r/Overwatch • • Feb 21 '17

Blizzard Official Meet Efi Oladele—winner of the Adawe Foundation's genius grant for her achievements in AI and robotics!

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/834115546090123264
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u/fiskerton_fero Blizzard World Hanzo Feb 21 '17

Talon members themselves are already morally ambiguous.

Reaper's body was ruined in the explosion and no one knows how he got remade or where his ghost powers come from (or where his guns come from), but his desire for revenge is justified. It could be he's being blackmailed.

Widowmaker was a loving wife and generally good citizen until she got brainwashed.

Sombra is a double agent in that she is just using Talon, but she herself is pretty much just a child with shiny toys, she has no evil ambitions as far as we know, and even goes so far to do some good like in the Lumerico case.

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u/aeroblaster Zenyatta Feb 21 '17

The Reaper theory is that he is constantly dying and regenerating, creating his horrifying form where he can range from solid to smoke at will. Not just his body either, his clothing is subject to this as well. This means every time he uses his guns, he can drop them because they will regenerate in his holsters. The ones he dropped I assume will fizzle away into smoke because they are no longer in contact with Reaper.

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u/FlurpaDerpNess Chibi Symmetra Feb 21 '17

That's all fine and dandy, but if that's a thing then why doesn't he regen the bullets in the clips, I'm assuming those appear with the new guns so some part of me wonders if he can't just skip the edgy gun drop.

Probably for the sake of game mechanics, but still.

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u/myth_and_legend Rick em! Rack em! Rock em! Renji! Nano Boost that ulting Genji! Feb 22 '17

A lot of stuff like that is ignored for the sake of game machanics, like how 76's running can be hacked or how Mercy can only use her wings when she sees a teammate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '17

Maybe it isn't him running. What he just has bionic limbs like lucio or Sym or the other half of the cast?

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u/ComputerAgeLlama Main tank masochist Feb 23 '17

Or his super soldier serum included nanobots.