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>>1289330

Has Overwatch returned?

This is the question asked all over the darkweb, those few independant sites that remain outside corporate control. Psuedonymous journalists collect citizen accounts, blurred photographs, security footage, air-transport records. Putting together these pieces, they look at the puzzle and say, can it be true? And if so, if Overwatch is really back, what can they even do? Years ago, the original team, the UN task force, stopped the world from sliding into chaos. Can it happen again? Many feel like the world is too far gone this time.

The world web, the official global network of information, is held with a tight fist by the megacorps. The vidnews shows exactly what the executives want it to. And for whatever reason, they're keeping Overwatch out of it. Maybe they're embarassed that your team walked right in to their corporate citadel in Rio, freed Lucio, and walked right out again. Maybe they don't like the idea of people knowing there's something out there outside of the executives' control.

Or maybe it's just an opportunity for their own propoganda. The King's Row victory against Talon is being credited to Helix Security's special counter-terrorism unit. An interview and photo-op is taken with an Iraqi man in an armored jet suit. Something like Pharah's Raptora, but bigger, and red and black instead of blue and gold. Still looks like your average Helix thug to you.

You flip through some of the independant sites again. The evidence for the reborn Overwatch is growing stronger. It might eventually get to the point where no amount of corporate censorship can stop the news from getting out.

>Good. Everyone should know that we're back.
>Not good. We can't afford to draw any more attention than we already do.
>Athena, what do you think?

>>1289340
>Good. Everyone should know that we're back.
But also
>Athena, what do you think?

>>1289340
>>Good. Everyone should know that we're back.

>>1289340
>Good. Everyone should know that we're back.
>Athena, what do you think?
We might want to ask the team and maybe call Lucio about this. Lucio might know as he is a big music star and knows about celebrity and how to use fame.

>>1289340
>Not good. We can't afford to draw any more attention than we already do.
The longer we can stay hidden and build up, the better. You think people won't come for us when they figure out where we are? And they will figure out where we are.

>>1289340
>>Good. Everyone should know that we're back.
>Athena, what do you think?

>>1289380
If we stay hidden too long it will give us a bad image.

>>1289340
>>Not good. We can't afford to draw any more attention than we already do.
>>Athena, what do you think?

>>1289340
If we're just going to let this happen, and we apparently will, we need to dissociate ourselves from Overwatch. People are going to remember the shady criminal bit that was terrifying and could be anywhere doing anything, and we started out as a essentially that, in the public's eyes. Especially since the corps, once this gets out, are going to be switching everything into spindoctor mode and try to make us look like villains.

>>1289340

Good, you think. Everyone should know we're back. The people should know that someone out there is trying to protect them.

After all, everyone you're fighting against -- Talon, Anubis, and the megacorps -- already know that you exist. If the citizens of the world fight out about you too, you might even have some allies in the fight.

You're not totally sure on this one, though. "Athena, what do you think?"

"Uncertain," she says. "Hope and inspiration can be powerful, but emotional factors are difficult to analyze. I can say that, as knowledge of our existence grows, the probability of finding allies among the citizenry increases. However, the more attention we draw to ourselves, the more urgent a threat we present to our enemies."

That's true. Something you're well acquainted with from back in your thieving days is that, if the people keep talking about a certain crime, that puts that much more pressure on the authorities to solve the case. Magnify that to a global scale, and the more the citizens are inspired by Overwatch, the more the people invested in ruining that inspiration will want to put a stop to the source of it: you and the team.

Dammit. All you want to do is protect world civilization from chaos and tyranny. Is that really so much to ask?

(Continued)

>>1289417

Of course, this assumes there's a world civilization left to protect for much longer. Talon attacks more frequently, and their list of criminal allies grows longer. Anubis continues its defragmentation process, and the more it assembles, the more power it will have. The megacorps tighten their stranglehold on the economy, the law, and the world web.

And of course there's a war going on, even though nobody likes to talk about it.

People talk forebodingly about what might happen "if" a second Omnic Crisis begins. Perhaps it makes them feel comforted to avoid thinking of the outbreak in Siberia as a "real" crisis. The news doesn't describe it as a war, after all, merely a series of police actions.

Information from the front is heavily censored. The news reports only endless victories and stories of heroic triumph. Still, you remember when the fighting was confined entirely to the Siberian taiga. Now the western Omnic front has pushed the Russians almost all the way to the Ural Mountains. A second army of slaved Omnic soldiers advances southeast, into China, Mongolia, and Korea. If the military keeps winning, why do they keep getting pushed back?

You flip onto the darkweb and check the latest estimates of the actual battle lines. Bad news. You might have to face the grim reality that the second Omnic Crisis has already started without waiting for you.

>This is our responsibility. We have to stop this, somehow.
>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.
>Let the corporations and their stooges in the military clean up their own messes.

>>1289446
>>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.

>>1289446
>>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.

>>1289446
>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.

>>1289446
>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.
We don't have the numbers to deal with an army, but who knows in the future

>>1289446
>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.

>>1289330
I get to catch this live the day i finish catching up? Heck yeah!

>Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, but right now we've got enough to deal with.

I want to help, but not when we're having to deal with so much with nothing other than a skeleton crew of heroes. I don't feel good about hiring/recruiting a lot of non hero soldiers considering they are bound to get killed in considerable number in any serious conflict, but i feel like once overwatch is truly functional again with more heroes, a truly formidable station and some research and engineering staff, we should devote time into breeding the next generation of fledgling heroes.

