The Story of Overwatch Explained
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Just a few notes! Firstly, yes there are characters not included in this video such as Symmetra, Lucio, Junkrat & Sigma. I wanted to keep this video very digestable and concise so I left them out as they are not very key to Overwatch's story right now! But they all look like they could be in the future! Symmetra recently made friends with Zen & is keen on helping the Shambali Omnics, Lucio & Junkrat might well end up joining Overwatch and Sigma will be a weapon that Talon will seek to unleash in the near future... though he's struck up an unlikely friendship with Sombra who seems to want him to veer away from Talon... so let's see what happens!
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Enjoyed the video a lot ;D Good to see and everything ^^ Was happy :3
Only thing is... It didnt get that well received... I may just still try to play the second one. But overall, guess they still got a Long way to go. And the PvE story mode was then just scheduled to next year instead.
All in all. Good video and I enjoyed it ^^
Ok
what about Orisa😢
@@Waxables16 and Orisa haha who is the defender of Numbani!
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"The overwatch story will continue in the pve content" That aged liked spoiled milk
I did laugh out loud when he said that
Great video! One nitpick, though... Hammond is not a dear friend, if you look carefully you'll notice he is actually a hamster friend.
i hate how much I laughed at this
took me a minute that one
That one was good. Took me a moment to stop laughing
💀💀💀
You brilliant son of a gun.
If only they decide to make an animated series following these lores, they would blow up so much
Facts
I was thinking a movie... but yeah, yours is much plausible.
Boy have I got news for you
just like league of legends did with arcane
@@cyan6483 What are the news?
I think you skipped something within this timeline
Before Reaper moved higher up within Talon's ranks, he was apart of a mission to seize Subject Sigma for manipulation of the eccentric astrophysicist's horrifying abilities to control gravity to the terrorist group's advantages - read Code of Violence
He has missed tonnes and literally has made up false stuff.
He thinks reaper didn't get powers until after his fight with Jack and that the king's row mission got them shut down lol
Man is an idiot.
Where do you read all of the comics??
@Flowzwtf it’s a video on lore you’re mad somebody added onto the lore?
@@timemast3r you’re mad someone commented an emoji with glasses?
Ah yes Subj. Sigma. How can we forgot about him
it's funny how the notion that overwatch, in-lore, has to prove itself to the world again parallels how blizzard has to now prove itself to the gaming community with ow2
just like team 4 had nothing to do with any of the blizzard issues, scandals etc (black watch).
Team 4 are the developers of overwatch.
That’s crazy to think about
Yeah man, its scary how precise it is, the overwatch "being seen as the force of good in the world", then being looked upon as the villains for reasons and decisions outside their controls, then ppl quiting overwatch, and it ending up in a long hiatus. And now, overwatch is back, and with it being back, some of the ppl that left are coming back, but overwatch still has everything to prove to the world.
I had the same thought. An organization comes onto the scene and is widely beloved for the good work that they do. But the acts of a few bad people show that the sterling reputation is not as flawless as some may think. The world turns against them but they have to pull through it to do good once again and be heroes they intended to be in the first place.
Life imitates art
I could see Sojourn being the one that helped 76 after his final fight with Reyes, since she's a cybernetics expert, has cybernetic legs and arms like 76, and how 76 survived is a big piece of info that we've been wanting to know about awhile, possibly as long as we've been wondering who that little white haired woman in the bottom left of our screen is when playing the event game mode
That could also explain how soldier cant run after being hacked by Sombra.
@@terenceyu9594 o yea
Wasn’t it the soldier serum that was injected into him that kept him alive? Same thing with Reaper.
@@alanrendon9302 nah, they both were in the super soldier program already, 76 got new legs and Reyes became reaper after that final battle thing
Soldier doesn't have cybernetic limbs
As someone who has played since launch and has always been confused and thirsty for lore, this is so refreshing to see. I can't believe there is so many little details I have missed in the lore since 2016. I do hope you maybe make this a mini series once the story mode comes out and continue to tell the lore there
Oh boy friend, do I have news for you 1 year later.....
I can’t believe the dev team can’t organize al of this information better than you did. This is amazing, thank you
To be fair I kind of like it like that, think dark soul where you can puzzle the story together by reading descriptions etc :D
If the dev team didn't have all this organized, all the events wouldn't even be able to be connected one with another.
