Overwatch 2 Animated Short | “Calling” feat. Sojourn
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2023
- With the Overwatch Task Force out of commission, former Captain Sojourn settles into a quiet life of corgis, coffee, and croissants… or so it seems.
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I love how she bought the 2nd cup of coffee seemingly for no reason. Then you realize she was fully expecting company. Just adds so much to her character when she's just quietly sitting.
I thought the second one was for Murphy 😂😂😂
@@TheShapingSicknessin my headcanon, it was. that's why Murphy is trying to steal the croissant; she didn't get her coffee so she's trying to at least get a treat lol
She knew about the agents stationed to watch her, so she probably knew they were there in case she made a run for it during the meeting
@@jamieadams2589 the agents there work for her, not the other way around
@@TheShapingSickness no, they don't. They're confused when she orders them because she's hacked into their communications. They don't listen to her until the agent, their actual boss, tells them to.
she personally looks so much cooler and has more personality now after this cinematic
I have this headcanon that Sojourn either keeps her mind clear and collected or that she used some cybernetic implants to keep her emotions in tact
It really was a mistake to make so much of her gameplay and personality like S76's
Nice try, blizzard PR
Barely? The cinematic didn’t make her much more deeper and still pretty flat mega woman Queen super hero
@@taluca8474Head Cannon has no relevance outside your head sweetie: she hurt a super hero without any flaws and flat
I love their ability to create delicious looking food no one ever actually eats
You've never had croissant 😢
Nah, Mcree got one or two bites of his pie in his short
Animating someone eating food is a hugely tedious process that can easily be avoided by having the character just hold food without eating it or munching off-screen.
@@30.yusufhabibi4thats not what they meant...
Not sure if this is literal or a metaphor about the game.
This short instantly made her a more interesting character to me. Kudos to the animation team.
Seriously, love rher
Yeah, this actually got me to care about her
She went from zero character to some character yes
@@austinbaker8042 little*, enough for her to resemble Soldier 76.2
its always the animation being the only saving graces for these awful competitive games.
This cinematic actually gave Sojourn personality.
I want more.
“Croissant”
@@cocob0l0"Croissant"
She’s always had a personality this fanbase just doesn’t know how to form their own opinions
@@yuh8615not really. Her voice lines in game have always put her into the two dimensional "leader woman" archetype with no deviation. I'm really happy this short changed that.
Not really
So after 7 years for first time we get a cinematic that's tied to the in game lore as the events happen, thank you ow team
I mean, Rein's cinematic was just a flashback
a lot of the heroes got cinematics when they were released...
@@scarpusgaming *read again: as the events happen* a hero releasing never made any significant changes in the main story, sure they added the characters and their origin story telling us how they connected to the universe but it never drove the story forward. The closest we've gotten to a cinematic tied to the lore moving forward was the havana map launching with it's cinematic
@@diegofernandez7989 What has this changed exactly? It's literally the same pre-act1 "setup" that's been repeated again and again in all the other shorts.
@@Rocksteady72a its not. winstons call out is the end of the pre act setup. this is obviously after that.
hope the animators read the comments to see all the love they get cuz they deserve it fr
Yeah makes me wanna buy the battle pass and 1 skin
@@renatayuuki5705 alright 1 skin is where i draw the line that’s too much money u givin them
@@renatayuuki5705 Let's not exaggerate here. For that, the publisher would need to produce a fun game.
@@Hust91 its a fun game you prob just suck tbh
When nothing else is reliable, the OW animation and story teams can be trusted to release something worthwhile
this is like with all AAA games that have any kind of lore. great cinematics, terrible cmpany
Unless some idiot releases ages.
I love how Soldier, Ana and Sojourn basically never stopped fighting, always saving people and being vigilantes.
Reinhardt didn't stop either, and he performed his actions rather publicly unlike the other agents. Somehow he didn't get arrested.
@@watchpointoh3354 He got a charming personality and a giant freakin hammer.
@watchpointoh3354 i think it'd be pretty hard to arrest a 6"7 giant with a rocket hammer on standby
Police: "No YOU go arrest him!"