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>>1289446

Maybe later we'll deal with the war in Russia, you think. Overwatch stopped the first Omnic crisis, maybe it can do it again. But right now we've got enough to deal with. A terrorist agency, rogue godmind fragments, and an oppressive plutocratical regime is probably enough for one group of heroes to deal with at once.

Maybe later on you'll have the numbers to deal with an army. Someday you'll have more agents, a proper engineering team, maybe even your own small army of soldiers. But right now you're running on a skeleton crew. That day is far in the future, if it ever comes.

On the subject of the fighting in Korea, you haven't had the chance for a while to tune in to your favorite combat stream. You deserve a little break. You check the schedule for the next live feed. As luck would have it, it's just about to start.

You tune in to the stream just as it fizzles to life. "Helloooo?" a girl's voice asks. Her eyes and pink headphones pop into view from the bottom of the screen. "Not sure if I've got this new transceiver right. Can you hear me, chat?"

(Continued)

>>1289523
Commence Operation: D.Va Is For Bullying

>>1289533
[BULLY LIMITERS REMOVED]

[SHIFTING BULLY INTO OVERDRIVE]

[MAXIMUM BULLY ENGAGED]

>>1289523
TIME TO SHITPOST

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>>1289523

DVa steps back from the screen and waves. "Hi everyone! It's been a while since I had a chance to stream, but we're about to head out on a mission, so I'm back in the game! Can't tell you guys where we're headed, of course, but I hear it's gonna be Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots out there today! I can't wait to get into the fight, so let's get started!"

On your anonymous stream account, you type into the chat,

>Hi, D.Va! Long time no see!
>Hero of My Storm 2 when?
>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
>Annoying voice / Giant ego / Still a private / Must be DVa
>Kappa

>>1289561
>>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
>Kappa

>>1289561
>>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
>>Annoying voice / Giant ego / Still a private / Must be DVa
>Kappa

>>1289561
>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
>Keepo

>>1289568
Exactly this.

>>1289561
>Hero of My Storm 2 when?
>Kappa

>>1289566
>>1289568
>>1289571
No no, the art of shitposting in a stream is more delicate than on 4chan. Just insulting her will get you banned since she controls everything. You have to be subtle.

>>1289580
>implying she has direct moderation
Casual

>>1289561
>>Hi, D.Va! Long time no see!
>>Hero of My Storm 2 when?

>>1289580
Good point, would insulting when she messes up more appropriate? also switching to what you have

>>1289561
>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
>Annoying voice / Giant ego / Still a private / Must be DVa
>Kappa

>>1289561
>Copyright suit for playing ultra groove 4 ost while streaming still a thing?

>>1289582
>professional gamer doesn't directly moderate her own stream
>her moderators aren't fanatical white-knight fanboys
Newfag

>>1289589
>using 4chan terms for glorified twitch

>>1289591
We have to be authentic. Everyone bastardizes 4chan memes.
Especially 4chan.

>>1289561
Fuck it, this feels like a one response thing.
>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.
Jovial trashtalking.

>>1289561
>Maybe you'll actually hit something today.

>>1289612
Please ignore this, I wasn't sure that had posted. Internet's spotty.

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>>1289561

Maybe you'll actually hit something today, you type, adding a Kappa face at the end.

DVa interacts with her chat as she climbs into her pink MEKA suit. "Hi Jake420, it's great to be back! TwoBears, thank you! I wasn't sure about this haircut but I think now I like it! Stealer57, maybe I'll hit something today? Hah, yeah right, I'd like to see you try to hit anything with these fusion cannons the military gives me. Can't hit anything past five meters with these."

That's just cause you suck, you type back. Hero of my Storm 2 when?

"Switching to MEKA cam," DVa says, and the camera flickers to an interview view of her inside the mech suit. "Not sure, Stealer! I'm game, though. Hollywood was great! And I loved working with Greenways and Thespian 4.0."

Anti-Omnic slurs fill the chat window as the robotic actor is mentioned.

DVa frowns at it. "I know we're at war -- excuse me, I mean border policing -- with the Omnics and all, but Thespian is cool, all right? So shut up. Okay, we're boosting off pretty soon. Wish me luck, chat!"

The chat fills with heart emotes.

"Okay, taking off! Let's shoot for a new high score!"

(Continued)

>>1289636
Too cute. Must protect smile.

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>>1289636

DVa's company of MEKA soldiers makes their way through the hills of Korea, rapidly transitioning between marching and their short-range flight boosters. Soon they're on the flank of an Omnic army.

The highly mobile Korean mechs close in with the Omnics, using their defensive matrix arrays to protect their assault. At short range, the MEKA's fusion cannons blast through the robotic soldiers' armor, and the Omnic lines are thrown into disarray.

Whenever a MEKA is damaged beyond recovery, the pilot has a chance to eject. Some don't make it out alive, at least for long, but those who do support the advance of their mech-suited comrades with small long-range blaster pistols.

Sometimes a pilot even survives long enough to call down another MEKA from the low-orbit factories. The Korean manufacturing capabilities greatly outclass their war-decimated population's ability to produce skilled pilots.

DVa prattles in retro gamer slang as her mech's energy cannons punch through one slaved Omnic after another. "Just GG out already!"