And this video wouldn't be possible.
@@manuell.2659 true. There is a sense of satisfaction when managing to put some pieces together yourself too
This is a dumb comment. The dev team has this organized, otherwise this video wouldnt exist 🤦♂️ 😊
From the sounds of specific character interactions in PvP, it sounds like Junkrat has also been recruited into Overwatch. Would be interested to see how that happened in the PvE or in the comics.
I just picked up on that holy shit that's hilarious
he has been mentioning it a lot recently when he gets lots of kills too 🤔
This is just a guess, but given their antagonistic relationship with the Junker Queen, I'm guessing Junker Queen leads Junker Town into some kind of alliance with Talon and Overwatch recruit Junkrat (and maybe Roadhog, too?) to be their inside men/guides through Junker Town. Originally, I thought Junker Queen was gonna be the one to side with Overwatch, but it's seeming lie the opposite.
@@HolyConspiracyTheory Yeah, it seems like maybe Wrecking Ball and Junker Queen will ally with Overwatch. I believe Moira actually has a friendly interaction with Hammond when Mercy is on the same team.
@@HolyConspiracyTheory Junker Queen interacted positively with Ana, from what i hear yesterday 🤔
Gosh I miss OW1 already. I've read the official books from Blizzard so many times to my son as his bedtime stories. Thank you for putting a video together.
Sry 4 your son
@@miceatah9359 dont reproduce
@@miceatah9359 fr tho
your son has my deepest sympathies
@@Mirakuruuu Wdym overwatch got some pretty good lore.
"during the pve contant" fast forward today, pve contant is cancelled
27:46 oh yeah.. about the PVE...
yeahhhhhhhh
Yep..
Mhm
Urr,yeah...
this made me cry. every good story seems like something has always been, not made up by one person but just is. overwatch is one of those stories
Not rly this story is pure fuking trash
Perfectly describes how i felt about star wars before disney
???? This made me cry???
bluds crying from overwatch lore
Incredible work, SVB. I can't imagine how long this took to put together. And I'm really glad you're back for OW2.
Amazing video!! One small correction. Cassidy didn't save the cargo from Ashe. He tipped off Ashe to attack the train carrying Echo so that he could reactivate Echo. That is why he was waiting in the cafe alone, he had scared off the rest of the people so that there wouldn't be any collateral damage to bystanders. But great job!!!
Terrific video, man, seriously. Clear, thorough, and fun as hell to watch. As someone who watched a few of the OG shorts and then didn't touch the game until OW2, I had a lot of questions and most of them were answered here. Thanks!
I really hope they make Lucio and Symmetra bigger players in the lore of OW2.
I agree. They should also make a Pharah video. Everyone is getting one but she's still out of the loop
@@jadenquest9544 She's already featured in a couple comics. Zenyatta needs more.
I imagine Lucio is going to join OW. I feel like Symmetra's Vishkar boss, whom is already in cahoots with Talon, is going to try lead Satya to try and join Talon for her to reject it
i want more sigma stuff my man is literally a god and doesn't do all that much
@@DrAGON11130 fr dude literally controls the laws of physics and everyone is like ya whatever
this is by far the best overwatch lore explanation video out there! Played the game for years but only now really understanding it all
Its because the lore was created over time.
Not even half of this lore was created when overwatch was released.
Thanks for taking the time to make this, Overwatch has such cool lore 😍
Cannot believe that in 6 years they've only ever setup the backstory and beginning of the heroes stories. OW2 is going to be giving us everything when OW1 just gave us the scaffold.
They have no choice now, as they are a direct competitor to riot - whom is mostly lore intensive in comparison and has drawn a lot of revenue in because of that. Whilst at the same time blizzard has only been going down hill.
@@TheBeloKrv Unpopular opinion but I don't think League of Legends' lore is anywhere as good as Overwatch's.
The only thing about League lore that's good is the comics (Such as Zed, Shen and Jhin), The Backstories (Zed and Shen, Annie, etc.), and finally the Arcane series.
Yes, they are amazing, however the whole lore of league of legends is not in sync at all with each other. Simply put they've not done any setup, just "we have a world, on one side we have bard, on the other we have ryze collecting runes, demacia vs chainboi, etc."
