioned

rain arrow
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@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?

worthy rose
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@rain arrow @errant elm

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u 2 are arguing 2 different points

rain arrow
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Most likely! XS

errant elm
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All I’m saying is that the short expanded on Dva

tidal musk
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yeah in lore reins charge was displayed almost like fucking speed skating lol

worthy rose
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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

dire timber
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in lore, everyone's got greater mobility

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Soldier can climb walls

rain arrow
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@worthy rose no he says dva thinks she's alone

dire timber
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Mei can climb structures

worthy rose
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they can both do that in game too...

dire timber
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Tracer can blink upwards

rough lintel
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Someone from the general discussion channel said people were going “in on eachother” here

errant elm
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Yes she feels like she has to do anything and can’t make any mistakes

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And clearly has problems asking for help

worthy rose
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tracer blinked upwards in a short?

rain arrow
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.... But that's her job @errant elm

worthy rose
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unless you mean comic bc i never read em

dire timber
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@rain arrow that's how she feels about her job*

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and that's why she accepted this job*

worthy rose
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well its also her job to respond quickly to stuff like this

dire timber
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because she wants to protect her country

errant elm
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Her job is not: “feeling like you have to do everything and feeling like you can’t make a mistake or ask for help

worthy rose
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2 different points

rain arrow
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@dire timber .... Okay... But I thought the lore said they drafted gamers for this specific program.

worthy rose
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literally arguing different things

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What i wanna know is why is dva the only one of the crew who is so largely praised and celebrated?

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bc vidya games

errant elm
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She is higher skilled

dire timber
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yep

short scaffold
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DVA was a celebrity beforehand

worthy rose
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if only they expanded upon that

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She got her face on buildings and drinks, she even stars in movies

rain arrow
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@dire timber did she enlist by choice or was she drafted?

tidal musk
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dva has more subscribers

short scaffold
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She's probably PR type thing

worthy rose
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The others were celebs too

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I mean chu said that they had an f1 driver in there

dire timber
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@rain arrow what we do know, is that she gladly joined

worthy rose
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oh is that so

tidal musk
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chu widowlol

errant elm
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Dva is just the better mech fighter

dire timber
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that she felt it was her duty

worthy rose
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true, higher apm n shit

errant elm
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@dire timber THaT’s jUsT heR JoB

worthy rose
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One of the mechs even looks similar to a racecar

dire timber
#

BUt HoW

obtuse iron
#

Anyone else get a DVa Unleashed vibe from this cinematic? Creator DillonGoo made a DVa short a few weeks ago like this.

worthy rose
#

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).

rain arrow
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@errant elm @dire timber nice try.. But was she enlisted or drafted.. You guys sure your not the one ignoring things?

dire timber
#

that is just but how her job

errant elm
#

@rain arrow I never said anything about the way she became what she does now

worthy rose
#

i would assume if its just fuckin 5 people she wasnt drafted

dire timber
#

job how is this

rain arrow
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@worthy rose it wasn't 5 according to the lore, hundreds of gamers were brought in

dire timber
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just job

worthy rose
#

how many were meka

dire timber
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@rain arrow um, source?

errant elm
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Her being drafters doesn’t mean that she can’t be happy for taking the job and feeling like it’s her duty

rain arrow
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@worthy rose I dunno the number, but the program was to use gamers to pilot the mech program

worthy rose
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ok so source it

rain arrow
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@errant elm drafted would mean she didn't have a choice

dire timber
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we don't really how the recruitment went - just that the military turned to pro gamers for recruitment

rain arrow
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@dire timber that's why I asked your earlier, was she drafted or enlisted

dire timber
#

whether it was a draft or not is mostly an assumption

errant elm
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@rain arrow But still could be happy about having the job?

rain arrow
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So it's never explained fully, so I guess that is up to assumption at that point

tidal musk
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"Top stars were drafted" from dvas overwatch page lol

rain arrow
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@errant elm there's a reason for it, but since it's never explained, it won't matter

worthy rose
#

In fact the mech of "casino" looks kinda like a jet

rain arrow
#

@tidal musk AH!