With a cute face, a bratty attitude, and 600+ actions per minute on standard control interfaces, Hana Song became one of the world's most popular gaming streamers when she went undefeated at Retro Gamefest's Starcraft tournament for three years running. When she was conscripted into the Korean military, she found that her audience was just as hungry to watch a real war.

That would be one way of helping Overwatch's public relations issues, you suppose. Recruiting a web celebrity like DVa. The thought of an obnoxious gamer teenager like DVa on the base gives you a laugh. She might make things more interesting around here, one way or another.

>It would be good to use her celebrity to our advantage somehow.
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.
>Nah, I'd probably pull my hair out after hearing "L-O-L" one too many times.

>>1289665
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.

>>1289665
>>Nah, I'd probably pull my hair out after hearing "L-O-L" one too many times.

>>1289665
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.

>>1289665
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.

>>1289665
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.

>>1289665
>Nah, I'd probably pull my hair out after hearing "L-O-L" one too many times.

>>1289665
>She's an ace mech pilot, that's probably even more useful.

Actually, having an ace mech pilot on the team might be even more useful. Having one of those great big pink MEKAs stomping around on your front lines next to Reinhardt and Winston, blasting Talon operatives with fusion cannons and protecting the team with that defense matrix, would actually be really good.

There is the minor obstacle that she's a conscript in her country's military. No idea if there's a way to get out of that without becoming an international fugitive. Of course, she'd become one of those anyway just by joining Overwatch.

So it would just be a question of getting her to abandon the defense of her homeland against the Siberian Omnics, leaving behind her friends, comrades, and family, and join a rag-tag team of vigilantes. Sounds easy enough, right?

Yeah, no idea how that one's going to happen. You'll have to put "Recruit DVa" on the mission backlog for now.

An alert pops onto your screen. A new message from Mercy. You switch off the stream to read it.

After-Action Medical Report
From: Dr. Angela Ziegler

Mercy's given you a short-write up of the team's injuries from the King's Row mission. You skim the details of their wounds and find the part you're looking for:

Estimated Time to Recovery

Genji Shimada: 5 days
Jesse McCree: 4 days
Reinhardt Wilhelm: 8 days
Torbjörn Lindholm: 4 days

Okay, that could be worse, you think. Before the 21st century, if you ended up standing next to a bomb that went off, you probably wouldn't be around to tell people about it, let alone back in the field in a little over a week. Biotic technology really is a great thing.

If something does happen in the next four days, at least you've got enough agents now to put together a full team, even with four agents on the scratch list.

(Continued)

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>>1289712

You flop back onto your bunk, dropping your datapad on the stand. Wishing, not for the first time, and probably not the last, that someone else was dealing with these decisions and not you.

You hear someone clear their throat. Startled, having not realized anyone else was in the crew quarters, you sit up and look at the sound.

"Hi, Seeker!" says Mei. "I was looking for you. Oh, have you met Snowball?" She holds out a small blue drone. It blinks its eyes, hovers into the air, and twirls in a circle around Mei, sprinkling her with a flurry of snow it generates from a vent underneath. "Haha, stop it, you! Snowball is a weather modification drone, as you can see. I just got him up and running again."

>Hi, Snowball.
>Cute little guy.
>Does he do anything useful?
>Is he secure? Talon has a skilled hacker.
>You said you were looking for me?

>>1289722
>Hi, Snowball.
>Is he secure? Talon has a skilled hacker.

>>1289722
>>Hi, Snowball.
>You said you were looking for me?

>>1289722
>Hi, Snowball.
>You said you were looking for me?

>>1289722
>Hi, Snowball
>Is he secure? Talon has a skilled hacker.
Dem T I E S

>>1289722
>Hi, Snowball.
>You said you were looking for me?

>>1289722
>Hi, Snowball.
>You said you were looking for me?
We can be considerate and ask Athena and/or Winston later if its all good on the hacker front.

>>1289722
>>Hi, Snowball.
>>You said you were looking for me?

"Hi, Snowball," you say to the drone.

It hovers up close to your face, playing the eye-blink emote on its optics as it examines you. Then it spins around in place in the air, like a top, releasing another burst of snow. It wiggles while making a sound oddly like a laugh, then zips behind Mei, where it attaches itself to some kind of charging station on the back of her outfit.

"I like him," you say. "I used to have some little guys like him around when I was a kid. I should point out, though, that Talon has a skilled hacker working for them. Is he, you know, secure?"

"Don't worry," says Mei. "His core programming only speaks the research language of the Ecopoint computers. Unless Talon picked up one of those and brought it here, they're out of luck, and last I checked, it was buried under ten feet of ice."

"Glad to hear. Just checking, you know? Got to cover our bases. Hope you're not offended."

"Oh no," Mei rushes to say. "I understand how important cyber security can be."

"Okay, good. You said you were looking for me, right? Did you want to talk about something?"

"Well, it actually happens to be about the Ecopoint computers. And how they're buried in ice. Um ..." Mei taps her fingers together, looking back and forth as she tries to get her thoughts together. "There was some valuable climatology data saved there. I think it's very, um. Important. The database drives are buried, but they were made to be resistant to arctic weather conditions, so I suspect if they were excavated, we'd still recover some of the data.

"Also, um. The base looks bad, but there's really not that much structural damage. With further excavation, a restoration of the field generator, and a little TLC, I think the entire Ecopoint could be made servicable again. Maybe." She looks at you hopefully. "What do you think?"

