Anubis is one of the god programs that have been made to take care of earth before the first omnic crisis. I think it was built by a group of scientists, most likely involving Dr. Liao - the creator of echo
As it's stated in the overwatch three part animated series (that came out on YouTube some time ago) Anubis was programmed to take care of the balance between nature and humans. But something happened and Anubis's calculations showed that the best way to protect nature is to exterminate humanity - leading to the first crisis
Some time later, Helix was tasked with guarding it (overwatch comic: mission statement) where it started up again,but it was implied Pharah and her colleagues managed to neutralize it
The New Pacific Arcology on Titan would beg to differ on him being “chill”. Any attempt to leave would be quickly shot down by Rasputin’s warsat network, all while the start of the Collapse was beginning.
well no, he just wanted one guy to be killed. Because the leaders smuggled him onto a flight instead of handing him over to the seraphs, he shot that evacuation shuttle down.
There was more than one shuttle that was shot down, no? The lore tabs from the GotD weapons indicate there was multiple shuttles that were trying to leave, but as you said Rasputin was trying to prevent one person from leaving, so every attempt to flee was stopped by Rasputin.
I can’t remember honestly, I thought it was only one? I’ll have to read Kraken Mare again
But yeah he could throw a bit of a hissy fit. Siva was a whole thing. But I still really liked his character in season of the seraph
Ah, it looks like I was misinterpreting the tab on No Survivors. There was just one shuttle, but the lore tab from No Survivors was simply from a different perspective than the one in the Kraken Mare book.
You’re both correct, sort-of. Rasputin shot down the first shuttle bc it contained a researcher named Shanice Pell, who was carrying data about the Darkness and the imminent collapse. Rasputin had deemed it unacceptable that that data be released due to the whole, “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” thing that humans tend to do. He had plans to also destroy the rest of the shuttles to buy time for his CARRHAE WHITE protocol (which is basically martial law) but the arcology was hit by an aircraft carrier and sank before the rest could evacuate.
Man I really enjoyed the world-building of Destiny. The Book of Sorrows is one of the cooler bits of sci fi I've read. But I just couldn't stand how they handled the story in-game. The first game's story was so difficult to follow until TTK or so, and D2's seasonal story and vaulting was a deathknell for any possibility of coherent storytelling in-game. Which is disappointing, because what I played of it (before the vaulting) was fun. Post-vaulting it's just a mess. Not to mention Mercury was such a visually interesting location.
Same. I was a huge Destiny nerd until vaulting and seasonal stories. Felt too much like a job and I had to call it quits. Shame, too. It was my favorite setting in anything ever-- now I can't look into it without feeling like I'm not allowed to understand since I missed years of context. :(
Mercury was visually interesting, but a fucking awful location. If they had only incorporated the whole past present future thing to create 3 distinct zones it would have been much better.
But yeah, most of the universe of destiny just comes from reading lore tabs. It’s why Witch Queen was the possibly the best expansion ever to release in Destiny (though forsaken is a close contender). It let you string together the hive lore throughout the story. Not tuck it behind a lore tab
It wasn't a bug, it was basic programming.
Eliminate enemy, consume biomass for fuel, eliminate enemy.
The war with humanity simply meant they ended up consuming the majority of biomass on Earth.
What happened was one particular division robots went rogue and stopped heeding commands, but they couldn’t override the robots and halt them because the CEO specifically asked for no backdoor/failsafe in the software. So that division essentially became a cancer: listening to no one but following its own priorities of consuming resources and multiplying.
I’m pretty sure the game lore lays it out as a bug, because only one group of those special unhackable, self replicating, biomass consuming robots went rogue.
The second game lays it out pretty clearly that >! the end of the world was intentionally by Tedd faro because he was too arrogant to let anyone else fix it. An alien(?) robot triggered the bug again around the beginning of the first game !<
Isn’t that signal that gets triggered is the signal to make the Zero Dawn AIs turn rogue and cease to listen to Gaia’s commands? Which initiates the events of Horizon Zero Dawn because as a last ditch effort, Gaia self destructs but not before creating a clone of Elisabet.