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So she was drafted

dire timber
#

historically, there were plenty drafted soldiers who were happy to accept their assignemt

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but I doubt it's draft

rain arrow
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@tidal musk thanks for finding that
. Looking up things from the phone is.. Annoying

tidal musk
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"Seeing her new mission as a game, D.Va fearlessly charges into battle alongside the rest of her MEKA unit"

dire timber
#

they wouldn't spend all these resources on drafted troops

errant elm
#

@rain arrow You’re just stating your own facts and opinions without countering ours. While we are saying that you’re not countering ours

worthy rose
#

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

dire timber
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cause draft results in a high risk of desertion

worthy rose
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Idk what the other guy is on about

dire timber
#

which in turn, is a high risk for losing the equipment they were supplied with

frank gorge
#

can i just say how much i love that d.va actually has real personality

errant elm
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@worthy rose what you said

rain arrow
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@dire timber no.. Not really.. drafted means your enlisted by force in times of emergency. Some are happy to do it

tidal musk
#

@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

dire timber
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@frank gorge yeah, same

worthy rose
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she had personality... in game...

frank gorge
#

yeah

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in game she was like

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WINKY FACE LOL

dire timber
#

yep

frank gorge
#

NO HAX REQUIRED HAHA GAMER GRILL

worthy rose
#

listen to her interactions with zarya and some others

frank gorge
#

but in the short she acts like an actual hero

dire timber
#

she had brief signs

worthy rose
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she talks about how the mekas destroyed the village similar ro her countey

rain arrow
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@tidal musk I love dva actually, I wanted to see more of her

dire timber
#

but very minor

errant elm
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I think she has like 2 different personalities like everyone: one online and one irl

frank gorge
#

personally i loved the new short

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it didn't expand too much on the current lore

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but it was still really good

dire timber
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@worthy rose dude, you're complaining about this short not expanding on her character... while being satisfied with those breadcrumbs?

frank gorge
#

also we got the REAL busan finally

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fuck you lucioball we have busan for real this time

worthy rose
#

how is reins a breadcrumb

dire timber
#

what

errant elm
#

Leggo is not compalining about it not expanding

dire timber
#

I'm not talking about Rein

worthy rose
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i literally said it didnt do nothing

frank gorge
#

lets be honest reinhardt's short was a retelling of something we already knew happened in the lore

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even if it was probably the best short

worthy rose
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Can we drop this discussion? Its going nowhere

rain arrow
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@frank gorge yup but was great to watch

dire timber
#

well, we've seen that sweeet Omnic Crisis OR14

worthy rose
#

was it told before?

dire timber
#

and we've seen what Balderich looked like

worthy rose
#

if in comics then i hadnt read it

rain arrow
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@worthy rose yeah, everyone is free to have their own thoughts

frank gorge
#

we did get some new info, like how balderich was originally chosen

errant elm
#

Let’s just say we should be happy that we got lore and hope we’ll find more in the map

dire timber
#

@worthy rose it was in Rein's bio

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and we've seen Crusaders battle omnics in The Last Bastion

frank gorge
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we now have d.va lore, and that's the part that matters

dire timber
#

we know Balderich died in the battle from the start

worthy rose
#

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

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aka the non exposition, which you love to tout

frank gorge
#

i want to know more about the recall, personally

dire timber
#

really, D.va short gave us more new details than Honor & Glory and Rise & Shine combined

frank gorge
#

who else answered the call, blah blah blah

dire timber
#

imho

worthy rose
#

for someone trusted for being active in lore you sure do tunnel vision a lot when it comes to lore

dire timber
#

because I don't agree with you?