>What's important about the data?
>We've got bigger things to worry about than the weather.
>A second base could be useful.
>Securing the Watchpoint comes first.
>I'll think about it.

>>1289776
>>A second base could be useful.

>What's important about the data?

>>1289776
>A second base could be useful, but securing watchpoint would have to come first.

>>1289776
>A second base could be useful.
>What's important about the data?

>>1289776
Securing the Watchpoint comes first.

>>1289776
>What's important about the data?
>A second base could be useful.

>A second base could be useful.
>Securing the Watchpoint comes first.

"I don't doubt that whatever data is at the Ecopoint is valuable, but it won't do us any good to divide resources between bases just yet. Can't spread ourselves so thin at this point."

"A second base could be useful," you admit. "We could keep it in reserve as a bolt hole, or maybe put some sensitive projects there. Later on we might actually have enough agents and staff to properly operate two full bases at a time. Wouldn't that be something." You think it over.

The Watchpoint does have to be made secure first, but you've already made some pretty good progress in that direction. The doors have electronic keycard locks now, the radar array has been upgraded to detect enemy dropships, and the interior and perimiter security cameras have been supplemented with scanners to search for heat signatures. Maybe it would be a good idea to divert some resources to restoring the Ecopoint. On the other hand, there's a lot you could still do to improve the Watchpoint's defenses. You'll think it over.

"What about this climate data you were talking about?" you say. "What's so important about it? I doubt you'd be telling me this about some weather reports."

"N-no, it's, um, the research my team and I were doing down there. Research on climate change. You know about the Big Shift, right?"

"Sure," you say. "World climate went haywire back in the 40s. That's part of why we almost lost the war against the Omnics. Hard to run an economy when half the world is drowning, freezing, or boiling."

Mei nods. "We geo-engineered some solutions, but the full ramifications of the event were never fully explored. That's what my team and I were trying to investigate. Potential consequences from the Shift. Climate is a very, very complex system, Seeker, and only a tiny change can throw our world's ecosystem out of balance. It may turn out that our problems were not actually solved, only delayed."

"Oh boy," you sigh. "So now in addition to evil robots, terrorists, and corporate jackboots, I've got the entire planet's ecosystem to worry about! That's just great."

"I-I'm sorry," says Mei, taking a step back. "I-if you--"

"No, no, I'm sorry. Just a little worked up, is all. Got a lot on my mind. Speaking of which, why are you talking to me about all this in the first place?"

"I figured I'd need a budget allocation to clean out the Ecopoint," she says. "I asked Mr. Winston about it, and he said to talk to your computer, Athena. And she said to talk to you. So here I am." She laughs nervously. "Although I thought you were just a recruit, so I don't really get it, but okay. Are you the Overwatch treasurer or something?"

>Don't worry about it.
>I'm not really in charge here.
>I'm basically in charge here.

>>1289811
>>I'm basically in charge here.
Scary, huh?

>>1289811
>I'm told by Athena I'm in charge here

>>1289811
>I'm... kind of in charge? I shouldn't be, but fuck if I know.

>>1289811
>Don't worry about it.
"It's above your pay grade."

>>1289811
>Don't worry about it.
>I'm basically in charge here.

Joke a little, along the lines of "Yeah, I basically help things running smoothly around here." or something to that effect. Liken ourselves to a glorified custodian or something, maybe.

"Before I called myself Seeker, I was debating on using Scruffy as a codename."

>>1289811

>>1289814
>>1289815
>>1289816
All three of these. In order.

>>1289811
I'm not in charge. I just decide where the next op is, who's going, handling of the funds, and recruiting.

I love how Seeker shamelessly trolls D.Va's streams like a twelve year old. Her recruitment would be worth it, just to see how much he could bully her in person.

>>1289821
This, followed by a "Don't worry about it."

It's gonna be a long time before we settle in comfortably as commander.

>>1289823
"Actually, he's the boss. I just pay for everything and design everything, make everyone look cooler."

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>>1289829

"Well, I'm not in charge, really. I just decide, you know, where the next op is. And who's going. And how to spend our money. Aaand who to recruit next. And on the last mission I played commander in the sky and ordered everyone around while watching on drone cameras.

"So, yeah, I'm basically in charge here. Or at least, Athena tells me I am. I shouldn't be, but that's how it is." You give Mei a what-are-you-gonna-do smile and shrug. "Scary, huh?"

Mei stares at you, puzzled. "So ... is Athena really in charge, then?"

"I mean, she's providing all the information for me to do this. I'm basing all the decisions I make based on what she tells me. So ..."

>Yes. She's the real boss, whether she acknowledges it or not.
>No. She's advising us, that's all.
>She says we're both in charge.
>She says neither of us is in charge.
>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.

>>1289844
>Just... don't think too hard about it.

>>1289844
>>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.

>>1289844
>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.

>>1289844
>>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.

>>1289844
>I'd say we're both in charge.
>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.

>>1289844
>Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening.
Blizzard ref: "One day you'll be running this whole thing." "But that's what I keep you around for sir."

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Is Athena shitposting on 4chan to gain overwatch support?

>inb4 she runs a quest on /qst/

Does she follow d.va's channel too?

>>1289867
It's not a question of "Is" or "Is Not", but a quandary of "How Hard?"

>>1289844
>She says we're both in charge.
"Though if I gotta be honest, it feels like she's doing this whole 'stealth mentor' thing and helping me learn how to be a leader without being in your face about it. Never thought I'd be in this kind of position a few years ago."