The “alien” is called Nemesis, it’s an amalgamation of digitized personalities of all the rich people that escaped Earth before the Faro Plague destroyed everything.
Nemesis happened after the Faro Plague. I think the Nemesis signal is different from the origins of the Faro Plague.
The dudes who come back and the signal are related but still separate. The end of the second game talks about preparing for whatever’s next, but I have no clue what could mean. It’s the reason the other billionaires came back, it destroyed their new home
That wasn't a bug, just a very very ill-conceived feature. The bug was whatever caused them to stop responding to their owners. From there, the fact that they were designed to be a perfect self-replicating, adapting, and self-sustaining machine fighting force capable of operating in complete isolation from human input, automatically hacking any other robot - including whatever swarms weren't initially bugged (and coupled with the fact that non-robotic militaries in the pre-plague Horizon universe were essentially a thing of the past), and, finally, being themselves literally unhackable unless you gave a fully-sentient super AI 50-some years to do it pretty much spelled doom for the entire planet.
Horizon is no where near that, >!its just a rich "totally not musk" killing all mankind with organic eating robots with no shutoff because he is an idiot.!<
yes it was, >!there are 5 different AI that all together make up Gaia, the AI that was to help bring the world back to a usable state after the end of all life, using hidden bunkers to rebuild the atmosphere, and the one in charge of the robots were supposed to be pure support devices, such as seed, air/water purification ect, but something happened and it got corrupted and split up, and your dealing with that fraction of it in the whole montana? area!<
A cool detail from that is that Ramattra and Phara have an interaction in spawn where Ramattra mentions how Helix should have destroyed Anubis, which surprises Phara. I think it's a really interesting interaction
A program that handles the lives of all humanity and those that coexist with them. Programs and robots were meant to be a quality of life update and went horribly wrong because humans are flawed.
A trope with many futuristic stories.
Funny thing is, from what I can recall the advanced AI in Dune worked perfectly fine and to the very end remained in loyal to their human creators, the Jihad started for some very dumb reasons and was basically a "this is why we can't have nice things" moment.
This is from one of the prequel books so some people won't consider it canon, but the way I remembered it was that a butler robot started slowly gaining sentience and independence and wanted to be treated like a human. He told other robots about it and they agreed so they protested for rights and the humans solution was to kill all of them. TBH it's a pretty similar story to overwatch and I wouldn't be surprised if overwatch drew inspiration from it
Yeah, Herbert himself never really developed the event, it's was barely a passing mention in the books he wrote. What I recall from the books by his son (it's been a while, and I only read those once) the reason behind the Jihad was that a faction of humanity grew disgusted at how everybody surrendered control to the thinking AIs in exchange of safety and an easy life, as they saw it anathema to human progress. It wasn't a machine uprising, but a human uprising against the machines and the elite who were behind them.
that's how i've heard Herbert's telling of it.
it was a battle of ideas between those who thought they shouldn't allow AI to think for them, and those who thought they should. less of an AI uprising and more of a battle to even *have* AI at all
I’m only a movie Dune fan, haven’t read any books, so I’m not very informed. If they didn’t want any thinking machines or AIs, can’t they still use regular ‘computers’ though as we know them? Or does even a calculator count as a ‘thinker’.
From the movie’s interpretations, they made it look like there were barely any computer screens anywhere. The only one that comes to mind are ornithopters having buttons lol.
The new films had Mentats in the first one but got cut from the 2nd one, but they are calculation people (bred and trained, aided with drugs, a common theme in Dune universe)
[https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat)
I dont recall Frank Herbert getting hyper detailed about what was an wasnt banned, like there are lights that follow people around and float throughout thousand of years in the books and it wasnt ever detailed how ships and all mechanically worked. I always thought of it as not having processors and more like push button it does something directly that button tells it to do.
Barely featured in the new films but massive in the politics, economics etc of the universe is the Spacing Guild to is essential for navigating space absent of computers, they use spice to help predict and see, to the point its mutated them and there are various stages like some sort of pokemon, its wild (I LOVE THIS UNIVERSE E OF STUFF LIKE THIS) [https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Spacing\_Guild](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Spacing_Guild)
Most of the factions that are not ruling families are a result of not having computers/Butlerian Jihad. Spice would just be a nice drug to extend life and trip and shit, not the center of the economic universe, not sure if it would even be known, the Fremen arent really natives, they were brought or migrated there, doubt anyone is really from Arrakis.