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or what?

rain arrow
#

@dire timber that's.... subjective but if you think so.. That's fine

errant elm
#

I want more lore on Zenyatta and I want to see Mei trying to activate an ecopoint

dire timber
#

what are you basing that statement on?

frank gorge
#

we all want more from zenyatta

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looks like we'll be waiting next year for that

dire timber
#

I have a Zenyatta short all planed out

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should I quote it again?

tidal musk
#

lol

errant elm
#

I’d say Zenyatta short and Mei comic

worthy rose
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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

frank gorge
#

no more mei lore please

dire timber
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"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"

frank gorge
#

yes

errant elm
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@worthy rose Sudden omnic attack. Nobody expected the attack to be so quick after the last one

worthy rose
#

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)

rain arrow
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@worthy rose I think we are just not understanding something

worthy rose
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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

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im summing them up generally

dire timber
#

her team isn't dead

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just injured

tidal musk
#

they dead bro

errant elm
#

Mei’s team is dead

dire timber
#

ah

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Mei's

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sorry

frank gorge
#

there's this one theory that zen was a null sector omnic

dire timber
tidal musk
#

we also learn that winston probably saved mei's life with the recall

worthy rose
#

nah meis

dire timber
#

I dunno why

worthy rose
#

they dead af

errant elm
#

Leggo summed Dva’s short up quite good

dire timber
#

yea

#

Mei's team is dead

worthy rose
#

lemme edit to unclude the sudden thing

frank gorge
#

canonically d.va's fusion cannons do more damage far range than her light gun close range

dire timber
#

well, yeah

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that's to be expected

frank gorge
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im surprised the light gun made an appearance at all tbh

worthy rose
#

forgot to unclude balderich

frank gorge
#

or that all of d.va's abilities were showcased

worthy rose
#

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

dire timber
#

I just... seriously, outside of like, two-three lines, D.va was 99.9% gamer girl trope

frank gorge
#

also, d.va is shown repairing her mech, does that make her somewhat of a mechanic?

dire timber
#

and now we've seen some actual character from her

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and people are saying

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that there's no difference

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it's bizarre

worthy rose
#

literally the same can be said for rein

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instead of gamer girl its boastful prick

errant elm
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I think this short is enough for Dva, maybe Dva just doesn’t have so much lore

dire timber
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his grandiose personality is still a personality though

worthy rose
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i can accept that as a reason

errant elm
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I’d rather have blizzard expanding on the Meka team as a whole

dire timber
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"gg winky face" isn't

worthy rose
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and gamer girl isnt a personality???

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what the fuck

dire timber
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it isn't

frank gorge
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2018: i bet we'll have flying cars in the future!
2077: talking soda cans

dire timber
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it kinda made her seem like a psycho

worthy rose
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psychotic is a personality

errant elm
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Dva has 2 personalities: online (XD winky face) and irl (protect the city)

frank gorge
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yeah but d.va is supposed to be an inspiration

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not a creepy fuck

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personally i'd rather have heroic d.va than d.va who kills enemies while being all HAHA IS THIS EAAAAAAASY MODE

worthy rose
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same for rein, id rather heroic rein than rein who just boasts about his kills and goes in alone

dire timber
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... 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

errant elm
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Tbh just leave Dva as is, and expand on the team overall, learning all the characters as we go

frank gorge
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are we all going to ignore the talking soda can

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this is what technology has become in the future

dire timber
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well, I mean

worthy rose
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i dislike that they chose to expand very little on a shallow character when other deeper plots are begging to be told

dire timber
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we also got hoverbikes

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and hovering cars

errant elm
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Isn’t it just an audio tape?

frank gorge
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hoverbikes and not flying bikes

dire timber
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and a lot of levitating stuff

frank gorge
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hovering is objectively less cool than flying

worthy rose
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show me lucio's fight in brazil against vishkar

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show me genji training with zen

errant elm
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@worthy rose maybe blizzard wants to expand on the meka team and not Dva herself

worthy rose
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i hope so

dire timber
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nah, the development D.va got was much-needed

worthy rose
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fingers crossed

dire timber
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and I'm glad we've seen more of MEKA

