I Always Know Where My Duo Is Because She Always Spams Voice Lines 😂

Then a couple of months later they released the 'Honour and Glory' short:

Then another year or so later the 'Shooting Star' short was released:

A couple of months later the 'Reunion' short was released:

The the infamous OW2 trailer 'Zero Hour' was released, casually three years before they were ready to release the thing:

The first Overwatch 2 short 'The Wastelander', was released a astounding three years later, with no filler shorts in between:

Shortly after the 'Kiriko' short was released:

And last but not least, the newest trailer, released in the summer of 2023 is the 'Calling' short:

Fingers crossed there will be more shorts in the future though and it won't be the last one for long lol

Overwatch Animated Shorts Master list!

All the Overwatch Animated shorts in release date chronological order <3

Naturally, the 'cinematic trailer' came out first :) ->

The next trailer that came out was the 'We are Overwatch' short:

The next short was the 'Recall' short:

Quickly following that short, was the 'Alive' short:

Not long after that one either, the 'are you with us' Short was released:

Following that was the 'Dragons' short:

Then not even two weeks later the 'Hero' short was released:

Then a few months later 'The Last Bastion' short was released:

A month of two later the next short, 'Infiltration' was released:

After quickly putting out so many shorts, Blizzard took a break just shy of a year before releasing the 'Rise and Shine' short:

When he calls her 'Sweetheart' :0

Ok, ngl I kinda ship Baptiste x Sombra now haha

Here's Mauga's Origin Story:

Overwatch Origin Stories Master-list

Links to the Youtube Origin stories in Chronological order of hero release <3

Most of the base Roster doesn't have an origin story, but there is this short for Roadhog and Junkrat:

It's not in the same format as the rest of the origin stories that follow, but it's the closest thing that resembles an origin story for them.

Soldier 76 is obviously one of the outliers of this standard (being Blizzards golden boy and all I suppose), and I'm fairly sure his was the first origin story put together in this format:

Another of these outliers is none other than the poster girl herself, which I guess makes sense:

That's all the base roster got, and the following origin stories all belong to heroes that we released after the release of the game.

First of, Ana came out in July of 2016:

Then followed Sombra in November of 2016:

Orisa in March of 2017:

Doomfist in July of 2017:

Moira in November of 2017:

Brigitte in March of 2018:

Wrecking Ball in July of 2018:

Ladies and Gentlemen... Overwatch men...

Can we like, not sexualise woman for just a moment??

Props to my bestie for saying it in the first place X

When Mystery Heroes game look like this...

The Archives events Part 1 - Uprising

Uprising was the first achieves event introduced into Overwatch and was released in 2017. It was also a huge hit. It was introduced some four or five months before I started playing, but just reading through the comments and from my personal memories surrounding the event. I can say for certainty it was a hit.

I'll start it off small. they introduced a series of banger skins for this event, and until this day some of them are still my favourites.

Obviously, on top of the skins and the cosmetics, the mission was released.

This was the introduction video. Unlike the following two events, it didn't have an outro cutscene, just this short one at the start.

The uprising mission story itself, is simply stop a war before it begins. There's an null sector invasion in London that needs tackling before it progresses into something more, and Jack Morrison sends in a small strike team.

Their goal is to gain control of the large artillery guns scattered across kings row and take down their defences so Overwatch can move in and save some prisoners stuck in the factory, aka the final payload location.

There's also a lovely little pre-lude to the mission in the form of a comic. Said comic is also called Uprising and details the finer complications of Overwatch's actions in London.

It shows the complicated nature of the relations between Jack Morrison and Gabriel Reyes, and the strain Blackwatch was having.

It discusses the politics of Overwatch and highlights how much Overwatch was under fire at that point. It also gives us a look into Tracer and how she handled the start of her first mission as well.

Because, yes, this was Tracer's first ever field mission.

It also just gives us a nice little jewel, and shows us where Tracer got her "the cavalry's here" line.

All in all, the Uprising event was delivered with Grace, lore, cosmetics, and interactive and fun gameplay.

Overwatch 2 could never.

Look at all the pretty pictures I got when OW2 REBOUND hide ui to left of my D-pad and I thought my game was broken for the first 3 seasons 🥰

Cheers Blizzard 😘😘

<3

Had such a positive game earlier. I was queuing DPS and was in the widow mood. We were attacking first on Rio, and being the sane person I am, I did not autolock widow and instead went for the Reaper choice. I honestly wasn't playing well, it was later in the day and I was tired and all my good plays have been drained out of me at this point. I was seriously behind out other DPS in kills and damage, but we still managed to take the point. I switched to Widow after that, since it's easier to attack as Widow after capping the point. I played a bit better on the character I wanted to play, but I was still behind our other DPS. We pushed the payload almost right up till the end, but we were just shy of the third point.

I thought I was going to get flamed for throwing, and I wouldn't have blamed them, but they didn't flame me at all. In fact they were super nice and everyone was saying 'Gr' and 'Wp' in the chat. Even when it is my fault if we lose a game, it's still not nice to have that thrust in your face, so to see such enthusiasm really made my day. It's not often you get nice players.

I switched between Ashe and Widow on defence, and actually managed to catch up with the other DPS a bit, and we ended up winning the game.

Kindness and praise always does so much more than blaming someone in my opinion. It's called moral for a reason.

Ngl I'm pretty proud of this ult :)

Satisfying Sombra pick :)