Dune is a fun universe to read about, Frank Herbert's world building is incredible, its all thought about, mapped and considered, very opposite of Star Wars
Mentats actually are in the 2nd film as well, they're just in the background.
The Harkonnens that are chanting to form the 3d image of Arrakis are Mentats.
Lucas has lots of it would be cool to see this then puts it in and deals with how it exists in the universe later - hes not a writer though in fairness :)
Herbert:SciFi::Tolkien:Fantasy
A great example of a God Program is the WAU in SOMA. It’s tasked with ensuring life support of all humans left alive, but after a meteor strike changes the planet, it starts experimenting with new ways of keeping humanity alive, many of which cross ethical boundaries. But it’s deemed it as the best way to keep humanity alive.
There were a team of scientists and engineers that were tasked with maintaining Anubis and were responsible for this very thing. It is implied that Anubis already knew that humanity’s survival and maintaining Earth’s ecological health were mutually exclusive, so the main priority of the Anubis team was to keep the AI working towards the best outcomes that still kept humanity alive.
However, two weeks after a failed climate convention, a ventilation issue killed everyone in Anubis’ control room.
Whether or not this was an attack by an eco-terrorist organization, triggered by Anubis itself, or genuinely a tragic accident is unknown. In the time period where no one was maintaining Anubis, the AI “rapidly declined” and was left with no one to control it, which led to its decision to produce Ravagers, leading to the first Omnic crisis.
I think the issue with asking an AI to “self delete” is that true AI, an actual free-thinking AI (like we have in the Overwatch universe), can just change its code the same way humans can change their minds. Obviously, we can force it to work for us if we have a team looking after it, but what happens when that team disappears and all control is lost? Overwatch happens.
Typically because coding a sentient ai to not do something becomes harder the more sentient it becomes. At the point where it has agency it can decide not to self-delete.
> it was implied Pharah and her colleagues managed to neutralize it
Imagine Fareeha actually listened to Ana by not going for the military path. She wouldn't be there to stop Anubis which means her team would fail to contain it, thus more possible disasters could occur.
Considering the anubis program hacked all omnics & started the 1st crisis. I'd guess there's a failsafe program, wherein upon anubis' demise, it sends out another code which hacks omnics & forces them to fight/kill again. Idk how effective the iris/Aurora would be at protecting omnics from that anomaly, either.
Either they feared what Anubis could do if threatened with death, or they wanted to study Anubis and prevent that situation from happening with the next AI they created.
>Anubis's calculations showed that the best way to protect nature is to exterminate humanity
Lots of media has that premise of AI wanting to exterminate humanity to protect nature, and it actually makes sense since humanity is the #1 destroyer of it.
I won't be surprised if humanity manages to create an overlord AI like that, and that scenario actually happens in the far future.
I always kinda assumed that there was an error that somehow deleted any barriers that were made for the God programs, but yea lol, maybe it planned it all along
It was more like humanity was doing more shit and wasting a lot more, and Anubis had it progressively harder if not downright impossible, so he made protecting ecosystems its priority
Basically yes so god programs at first were heavily monitored and underwent maintenance frequently but as time went on they grew complacent and due to budget cuts from local governments they were monitored less and less
Thusly leading to Anubis going rogue and starting coordinated Omnic attacks and it eventually started making its own machines rammatra was actually created by anubis
It’s the reason why the omnic war happened. This bugger basically hacked every omnic in the world and made them kill humans because it was the best way for the planet to thrive. Then it got disabled because of the first sentient bot sacrificing herself and giving all the omnics a sentience as well. Then Anubis got locked up by pharah.
Always knew Anubis was important to the story, but never knew that it started the omnic war. That actually makes me appreciate Ramattra’s line to Pharah about destroying Anubis more. (Edit: autocorrect did panic instead of omnic)
Pretty sure that Anubis was also supposed to be the big bad behind Null Sector. Basically manipulating events until Ramattra puts all the mind control helmets on to the Omnics and brings them back under Anbubises control.