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she was decently fleshed out

frank gorge
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*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."*

worthy rose
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i need more than 8 minutes of dva learning she needs to ask for help

errant elm
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I’d be happy if we got a bit of a power rangers esc comic thingy for the meka team

frank gorge
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//shot

dire timber
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and I think now we can move on to characters like Pharah, Zen, Lucio, Symmetra

frank gorge
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what happened to symmetra

dire timber
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and the overarching storyline

frank gorge
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she has yellow eyes, but her archives spray confirms she did not have them as a child

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is symmetra like partially brainwashed or some shit

dire timber
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uh

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aren't her eyes brown?

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no, pretty sure she's not

errant elm
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Orisa lore when?

frank gorge
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in the comic i think they're orange or yellow

worthy rose
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vishkar, some friend/brother of hers (i forgot), her conflict with lucio's father, the fight in brazil, etc

frank gorge
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idfk

worthy rose
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aka depth

dire timber
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@frank gorge it's just a stylistic choice

frank gorge
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oh

worthy rose
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contacts

frank gorge
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well there goes about a million theories

dire timber
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there's no need overthinking stuff like that

worthy rose
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with this story

errant elm
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Guys what’s up with Orisa is she just going to defend Numbani against Doomfist and that’s all?

worthy rose
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shes learning from others

frank gorge
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is widow's brainwash shit running out or something?

dire timber
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people used to believe that Pharah is a quadruple amputee

worthy rose
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in game she asks a lot of questions

dire timber
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because of her legs and arms in the armor

frank gorge
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there are a few hints to widow regaining her will

dire timber
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Widow's complicated

worthy rose
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orisa asks tracer about right vs wrong and zarya about her dislike of omnics and so on and so forth

errant elm
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But what would happen with Orisa I mean?

frank gorge
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rose over her husband's grave, the photo of them in her house

dire timber
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it's not exactly mind control per se

frank gorge
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widow is a very complicated character

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i understand, they simply removed emotion

twin pollen
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Just realized, I think we got all the d.va lore we needed, remember she is only 19, there isn’t too much about her that can be made

frank gorge
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widow appears to be regaining emotion, possibly regret

dire timber
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it's more that she's incapable of feeling anything, and she's now in Talon for the thrill of the kill

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nah

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I don't think so

frank gorge
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what about gerard?

dire timber
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I think she's trying to make herself feel anything

errant elm
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I’d like widow to like eventually become good again

frank gorge
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ah

dire timber
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living in her ancestral home

peak escarp
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Yes

dire timber
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visiting her late husband's grave

frank gorge
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i want redemption for widowmaker

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talon sucks tbh

peak escarp
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Slig agrees with my theory

frank gorge
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except doomfist, doomfist is fine

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reaper is a dick

dire timber
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she surrounds herself with the things from her past

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trying to get an emotional response out of it

errant elm
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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

frank gorge
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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

errant elm
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Not now but eventually

frank gorge
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we know the first doomfist was a good guy

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the second one was a dick

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the third one is alright but he's still a bad guy

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personally i'd like to know more about the first doomfist

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all we know is that he was a hero of the omnic crisis

dire timber
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as far as we know, Reaper is driven by revenge

errant elm
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Maybe the first doomfist can help take down the current doomfist? Like have torbjorn make him a new gauntlet?

muted rune
dire timber
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... what

frank gorge
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eh

errant elm
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Is the first doomfist dead?

frank gorge
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not sure if that would work, unless the first one was affiliated with overwatch

errant elm
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Did I do a stupid again?

frank gorge
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we know literally nothing about the first doomfist other than that he was a good guy

muted rune
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I dont think we know if the doomfists are dead or alive

frank gorge
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and that his name literally was doom fist in Swahili

errant elm
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Idk I just wanted to see Doomfist vs doomfist action

muted rune
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xD

frank gorge
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doomfist 1: unknown
doomfist 2: dead
doomfist 3: alive

muted rune
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Do we even know where the 'gauntlet' came from?