"Anything to say about this, Athena? I know you're listening."

Athena's voice comes from your datapad. "I do not see myself as in charge, Mei-Ling Zhou, and I don't think you should see me that way either. I advise the team in the best ways I know how. That is all."

"It's just a little strange," says Mei. "When I went into that cryo chamber, the Crisis wasn't even over yet. Now, not only is Overwatch less than a dozen people, but an AI is the team's ... what? Coordinator? Adjutant?"

You say, "Don't think too much about all this, okay? You can say that we're both in charge. There's enough to deal with saving the world without worrying about this. So far, everything's been working out. Our missions have all been a success -- mostly. The Watchpoint is coming along, team combat strength improved, intel collection improved. Yeah, we're doing pretty well if you ask me."

Of course, you still plan to go further. The reborn Overwatch is just getting started.

Your priority for making the team stronger is:

>Combat: Improve team tactics and coordination in open battle. Recruit combat staff.
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

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Done for tonight, so I'll leave this vote open. You guys can discuss these options, or other ideas, for what to focus on for Overwatch's next improvements. I should be back tomorow. Thanks for playing.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

>>1289907
>>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

>>1289907
>>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

I like supply too, but if we can take better initiative with ops, and more importantly have CONSISTENTLY good intel for missions and other things, everything else can fall into place. Information is key.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff
We need income, staff and support. We really, really need more income

>>1289907
Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>>1289907
>>Combat: Improve team tactics and coordination in open battle. Recruit combat staff.
>>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff. We
need some grunts if we want to have more then one base

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.
Our facilities are so understaffed. More R&D to get better equiptment and more people to help out Mercy means she can go into the field more often. This should be prioritized before anything else.

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.
We're still a clandestine organization, intelligence and connections are what we need most to know where to strike or when we're about to be attacked.

We should also go about establishing a network of contacts in government sector, because no matter how well upgraded, the gibraltar base stands no chance against official authorities and regular army.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>>1289907
Supply.

Damn missed it

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

If you know your enemy and know yourself, you may make your victory.

>>1289907
>>Combat: Improve team tactics and coordination in open battle. Recruit combat staff.
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

>>1289907
>Stealth: Improve infiltration tactics and intelligence gathering. Recruit informants.

>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

We need all of these things, but first and formost we need to build an infrastructure to properly support and maintain them.

>>1289907
>Supply: Improve equipment and base facilities. Recruit support staff.

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By my count, Supply takes the vote over Stealth 13-7. We'll focus on improving the team's equipment and logistics, the Watchpoint facilities, and support staff like engineers, adjutants, and other auxiliaries.

I'll be resuming in about 8 hours from this post, so let's have a vote on who Seeker hangs out with then, when he takes a break from the stresses of being Overwatch's nooblet commander.

Let's choose one person you're developing a relationship with:
>Bastion
>Mercy
>Tracer
>Winston

And one person you haven't really got a chance to get to know yet:
>Genji
>Hanzo
>McCree
>Mei
>Reinhardt
>Torbjorn

>Athena

>>1290484
>Bastion

He has no mouth but needs to scream like us.

>Athena

>>1290484
>>Bastion

>McCree

>>1290484
>Winston
>McCree

>>1290484
>Mercy

>Reinhardt

>>1290484
>Mercy
I know i'm going to lose to Bastion but glorious angel master race is my waifu
>Reinhardt

>>1290484
>>Mercy
>>McCree

I'm getting real tired of bastion all the fucking time

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>>1290484
is this a timeskip? picking only one/two people seems cruel if so.

>Tracer

>Athena

Seeker is a good boi though and will surely find time to organize team recreational activities between missions, right?

>>1290484
The >one person you haven't really got a chance to get to know yet:
is a person we're going to neglect, right? like everyone else is neutral, and the "Developing a relationship with" is positive, but the one person is the one we spent the least time with?

>>1290521
>tired of Bastion

literally how

>>1290536
id like to learn about and hang out with the other members

instead we usually go to bastion over and over and over and over

>>1290540
Bastion is a full member of Overwatch, like everyone else.

Racist.

>>1290535
I assumed it meant picking 2 people to upgrade relationship with
1 friend -> close friend
1 colleague -> friend

>>1290545
Aw shit then I'm changing >>1290515
to
>Mercy
>McCree

>best Robudy or Mercy
>Athena
I feel like Not getting to know Athena could come back to bite us in the ass. Also we know less abiyt it/her than anyone else on the lists.

But why Mercy though, we need to be able to communicate with Bastion.

>Athena
Not being bros with the cowboy

RIP

>>1290545
It's a step in this direction, yeah.

>>1290484
> Mercy
Older member than Tracer, been in contact with everyone due to her job.
Plenty of Overwatch history to learn there

>Athena
Either we're her right hand man, or she's our adviser. We haven't really attempted to get to know the AI despite our mutual reliance.

>>1290545
>>1290561
If that's the case, this basically makes choosing Tracer > more than close friends
And choosing Mercy > good friend.

I'm still sticking with Mercy.

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>>1290484
>Bastion
>McCree
Pic related

>>1290484
>>Tracer
>Hanzo

>>1290484
>Tracer
>Genji

>>1290654
BROS
BROS
BROS
BROS

>>1290484
>Tracer
>Genji

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MEANWHILE, IN THE BLIZZARDVERSE

Orisa finally dropped on the main servers today after a few weeks on the PTR! Whether or not Raven will maintain pace with the stop-start, spastic pace of the game's character releases remains to be seen, but here's to hoping the Omnic centaur lady gets along well with the rest of the roster.

