The “jacked” lady’s name is Zarya who is one of the strongest women in the world, and a celebrated athlete and soldier in the Russian Defense Forces. She doesn’t trust omnics and sometimes not even people who existed before the war. Zarya grew up with the post-war destruction and swore to help the people of Russia gain strength and recover. Also when Zarya says “I believe I do” after being summoned by the powerful Russian lady (Katya) she was supposed to track down Sombra. Lastly, Zarya just loves working out and eating cabbage pierogis. She’s one of the only people strong enough to hold her gun. I hope this helps though and I can’t wait for you to watch the Honor and Glory cinematic!
the woman at the end is called aleksandra zaryanova or zarya in game. she was a famous bodybuilder who sacrificed her career in order to fight in the second omnic crisis
5 things: 1. Blackwatch is separate from Talon, though two former members of Blackwatch (Reaper and Moira) are in Talon 2. All the shorts take place during present day (relative to the game), with the exceptions of a few obvious flashbacks 3. The pink-haired jacked lady was Zarya, an athlete-turned-soldier 4. Since the Omnic Crisis, there have been a couple places where omnics have continued to attack, most prominently Siberia and eastern South Korea (who are defended by Zarya and D. Va and their organizations, respectively) 5. Sombra is mostly in Talon so she can get more info and have a wider reach and more power (hence the double-crossing)
hailey said "its back during the omnic war" at 5:09 its is actually in the present of the overwatch timeline, russia suffered a second ominc war/omnic crisis
The Siberian Omnium was never destroyed, unlike the Detroit, Numbani, and Outback Omniums. It just went dormant after they realized the First War was lost.
@@PuppetPumm3l technically with katyas movement, if widowmaker had waited a second longer she would be in her sight and could kill her, its just the point for the cinematic that she misses and then sombra has to take over.
The characters in this are members of Talon, a terrorist organization. Talon has former Blackwatch members, aka Reaper and Moira. But Talon and Blackwatch are two separate groups. Sombra doesn’t pick to be on a specific “side”, good or bad. She does things for herself and will use anyone she has to, to do it
Yet Reaper and Widow know she's not to be trusted. Sombra may think she's clever, but a former blackwatch member and assassin should easily see through her
@@GMineo yea there are comics that showed Reaper talking about how he knows Sombra is playing but he's letting it go for now because Talon has much grander plans to think of.
They said though that she helped Bap at finding Mercy ( Not sure if it's true ) . So I guess they're friends? And that OWL spray makes me think she's friends with Mccree, Zarya, and Hanzo. ( I think she's the one who told Mccree about Echo's been in that train. So he took that chip and retrieved her ( He was Mina's bodyguard so he was so close to her so maybe that's why he has the chip ) )
heck yes. i’m so excited for you guys to play this game another daily lore dump: the woman that Widowmaker was targeting is named Volskaya. If you remember from the first cinematic, each country defended the omnics in their own way. Russia’s way was to build those robots and she was the leader of the company that built them. game info: Sombra is super hard to play but is O.P. if used correctly. She hacks other characters and keeps them from using their abilities
Er... ok before I say this just know that as far as time played... I am a Sombra Main (At 27 hours played with the second being D.Va / Mercy at 16 Hours each) Sombra is actually the WEAKEST character in the game. HOWEVER, she is also the most useful. Her abilities ALL OF THEM deal 0 damage to enemies... and offer no shut down type abilities such as Ana's Sleep Dart, Lucio's er... boop(?), or anything along those lines. Her hacking abilities are where she shines and helps her team win... though don't mistake this for being OP. IMO, Sigma or Echo would be the most OP character in the game currently. Sombar would be at the very bottom of that list. For me as a Logician she presents an option for picking a more tactical type character... though she falls into what I call the Finesse Character Type. Meaning she takes a VERY HIGH SKILL level to play and play well. This is a character type I usually stay away from. But in Sombra's case... it presented an interesting challenge to me. Ok why do I think she is the weakest? First off her main and only weapon is actually the weakest damage per shot in the game. D.Va's pistol is actually stronger... The only saving grace here is the clip size is huge compared to all other glass cannons, also her reload is by far the most insane of all characters, I think only Mcree, Junkrat, Symmetra and Soldier: 76 have faster reloads. Her Hacking skill while it does have a short CD, is way too short ranged and interrupted by ANY Damage taken. It only last 4 seconds as well, when used on enemies. But it does keep enemies form using anything other than their main weapon for those 4 seconds. Also it makes Ults either not charge or unuseable for the time. Makes it easy to get say a Bastion out of turret mode or shut down a Torbjorn turret. Sadly though both of these can gun her down before she get's it off if they start attacking her. Her Ultimate while being one of the shorter ults to charge does the exact same thing as her hacking ability only in an AOE centered on her... basically to be effective she has to survive long enough in the danger zone to have it cast... like any other character if she dies mid animation of their ult it's gone and has no effect. Rare to happen but it can. Her ult is also the only ult in the game that can remove a Symmetra Ult. It will also stop other ults....... the same as just killing the character out right. Her teleportation is a lot better know then when she was first released... it use to have a 5 second timer. Meaning if the timer ended before you used it, it would disappear. But it still has a limited range... though I'm not sure how far that range is. It's also destroyable just like any other character ability that places an item. Though it's far worse if someone finds it... and doesn't destroy it. They can easily ambush you getting a free kill. I've been camped a few times by this tactic. Basically it's a flee mechanic, allows her to get in poke some damage or use her ultimate and get out. Her cloak... oh boy is this uselessly useful. Pretty much the only time I even use this is to navigate the map faster. It has a short timer on it meaning you can try to get from cover to cover without being noticed... or hope they don't notice you because you do have a slight shimmer to you as you run around. It does increase your speed and make you harder to spot... but nothing more. You can still just as easily die to a Widowmaker snipe if they know what to look for or are using their ult. It also makes you unable to capture points... you have to be visible to do so. I have seen games won by players using this ability to sneak past the enemy team and push payloads to the winning area... I chop this up to idiots not paying attention the payload position while "chasing kills". Her passive is... sort of useful. Basically it allows her to see low health characters regardless of where they are. Though I've found this is either useless seeing as they'll just grab a quick health pack or have one of the team healers heal them up losing any sight advantage on them it gives. Basically it helps finding an easy target... so long as that player is stupid enough not to seek out healing knowing there's a Sombra on the enemy team. If you won't a better understanding of why I think she's the weakest but the funniest character to win with. Just try beating one of the (currently 3) anniversary maps with her on anything above easy mode. You'll quickly see her damage output and hacking skills aren't as OP as people think. Along side this you'll find that Brigitte is also the WORST HEALER EVER!! Fun to win with... but bad at the assigned Role.
@@natanislikens okay some of what you said made sense and others didn't. Sombra is by far not the weakest and you are making that assumption based on arcade modes. Go to comp and get some evidence, I am a 3800 player and sombra is fairly strong. Yeah she is op she is just annoying but there is counter play. Tbh it doesn't seem like you have a good playstyle for her so maybe watch Fitzy if you haven't. She really isn't a hero meant for gold damage but emp is easily one of the best ults in the game.