YES, their lore is AMAZING, however it's not a good in-sync story. Their focus is not mainly on lore which is why this happens.
@@nottipp3789 True, imo Leauge has alot of lore and a huge amount of world building, but it really isn't too coherent. I think it could be because they have so many champs that it is hard to keep up with all of them.
If only... Too bad blizzard said nah get fucked to any PvE or story
Yeah, about that.......
Dunno why man, this made me cry. This game has always been a major part of my life, the history, the characters, and how the in-game lore ended up serving as a metaphor for the journey the game has gone through, it just hits different.
It's a funny thing isn't it
It’s not a major part of your life. It came out in 2016.
@@chrisyyboy593 bro that is almost 7 years. Something you’ve been passionately invested in for nearly 7 years is definitely something that can be considered a major part of someone’s life.
@@abjak2026 just don’t even give people like this the satisfaction of responding they clearly live a negative life and thrive by putting people down
@@chrisyyboy593 booooo
This video is amazing! thank you. You've put it all together nicely, going back to the timeline regularly to see where we are and where we're going was great. Got 2 and really enjoying it so far
A fantastic video that highlighted details I didn't know (even as someone who played Overwatch 1 frequently) and a great catchup to Overwatch 2!
What an incredible video, I had no idea the lore was this deep to be honest haha. Love the videos SVB!
I didn't know there _was_ lore until a few days ago, and now I'm all in 😆 it's a lot but it's not overwhelming and it's super interesting
amazing video! was a good refresher and some comic/ short stories that I missed. Best of it was your narration done so professionally made me shed tears 😭😭
I think u forgot to mention the fact that the us had their own way to deal with omnic war. They had the soldier enhancement program which basically pump soldiers with the super soldier serum. Soldier 76 and reaper were part of that program. That's where they got their code, soldier 76 and soldier 24. That's probably how reaper survived moira's experiment and soldier survived the explosion.
SVB, it's these level of detail that you put into your videos and contents that makes you stand out from rest of your creator friends in OW (they are all great of course!) - just saying, I appreciate your contents because it's so detailed!! thank you
Nice! This vid is a thick bag of pure, uncut, not stepped on at all - SVB action. Thanks for making the vid thorough, concise, chronologically accurate and full of great art. We are so happy you've returned to us.
Thank you! OW lore is incredible, and your retelling of it is so concise and entertaining.
When I tell you that I love a good success story with the rises and downfalls of it as well as a phoenix story for rising from the ashes and getting back into the swing of things to save the world from those who would do it harm- I mean it. This video cleared so much up for me and not only that, was really well put together!
Great video. Good to learn what's happened exactly between games. And yes, Genji is awesome and his entrance gives me goosebumps.
Absolutely amazing and concise video. Thanks for finally putting all the info I had in my head in a solid chronological order.
Great video! I never went too deep into the lore but I definitely feel caught up now
What a great summary of the major events of Overwatch's story. Exactly what I was looking for to give me a bit of a crash course in the lore and getting me interested in playing OW2 :)
This video was all I wanted and more! Very coherent, excellent pacing, a few good laughs! I leave this viewing the overwatch fan my hours would have suggested I already was. Looking forward to more lore, thanks again!
Great work. It's kind of sad that the game itself tells its story not really well. Without you lining up all the fragments of animated shorts, comics, archive missions and other bits, no one would have a clear idea of the story and timeline as a whole.
They do tho.
True fans piece it together just like Dark Souls or other games that give you a puzzled lore.
Very well done SVB. Top tier OW content and great for all the new players joining OW2. Thank you and hope seeing more as we get more lore.
Awesome video. As someone who is new to overwarch and had no idea about any lore this was so helpful, informing, and entertaining.
Such a good video! So many things i didnt know. Like cassidys involvement in recruiting new members.
so glad to have you back, svb. thanks for the great content, as usual.
if only we got the PvE in OW2, what a great story it couldve been
Whats PvE
incredible dude. Brought tears to my eyes. Im excited to get back into OW
Amazing video it amazes me how much information you fit in, in such little time
I'm still mad operation White Dome was never made into an Archive mission. I hope we get to see it in Overwatch 2 and hopefully Emre Sarioğlu as a hero too!