Technically so did Angela. She kept her angel suit and still helped crisis victims all over the world post Overwatch.
The coffee guy denies Soujorn when she wants to pay him and she just puts the money on the tips jar, true friendship right there
bc he knows shes cleaning them STREETS
@deionwhite5206 Also, it seems they are partners since I think he appears in the picture with her when they were both serving Overwatch.
@@hardcasekara6409nope that was reinhardt
@princesslol8978 I'm talking about the picture to the left, not the middle one.
@@princesslol8978 The one that has the Mabel leaf shoulder guard at 1:19
After getting a bit more development, Sojourn actually reminds me a lot of Ahsoka. A kind, lawful person who will do anything to help others, and won’t think twice about the life they are giving up. But skeptical of the organization they once helped to uphold. Which is insane to me because I adore the type of character, but we’ve had Sojourn for almost a year without any of her personality being elaborated on.
Yunno, fairplay that's a really good similarity
comparing one of my favourite characters to the bane of my existence feels odd but I like it
I like finding the similarities like Reinhardt helmet and the mandolorian helmet
Bastion sounds and r2d2
Jedi and the omnic religion
The problem is her type of character- subtle and clever while possessing charismatic leadership- is hard to write into a game like Overwatch. That's really the primary issue most people have with her- her characteristics aren't in your face so most can't define her. She isn't overt like Cass or dramatic like Reaper. She fills a much more quiet niche where her only way to shine would be in a pve narrative and... well.
A similar comparison would be 76 who was also deemed an extremely charismatic leader, but you never see any elements of that either. Even with special dialogue in his Strike Commander skin, it comes across as awkward or aloof.
“The Overwatch I joined was about raising a PVE experience, making it a true sequel, but by the end Blizzard lost sight of that mission.”
Animation is God Tier
What are you doing here?
Here before you blow up
Blizzard you’re not slick I’m on to you…
Goofy they should bring them to the nether to use beds on the dragons
Indeed
Sojourn knew he was coming because she bought 2 coffees. 😂
I did NOT notice that. Watched it at least 7 times and was telling myself "pfft, this guy doesn't even know he's drinking what Sojourn already sipped from"
Really? I thought it was a maple syrup
She has a whole vigilante base in her house, I’m sure she knew he was coming before he did
You’re so right.
Seeing as how she left her traces of what happened the night prior at the scene, it would make sense that she deducted they'd find evidence of it and trace it back to her.
I love the part where sojurn says "this ends now!" and proceeds to end pve
real
lmao
normally in my case she just dies after that
Real
She was VERY thorough neutralizing null sector
The only things keeping me into Overwatch right now are these stories.. I love ‘em.
It's extra sad that people want to love Overwatch. People love the characters, the lore, the world and the whole positive tone, but Blizzard fails to meet us half way.
@@sEaNoYeAh It's ok, there's no way we won't see an Overwatch movie and/or series in our lifetime. With all the good reception video game movies/shows have been getting recently, it's inevitable
The art team carrying Blizzard as always...
They should start their own animation studio fr
OW team is amazing but they're sadly in the wrong company
@@YasvieleDamn, so real
It feels so fcking real man, like im in the game
@@Yasviele So amazing they killed the original game within two years or so, but sure, it's all Bobby's fault. 🤣
i'll never understand why this wasn't uploaded to youtube straight away, phenomenal work animation team sorry you guys have to have work for blizzard
It's very simple to understand lol. If they premiere it in game, they have you launch the game. If you have the game open, there's more chance you'll actually play, which can only be a good thing for Blizzard.
It's a simple tactic. Nothing evil about it anyway. Drive people closer to your game, it just checks out.
*lizzard so evil for doing this!! 😡😡😡😡😡👿👿👿👿
Low player count
@@thenintendomusicchannel8271 More people playing the game the more likely you are gonna go to the ingame shop and see the promotions for the battlepass
jfc how impatient are you
I like how at the end the officer essentially recognizes the need for Overwatch and addresses her by her “former” rank
as much as I don't really play OW anymore I still adore the animated shorts and the stories in it.