Talon's got agents from former Blackwatch but generates from others and is a terrorist organisation. I think it was already active when Overwatch was still something. Their goal is to wreak havoc a bit everywhere for their leader, Doomfist, or Akande Ogundimu, thinks that the only way for humanity to evolve is through conflict. I don't think it's clearly stated that Talon is against omnics, but they certainly use their conflict with humans as a further means to achieve their goals. The Blackwatch agents that went to Talon were mainly people that didn't agree with the working policy of Overwatch and the government; Science was heavily watched and controlled and many operations were seen as scandalous and thus could not be undertaken. Even by Blackwatch sometimes. As a matter of fact, it is the breakthrough of certain Blackwatch's covert operations to the public that initiated the shutdown of Overwatch.
Doomfist is not the leader. Reaper is. Actually no Max the omnic is. Doomfist came in after reaper, while max has been in power for a while since the omnic crisis if I'm not mistaken. The chain is Max, Reaper, then Doomfist
@@lukeman4264 Can u read? He said Reaper is the leader but then he changed his mind and said that Reaper is like a co-leader and Maximilian (This one Omnic dude) is the Leader...
At the start of a match in game, characters will talk to each other and give little story clues. Recently they added a voiceline between Reaper and Widowmaker implying that Reaper knows that Sombra is working behind their backs, but that she still has uses for them. Additionally to answer some questions, Talon has been around for about as long as Overwatch has. Before Reaper was Reaper he was the head of Blackwatch. During a mission Gabriel Reyes (Reaper) opted to kill a Talon leader instead of taking them in. This Blackwatch killing became the basis for the Petras Act that ultimately forced Overwatch to shut down.
Or right before. The timing is kinda murky and there's nothing to indicate when this short happens. Oh, and IIRC, in Recall Winston was watching a news report about fighting against Omnics going on in Russia right before Reaper invaded his base.
G-Mineo i believe that most of the cinematics take place during the second omnic crisis, which happened after the petras act and was the reason Winston recalled Overwatch
I’ve been playing overwatch for over 2 years, and have seen all of these clips at least 3 times each, yet every time I watch these vids I enjoy them, and it’s something I look forward to every week!!
Just to avoid confusion this is talon. Blackwatch was a covert ops unit of overwatch led by Gabriel Reyes aka reaper. Long story short, reaper was horribly disfigured after he blew up a Swiss overwatch base. He was then helped by moira, a member of talon, and became reaper. Him, moira, doomfist(who isn't in a cinematic yet), Maximilian(An rich omnic), and Sanje corpal(The creator of hardlight)are the leaders of talon
“So she does miss”... not when she can actually see her target. She took the best shot she had, and it was pretty damn close, if the state of Katya’s earring is any indication.
'me being an overwatch nerd dying' I'll explain everything So this animated short is in Russia where they still got the omnic crisis, I think it's because overwatch got shut down before they reached Russia or Russia did not want help. Sombra, reaper, widowmaker, doomfist, moira and the latest one sigma is part of a rasict organisation called talon that overwatch faught against, but talon had friends in the gouverment and after the retribution talon got a tighter grip around overwatch and after a while was a part of shuting them down. Talon stayed intact and safe by the Petras Act laws that forbid all overwatch activity, now to the story for Sombra my favorite OW "hero"😏 Sombra's real name Olivia Colomar. Olivia's parents where killed in the omnic crisis in Mexico, which left her as an orphant as many others. She grew up in a time of Mexico called "La Medianoche" which is spanish for "the midnight", there was lack of electricity and the country was left dark to rebuild after the omnic crisis. A corporation called Lumerico rised and gave electricity to Mexico once again, but in the ashes of it other groups rised one called Los Muertos that also was rasict against omnics. The young Olivia had a natural gift of hacking and used it for Los Muertos and against Lumerico, she is still torturing Lumerico today. But after Los Muertos she found a bigger client for her skill, Talon. After some work in the dark for Talon she was noticed hacking (for the first time) and she was forced to delete all her past information and soon she took the alias Sombra, when she got noticed she decided to uppgrade to her curent state. She is a walking master hacker computer, after joining the ranks of Talon she became a special agent and rised quickly to hight levels. She is a big part of many Talon operations and huge cyber attacks. Now reaper know she's dubble crossed them with Volskya, same with the leader, Doomfist. I recomend the channel TGN and the video "the complete lore of Overwatch"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but you can notice the difference between Reaper and Soldier 76. Soldier was more animalistic when fighting against Los Muertos. You can hear his grunts and the sheer force of each punch. Reaper only incapacitated them. If they couldn't fight back then he would stop. It's strange because Soldier is the good guy and Reaper is the bad guy but Soldier was crueler to Los Muertos. Then again, they were a crime gang so maybe Soldier had the right to. Maybe the reason Reaper didn't kill anyone was because Russia is still in their own omnic war, but if he's thinking like that then is he really a bad guy?
Sombra in spanish means "shadow" which is pretty neat if you see her origin story video. How she sticks to the shadows and how, all anyone can figure out about her is that her (codename) is Sombra. Honestly this is my favorite cinematic. ( Which is biased since I main her ; v ; )
Talon is the enemy of Overwatch. Talon doesn’t have any ties to Overwatch. Blackwatch was a secret division in Overwatch which disbanded before Gabriel Reyes turned into Reaper. This video is post Omnic War and their going in to a new war that’s why they were talking about getting ready their new Omniums for a new attack. I just thought I’d write to clear it out.
I like the guesses you guys do, they are close but missing so much lol. By the way, the "BOOP!" thing from Sombra is actually really scary and threatening. One of the photos Katya Volskaya (her new friend) has is one of her doing the same thing to her daughter (7:49 in this video, if you want to check it out). That was a statement, like "even when you think you are safe and private, I'm there. I know everything about you"
this is my favorite short! she's my main and i've been waiting for this reaction! :D you guys make me laugh so much ngl oh! when you guys are done with the animated shorts, you should watch the origin stories! they're very short (usually about a minute or two) and give a lot of backstory to the characters. it might help you understand the world of overwatch a bit more.
Blackwatch was a subgroup in Overwatch, and they were in charge of the shadier missions (one of them you can play while the Archives event in game). They are one of the reasons why Overwatch was disbanded. Some Blackwatch members turned to Talon, like Reaper and Moira. But others, like Genji (from Dragons) and McCree (will be presented in other cinematic) are still in Overwatch.
This Cinematic right here was my absolute favorite. It was revealed at Blizzcon 2016 in November. They kicked off a video showing the the hard work coming in from different locations to made Overwatch’s official launch in May of 2016 possible. Clipped in were lots of fans from all over the world waiting in line, in cosplay, and just showing love for the game. “Jeff Kaplan” (Game direction for overwatch) speaks and talks about its development, Clips of play testing and coded screen. The crowd is loving it, the video went on for a couple more seconds as what looks like Error codes show up on the team’s computer screens. The Video feed starts glitching and gets pixelated. Oooo the Chills, the video feed gets more distorted and the audio Bugs out, more chills. Her skull icon shows flickering through the video and then the entire video rewound to the beginning with her voice talking in the background. A few more secs and the video almost seamlessly starts at the beginning of the cinematic. The screams , the chills.... ooo you just had to be there, Nov 4th 2016 Sombra Hacked the Blizzard Main stage and showed the world the footage of her mission and it was Epic!!!!
Talon was it's own organization that formed during the Omnic Crisis. When Overwatch was still together, they fought Talon multiple times. Some former members of Overwatch joined Talon after Overwatch was disbanded; namely Gabriel Reyes and. Moira O'Deorain.