errant elm
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What happened with the second?

frank gorge
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i assume the first doomfist made it or had it made for him

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the second doomfist was a member of talon, and the current doomfist killed him and took the gauntlet for himself

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the gauntlets all look pretty different, especially the first one

errant elm
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Oof

cedar moon
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Jesus Christ

frank gorge
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we can assume the first doomfist still might have his gauntlet

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maybe

cedar moon
dire timber
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the first Doomfist is known as the Savior, and he was said to be a hero of the Omnic Crisis

frank gorge
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maybe

cedar moon
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And Busan

frank gorge
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no, not presumably

peak escarp
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The first Doomfist's "gauntlet" was spiked knuckles

frank gorge
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he was specifically stated to be a hero and a "really good guy"

errant elm
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So it is possible to have the first doomfist take down the current?

frank gorge
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idfk

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again, we dont know who he is

cedar moon
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Wait... it turned from spiked knuckles, to a mechanical gauntlet???

muted rune
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Hes either dead or alive... Or neither

errant elm
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Like do things say it isn’t possible?

dire timber
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the first Doomfist is probably dead

cedar moon
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^

errant elm
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Source?

frank gorge
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i assume doomfist 1's gauntlet was unique

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doomfist 2 probably had a different one

dire timber
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uh, the fact that the second Doomfist is a thing

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lmao

errant elm
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Fair point

cedar moon
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Lmfao

frank gorge
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well, possibly not

dire timber
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he was probably killed by the Scourge

frank gorge
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their gauntlets are very different

errant elm
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Maybe he’s retired and old

frank gorge
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the scourge probably took the title after doomfist 1 retired the name

muted rune
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Maybe the doomfists adapted the gauntlet to suit their style...

errant elm
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Guys aside from lore, how cool would doomfist vs doomfist be?

frank gorge
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cool

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i guess

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id rather see doomfist vs orisa

errant elm
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Oh yeah of course

frank gorge
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doomfist 1 is probably old, about reinhardt age

errant elm
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Orisa will be the one to take down doomfist

valid shell
frank gorge
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considering he was active during the first omnic crisis

errant elm
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Lol

valid shell
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Wew lad

dire timber
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I kinda wish we knew something about the first Doomfist, besides his name, title and apperance

frank gorge
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yeah

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like what he does now, and if he was with overwatch or not

dire timber
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like, Doomfist was supposed to know about his predecessors

frank gorge
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if he even exists in the lore anymore

cedar moon
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“NANO COLA, Enjoyyyy!!! :3”

errant elm
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I kinda what him to be a part of what’s happening now in some way

dire timber
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but he never brought them up

cedar moon
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God dang these shorts are so gud

muted rune
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Smh Nano Cola

frank gorge
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what the hell is winston anyway

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he can be strong enough to defeat doomfist

errant elm
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A scientist

frank gorge
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who apparently could destroy skyscrapers in lore

muted rune
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A monkey/ gorilla

cedar moon
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Better then Lucio-ohs

frank gorge
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how much does winston's power vary

cedar moon
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A smart monkey scientist

muted rune
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Lucio-ohs in Nano Cola ?!

cedar moon
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He gets mad and basically any talon guy dies

errant elm
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“He’s not a monkey... He’s a scientist!”