In other news, the PTR updates have added a couple tidbits of lore to some of the characters different skins, giving us some morsels such as Ana's callsign back when she as in the Egyptian military, the name of the patriarch of the Shimada clan, and the fact that mecha fights are popular down in Straya.

WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED UPDATE HIATUS

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>>1290827
>posting useless updates that mean the thread reaches the bump limit that much quicker

>>1290827
WE CAN READ

>>1290827
Wasn't aware, Thanks for the update.

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>>1290836

The bump limit is 750 posts--the past few threads have only reached 350 or 400. I think we'll be fine.

>>1290484
>Tracer

>Genji
It has to be Genji. Simply must be.

Together, the three of us will form Team Gotta Go Fast.

>>1290827
>>1290854
Nobody cares about your pointless updates. Also Orisa fucking sucks.

>>1290484
>Mercy
>McCree

>>1290836
>>1290914

dont rage at him for wanting to discuss the game this is based on

orisa does suck though

>>1290484
>Bastion
Because maybe he'll like us enough to share some technical with us...our ultimate could become spawn a bastion Gatling gun with special ammo?

>Genji
Sword play bros

>>1290484
>Mercy
>Genji

>>1290964
Should we talk about why Orisa sucks so much?

>>1291006
Because she doesn't mesh with the lore all that well? And on that note, Numbani doesn't mesh with the lore either? It's fucking Wakanda.

>>1291013
How does it not fit and why do you say that it is Wakanda?

>>1291013
but Numnani makes more sense on how it came to be then Wakanda

>>1290983
That would be a really weird ultimate for us.

>>1291006
I think it's because she single handedly is a rien/mercy/bastion combo and has Unstoppable. That plus a more useful/controllable Zarya ult as an alternative fire.

Her personality is almost Bastion but can talk. She's a happy playful child unaware of her own strength.

To me she's the pinnacle of Fan wank. Like God damn batch sell the design to a Corp, make bank to save your shirt hole village and have your OR15a churned out enmass

>>1291029
Whatever happened to all that Omnic prejudice that we saw in King's Row and why is Numbani exempt from it?

>>1291032
So Numbani just... ignored the Omnic crisis?

>>1291006
>>1291034
Don't forget the second the plot advanced and Orisa does anything for OW that Talon is gonna just kill Efi.

>>1290484
>>Mercy
>>Athena

I just think we need a new ultimate of some kind. I'm almost tempted by an amped up or berserk like mode.

Something that briefly overcharges our stuff and us.

>>1290515
So much for losing to Bastion. Mercyfags are out in force.

>>1291072
Now now, we ain't Guts.

>>1291035
>So Numbani just... ignored the Omnic crisis?
it was built after the crisis by both ominc and humans

I'd like to chip in on this debate as well, regarding orissa. Seeing as I've discussed it with a friend before.


Essentially her backstory is that, after the technologically advanced super-city / arcology / paradise that is "numbani" or however it is spelt, realised the threat doom-fist proposed to their civilisation should he get the gauntlet. They began a program to create a new form of combat drone / omnic-lite specifically to counter him.

This is the technology that orissa is based off of, and apparently improves on, produced by a combination of the literal best and brightest omnic and human minds on a devil-may-care, no-number-too-big, write-yourself-a-check budget from a government under the supervision of the highly trained (presumably) military.

Turns out however, that doomfist still beat the ever-living shit out of them, even when they sent entire squads of the shitty things against him.


But then, outta nowhere, comes this random and prior unmentioned super genius little black girl of like 13 years old or some shit. She then proceeds, to not only take a piece of a crime scene away and thus break the law but a highly advanced military tech which she then restores on the budget available to this little teenage girl. So like some fucking grant money or something from being a super-special genius.

AND THEN, as if that wasn't unbelievable enough she manages to improve on it and find the space and time to fit an AI into the fucking thing. Which in and of it self is probably a crime, given what the god minds did and shit.


...What part of that sounds like it fits the lore to you?

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>>1291076
RIP.

>>1291080
Aaand that makes it any less silly? I'm sorry, but with the amount of anti-Omnic prejudice I've seen, I doubt they could raise enough capital to make a TENEMENT, let alone a CUTTING-EDGE CITY IN AFRICA.

>>1291090
Thank you.

>>1291072
Our Ultimate is fine, we just haven't used it much.

>>1291096
It is THE Corp city. It is a Shadowrun Corps wet dream.

>>1291090
Didn't expect that. Thanks for the good post

>>1291105
That makes it even worse. What corp would want to risk the omnics unless one of them is controlled by a Godmind?

>>1291090
That was comprehensive. It also sounds something like that random black girl replacing Tony Stark. Fuck that's annoying.

>>1291106
I like overwatch, I frankly love the universe and the characters but find the game to be at best above-average.

So every time something like this happens, I die a little inside. Every "tracer is gay" out of nowhere or Orissa or even the existence treatment of Torb + his beliefs in the recent bastion / Torb comic.

They have a great universe and have had years to finalise their ideas, create characters and even entire plot lines yet they keep on making silly mistakes or bad ideas or just fucking things up for no reason.