Big girl at the end is Zarya. A Former weight lifting champ turned hero for her people during Omnic war. Zarya actually uses that big gun the mech uses. With her own hands.
The game is very fast and here’s a few things you guys might have missed while watching it. Like you guys guess, she is a hacker. Sombra is Spanish for “shadow”. you guys have may have guessed, she was doing it for her own benefits, if you guys want to know more about her, I recommend you guys watch her origin story. That Jack girl with the pink hair. That’s Zarya. And for the part where Sombra went inside the same area with Katya and the two soldiers, she has the ability to go invisible, kind a like how she was doing in the very beginning of the cinematic. This may not be much but I hope it works with some information so good job reacting to these overwatch cinematics and I can’t wait to see what you guys know so far later in future videos! Great job
The post-credit woman is Zarya, the wieght-lifting champion from Russia. In a comic (which is the following one in the storyline) Zarya look for Sombra and she tries to kill her, but she finally can't.
Honor and Glory is set during the Omnic Crisis, this is during the Second Omnic Crisis. Blackwatch was a covert branch of Overwatch but things went bad and some joined Talon, Moira and Reaper.
10:40 just making some clarifications, the omnic crisis is still going on in Russia so katia volskaya is the lead director of volskaya industries which builds mecks to insure safety of Russia from the ongoing war
Around 4:10 , Hayley said "this is black watch", but it's Tallon. Blackwatch was a part of overwatch and they did the "shadier" missions. Tallon is an evil organization. Many members of black watch are/were in talon. At 5:08 Hayley says "this is back during the omnic war", it's actually in the present. The World is suffering from another omnic crisis. BTW.: the "Boop" of sombra at the nose of Katja volskaja isn't funny. At the other photo on the table we can see Katja playing with her dother and "booping" her at the nose. This means sombra knows everything about Katja, even what she plays with her daughter. This could also mean that sombra is threatening Katja with doing something to her daughter. Katja Volskaya is the owner of the organization "volskaja industrys" a rival industry of "Vishkar cooperations". You will learn more about Vishkar if u research on moyra and symmetra. I don't know much about zarya (the woman at the end). Other comments explain her better. PS. : "sombra" means shadow in Spanish and Portuguese. Sombra is Mexican. Sry for my bad English. Nice Video!!
These people are actually the best reactionists I have ever seen... They are actually really good with their facial expressions and also respond their gratitude to the directors of the cinematic game play with their hand claps✋✋👏👏👏keep it up babes, 🙏
Yes it's fun to watch you guys getting to know overwatch and liking it and hope you guys rlly play it and learn more about the overwatch origins they're very interesting to know the origins of everyone
Thank fuck ive figure out that every reaction starts 2.5 or 3 minutes after the real start of ANY video reaction on youtube BLESSED BE THE TIME SEEKING BAR
Blackwatch was the spec ops unit within Overwatch. It created after the Omnic War to combat Talon. It was first run Gerard Lacroix, husband of Amelia Lecroix who is now Widowmaker. Talon kidnapped her to make Gerard stand down, and brainwashed her into an assassin, she then returned and killed her husband. Blackwatch was then run by Gabriel Reyes, former Overwatch Commander during the war, now known as Reaper after the fall of Overwatch. And there is so much, much more.
A lot of the lore for the game doesn’t happen in these cinematics, the cinematics show what’s happening in their present ( our distant future ). If you really want to know what happened before all this, you should read the comics and watch some trailers for the game. Overwatch has A LOT of history so I can summarize it up for you. Many years ago a new advanced ai witch I believe is called Anubis starts taking control of Omnics, they start taking over the world and forming groups such as Null Sector. This new force of evil sparked a “program” called Overwatch. The original founders of overwatch are: Soldier 76 ( Jack Morrison ), Reaper ( Gabriel Reyes ), Reinhardt Wilhelm, Ana Amari, Torbjörn Lindholm and Mina Liao. With the help of other members they deafer the omnics ( this war was called: “the omnic crisis ). Years later Overwatch disbanded as it was believed to be a threat to society. At one of their bases an explosion happened killing reaper and soldier 76, or so we thought. In reality they both survived. Reaper joins the criminal organization Talon while, soldier 76 becomes a masked here. After ALL of that, ( plus way more stuff that you can read on the overwatch website ) that’s where the second short you guys saw takes place ( the first comes after that). To anyone in the comments please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks for reading.
No joke, y'all gotta watch the character backstories too. Sombra's tells you more about what's going on and her motivations for why she's looking for "friends."
So heres the lore dump for you guys Infiltration takes place after The Omnic Crisis which was the war between the omnics and humanity, and features characters Widowmaker, Reaper, introducing Sombra (this was also her introduction short into the game as well) Katya Volskaya, as well as at the very end Aleksandra Zaryanova, an already existing hero who is named Zarya for short. In the lore Zarya was an olympic body builder and during the Omnic Crisis went to fight for her country and completely hates omnics. Widowmaker uses two of her abilities in this, her grappling hook which she used to get onto the crane, and her ultimate which is called infrasight which allows both her and her teammates (in the game) to see enemies through walls. Reaper also uses one of his abilities called Wraith form (his ghostly form) to quickly travel around the factory. Sombra (who was added into the game in the next update after this short was released) uses all of her abilities except for her ultimate. One of her abilities is called Stealth which allows her to go invisible, she uses this almost the entire time during the short, she also has a hack ability that allows her to hack enemy players and health packs, however in the short she only hacks the security system and the giant robot hand, this cannot be done in game. Her final ability she uses is called translocator which is a teleporter of shorts, she throws it out to a location and can teleport to said location whenever she pleases. Now onto what happens in this short. The terrorist organization Talon sends in agents Widowmaker, Reaper, and Sombra to Volskaya Industries which is located in St. Petersburg Russia, to eliminate Katya Volskaya who is not only the woman in white, but also the CEO of Volskaya Industries. During and after the omnic crisis, having no help from Overwatch, Russia was forced to combat the omnic forces alone. Use of the Svyatogor mechs allowed them to succeed (the mechs seen in the short and the ones that reaper battles), and to this day they are still proud of their independent efforts. With the mechanized labor industry returning to prominence, Russia entered a period of economic growth. During their "infiltration" the alarm suddenly goes off without warning and Katya is moved to a safe room while reaper goes in and destroys basically everything. We find out later Sombra is the one who tripped the alarm (on purpose) because she wanted to have a chat with Katya, gets inside the safe room while invisible, kills her two guards, pulls out her earpiece (which is her comm link with widow and reaper, and has her chat with Katya. Instead of killing her like she's supposed to, Sombra keeps her alive and blackmails her in the safe room and "earns" her new "friend in a high place/position of power". After teleporting back to her translocator she puts her earpiece back in and tells the other two (widow and Reaper) that the mission is failed and that Katya escaped, which is obviously a lie. Thats the entire short explained for you guys and I'll see you in the next short :D
There is a second omnic crisis which is what they’re are preparing for. And it is talon who is attacking, this is after overwatch/black watch had been disbanded
Also you should totally watch the characters' Origin Stories along with the animated shorts, they provide a lot of info/lore about the characters and world.