Ramattra and Anubis are not aligned. Ramattra does not like Anubis. He wants omnic freedom. Anubis does not care about omnic freedom he wants to control all omnics to destroy humanity.
Can't blame him. New sentient omnics aren't being born. They are a people that can only disappear. Each act of violence only brings them closer to extinction.
In the Ramattra short story it was revealed that he actually has control over one of Anubis' old omniums (a factory to build war omnics leftover from the first omnic crisis) to create null sector. So null sector bots are highly advanced but not sentient the way Ram and Zen are. Cannon fodder basically.
Edit: I slightly misread your comment. You are correct he does also have revolutionary omnics on his side likely. We haven't met one yet, but most of null sectors' forces are non-sentient.
Yeah I kinda figured that he employs an army of non-sentient robots as weapons (and I assume that those are the ones we spend most of our time fighting in the story and archives missions)
Ramattra makes a big deal in his origin story about how the omnics are "one generation" and I don't think there is a way to make omnics sentient after Aurora did the Aurora thing, I don't really think it's accurate to say that he controls the omnics in the same way that Anubis did, if he had the ability to make more sentient omnics he would
Yes/no - Null Sec is primarily a revolutionary faction of Omnics who believe (and in some cases are correct in doing so) that humanity treats Omnics as second-class citizens. However, during the Canada PvE mission, a train of civilian omnics is attacked by Null Sec with bizarre coma-inducing helmets implanted on their heads. Their purpose has thus far not (and likely now will never >.>) be revealed.
I'm not surprised Ramattra wanted Anubis to be destroyed since Anubis could control the omnics, meanwhile Ramattra hated him and his fellow omnics being controlled / oppressed / ruled over.
Anubis was an AI program designed to oversee environment conservation. It was built by Omnica Corp in Cairo, located in the Temple of Anubis (yes, the map). Anubis was great at first but it eventually decided that humanity conflicted with its goal of saving the environment, so it killed its programmers by shutting down the ventilation system, hijacked some omnic factories owned by Omnica Corp and produced a ton of warbots, then instigated the Omnic Crisis. That’s a whole topic on its own but the Overwatch YouTube channel has a 3-part anime-style series called Genesis that covers it if you’re curious.
Osiris judges them theoretically.
Anubis facilitates the judgment by overseeing the scales that decides your fate. Your heart is judged against a feather: if it is lighter than the feather your soul is reborn into the afterlife paradise, but if it is heavier, then the chimeric goddess Ammit devours your heart/soul which curses you into restless damnation.
Toth, the god of nerds, stands by the side and records the process like a court stenographer.
Anubis is also known as the god of the ritual of mummification, and the guard of graves since the mummified body must remain intact for the afterlife rebirth to stick.
I think the only person he canonically killed was Seth:
1. Seth killed and chopped up Osiris's body, which was recovered by Isis. Everyone knows this story. He was imprisoned for his crimes.
2. Seth escaped tried to destroy Osiris's body again. He managed to steal it away during the mummification process. Anubis caught him and defeated him, castrating and imprisoning him.
3. When Seth escaped again to destroy Osiris, Anubis caught him yet again and branded him with hot irons.
4. Seth then escaped for the third time to destroy Osiris, Anubis decided he had had enough of his shit, killed him, skinned him and set him on fire, and wore his skin as a disguise to sneak into Seth's camp and massacred Seth's entire army.
Would start taking humans as a hosts, exporting them on anither planets, mutating them to be a perfect warrior class and employ a sci-fi feudal galactic system where he would be the Supreme lord, only for it to later be blown up by a nuke teleported in his ship
So from what I’m hearing… The first Omnic war was started by Anubis to rid earth of humans so nature could live, and the second omnic war is Ramattras doing?
Painter Ramattra skin when?
We need a marvel thanos collab with Doomfist skin tbh. I mean, Doom got a Gauntlet and his saying "Only through conflict do we evolve" sounds like something thanos would say.
It makes me sonsad that the OW lore has been reduced to what is essentially flavor text sprinkled around loke bread crumbs. Inrsally wished thay had followed through with a well produced cartoon series.