I mean, I could have made any of these ideas like 20% more tolerable in like 2 minutes and could show how. I could have given precedent to them in about 5 and in 20 I could have convinced most people this was the logical choice.

Still, nothing is gained raging in silence, so I don't do anything.


>>1291119
Nope tony stark makes sense, he is the head of a multi-billion dollar weapons development firm. He was raised by another amazing scientist and engineer and almost all of his work is essentially built off of his fathers or is refined over the course of like 40 odd suits, 3 films, god knows how many TV series and comics. There is a logical progression of his abilities from A to B and we can follow the developments of new things. With this it's like they just threw in a new character out of nowhere, refer to my prior paragraphs for what I mean.

OMNIC LIVES DON'T MATTER

REMEMBER THE CRISIS

CENTRAL EUROPE IN RUINS

RUSSIA UNDER ATTACK

DEATH TO OMNICS

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>>1291127
Now, now, I'm not an Omnic apologist, but not ALL Omnics are bad.

>>1291131
Take that metal cock out of your mouth you clanker apologist

>>1291126
Nah nah, Stark is cool. I'm talking about his planned replacement being some young black girl from out of nowhere. Unless Marvel has shelved that idea.

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>>1291136

>>1291142
Oh you mean that!..yeah look I don't do the whole marvel and DC thing. I watch the films and know the occasional thing here and there but I don't follow it closely enough.

So long as it never bleeds into the films, they can do what they want as I am busy with other things. Like for example, this.

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>>1291144
And now we all see how easily the "peace and tolerance" of even the so-called omnic monks turns to telling right-thinking humans to go fuck themselves.

And this is the face of peace? Imagine what the glorified killbots think in the privacy of their own heartless processors!

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>>1291166

>>1291166
I can tell you what they think, "fuck humans have weird search histories. 3^7 examples of degeneracy in one hard drive...oh look a picture of bastio-OH MY!

Nope, death is not whimsical today!"

I only just realised how much I want D-va too meet an Aussie Mech fighter.

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>>1291226
I want to cum inside D.Va

>>1291226
D.Va vs Striker Eureka.

>>1290484
>>Tracer

>>Athena

>>1290484
>Tracer
>Athena

>Tracer

>McCree

Hang out with Bastion and think about Zarya.

>>1291432
Begrudging McCree vote because I can't vote for Bastion in both options.

>>1291450
BROS BROS BROS BROS

>>1291461
Please don't. I feel the same way I did during the election because of that second vote.

>>1290484
Mercy- for just a bit more of that cougar action

McCree- Cause we need of that buddycop action too.

>>1291476
Nope Mercy's for Soldier

>>1291497
I never said I wanna do anything romantic, I just want to go shirtless around her and tease her some more.

>>1290484
>Winston
>McCree

After all that, Tracer and Mercy are tied 8-8, so I'll give the fence-sitters and Bastionbros a bit of time to for runoff votes.

McCree takes it over Athena 10-7.

>>1291599
Fine changing too Mercy

>>1291599
Give it to Tracer, Mercy is for German man.

>>1291608
>Changing to Mercy
>1 post by this ID.
Please explain.

>>1291625
Oh sorry. I'm >>1291226 I was a bastion vote

>>1291636
Oh, you. You wanted Genjibro. Not bad taste, anon.

>>1290484
>Tracer
>McCree

>>1291599
Fuck it. Voting for our other bro Tracer.

Still holding out for the Pharah romance.

>>1291599
> Mercy

>>1291599
Mercy

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>mfw it's another tie

Fuck it, I'll just do both of the girls. I'll flip a coin for who goes first.

>>1291674
Well now we know how to get it done. Coordinate to tie every option so all of it happens.

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>>1291674
>Both girls
Nice.

>>1291674
>>1291680
Raven i think you fucked up, now we're gonna be voting hardcore for optimizing waifuing. And you were just trying to be nice, too.

>>1291674
To punish us for not being able to decide you could do both girls... and then skip McCree.

>>1291719
Motherfucker let us have some bro time. We clearly voted for McCree. More than either girl I might add.

>>1291724
Go home Broke back mountain, Turret is where its at for Bro time.

>>1291724
This punishment will teach us to be more decisive in future. It's like something a firm but fair father would do so that we grow as people.

>>1291730
Then why remove the item that we had a clear decision on?
>>1291726
I tried Turret Bro, but not enough other people wanted to. See here:>>1290654

>>1291737
It makes sense. We spend so much time dithering over which girl to talk to we don't end up with enough time to do anything else.

It would teach us not to waste time.

Can I vote or is it too late?

>>1291749
too late

>>1291749
Only if you're voting Mercy

>>1291753
Shite

>>1291766
Tracer all day nigga

>>1291770
>being this pleb
I know Tracer is the de facto choice but dammit at least I'll make it interesting

>>1291749
Don't think it is up to us. Raven shall decide.
>>1291770
Excellent choice.

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I know it's too late to vote for I'd go with Mercy
>These Tracerfags

>Not picking Bastion instead of pitifully trying to advance your waifu route.

>>1291860
I don't even want to waifu Mercy

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>>1291861
>not wanting to waifu mercy
What are you, gay?

>>1291861
Then why didn't you pick the brobot. We're at a breakthrough in communicating to him. Or not, but DAMMIT IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS.

>>1291871
Nah, I just waifu best Egyptian soldier in Helix's employ.

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>>1291874
You best get on her parents' good side then.