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That was cool when that happened

brisk harbor
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Lmao monkey

errant elm
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Loved it

brisk harbor
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He doesn't even have tail

frank gorge
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also if he's a scientist why doesn't he increase the voltage on the tesla cannon

cedar moon
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Reaper got defeated, Widow got Rekt, even fudging Doomfist

frank gorge
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so he can actually do damage

cedar moon
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So Winston with no glasses is pretty strong

errant elm
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To OP

muted rune
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which Winston we on about here

brisk harbor
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Gameplay isn't lore

frank gorge
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i know

cedar moon
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I’m doing lore

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The sh o r t s

brisk harbor
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Also the tesla cannon looked pretty deadly in his cinemtic

frank gorge
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ok true

cedar moon
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Ikr

frank gorge
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he burned reaper

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and he blew up

cedar moon
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Lmao

frank gorge
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but doomfist just

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dodged tendrils of electricity?

cedar moon
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Wasn’t useful with anyone else tho

errant elm
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I don’t even know where the general story could go from this point

cedar moon
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Maybe he has more weapons to counter other hero’s?

frank gorge
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yeah, his primal punch

cedar moon
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Lucio or Sym short

frank gorge
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and thats about it

muted rune
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Lucio short will be nice, ngl

errant elm
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Yes but like the Overwatch story

frank gorge
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i want to see zenny boy lore

brisk harbor
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What would Lucio do lmao

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Boop

frank gorge
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we know more about lucio than zen

cedar moon
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I want Lucio to fight Sym with her new ultimate reeeee

frank gorge
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ya hee gotem vasta victor hey

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//shot

errant elm
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So Vishkar is bad?

cedar moon
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@frank gorge bruh zen has his own map tho

frank gorge
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i think its actually yahi param vasta viktar hei

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lucio's VA doesn't even speak portugese but he recorded lines for lucio

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give us german reinhardt smh

muted rune
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I think there is less lucio lore than zen lore

cedar moon
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This is the ultimate reality

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Yeah

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Less Lucio lore

frank gorge
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can't stop, won't stop

muted rune
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Because zen has a map, a genji...

cedar moon
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“A DJ who stole from Viskar” vs

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“A monk who left the sanctum with different ideals”

muted rune
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Hm.. What sounds better?

frank gorge
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lucio's dad built shiny roller skates and then got ripped off by a big evil company and then he stole it back

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that's lucio lore for ya

muted rune
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Lmao

frank gorge
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so lucio's dad was a genius engineer, and we dont even know his name

dire timber
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@frank gorge Winston was only able to beat Doomfist once enraged

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and I mean

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he's a genetically enhanced gorilla

frank gorge
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why doesn't winston get enraged more often then

dire timber
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cause he can't get enraged on demand

frank gorge
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i mean sure he did it in every short he's in

muted rune
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@frank gorge maybe torb is Lucio's dad..

cedar moon
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You can’t just get mad

brisk harbor
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I mean can u control when ur enraged

dire timber
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@muted rune no

cedar moon
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The hulk could kill anyone with his rage if he had enough of it

dire timber
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he's not

errant elm
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He got mad cuz tracer got hurt I think

muted rune
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xD

cedar moon
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But he can’t just “GET MAD”

dire timber
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shitposting will result in loss of access

frank gorge
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winston got mad in the doomfist short because there were 2 dps on his team and he had to solo tank

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//shot

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but uh

muted rune
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Smh, no fun v.v

frank gorge
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back to lucio

cedar moon
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Brig has a dad

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I want brigs brotherre

frank gorge
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yes she does but that's not important right now

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oK CAN WE NOT SPEAK ABOUT FUCKING TORBJORN RIGHT NOW LMFAO

muted rune
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Torn is best tho

frank gorge
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a N Y WAY

cedar moon
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Toxic

errant elm
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But what hero could Blizzard add to expand on the lore?

frank gorge
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since you want lucio lore, we-

muted rune
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Torb*

frank gorge
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oh god damn it

cedar moon
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Moira hero’s are good heros

frank gorge
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everyone wanted junker queen for all the wrong reasons

dire timber
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@errant elm Zen and Lucio are the ones that need lore now

frank gorge
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people wanted junker queen because big strong lady, not because expansion of lore

errant elm
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No junkerqueen pls

dire timber
#

now that we got D.va out of the way

severe oxide
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So, in canon D.Va doesn’t actually manually shoot down every projectile when using defense matrix.

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It’s hard to tell