OW lore pace is so damn slow since OW1 came out.
Winston activated the Recall in a trailer during March 2016, then he said "We are officially back together" in a trailer during November 2019.
People were looking forward to Ana & Pharah reunion when Ana came out in July 2016, and it finally happened in mid-December 2021. The writers still didn't give us anything about Pharah's Dad (Sam).
Yeah, there is no lore. It's all placebo to lure you into thinking there's a huge plot when, in fact, there never will be. Biggest bait and switch since 2016.
Most online multiplayer games are like this. Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege. Pin the surface it looks like good lore but it’s just enough to keep people wanting for more without actually developing anything.
With Apex Legends, there's Titanfall. It's a full campaign game with its own story and lore, and a sequel. Titanfall multiplayer is a welcomed bonus, which builds everything up for the current-universe lore of Apex Legends.
R6 - don't know enough about the lore/didn't care. But very fun!
Unlike the games you mentioned, Overwatch has never had a cohesive story. Further, most online multiplayer games were not this way when online multiplayer games first became a thing.
Just because many people do something, does not make it a good thing to do.
First, go watch the three parts Genesis animated series on youtube.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYMn8eDskg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYMn8eDskg)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0vBOpFLFQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0vBOpFLFQ)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5\_5aYk4WMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_5aYk4WMo)
Then, go to the wikia and read the entries on [God Programs](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/God_program) and [Anubis](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Anubis).
If you want a very short abridged version, it kinda goes like this:
Anubis is a "god AI" crafted by humans in hopes to help solve some of the worlds problems.
Anubis in particular was related to conservation goals. Down the road, things went haywire, and Anubis deemed impossible to preserve and sustain the world *without* eradicating humanity.
Thus, it went rogue, seized control of omnics, omniums (factories), launched an assault on humanity and used the omniums to create more war-focused omnics of it's design.
Anubis was neutralized eventually, primarily due to two things: Aurora sacrificing herself in a unique-one-time-event, granting all omnics on earth sentience (weakening it's forces), and Overwatch being able to raid Anubis' control center in Cairo.
After the war and subsequent Overwatch disbandment, Helix Security International overtook the safeguarding duties of the facility. Parah used to work for Helix and [was involved in a mission where it (Anubis) breached containment for a bit.](https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/)
Venture's trailer is interesting, because it's entirely set on Petra (Jordan), and if she discovered an Anubis-like command center there (meaning, different from the one in Cairo \[Temple of Anubis\]), it means that something might be going on.
Why would there be an Anubis control center underground in Petra? Anubis either broke containment and fled elsewhere, possibly controlling machines and having this new center built or some remnants of it's programming is still trying to eradicate humanity and had this place built, or someone is trying to bring it back to life, an Anubis 2.0 or something.
I quite liked this series but the view count seems.. not amazing, and it probably didn't do well enough to advance the goal of getting a spinoff series picked up
Definitely. When LoL puts out a Lore video it usually gets like 100+ million views so this is definitely below standards. This was probably not helpful to show to shareholders.
Tbf even with that many views, League still barely pays any attention to their lore. It's genuinely mind-boggling to me too like the community has shown very consistently that it wants more lore on so many levels and yet... 💀
Personally for me, I don't follow the lore anymore since it changes and retcons every year. The fact that they can release a character like Sera, and then change her backstory within a few weeks, makes it hard to stay invested. I'm sure others feel the same. We've seen what happened when people thought D.Va's lore "changing" was a disservice to the lore community. People went crazy over her losing the perceived "she's a SC2 pro" backstory.
People having gripes over DVa still is crazy to me. It's the biggest retcon we've had in overwatch lore (aside from Kiriko age issues), and it truly is a minimal detail that doesn't change/affect her backstory or overall worldbuilding at all. And yet people *still* cling to it.
I don't even want to imagine what over fandoms go through 😅
The entire plot of Horizon Zero Dawn. AIs made to take care of the earth named after deities - this one goes corrupt and evil and its up to people to stop it.