Animation team is the only team at blizzard that's not constantly steeping in controversy, scandals and just does their job.
the OW devs in general arent part of the controversy
@@courirnorte8137 yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the devs really are doing everything they can to make OW2 the best it can be and are getting hamstrung by Activision management every step of the way
@@UncleJemimaI think they work hard. But do they get the funds, resources and time needed?
@@verskartonno, the blizzard higher ups are the ones who told the devs to scrap the original plan for PVE, because it wouldn’t be profitable enough for them.
😥not for long
I’m glad we’re back to getting cinematics. It’s been nearly a year since the last one
Omg it was, now I feel old
they've been sitting on this for a very long time, watch the old trailers, it was part of the canceled pve mode we're not back they're only releasing this cause the game is in a death spiral
i think one quality cinematic every 9 months is plenty
And it’ll be a year again since this one
@@vindurza this is part of the story missions coming out on August 10
Blizzard should become an animation company. It is pretty clear by now this is now their true calling because their gaming management is, in stellar contrast with their animation department, absolutely horrendous
I completely agree, although I do think Overwatch needs to stay as a game, maybe just handed off to a better and more suited company who genuinely cares about the game and not the money. My reason being that the reason we like these characters so much is partly due to the fact we know them from the game, adds a whole new layer of excitement seeing the characters we know and love actually fleshed out and animated!
Why do i always get emotional with every single animated short you guys make😭❤
Don't.
youre dying?
DO N O T@@tomspiegel5322
@@tomspiegel5322🤨
Do.
Its the music, its a studied phenomena and its on purpose.
Another animation that gave me chills. I hope we get that vigilante costume for her in game like how we got Ana’s outfit. I’m so excited to see what happens next in the story.
Going to cost you $20
Going to be in the $15 PVE bundle 100%
This comment gave me chills
we did
for some reason it uses her default gun rather than the black recolour she used in this
I just want the mommy casual outfit
Overwatch has such a great story - in fact you could probably make an entire PvE game of it
I'm sure the social media intern who posted this video is directly responsible for that.
Wow what an awesome idea, they should call it Overwatch 2
@blizzard HIRE THIS GUY!
stay mad
Don't be silly!
I knew the O'hare Air delivery guy would turn his life around. Running a small coffee cart seems perfect for him.
The animation is absolutely phenomenal. The gestures, expressions and movement are so human. Everything from the art direction and soundtrack is beautiful and emotional, I really felt the love poured onto this. Thank you overwatch cinematic team for this amazing work. I hope I get to work on something this passionate one day.
Not just that the direction in how they had sojourn pickup on all her friends agents outside her house &even bought him coffee cause she knew he'd be there.. that was a great detail
You know, I love the game and all, but this, this is whats really keep me here. The lore, the animations, the music, the characters, the writing, everything sends chills through my spine. I can't leave this world behind.
I don't have time for PvP anymore, so I was waiting for OW to get PvE ... or better said, when I saw the trailer / cinematic from blizzcon back then, I hoped for a PvE game. As the story and everything else had a lot of potential. And I was so happy when they introduced OW2 with storyline. And we saw more and more ideas like skills systems and so on. Then they killed it. It would've been the most awesome thing in a long time for me. Looked so good. Now I'm waiting for the story missions. And if they don't suck, I might even buy it.
@@Jeysharayou have to buy the story missions to try them
@@Jeyshara "I don't have time for PvP anymore, so I was waiting for OW to get PvE".
F*cking fake tears. Playing a solo PvE game takes more time than jumping in and out of PvP 10 minute matches 🤣
@@ryanswift5724well I think he was waiting on what other ppl were saying so then he can buy them if there good
same. the animations were what got me into Overwatch years ago. you can tell it was made with love. the lore is so interesting, the characters are so captivating... i have this permanent feeling of nostalgia when it comes to this game and its world.
