In Dorado you're bringing the power core to the Lumerico power station to restore power to the region.” - Jeff Kaplan Numbani The airportįor now we like the airport the way it is, showing more of the story of Doomfist and Orisa's origins, rather than the pristine airport (pretty as it was!) when the map first launched. Getting these little details correct is important to us, so I did a quick check with our localization team, using the term “Calle” is a Venice-specific thing and appropriate for a small street. In Wrecking Ball’s case, it’s scavenged parts that were built around Hammond’s makeshift lunar escape pod (as you can see in his origin story movie). Generally the mechs are built out of stuff that is in Junkertown and surrounding environs. She used her popularity and reputation after becoming the champion of the Scrapyard to take over as the leader of Junkertown. However, at this point in her career, she's still just starting out, so she has a long way to grow as she learns more about herself and the world around her. Orisa is not a drone, as she possesses a complex artificial intelligence. But people would also be correct in referring to her as a robot. In this sense, people would refer to Orisa as an omnic (as they would for Zenyatta and Bastion), particularly because the model she is based on (the OR14) was originally created prior to and during the Omnic Crisis. In Overwatch, omnic and robot are just about interchangeable as colloquial terms (it's the equivalent of Kleenex vs. The battle between Doomfist and the Overwatch team (Tracer, Winston, Genji) in the animated piece took place in the past before Overwatch was shut down. Rise and Shine shows Mei's reaction to Winston's call to action.” - Jeff Kaplan The animated shorts began with Winston issuing a Recall for Overwatch to ignore the Petras Act and to reunite.” - Jeff Kaplan Small anecdote: when we reworked Bastion to include a passive damage resistance skill, I named the skill “Ironclad” to hint at Bastion’s (at the time unreleased) encounter with Torbjörn in the comic, Binary, as he’d be the one responsible for giving Bastion its new defenses! Animated shorts I still believe that Hanzo’s carrying that scatter arrow around in his quiver though! Give him a follow :P! General Hero reworks and loreĭefinitely open to making references to gameplay mechanic changes in the story, but it really depends on the example. When not stated otherwise, the man behind the quotes is Michael Chu, Overwatch lead writer. Honestly, I had a lot of fun while digging the Blizzard forum and their social accounts as they give insights on questions that are not explained accurately elsewhere. They cover many aspects of the game and are organized in sections depending on the topic. I have gathered all the answers, opinions, and comments on the Overwatch lore shared by the game developers on various forums.
They provide info on heroes, characters, maps, and their lore choices. All the explanations on the Overwatch lore shared by the devs on the Blizzard forum and Twitter.