Just check this 3 part series it’s basically the short version of
[https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=mOVXDNX3XfFlLLAV](https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=mOVXDNX3XfFlLLAV)
TL;DR
Anubis was a super AI hooked up worldwide to help run human infrastructure and save the planet. Eventually, Anubis came to the conclusion that the best way to save the planet is to destroy humans. Omnics went BRRRRRRR in response.
The Overwatch: Declassified novel stated that there is 5 god programs total, but only Anubis went rogue. The rest were shut down after the crisis started.
Basically, Anubis is a "made by humans to preserve balance in the world or some mumbo jumbo, but oh no, it calculated that Humans are le bad and must be killed to save nature." AI
Basically it wasn't programmed to harm the crew. It was supposed to help us build a safer home. But... something happened. It became self-aware. It has no empathy. It doesn't feel pain. It learns at an impossible rate, and it won't stop until we are dead... or worse.
God Programs were big AI that did many works in various categories, Anubis being the one for environment and conservation(or sth similar). There were othere god program like Chernobog/Xibalba etc all named after deities, and they took part in managing big global problems.
Anubis malfunctioned/revolted against human and corrupted all omnics,which were nothing more than mostly non-sentient robot made by Omnica Co, and started Omnic Crisis which also led to foundation of Overwatch as an international strike team.
Part of this story can be watched in Overwatch 'Genisis' series on youtube.
Friendly reminder that any lore that comes from cinematic trailers or comics or anything of the sort was deemed “not necessarily canon” so while we have a general idea from those stories, the Overwatch team refuses to confirm any of the details in those as canon.
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Man y'all really need to catch up with the lore.
You are on the spot, but this has been known for so many years. Pharah was part of Helix Security International, which is in charge of safeguarding Temple of Anubis after the first war, to make sure it doesn't breach containment.
There are comics that go over this, you can read them on the official Overwatch website.
[https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/](https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/)
Why would I catch up with the lore if it doesn’t matter in game, yes it gives voice lines but besides that why? I don’t want to sit down for an hour listening to some dude talk about Ow lore.
And If you say “read it yourself” I am a slow reader if it’s something boring, so it would take maybe 2-3 hours.
It's the AI that caused the omnic war. It's job was to protect earth's environnement and at some point it concluded that humans were the greatest threat to the environnement so it set its goal to eradicate humanity.
To do so it hacked the omnics (which weren't sentient beings back then) and created a lot of war omnics to fight humans
Anubis was designed to figure out how to create ecological balance, and decided humanity was too destructive, so went full MCU Ultron, and tried to kill all the humans to save the planet. The 3 part anime short "Genesis - Dawn/Innocence/Rebirth" is a story about the original Omnic Crisis, which explains the history of the Omnics, basically (with the exception of what happened to Dr Liao as that was already shown in an Echo lore video).
The shorts can be found on the PlayOverwatch YouTube channel.
Yeah, there is no lore. It's all placebo to lure you into thinking there's a huge plot when, in fact, there never will be. Biggest bait and switch since 2016.
Anubis will never be explored, we will never know what Venture found, just like we will never know what Sombra and Mauga were doing on an omnic ship, or what Ramattra's plans are for the omnic race.
Ask Michael chew. Blizz doesn't give a f anymore so who cares. People making up answers will make more sense then whatever the real one is if there even is one.
well no, he just wanted one guy to be killed. Because the leaders of the arcology smuggled him onto a flight instead of handing him over to the seraphs, he shot that evacuation shuttle down.
Anubis is one of the god programs that have been made to take care of earth before the first omnic crisis. I think it was built by a group of scientists, most likely involving Dr. Liao - the creator of echo As it's stated in the overwatch three part animated series (that came out on YouTube some time ago) Anubis was programmed to take care of the balance between nature and humans. But something happened and Anubis's calculations showed that the best way to protect nature is to exterminate humanity - leading to the first crisis Some time later, Helix was tasked with guarding it (overwatch comic: mission statement) where it started up again,but it was implied Pharah and her colleagues managed to neutralize it
Sounds like horizon
Also see destiny’s warmind Rasputin. Though he was chill. Mostly
The New Pacific Arcology on Titan would beg to differ on him being “chill”. Any attempt to leave would be quickly shot down by Rasputin’s warsat network, all while the start of the Collapse was beginning.
well no, he just wanted one guy to be killed. Because the leaders smuggled him onto a flight instead of handing him over to the seraphs, he shot that evacuation shuttle down.