I think theres a description error, it says "as we watch "The Last Bastion" but you guys are watching Infiltration, also in like 20 minutes i'll dump more lore on you guys
Make sure you guys watch the “are you with us?” Cinematic as well, it’s the short that comes up when you boot up the game and It gives context to another short that you guys haven’t reacted to yet.
Bastion's Best Bird Friend Forever is Ganemede. Been waiting for you guys to react to more overwatch animated shorts. Widowmaker actually sorta hit Katya's earring. Y'all need to watch the comics and origin stories too. They fill some of the gaps and also explains more lore and history of Overwatch ☺️. I'll be here watching it when y'all do too. Keep up the good work.
This cinematic was released at Blizzcon to introduce Sombra. The moment before the reveal all the lights went out. It was so awesome! Excited for you all to watch Honor and Glory! Also, I think the manbun works!
Sombra is part of talon but she works for her self. And when you said reaper is pissed, they are suspecting sombra. I don't want to spoil too much so I'm gonna keep this short. Keep it up, I really enjoy watching you guy's reaction
The omnic "war" isn't still going on, but there are still omniums that regularly attack humans. Even though Talon has some ex-Blackwatch members, it's not some kind of descendant of Blackwatch. Edit: Also, the "Reunion" short has a "post-credit scene" that's in a different UA-cam video. Make sure you don't miss it when you get there.
Zarya is the girl who was in the ending of the cinematic Honor and Glory is next in line then shooting star then Rise and Shine And Reunion It's reinhardt backstory and almost Bastions Backstory I guess
Theres an Overwatch comic with Zarya tracking Sombra down actually. Yall should def check the comics sometime, they have a lot of insight into the world
Sombra goes invisible, can drop a teleportation device as you saw and can hack stuff in game, in lore she's OP AF as you can clearly see. Her teleportation device is something she stole from Overwatch, some sort of tech that was maybe prototyped for Tracer, in-game when both are present in the same team, in spawn Tracer tells Sombra "Don't think I don't recognize your tech, thief" or something along those lines.
This is AFTER the initial Omnic Crisis. However, in the current present of the Overwatch timeline, conflict with the Omnics have flared up again and the Second Omnic Crisis started and it first began in Russia (Siberia, to be exact). And this short takes place at Volskaya Industries (which is also a map in the game), where they produce, amongst other things, mechs to fight against the Omnics. The lady in the white outfit is Katya Volskaya, a hero to her people and one of the most powerful and influential people of Russia. And that woman at the end is Aleksandra Zaryanova, better known as Zarya and a playable hero in game. She's legitimately one of the strongest women in the world, a world class weight lifter coming from a small village in Siberia and herself a hero to the people of Russia, becauses she gave up a promising career as an athlete to fight for her country against the Omnics.
I'm always surprised at how close, yet so far off you guys get with trying to piece together the lore. To be fair, you're doing a pretty good job though, and it really just confirms why I love the lore of the game so much already as I've played since the beta. Edit: for clarity that I'm talking to the folks in the video, not Blizzard's handling of the lore itself
Tbh, i think they are doing a rather bad job as of now. They started out very promising and it became pretty bad pretty fast after the launch. And everytime they give us tiny new tidbits of lore via these cinematics (and even of those we're getting fewer and fewer), it poses more questions than it answers. The whole deal with "First Strike" is pretty much symbolic for how Blizzard handles the lore development of Overwatch.
Yep we're trying our best! We're getting most of our lore knowledge from the cinematics which we're watching for the first time and people in the comment section explaining it to us but it's still pretty confusing for someone who's completely new to the lore:) Thanks for watching!
The “jacked” lady’s name is Zarya who is one of the strongest women in the world, and a celebrated athlete and soldier in the Russian Defense Forces. She doesn’t trust omnics and sometimes not even people who existed before the war. Zarya grew up with the post-war destruction and swore to help the people of Russia gain strength and recover. Also when Zarya says “I believe I do” after being summoned by the powerful Russian lady (Katya) she was supposed to track down Sombra. Lastly, Zarya just loves working out and eating cabbage pierogis. She’s one of the only people strong enough to hold her gun. I hope this helps though and I can’t wait for you to watch the Honor and Glory cinematic!
her full name is Aleksandra Zaryanova.
Mother russia
This such a great lore chunk. Thanks!
Let Zarya eat them pierogis
She also has one of the best voicelines, "In russia, game plays you."
the woman at the end is called aleksandra zaryanova or zarya in game. she was a famous bodybuilder who sacrificed her career in order to fight in the second omnic crisis
Oh we see. thank you so much for that piece of lore :)
AND she farts like a buffalo!
@@johnroberts7018 wtf is wrong with you
Should react to the sigma origin story, that one is disturbing
@Deylano Van der Vegte same
that's one of my favourites
@Deylano Van der Vegte same, for The Netherlands!
Definitely one of my favorite backstory videos
When overwatch became a horror movie
5 things:
1. Blackwatch is separate from Talon, though two former members of Blackwatch (Reaper and Moira) are in Talon
2. All the shorts take place during present day (relative to the game), with the exceptions of a few obvious flashbacks
3. The pink-haired jacked lady was Zarya, an athlete-turned-soldier
4. Since the Omnic Crisis, there have been a couple places where omnics have continued to attack, most prominently Siberia and eastern South Korea (who are defended by Zarya and D. Va and their organizations, respectively)
5. Sombra is mostly in Talon so she can get more info and have a wider reach and more power (hence the double-crossing)
Thank you for the explanation!:)
@@GMineo :D
Bravo. That was quite on point
ssshhh ... Rise and Shine is actually the next short in terms of release, but I'm willing to bend the rules to see Honor and Glory next.
I think both are really good
@@thefiesta2334 keep the order.
Story line they'd follow better.
Other story about Sombra
Rise and shine makes me cry every time
What’s so good about rise and shine I think it’s so boring
hailey said "its back during the omnic war" at 5:09 its is actually in the present of the overwatch timeline, russia suffered a second ominc war/omnic crisis
The Siberian Omnium was never destroyed, unlike the Detroit, Numbani, and Outback Omniums. It just went dormant after they realized the First War was lost.
It’s only Korea and Russia that have current omnic uprisings right?
@@ryan5494 Yep! I believe Busan's omnium is underwater, which is why they can't get to it?
They are all stupid to the lore
@@yorukage5926 Doesn't help that they talk over a bunch of the dialog that would help explain where they are in the timeline, heh.
Widowmaker didn't miss the shot at all, she hit katya volskaya's earring
So she missed? Wasn’t the point to kill her not scare her
@@noranow9531 You can't miss what you can't hit. Katya's head was behind the door, so Widow hit the tiny little speck that was available
@@PuppetPumm3l technically with katyas movement, if widowmaker had waited a second longer she would be in her sight and could kill her, its just the point for the cinematic that she misses and then sombra has to take over.
Idk all the boosted plat players in my lobby’s miss shots as widow so I do think she can miss
So in her head hit box this game is broken that’s a headshot lmaooooo 💀
The characters in this are members of Talon, a terrorist organization. Talon has former Blackwatch members, aka Reaper and Moira. But Talon and Blackwatch are two separate groups.