Man I wish they would make a TV series out of this animation
Right at this point I know they have everything they need to make it happen
The transitions between the present and last night in this animation are so awesome! And at 5:53 where they pull focus to Sojourn through the darkened reflection in the glass from a JET BEING BLOWN OUT OF THE SKY! Who thought of that one?! It's so cold!
Y'all never cease to amaze with the amount of emotional storytelling you manage to pack into each of these shorts!
The animation team AND the music department doing wonders. Love this.
FR
Music was never this company problem. I used to leave the login screen of wow open a bit more for the music.
Voice and animation design for sojurn really emphasize how badass she is.
Her voice actress is so talented thank you for saying it
Honestly they always kill it with their animations and it's shame they only do it with that but I think this is one of their best shorts, it's nice to see one of Sojourn and learn more about her and also that it's in Canada too but I wish this was released before OW2 or on launch like with Junker and Kiriko. Also what's with so many people having prosthetics in Canada like even her dog? So her dog was missing legs? Also adorable I hope it's an emote in game like with Brig.
It's the frostbite
Prosthetics might have become more common. Perhaps because of the first omnic crisis?
Probably because as sojurn, Genji, Akande, and Mauga have shown the world of OW has cybernetics that out preform the human body. Also the possible after effects of the omnic crisis probably forced people to get cybernetics
"The Overwatch I played in 2016 was about having a good time, but Blizzard lost sight of their mission."
"In the pursuit of great... we failed to do good"
- Viktor Arcane
It’s terrifying even in her retried state, that’s she’s self aware where every agent is at
Tbh those are just straight up terrible agents
bros hanging about on a rooftop acting like hes invisible lmao, the one on the corner is alrightttt for normal ppl but a trained operative like her? pfffff 😂 @@dertobi257
Man…this story just keeps getting better and better, the shorts are knocked out of the park as usual
A story has to actually move forward to be a story.
Bruh you obviously don’t play the game
what story they canceled that to sell up micro and macro transactions
Story to a pvp campaign we'll never see, just gets better and better... LOL
@@vermillionkingpinliterally comes out Thursday
I love stories focusing on the tension that can arise between a rule of law and intentions of law! Brilliant storytelling, showing us such wonderful inner conflict in 8 minutes!
noticed on second watch at 6:35 she already noticed all of the guards posted outside were there and immediately started speaking to them
This team needs a raise. They're carrying overwatch with the story/lore we're getting on the animations.
The one handed chamber check at 6:55 shows a lot of attention to detail and how it's actually done irl. Well done.
You can tell agent is not an easy pushover just in one tiny move.
Each character has full potential in the animation! Love them so much!!
The animation team will always be the best thing about Overwatch. They never disappoint.
I didn't notice that the first time
Someone can literally flip a gun like a tech deck in an animatic and someone will be like “wow that’s just how it’s done in real life” in the comments
Now imagine if this trailer launched the complete PvE experience we were promised, that would have been phenomenal..
Incredible animation. Overwatch team never missed
please tell me we can get both outfits as skins for sojourn, that would be amazing. The animation team never holds back with what they put out. Absolutely nailed.
Yep, no problem. That'll be $70 USD
@@ChromaSoul Lmaooo
@@ChromaSoul nah, here take the skin and bunch of "value" charms for $100 its such a deal!!!
We got 1 we just need the other
the animations are always the best part about overwatch.
and the, uhm, "art"
god please........................PLEASE keep releasing lore-related cinematics/events/etc it's what everyone wants
The animation never disappoints
Ok but why does she need glasses? Her eyes are cybernetic.
Appearance
Ask superman
have u never seen people with glasses just for looks?
Cuz she likes the looks dumbo
she probably needs them when her cybernetics aren't active. we see her take them off @ 6:02 when she activates her eyes & get serious
Really great animation and story. The people who put all the hard work into this animation deserve all the credit
Indeed
The cinematics have always been absolute peak content! Outstanding work!
