#overwatch lore has more holes than swiss cheese

[cynical-sprite]

I didn't read Code Of Violence, and personally, from what I hear, I'm glad I didn't. Honestly, Idk, Gabe being a cop doesn't make much sense to me. Not the mention, the whole disillusioned cop trope is cringeworthy. To me, he seems more like someone who was military from a young age or came from a military family. Or somebody someone who grew up on the streets (maybe similar to McCree, but City gangs in LA instead of gangs like The Deadlock gang; he seems like the school of hard knocks type).

Then there's the wife and kid thing. I don't have a problem with the fact that they made him have a wife and kid, but, like with the Soldier 76 gay reveal thing, it's how they reveal these things, and when they choose to do it. (I don't have a problem with Soldier 76 being gay, I have a problem with the fact that they didn't tell us from the start like they did with Tracer. And that they dropped it with just one little conversation in a short story, that it's never been addressed or mentioned in game or in anything since.) Same with Gabe's family. It was something they should have mentioned/talked about from the start, not mentioned in one line in one short story and one panel in which, at the time, it wasn't even revealed who they were. I even remember one of the writers saying specifically saying at the time that the family pictured was not Reaper's family, but it was a family that was important to him.

To top that off, there's the whole joining Talon because he was so disillusioned and discouraged thing. Retribution was supposed to be the turning point, and the Gabriel Reyes from the Retribution short story HATED Talon with a passion and hated Antonio because of his affiliation with Talon and how he knew that because of his "friends" aka his involvement with Talon, he would be set free. Gabe knows full well that Talon has big corporations backing them. No matter how angry, bitter, or whatever he gets at Overwatch or the people in it, Doomfist is not going to be able to talk him into joining them so easily. He's certainly not going to join an organization he despises so much and suddenly agree with their views and ideas of a new world order.

Since we don't entirely know Reaper's true motives, it's possible that, like Sombra, he is only using Talon's power, reach, and resources to further his own goals and isn't actually loyal to Talon per say. Honestly, that's the only answer I'd accept at this point because it just doesn't make sense any other way. But it's also entirely possible that it's just Overwatch's lore contradicting itself again because, let's face it, we know they have a history of flip-flopping with their lore.���‍💨

[claquedick]

What I mean: Blizzard’s Overwatch department has proven again and again to be absolutely clueless about their writing. From the last-minute First Strike cancellation with the reasoning of “not wanting to interfere with fan’s headcanons” to the removal of D.Va’s Starcraft background for absolutely no reason, from the age fuck-ups for Mercy, Brigitte and in some way also Sombra to "What? Gabriel and Jack were best buddies during the Overwatch days! We are surprised that you would think otherwise because all we have given you so far were signs of them hating each other’s guts!”. I realise of course that the lore of the game isn’t that important, it’s not the focus. But is some consistency really too much to ask for? Or at least apologising and admitting that they haven’t thought it through? They’re deleting story bits and then pretend to not know about it when we ask. Just before Brigitte’s release Michael Chu called the younger children in the Christmas comic Torbjörn’s children, not grandchildren, and when fans asked about the D.Va retcon he first accused them of misconception. The fans are creating better stories and fixing the holes of this plot that is a swiss cheese so of course I would expect the people who are actually fucking paid for this to get on their damn level. It’s been more than a year now in which they could have put together what they have so far and correct this and that and try to finally agree on the stories. Yet they are still jumping around from whatever bullshit they make up in one minute to another in the next. What was up with the eye that Sombra was searching for and the fact that Efi’s eye is painted just like it? Will we ever get the characters that were shown in shorts or written about? When will we get some information on Lucio and Symmetra’s past, aside from just some vague cool-sounding inner monologues? In all that time they have given us content that adds nothing to the lore such as Brigitte or Mei’s short they could have fixed this or at least focus a little more on where they were going. But they seem to not have learned a single thing and I was a fool to believe otherwise.

What I say: im fine.