Sombra doesn’t pick to be on a specific “side”, good or bad. She does things for herself and will use anyone she has to, to do it
Yet Reaper and Widow know she's not to be trusted. Sombra may think she's clever, but a former blackwatch member and assassin should easily see through her
Oooh okay that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying:)
Don’t forget Baptiste, well he wasn’t a part of Blackwatch he was a part of Talon
@@GMineo yea there are comics that showed Reaper talking about how he knows Sombra is playing but he's letting it go for now because Talon has much grander plans to think of.
They said though that she helped Bap at finding Mercy ( Not sure if it's true ) . So I guess they're friends?
And that OWL spray makes me think she's friends with Mccree, Zarya, and Hanzo. ( I think she's the one who told Mccree about Echo's been in that train. So he took that chip and retrieved her ( He was Mina's bodyguard so he was so close to her so maybe that's why he has the chip ) )
Yay, I've been waiting for this!!
SAME!!!!
Same!!
Sombra has the best cinematic in my opinion so me TOO
i know right 😂😂😂
Fun fact: you can actually see that woman's earring get hit when Widowmaker tries to snipe her :)
the name of the woman is katya volskaya btw and thx for the info ^w^
@@ekcirsuany5807 ah thx, it's been a while since I looked at Overwatch lore
So I guess widowmaker didn't miss
I love these tiny details
@@famidkwhatmylastnamewouldb4242 maybe she really wants that earring
heck yes. i’m so excited for you guys to play this game
another daily lore dump: the woman that Widowmaker was targeting is named Volskaya. If you remember from the first cinematic, each country defended the omnics in their own way. Russia’s way was to build those robots and she was the leader of the company that built them.
game info: Sombra is super hard to play but is O.P. if used correctly. She hacks other characters and keeps them from using their abilities
Er... ok before I say this just know that as far as time played... I am a Sombra Main (At 27 hours played with the second being D.Va / Mercy at 16 Hours each)
Sombra is actually the WEAKEST character in the game. HOWEVER, she is also the most useful. Her abilities ALL OF THEM deal 0 damage to enemies... and offer no shut down type abilities such as Ana's Sleep Dart, Lucio's er... boop(?), or anything along those lines.
Her hacking abilities are where she shines and helps her team win... though don't mistake this for being OP. IMO, Sigma or Echo would be the most OP character in the game currently. Sombar would be at the very bottom of that list. For me as a Logician she presents an option for picking a more tactical type character... though she falls into what I call the Finesse Character Type. Meaning she takes a VERY HIGH SKILL level to play and play well. This is a character type I usually stay away from. But in Sombra's case... it presented an interesting challenge to me.
Ok why do I think she is the weakest?
First off her main and only weapon is actually the weakest damage per shot in the game. D.Va's pistol is actually stronger... The only saving grace here is the clip size is huge compared to all other glass cannons, also her reload is by far the most insane of all characters, I think only Mcree, Junkrat, Symmetra and Soldier: 76 have faster reloads.
Her Hacking skill while it does have a short CD, is way too short ranged and interrupted by ANY Damage taken. It only last 4 seconds as well, when used on enemies. But it does keep enemies form using anything other than their main weapon for those 4 seconds. Also it makes Ults either not charge or unuseable for the time. Makes it easy to get say a Bastion out of turret mode or shut down a Torbjorn turret. Sadly though both of these can gun her down before she get's it off if they start attacking her.
Her Ultimate while being one of the shorter ults to charge does the exact same thing as her hacking ability only in an AOE centered on her... basically to be effective she has to survive long enough in the danger zone to have it cast... like any other character if she dies mid animation of their ult it's gone and has no effect. Rare to happen but it can. Her ult is also the only ult in the game that can remove a Symmetra Ult. It will also stop other ults....... the same as just killing the character out right.
Her teleportation is a lot better know then when she was first released... it use to have a 5 second timer. Meaning if the timer ended before you used it, it would disappear. But it still has a limited range... though I'm not sure how far that range is. It's also destroyable just like any other character ability that places an item. Though it's far worse if someone finds it... and doesn't destroy it. They can easily ambush you getting a free kill. I've been camped a few times by this tactic. Basically it's a flee mechanic, allows her to get in poke some damage or use her ultimate and get out.
Her cloak... oh boy is this uselessly useful. Pretty much the only time I even use this is to navigate the map faster. It has a short timer on it meaning you can try to get from cover to cover without being noticed... or hope they don't notice you because you do have a slight shimmer to you as you run around. It does increase your speed and make you harder to spot... but nothing more. You can still just as easily die to a Widowmaker snipe if they know what to look for or are using their ult. It also makes you unable to capture points... you have to be visible to do so. I have seen games won by players using this ability to sneak past the enemy team and push payloads to the winning area... I chop this up to idiots not paying attention the payload position while "chasing kills".
Her passive is... sort of useful. Basically it allows her to see low health characters regardless of where they are. Though I've found this is either useless seeing as they'll just grab a quick health pack or have one of the team healers heal them up losing any sight advantage on them it gives. Basically it helps finding an easy target... so long as that player is stupid enough not to seek out healing knowing there's a Sombra on the enemy team.
If you won't a better understanding of why I think she's the weakest but the funniest character to win with. Just try beating one of the (currently 3) anniversary maps with her on anything above easy mode. You'll quickly see her damage output and hacking skills aren't as OP as people think. Along side this you'll find that Brigitte is also the WORST HEALER EVER!! Fun to win with... but bad at the assigned Role.
@@natanislikens okay some of what you said made sense and others didn't. Sombra is by far not the weakest and you are making that assumption based on arcade modes. Go to comp and get some evidence, I am a 3800 player and sombra is fairly strong. Yeah she is op she is just annoying but there is counter play. Tbh it doesn't seem like you have a good playstyle for her so maybe watch Fitzy if you haven't. She really isn't a hero meant for gold damage but emp is easily one of the best ults in the game.
We're excited to play too! Maybe we'll try out Sombra:D
Talon's got agents from former Blackwatch but generates from others and is a terrorist organisation. I think it was already active when Overwatch was still something. Their goal is to wreak havoc a bit everywhere for their leader, Doomfist, or Akande Ogundimu, thinks that the only way for humanity to evolve is through conflict.
I don't think it's clearly stated that Talon is against omnics, but they certainly use their conflict with humans as a further means to achieve their goals.
The Blackwatch agents that went to Talon were mainly people that didn't agree with the working policy of Overwatch and the government; Science was heavily watched and controlled and many operations were seen as scandalous and thus could not be undertaken. Even by Blackwatch sometimes.
As a matter of fact, it is the breakthrough of certain Blackwatch's covert operations to the public that initiated the shutdown of Overwatch.
Doomfist is not the leader. Reaper is. Actually no Max the omnic is. Doomfist came in after reaper, while max has been in power for a while since the omnic crisis if I'm not mistaken. The chain is Max, Reaper, then Doomfist
@@yorukage5926 Reaper isnt the leader
@@lukeman4264 Can u read? He said Reaper is the leader but then he changed his mind and said that Reaper is like a co-leader and Maximilian (This one Omnic dude) is the Leader...
Doomfist is the leader
Thank you for the explanation!
At the start of a match in game, characters will talk to each other and give little story clues. Recently they added a voiceline between Reaper and Widowmaker implying that Reaper knows that Sombra is working behind their backs, but that she still has uses for them.