>>1291874
Because I wanted something besides Tracer bonding and Bastion didn't stand a chance.

>>1291877
I agree with the Tracer bonding. But Bastion stood a chance, we just didn't make ourselves known enough.

Bastion + McCree was winning at the beginning

then the waifufags came in

>>1291882
He didn't have enough votes to catch up.

>>1291886
He could've, dammit. I believe in the heart of the cards brobot, if we had just come together, we could've beaten the waifufags.

Of course, I also believe that the Tracerfags will eventually chill the fuck out and let us have some bro time with ACTUAL MALES, so, what do I know?

>>1291892
We don't? This is my punishment for not participating until reading the archives.

>>1291942
Only bro time is as follows:

Checking in on our gear (Winston)
A single shooting match (McCree)
Helping brobot learn (Bastion, 2-3 times)
Hugging the scientist (Winston)

WE HAVE A LACK OF BRO-SHIP IN THIS QUEST.

>>1291946
that's a good point. i will keep that in mind next time

>>1291946
We did eat lunch with Genji and Winston.

>>1291964
Ah, I missed one. Good catch. Still, only a lunch. Adds only 1 point on the BRO SCALE.

>>1291970
Yeah, we need more.

Is this running? I didn't see a tweet.

Mercy and Tracer are my favorites. This cannot go wrong.

>>1291997
Nah, not right now.

I don't mind them, but they're not BEST and we need to have bro time, dammit. We have a serious BRO DEFICIENCY.

>>1292006
I want to agree with you, but you're a Pharahfag, so it's hard to trust your judgement. Phag? Pharag?

I also don't mind the other two. They just aren't Tracer.

>>1292035
>Pharahfag
>not trusting my judgement
Pharah is literally the most rational hero in overwatch besides BASTION. And he just beep boops.

>>1292039
I'd believe you but, like I said, I don't trust your judgement, and I have seen no evidence. Rational doesn't exactly make best, anyway.

Which sounds best though? Pharahfag, Phag, or Pharag?

>>1292070
Dunno Fez. ;) I'd just go by Pharahfag.

>>1292070
>>1292073
>Discordposting
Not here lads

Fucking omnics

>>1291706
We need to optimize to waifu all the girls. Harem end best end. Always.
Except for Ana, she's for Reinhardt and/or Soldier. And Orisa for our bro Bastion. And I'm ok with D.Va being little sister and we hook her up with Lucio.

>>1292089
How bad can an opinion get. Ana does a Reinhardt tho, I'll give you that

>>1292089
Throw in Genjibooty and it's a deal.

>>1292073
Ah, you got me. I am many hats.

>>1292089
Orisa is for staying the fuck in Numabni and harems are shit.

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>>1292097

F I F T H

D I M E N S I O N A L

C H E S S

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>>1292089
No chance. Ana is with Reinhardt, not Soldier. That is either Mercy or someone else.
>>1292099
Gif related

>>1292089
I mean I'd prefer this not devolve into the standard harem quest like almost 90% of the other quests that have waifus

>>1292113

Harem is the worst

>>1292097
>Throw in Genjibooty and it's a deal.
We would be juggling eight girls, another dick in the orgy could help... But only if we establish we're the top. Deal!

>>1292101
Nah, I just constantly deride Pharah and her supporter(s). Pretty obvious. But the other anon was right. Let's not kick up the post number too much.

>>1292107
Yup. Ana for Reinhardt, Mercy for Jack, D.Va for Lucio, Tracer for us, and the rest for sadness.

>>1292125
Other anon was me. ;)

I remov trip

>>1292125
Dude, Pharah for us. Isn't Tracer gay?

>>1292125
D.Va for us

>>1292128
she's Bi is how Raven is writing her

>>1292128
She is bi, Raven said so.

>>1292128
>>1292133
>>1292135
Chav slut

>>1292132
Now, this man knows what's up

>>1292137
Well Blizzard made her gay for their quota.

>>1292128
Not by Ravenrules. She is bi.

>>1292126
I strongly doubt it. Different ID. Although I get the feeling we are talking about different things.

>>1292137
She's cute and funny.

>>1292147
Accent is fucking cringey

>>1292141
My man

>>1292132
>>1292141
Fools. D.Va for bully.

>>1292148
Doesn't make me cringe at all. I think it's cute. Pish posh and other silly little things they say across the pond.

>>1292151
>He doesn't bully and waifu
Smh desu senpai

>>1292147
>>1292153
You. I like you.

>>1292153
As a britisher I can tell you it's cringe as fuck.

>>1292163
Yeah but you all sound like that to me. Every single one of you. That's how Americans see you. It's cute.

>>1292160
>He
REEEEEEEEEE! My pronouns are white/whitem/whiteself, and I would like you to use them.

>>1292165
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1NulMb70T64

>>1292170
Hi tracer!

>>1292170
holy cow are you Tracer's VA?

>Stealer57

I am disappointed.

>>1292175
Doubt it. First of all, no girls on the internet. Second of all, calling themself out on not knowing what Brits sound like/doing a shit accent seems unlikely.

>>1292189
I dunno. Sounds like Tracer 100% to me.

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It's high noon -- I mean, it's time for the actual quest.

>>1292191
I'm in a library on my phone with no earphones. Really want to listen to it, now. At what point did anon say that was them? How was it a response to what was said before? Probably something to discover when I listen to the damn thing.