Wow just wow... amazing animation, amazing music, the story was great. This moved me so much I love her!
this was fantastic... I would watch an entire 3 hour movie of just overwatch lore with this kinda animation and emotion
The “tell me about it…” when Tremblay replies to Sojourn when he visits after rewatching the short makes so much sense haha, cause he knew where she was last night…
@@nilsosterlund195 CZcams emojis
bro at this point overwatch need to release their own cinematic movie/film 😭😭
My favorite is still the Junker Queen short, but it's already the 3rd time I'm watching this one. It's so well done, so much details to catch. Amazing short.
The worst part of this cinematic is that the little foamdog got destroyed by the lid
Hurts to see how much potential this game has
Had.
It had potential.
@@KumiChan2004As much as it looks like it's over and the dream is dead, let people hold on, it's not hurting really anyone. In the back of my mind I'm still waiting for Blizzard to make a slow but gradual comeback.
@@KumiChan2004 HAS.
@@readyplayerthree3 I hate blizzard with a passion now. They have done too many wrongs. Especially when it comes to greed
@@andrewryan2928 Completely understandable, just some people have different levels of tolerance before calling BS and giving up on things. I know Blizzard almost definitely isn't getting better but I can hope even if it means nothing.
...and in the next 7 months, there was not a single piece of lore given
The overwatch Art and Animation team never ceases to disappoint with these Masterpieces, Goosebumps by every one that I watch. I love this game so much and I just wish that the developers felt the same way about what It could be like.
Hey Blizzard? We want more of this. Lots more. GIVE US THE LOOOORE 🔥
@@EmpressDianaMusicSame 😂
Us: Give us more lore n PVE!
Blizz 2019: yes, we promise!
Us: where is our PVE cake?
Blizz in 2023: *gives us a crumb instead of cake* we tried our best. Pls buy our battlepass n shop cosmetics. Thanks!
The hope in these animations is always so refreshing.
I get chills with every new animation
Animation and storytelling are always so good in Overwatch! Thank y'all for producing such great content.
Bruh the music always makes me tear up. 🤣 We deserve a fully fledged TV Show in this animation style! LESSSSS GOOOOOO!
6:01
She said the thing guys
This is my favorite one so far. Loved every minute. Got chills at the end!
I love this, this is a work of art, this is a masterpiece in every way.
Sojourn is pretty cool, but Murphy's cuteness is on another level😍😍😍
What a shame. The animation and design team are continually knocking it out the park with these trailers , if only overwatch had a publisher that cared about the actual game to back these excellent cinematics up .
Whining gets you nothing btw
@@luckychicken1563No one is whining, just stating facts, ‘btw’.
You have a good point
@@luckychicken1563 he's not whining, he's lamenting. And there's very little we can actually do about it other than not paying for content.
Hopefully everything changes for the good when Microsoft finishes the deal. Still have some doubts on the direction of live service games but I hope it goes well soon.
Sojourn pick rate went up 500% after this epic short.
She rocks! More!
Animation is on point, as always. Well done.
This cinematic made Soujorn look so much cooler, I like her now a lot more :)
Her line about losing sight of their mission is eerily on point about overwatch
Ow2 you mean
@@vinhtrieu8060 ITS ALL THE SAME THING
This short is truly amazing. The animation is God Tier and Sojourn is much more badass than I thought!
Also cheers to the anime' team for Agent Tremblay. Making him as First Nation/Indigenous is an appreciate take.
Crazy that theres a pair of robot hands specifically used for making coffee out there
Blizzard's animations are top tier, sadly cant say the same about their integrity with listening to community
You should try finish watching a video for once before commenting.
@@leatherhidegamingno
@@leatherhidegaming you know this cinematic was already watchable ingame from the hero gallery 2 days ago right? most ppl have already seen it, myself included
@@BobOrKlaus I've seen it as well in the game. That's not the point. I see this account pop up everywhere commenting just after a video is uploaded. This time it was within two minutes after the video was uploaded.
@@leatherhidegamingit’s true tho?