Additionally to answer some questions, Talon has been around for about as long as Overwatch has. Before Reaper was Reaper he was the head of Blackwatch. During a mission Gabriel Reyes (Reaper) opted to kill a Talon leader instead of taking them in. This Blackwatch killing became the basis for the Petras Act that ultimately forced Overwatch to shut down.
that was also shown in the masquerade comic, so it's not new information. the interaction is pretty cool though
The omnic war was years ago, this was sometime after Winston’s recall
Or right before. The timing is kinda murky and there's nothing to indicate when this short happens.
Oh, and IIRC, in Recall Winston was watching a news report about fighting against Omnics going on in Russia right before Reaper invaded his base.
Thank you for clarifying!
G-Mineo i believe that most of the cinematics take place during the second omnic crisis, which happened after the petras act and was the reason Winston recalled Overwatch
8:59 Marc they are called heroes in this game not champions you are playing too much league
Yeah 😂
get them to play overwatch
The Lady in the end is Aleksandra Zaryanova aka Zarya and she was an weightlifter and the strongest woman in the world.
Rise and Shine is actuallythe next one I believe, then Honor and Glory.
That 2 story is separate and not continuous to it doesn't matter which one first.
And reunion
@@Reno.1101 I'm just talking in order of release. Most of these could honestly be watched in any which way and it not matter.
Is it just me that read rise and shine like the meme
Carolina Ravassa is an amazing actress and is probably the best pick to play Sombra, she does such a wonderful job with her voice!
The pink haired muscle lady was Aleksandra Zaryanova, aka Zarya.
She is the national hero of russia.
Sadly she does not apear in any other cinematic.
She does appear in this comic, though. static.playoverwatch.com/media/comics/15/en-us/comic-overwatch-searching.pdf
Igor P. YET
She's not a likeable character
@@Prism_Hearts well you'r right
Thank you for letting us know!
I’ve been playing overwatch for over 2 years, and have seen all of these clips at least 3 times each, yet every time I watch these vids I enjoy them, and it’s something I look forward to every week!!
We're having a great time watching them too! We're always so blown away by the production level and writing for each one:)
eyyyyy sombra my main. i have been waiting for this since the start of this series
Just to avoid confusion this is talon. Blackwatch was a covert ops unit of overwatch led by Gabriel Reyes aka reaper. Long story short, reaper was horribly disfigured after he blew up a Swiss overwatch base. He was then helped by moira, a member of talon, and became reaper. Him, moira, doomfist(who isn't in a cinematic yet), Maximilian(An rich omnic), and Sanje corpal(The creator of hardlight)are the leaders of talon
“So she does miss”... not when she can actually see her target. She took the best shot she had, and it was pretty damn close, if the state of Katya’s earring is any indication.
'me being an overwatch nerd dying'
I'll explain everything
So this animated short is in Russia where they still got the omnic crisis, I think it's because overwatch got shut down before they reached Russia or Russia did not want help. Sombra, reaper, widowmaker, doomfist, moira and the latest one sigma is part of a rasict organisation called talon that overwatch faught against, but talon had friends in the gouverment and after the retribution talon got a tighter grip around overwatch and after a while was a part of shuting them down. Talon stayed intact and safe by the Petras Act laws that forbid all overwatch activity, now to the story for Sombra my favorite OW "hero"😏
Sombra's real name Olivia Colomar. Olivia's parents where killed in the omnic crisis in Mexico, which left her as an orphant as many others.
She grew up in a time of Mexico called "La Medianoche" which is spanish for "the midnight", there was lack of electricity and the country was left dark to rebuild after the omnic crisis. A corporation called Lumerico rised and gave electricity to Mexico once again, but in the ashes of it other groups rised one called Los Muertos that also was rasict against omnics. The young Olivia had a natural gift of hacking and used it for Los Muertos and against Lumerico, she is still torturing Lumerico today. But after Los Muertos she found a bigger client for her skill, Talon. After some work in the dark for Talon she was noticed hacking (for the first time) and she was forced to delete all her past information and soon she took the alias Sombra, when she got noticed she decided to uppgrade to her curent state. She is a walking master hacker computer, after joining the ranks of Talon she became a special agent and rised quickly to hight levels. She is a big part of many Talon operations and huge cyber attacks. Now reaper know she's dubble crossed them with Volskya, same with the leader, Doomfist.
I recomend the channel TGN and the video "the complete lore of Overwatch"
Good stuff, bless up dude 🙏🙏
The woman with pink hair at the end is named Zarya who is also a playable character in the game
This is after the first omnic war and before the “second” omnic war
It's not before the second, the second already started in the animated short released with overwatch 2.
6:58 thanks for making me deaf
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet but you can notice the difference between Reaper and Soldier 76. Soldier was more animalistic when fighting against Los Muertos. You can hear his grunts and the sheer force of each punch. Reaper only incapacitated them. If they couldn't fight back then he would stop. It's strange because Soldier is the good guy and Reaper is the bad guy but Soldier was crueler to Los Muertos. Then again, they were a crime gang so maybe Soldier had the right to. Maybe the reason Reaper didn't kill anyone was because Russia is still in their own omnic war, but if he's thinking like that then is he really a bad guy?
Sombra in spanish means "shadow" which is pretty neat if you see her origin story video. How she sticks to the shadows and how, all anyone can figure out about her is that her (codename) is Sombra. Honestly this is my favorite cinematic.
( Which is biased since I main her
; v ; )
When widow maker shot it hit her earring so she never misses ;)
Watching Haley become a lore master makes me so proud! Actually the video is on the present day but Russia is preparing for a 2nd omnic war! :D
Thank you Nyfriom!:D I didn't know there we're more uprisings after the first!
Talon is the enemy of Overwatch. Talon doesn’t have any ties to Overwatch. Blackwatch was a secret division in Overwatch which disbanded before Gabriel Reyes turned into Reaper. This video is post Omnic War and their going in to a new war that’s why they were talking about getting ready their new Omniums for a new attack. I just thought I’d write to clear it out.
Lol. “That’s a nice rug” here for quality content, folks. Love you’re reactions. Make sure you do the origin stories, too.
Hahahah you caught that. And thank you we will try to make sure to deliver ❤️
Hahahah you caught that. And thank you we will try to make sure to deliver ❤️
I like the guesses you guys do, they are close but missing so much lol. By the way, the "BOOP!" thing from Sombra is actually really scary and threatening. One of the photos Katya Volskaya (her new friend) has is one of her doing the same thing to her daughter (7:49 in this video, if you want to check it out). That was a statement, like "even when you think you are safe and private, I'm there. I know everything about you"
this is my favorite short! she's my main and i've been waiting for this reaction! :D you guys make me laugh so much ngl
oh! when you guys are done with the animated shorts, you should watch the origin stories! they're very short (usually about a minute or two) and give a lot of backstory to the characters. it might help you understand the world of overwatch a bit more.
Awesome thank you for the rec!
Infiltración is my favorite cinematic and congratulaciones haley for doing your homework :3
Blackwatch was a subgroup in Overwatch, and they were in charge of the shadier missions (one of them you can play while the Archives event in game). They are one of the reasons why Overwatch was disbanded. Some Blackwatch members turned to Talon, like Reaper and Moira. But others, like Genji (from Dragons) and McCree (will be presented in other cinematic) are still in Overwatch.