You singlehandedly (okey as you said in the end of the video, with some help of experts) rekindled my anticipation for PvE. Good job man, waiting for next podcasts and more lore videos.
this was an awesome watch, thanks for it!
I started playing overwatch about a couple weeks ago , and I’m obsessed it’s such a good game and the lore is insane
Thank you for this. I'm going to share it with anyone who ever asks me, "Why do you love Overwatch so much?" Until now I'd always say, "No other game gives me the feeling of being the superhero or supervillain I desire to be at any moment I choose."
So true. I have been saying this to everyone since I started playing this masterpiece of game.
Great video and well done, too! Thanks for making this!
Though it leaves me wondering... what about Symmetra and Lucio? (I think those were the only two missing, right?)
Thank you! Yeah they're unfortunately quite peripheral to the story (at the moment) so I left them out at this time. But Symmetra recently made friends with Zen and Lucio is likely to join Overwatch so expect more from them in the coming future!
and sigma
orisa as well
@@SVBOW junkrat too
I loved this so much! Would love another video at some point
Great Lore Story Video of Overwatch. I hope you do more Lore Videos in the Future that goes through each of the Overwatch Characters from the Neutral Ones in Junkertown, Neutral Characters that haven't joined up with Overwatch, Overwatch, and Talon. I remember that TGN use to create lore for each of the characters and I miss TGN's Videos.
I’ve been in a coma since 2016, I can’t wait to see what new and exciting PvE content Overwatch will bring in the future for their sequel!
How I have news for you
Love this comment
Always been fascinated by the overwatch world, this was so interesting to watch and brought a smile to my face.
that dva bit when u were talking about the shooting star short was so unexpected lmao
This video takes me back, thank you friend ^^
It surprises me
With how much lore and story overwatch has
And potential for future content by having overwatch finally being reinstated in the world
Blizzards just doesn't make a story mode for the game
Cancels the PvE and does pretty much nothing having to instead go to comics or other media instead of the main game 😭
Damn, I kinda new the story of the characters, but not of the actual OW world, it's amazing how deep it goes, I'm much more invested in the game now. Thanks for the vid, it was a great summary ♥
Thank you for making this; this is awesome!
Amazing work, love it and enjoyed a lot!
They should make a show about this! It's actually a good story. Like LOL it could be a great show. Bastion and torborn(or however you spell it) would be a great peaceful part of it, and it would love it
It’s funny that you mention the PVE
Just happened to see this in my recommendations. Really great video
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 OMG that was brilliant man bravo 🎉 I was always confused about the lore and timeline and continuity etc now you’ve put it all in perspective thank you 🙏🏾 #subbed
there's one thing that is bugging me here, you say MEKA and the attack on Korea from Ghwishin was 20 years before Recall and how Dva was apart of it but then at 22:58 you say Dva help fend them off once more
But Dva is 19 after "Recall" make it absolutely impossible for her to be there at the first attack from Ghwishin
I think it’s just weird formatting I don’t think he was implying DVA was around back then. SVB kept using terms like “in time they would” or “they would go on to” when referring to DVA earlier in the video so I think that part wasn’t necessarily going in chronological order.
Tha dates, time and ages are all messed up in the OW lore and all its forms of media, comics, the games, the video shorts etc...
The best we can get is tying up the pieces the best you can, just like this video does, and ignore dates and characters aging not matching up.
It is possible they won not by defeating the colossus but by dwindling the forces until it was weak. Leading to MEKA development, it would take time to build those suits, train pilots who end up dying faster than training could respond so they looked at youth which has high hand and eye coordination, and quicker mental response times than battle dulled soldiers. They held a competition and rewarded the best gamers in a tournament to become MEKA pilots which her fellow gamers made it to the top. This would happen I believe at 16 they expanded on somewhere I read once before. This means at Recall she has only been fighting for around 3 years. It is possible that MEKA was actually developed by the Omnics that was bought by the company Sombra exposes to gain a powerful ally. Giving her statement in game-
"I saw your stream last night, you are not bad at those games"
"I will beat you even with your hacks!"
"Aw, I will be sad when we take you down"
The best overwatch video I’ve seen in a long time, nice job SVB!!