God I love the animation team! Also huge props to the sound design team too. The mechanical / hydraulic sound effects when sojourn moves is such a great attention to detail!
goddamit. every single time! I could rewatch all of these shorts every single day for a year and never get tired and always feeling the same.
The people who make these shorts are the best part of the entire Overwatch team.
As if you needed any more reasons to love Murphy, I do like the visual storytelling of how Murphy is kind of like her owner. The picture of how Murphy was in a wheelchair, but she did get some of her own cybernetics to allow her to walk. Actually kind of missed that at first until I saw the picture and then saw Murphy’s legs.
That and Murphy deserves all the treats and to be spoiled (which Sojourn probably does when no one else is looking).
Mercy actually asks how Murphy is doing in an in-game interaction:
And Sojourn responds with “Doing much better, now that you aren't feeding her scraps all the time.”
So I imagine Mercy was primarily the one spoiling her in the past (or was at least among the others who did). 😂
I’m sure Sojourn still does to a healthy degree, though. I mean, how could you not, Murphy’s adorable. 😄
oooooh right! I didn't even realize that! I've looked at the picture million times but dots didn't connect until this comment :D
The music team doing outstanding work, as usual.
The way you play with emotions, fantastic. Would love to watch Overwatch movie in theaters.
If only Devs put as much effort as they're the actual game.
Imagine putting in overtime to make these animations as good as they do just for your company to upload it unlisted and restrict it to in-game views, limiting its overall reach.
lets hope that with the blizzard merger that their animation team will be spun off to some actually good IP
It took them about a week to actually allow people to view this outside of the game it seems.
Something odd is going on there with that.
Maybe they're going the get our game to view the cinematics earlier route
Odd.
Why would they need to do that?
and we still dont have any footage of the new hero, even from content creators who played all the last seasons over a week early and uploaded videos on all the changes about a week early, something is off
Say what you want about the game, but the cinematics never miss.
You again
Wow, one of the best shorts yet! I didn't think they could reach the level of quality of the original 3 that came out during OW1.
The films is what keeps me into OW. and Sojourn just went to the top of my list
I went through the animation frame by frame & went into spectator mode in-game to see where this mission takes place.
After no-clipping through ever pixel, I realized that the map location art on Sojourn's computer screen & the in-game mission trailer that the Toronto story mission map is a completely new map from the Push map, which is pretty cool.
Even the train station in the story mission trailer is a completely different one from the one that you spawn in, on New Queen's Street.
Every map iteration in game is different. Rialto during the Retribution mission is not simply just "the" Rialto map with different light. It's an entire different map """""file""""" inside the game. Even more, all the menu screens back then (before we had bunch of splash-arts) were reduced/cropped "maps" on their own.
This will probably be the same, it will most likely use Toronto and add extra areas, like Retribution Rialto did. The map you can explore on custom games is simply a different.
So yeah, it will be a new map, but I'm sure at least part of it will go through parts we've seen already as well. At least the subway and slums part will be all new given the screenshots we've had for years now.
@@thenintendomusicchannel8271 I was in the process of refuting your hypothesis of the map on the Toronto Story mission, but while looking through the Invasion story trailer video, I found a single piece of evidence that the push map is most likely used as a part of the PvE map.
In one of the scenes at the start of the video, where the omnic misses his chance to get on the underground train, the wall behind him says "Queen Street".
The animations are so amazing. I really would love this team to have a couple of years to make a miniseries or full on tv series.
Overwatch’s animation and story building have ALWAYS been top tier. Could make a grown man cry
I absolutely loved it!Glad to see more of her personality shine! Excellent work overwatch!
man the quality of the animation is like a movie i love them
Back during highschool, I used to love waiting for each cinimatic to come out and now this one after a year was well worth the wait. Amamzing job as always. Can't wait to see a lot more!
props to the art team, only thing keeping this game alive
The end is an absolute banger. Entire animation is infact! Bravo
the sweater & glasses needs to be a skin
At least the animation team didn't forget what they should do...
Ngl there is something wholesome about that guy with a giant mustache. I hope he survived the invasion.
These Shorts are back 😢 beautiful