This Cinematic right here was my absolute favorite. It was revealed at Blizzcon 2016 in November. They kicked off a video showing the the hard work coming in from different locations to made Overwatch’s official launch in May of 2016 possible. Clipped in were lots of fans from all over the world waiting in line, in cosplay, and just showing love for the game. “Jeff Kaplan” (Game direction for overwatch) speaks and talks about its development, Clips of play testing and coded screen. The crowd is loving it, the video went on for a couple more seconds as what looks like Error codes show up on the team’s computer screens. The Video feed starts glitching and gets pixelated. Oooo the Chills, the video feed gets more distorted and the audio Bugs out, more chills. Her skull icon shows flickering through the video and then the entire video rewound to the beginning with her voice talking in the background. A few more secs and the video almost seamlessly starts at the beginning of the cinematic. The screams , the chills.... ooo you just had to be there, Nov 4th 2016 Sombra Hacked the Blizzard Main stage and showed the world the footage of her mission and it was Epic!!!!
And the buff lady is Zarya. She used to be an Olympic champion (weight lifting) but had to leave it behind to fight in the first omnic war.
9:50 "obviously haley later it out"
Hayley : Oh no...I almost Forgot about that
You should check out how blizzard released sombra with an ARG (alternate reality game) it was really cool.
Talon was it's own organization that formed during the Omnic Crisis. When Overwatch was still together, they fought Talon multiple times.
Some former members of Overwatch joined Talon after Overwatch was disbanded; namely Gabriel Reyes and. Moira O'Deorain.
you guys should REALLY watch the reveal of sombra at blizzcon 2016. it was soooooo good.
Zayra competed in the Olympics for Russia and won with a world record lift of 512 Kilograms -- this is why she has 512 tattooed on her left arm.
Love watching These cant wait to see the rest of this series and videos of you guys playing the game
Reaper and widowmaker are Talon, black watch was way before, so this is current
I love this! Can you guys please react to some of the origin stories next once you are done with the animated shorts? Btw again I love your channel!
Big girl at the end is Zarya. A Former weight lifting champ turned hero for her people during Omnic war. Zarya actually uses that big gun the mech uses. With her own hands.
YOU DID NOT have to do her dirty with the pageant clip 😂
the lady in the post credits is Zarya. another character thats super cool
I can't watch this without having to turn down the volume every time with how loud y'all get xD
There are a few emotional animated shorts coming up so be ready. And btw love your reactions!
The game is very fast and here’s a few things you guys might have missed while watching it. Like you guys guess, she is a hacker. Sombra is Spanish for “shadow”. you guys have may have guessed, she was doing it for her own benefits, if you guys want to know more about her, I recommend you guys watch her origin story. That Jack girl with the pink hair. That’s Zarya. And for the part where Sombra went inside the same area with Katya and the two soldiers, she has the ability to go invisible, kind a like how she was doing in the very beginning of the cinematic. This may not be much but I hope it works with some information so good job reacting to these overwatch cinematics and I can’t wait to see what you guys know so far later in future videos! Great job
The post-credit woman is Zarya, the wieght-lifting champion from Russia. In a comic (which is the following one in the storyline) Zarya look for Sombra and she tries to kill her, but she finally can't.
There is a second omnic uprising in Russia at the time of the cinematic
Sombra actually means "shadow" in spanish.
Always loving these vids :)
Honor and Glory is set during the Omnic Crisis, this is during the Second Omnic Crisis. Blackwatch was a covert branch of Overwatch but things went bad and some joined Talon, Moira and Reaper.
“So she does miss”
That cracks me up so bad 😂😂😂
OK, I love that you guys used the Miss Teen South Carolina clip as 2:52, lol.
Hahahah such an Iconic moment
Also congrats on 14k you guys deserve it 😃
10:40 just making some clarifications, the omnic crisis is still going on in Russia so katia volskaya is the lead director of volskaya industries which builds mecks to insure safety of Russia from the ongoing war
Around 4:10 , Hayley said "this is black watch", but it's Tallon. Blackwatch was a part of overwatch and they did the "shadier" missions. Tallon is an evil organization. Many members of black watch are/were in talon.
At 5:08 Hayley says "this is back during the omnic war", it's actually in the present. The World is suffering from another omnic crisis.
BTW.: the "Boop" of sombra at the nose of Katja volskaja isn't funny. At the other photo on the table we can see Katja playing with her dother and "booping" her at the nose. This means sombra knows everything about Katja, even what she plays with her daughter. This could also mean that sombra is threatening Katja with doing something to her daughter.
Katja Volskaya is the owner of the organization "volskaja industrys" a rival industry of "Vishkar cooperations". You will learn more about Vishkar if u research on moyra and symmetra.
I don't know much about zarya (the woman at the end). Other comments explain her better.
PS. : "sombra" means shadow in Spanish and Portuguese. Sombra is Mexican.
Sry for my bad English.
Nice Video!!
I didn't catch the other photo for the boop reference. Good catch.
4:08 Reaper was in blackwatch when he was human but they re team is called "Talon" they arent really the good people so yeah :))
These people are actually the best reactionists I have ever seen... They are actually really good with their facial expressions and also respond their gratitude to the directors of the cinematic game play with their hand claps✋✋👏👏👏keep it up babes, 🙏
Yes it's fun to watch you guys getting to know overwatch and liking it and hope you guys rlly play it and learn more about the overwatch origins they're very interesting to know the origins of everyone
Thank fuck ive figure out that every reaction starts 2.5 or 3 minutes after the real start of ANY video reaction on youtube BLESSED BE THE TIME SEEKING BAR
Funny how they failed to notice how reaper utterly pulverized that giant mech, lol
Blackwatch was the spec ops unit within Overwatch. It created after the Omnic War to combat Talon. It was first run Gerard Lacroix, husband of Amelia Lecroix who is now Widowmaker. Talon kidnapped her to make Gerard stand down, and brainwashed her into an assassin, she then returned and killed her husband. Blackwatch was then run by Gabriel Reyes, former Overwatch Commander during the war, now known as Reaper after the fall of Overwatch. And there is so much, much more.
A lot of the lore for the game doesn’t happen in these cinematics, the cinematics show what’s happening in their present ( our distant future ). If you really want to know what happened before all this, you should read the comics and watch some trailers for the game. Overwatch has A LOT of history so I can summarize it up for you.
Many years ago a new advanced ai witch I believe is called Anubis starts taking control of Omnics, they start taking over the world and forming groups such as Null Sector. This new force of evil sparked a “program” called Overwatch. The original founders of overwatch are: Soldier 76 ( Jack Morrison ), Reaper ( Gabriel Reyes ), Reinhardt Wilhelm, Ana Amari, Torbjörn Lindholm and Mina Liao. With the help of other members they deafer the omnics ( this war was called: “the omnic crisis ). Years later Overwatch disbanded as it was believed to be a threat to society.
At one of their bases an explosion happened killing reaper and soldier 76, or so we thought. In reality they both survived. Reaper joins the criminal organization Talon while, soldier 76 becomes a masked here.
After ALL of that, ( plus way more stuff that you can read on the overwatch website ) that’s where the second short you guys saw takes place ( the first comes after that).
To anyone in the comments please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks for reading.
there's sooooo many of these ya'll need to start cranking out these videos faster guys these videos are awesome!
Fun fact in the game reaper has a line with widow saying “i know what sombra has been up to”
lmao I was wondering when you'd post something overwatch related and checked your channel, to find you JUST posted this
No joke, y'all gotta watch the character backstories too. Sombra's tells you more about what's going on and her motivations for why she's looking for "friends."