Amazing video, really concise and very informational!
The timeline is complex but u succeed to say everything in an organized way. 👍❗️
The OW story is interesting. There r so many different parts of this lore.
Awesome work! Blizzard should had hired you. I really wish they made this into a series even if it's a prequel. Thank you so much for this video!
Hire him for telling a story he did not write? Why?
@@megamegapop12lmao. So true.
Iv only recently picked up OW for the first time and man im loving the lore it's so story rich thank you for catching me up
Thanks. Cleared it all up for me with a swiftness.
Now that Ramattra got introduced, I can't wait for next lore update!
The first person in the whole comment section who can actually spell his name right, well done!
I just downloaded the game to try my hand at some type of FPS to play for the first time. I see all the "know it alls" picking apart this video but for someone who just needed to be caught up to what the heck is going on with all these characters this video was EXCELLENT! It is much appreciated and well done.
Thank you for this video. I never really played owerwatch until now with owerwatch 2 and I'm kind of sad that I wasn't a part of the overwatch scene in the time it was good. But I have always loved the characters and the story and I recognised the impact of it all on gaming. Now I have gotten into overwatch with ow2 and this video reminded me of everything before.
This was an EPIC video. Keep up the work!
x
7 months later. RIP PVE.
This is why I love overwatch, the lord, the story, the relationships between the characters. I love it.
Great video and it's nice to be back in the world of Overwatch, let's hope the future is good for OW2 🙏
W video I never played the first overwatch and just got the second one and wanted to know the story but every video was over an hour long and I was not about to watch that your bite size content was very informative thanks 🙏🏿
Ah, the hopeful people of the past, who believed PVE storyline is going to happen in OW2
aged like milk…
the story is still pretty great, the current condition of the game is not so great. I don't see what aged like milk
Really loved the video, thanks for the explanation! Honestly, it changed my view of overwatch.
I’ve honestly kind of forgotten how awesome the story was for overwatch, thanks for the video to help me get caught up again!
Such a great video! I still don't know how Simetra, Orisa and a couple of others fit into this, but nonetheless very cool video. I should have mentioned something about Sigma as well. He experienced something similar to Tracer, but way darker
He says "this is where the lore stops, untill overwatch 2... PARTICULARLY IN THE PVE CONTENT..... 😢😢😢😢 past him didn't know....
I agree with you on genji in the overwatch 2 omnic invasion in Paris, bro i thought winston was going to die and then with style and speed genji swiftly deflects the shots back like thats so badass
Thank you for creating this video SVB
i still hate that they made his name cassidy mfs name is Jesse McCree
I can honestly see both sides.
the real-life Jesse McCree was caught in a sexual misconduct case so the company had to change the name for marketing purposes, but also the community has been used to this name for years so does even matter to change it? ash even still says it in the "reunion" animated short.
@@miss20something33 ye ig i still prefre the old name
I can't believe that zenyatta actually managed to have more lore then sigma
Thank you for explaining the timeline for me i was so confused on when what happened
I just rejoined playing Overwatch after YEARS of inactivity, so this was very helpful! Awesome video! :D
Wow. Fantastic job. There is so much incredible lore in OW and I can't wait to play it in PvE in OW2.
You know Overwatch could have had an extremely successful PvE mode if they gave it some attention. The story is dope in itself
I like how in like all the battle pictures torbjiorn is jumping through the air
Great story overview. Thank you.
Awesome. Pity we haven't any clue of what Lucio and Symmetra mean to all of this plot. They are somewhat interconnected between themselves via Vishkar Corporation. Sym clearly is, while Lucio.. if I am not wrong, had some relatives connected to that Corporation, but don't quote me on that.
I think Lucio's story actually had him overthrow the oppressive Vishkar Corp. in Rio de Janeiro
Holy crap, this is awesome! I can't wait for the anime! Make it happen Blizzard!
Also: The Overwatch 2 announcement trailer is one of the best animated shorts I have ever seen.
On god zaddy
Love the video. Quick tip: when you plug your patreon next, give a 5-10s spiel of what rewards your supporters get - that will entice people to click on the link more and increase conversion
Great synopsis! Now I kinda know something about a game I've been playing since launch. :)
27:52 This aged well