So heres the lore dump for you guys
Infiltration takes place after The Omnic Crisis which was the war between the omnics and humanity, and features characters Widowmaker, Reaper, introducing Sombra (this was also her introduction short into the game as well) Katya Volskaya, as well as at the very end Aleksandra Zaryanova, an already existing hero who is named Zarya for short. In the lore Zarya was an olympic body builder and during the Omnic Crisis went to fight for her country and completely hates omnics. Widowmaker uses two of her abilities in this, her grappling hook which she used to get onto the crane, and her ultimate which is called infrasight which allows both her and her teammates (in the game) to see enemies through walls. Reaper also uses one of his abilities called Wraith form (his ghostly form) to quickly travel around the factory. Sombra (who was added into the game in the next update after this short was released) uses all of her abilities except for her ultimate. One of her abilities is called Stealth which allows her to go invisible, she uses this almost the entire time during the short, she also has a hack ability that allows her to hack enemy players and health packs, however in the short she only hacks the security system and the giant robot hand, this cannot be done in game. Her final ability she uses is called translocator which is a teleporter of shorts, she throws it out to a location and can teleport to said location whenever she pleases. Now onto what happens in this short.
The terrorist organization Talon sends in agents Widowmaker, Reaper, and Sombra to Volskaya Industries which is located in St. Petersburg Russia, to eliminate Katya Volskaya who is not only the woman in white, but also the CEO of Volskaya Industries. During and after the omnic crisis, having no help from Overwatch, Russia was forced to combat the omnic forces alone. Use of the Svyatogor mechs allowed them to succeed (the mechs seen in the short and the ones that reaper battles), and to this day they are still proud of their independent efforts. With the mechanized labor industry returning to prominence, Russia entered a period of economic growth. During their "infiltration" the alarm suddenly goes off without warning and Katya is moved to a safe room while reaper goes in and destroys basically everything. We find out later Sombra is the one who tripped the alarm (on purpose) because she wanted to have a chat with Katya, gets inside the safe room while invisible, kills her two guards, pulls out her earpiece (which is her comm link with widow and reaper, and has her chat with Katya. Instead of killing her like she's supposed to, Sombra keeps her alive and blackmails her in the safe room and "earns" her new "friend in a high place/position of power". After teleporting back to her translocator she puts her earpiece back in and tells the other two (widow and Reaper) that the mission is failed and that Katya escaped, which is obviously a lie.
Thats the entire short explained for you guys and I'll see you in the next short :D
There is a second omnic crisis which is what they’re are preparing for. And it is talon who is attacking, this is after overwatch/black watch had been disbanded
Also you should totally watch the characters' Origin Stories along with the animated shorts, they provide a lot of info/lore about the characters and world.
The lady in white is miss volskaya ( so the CEO yk) from volskaya industries ( also an overwatch map to play) who builds robots against the omnics
I think theres a description error, it says "as we watch "The Last Bastion" but you guys are watching Infiltration, also in like 20 minutes i'll dump more lore on you guys
Make sure you guys watch the “are you with us?” Cinematic as well, it’s the short that comes up when you boot up the game and It gives context to another short that you guys haven’t reacted to yet.
I really like watching you reacting to overwatch cinematics
Bastion's Best Bird Friend Forever is Ganemede. Been waiting for you guys to react to more overwatch animated shorts.
Widowmaker actually sorta hit Katya's earring.
Y'all need to watch the comics and origin stories too. They fill some of the gaps and also explains more lore and history of Overwatch ☺️. I'll be here watching it when y'all do too. Keep up the good work.
Marc gives me mercy main who secretly craves destruction so plays sombra, and then D.va when he’s forced to play tank.
I love your guesses right or wrong, i just started watching these and I've gone through a bunch already
Hope you stick around :) ❤️
This cinematic was released at Blizzcon to introduce Sombra. The moment before the reveal all the lights went out. It was so awesome! Excited for you all to watch Honor and Glory! Also, I think the manbun works!
Sombra is part of talon but she works for her self. And when you said reaper is pissed, they are suspecting sombra. I don't want to spoil too much so I'm gonna keep this short. Keep it up, I really enjoy watching you guy's reaction
The omnic "war" isn't still going on, but there are still omniums that regularly attack humans.
Even though Talon has some ex-Blackwatch members, it's not some kind of descendant of Blackwatch.
Edit: Also, the "Reunion" short has a "post-credit scene" that's in a different UA-cam video. Make sure you don't miss it when you get there.
Great stuff guys, you have much to go through still. I envy you guys I wish I could watch this stuff first time all over again.
Zarya is the girl who was in the ending of the cinematic Honor and Glory is next in line then shooting star then Rise and Shine And Reunion
It's reinhardt backstory and almost Bastions Backstory I guess
Theres an Overwatch comic with Zarya tracking Sombra down actually. Yall should def check the comics sometime, they have a lot of insight into the world
Sombra goes invisible, can drop a teleportation device as you saw and can hack stuff in game, in lore she's OP AF as you can clearly see. Her teleportation device is something she stole from Overwatch, some sort of tech that was maybe prototyped for Tracer, in-game when both are present in the same team, in spawn Tracer tells Sombra "Don't think I don't recognize your tech, thief" or something along those lines.
The woman in the ending is Zarya if you wanted to know ^^
it was actually revealed that reaper was aware that sombra let her live and him and talon wanted to try and use it to their benefit
read the comics too. they have lore even more lore about talon, blackwatch. how overwatch disbanded ect. one comic takes place right after this short
This is AFTER the initial Omnic Crisis. However, in the current present of the Overwatch timeline, conflict with the Omnics have flared up again and the Second Omnic Crisis started and it first began in Russia (Siberia, to be exact). And this short takes place at Volskaya Industries (which is also a map in the game), where they produce, amongst other things, mechs to fight against the Omnics. The lady in the white outfit is Katya Volskaya, a hero to her people and one of the most powerful and influential people of Russia.
And that woman at the end is Aleksandra Zaryanova, better known as Zarya and a playable hero in game. She's legitimately one of the strongest women in the world, a world class weight lifter coming from a small village in Siberia and herself a hero to the people of Russia, becauses she gave up a promising career as an athlete to fight for her country against the Omnics.
I'm always surprised at how close, yet so far off you guys get with trying to piece together the lore. To be fair, you're doing a pretty good job though, and it really just confirms why I love the lore of the game so much already as I've played since the beta.
Edit: for clarity that I'm talking to the folks in the video, not Blizzard's handling of the lore itself
Tbh, i think they are doing a rather bad job as of now. They started out very promising and it became pretty bad pretty fast after the launch. And everytime they give us tiny new tidbits of lore via these cinematics (and even of those we're getting fewer and fewer), it poses more questions than it answers. The whole deal with "First Strike" is pretty much symbolic for how Blizzard handles the lore development of Overwatch.
Yep we're trying our best! We're getting most of our lore knowledge from the cinematics which we're watching for the first time and people in the comment section explaining it to us but it's still pretty confusing for someone who's completely new to the lore:) Thanks for watching!
I keep finding myself anxiously awaiting the next episode of this
More more more!!! I love the reactions
"Honor and Glory" or "Rise and Shine" next! I want to see tears!!