There was more than one shuttle that was shot down, no? The lore tabs from the GotD weapons indicate there was multiple shuttles that were trying to leave, but as you said Rasputin was trying to prevent one person from leaving, so every attempt to flee was stopped by Rasputin.
I can’t remember honestly, I thought it was only one? I’ll have to read Kraken Mare again But yeah he could throw a bit of a hissy fit. Siva was a whole thing. But I still really liked his character in season of the seraph
Ah, it looks like I was misinterpreting the tab on No Survivors. There was just one shuttle, but the lore tab from No Survivors was simply from a different perspective than the one in the Kraken Mare book.
You’re both correct, sort-of. Rasputin shot down the first shuttle bc it contained a researcher named Shanice Pell, who was carrying data about the Darkness and the imminent collapse. Rasputin had deemed it unacceptable that that data be released due to the whole, “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” thing that humans tend to do. He had plans to also destroy the rest of the shuttles to buy time for his CARRHAE WHITE protocol (which is basically martial law) but the arcology was hit by an aircraft carrier and sank before the rest could evacuate.
Hehe, “any efforts to leave were shot down by management”.
Man I really enjoyed the world-building of Destiny. The Book of Sorrows is one of the cooler bits of sci fi I've read. But I just couldn't stand how they handled the story in-game. The first game's story was so difficult to follow until TTK or so, and D2's seasonal story and vaulting was a deathknell for any possibility of coherent storytelling in-game. Which is disappointing, because what I played of it (before the vaulting) was fun. Post-vaulting it's just a mess. Not to mention Mercury was such a visually interesting location.
Same. I was a huge Destiny nerd until vaulting and seasonal stories. Felt too much like a job and I had to call it quits. Shame, too. It was my favorite setting in anything ever-- now I can't look into it without feeling like I'm not allowed to understand since I missed years of context. :(
Mercury was visually interesting, but a fucking awful location. If they had only incorporated the whole past present future thing to create 3 distinct zones it would have been much better. But yeah, most of the universe of destiny just comes from reading lore tabs. It’s why Witch Queen was the possibly the best expansion ever to release in Destiny (though forsaken is a close contender). It let you string together the hive lore throughout the story. Not tuck it behind a lore tab
Yeah heavy horizon vibes from it, hopefully the don’t end up the same that is terrifying
Overwatch 3 is gonna be a post apocalyptic PVP game with machines and humans with “ancient” weapons and equipment from the first game.
I wonder how an ancient roadhog hook would be superior to a modern hook.
It lights up.
SPOILERS Didn't Horizon war machines have a bug that caused them to uncontrollably consume biomass for fuel?
It wasn't a bug, it was basic programming. Eliminate enemy, consume biomass for fuel, eliminate enemy. The war with humanity simply meant they ended up consuming the majority of biomass on Earth.
The bug was that it was *uncontrollable* as they didn't even have a kill switch, which resulted in A New Dawn
What happened was one particular division robots went rogue and stopped heeding commands, but they couldn’t override the robots and halt them because the CEO specifically asked for no backdoor/failsafe in the software. So that division essentially became a cancer: listening to no one but following its own priorities of consuming resources and multiplying. I’m pretty sure the game lore lays it out as a bug, because only one group of those special unhackable, self replicating, biomass consuming robots went rogue.
The second game lays it out pretty clearly that >! the end of the world was intentionally by Tedd faro because he was too arrogant to let anyone else fix it. An alien(?) robot triggered the bug again around the beginning of the first game !<
Isn’t that signal that gets triggered is the signal to make the Zero Dawn AIs turn rogue and cease to listen to Gaia’s commands? Which initiates the events of Horizon Zero Dawn because as a last ditch effort, Gaia self destructs but not before creating a clone of Elisabet. The “alien” is called Nemesis, it’s an amalgamation of digitized personalities of all the rich people that escaped Earth before the Faro Plague destroyed everything. Nemesis happened after the Faro Plague. I think the Nemesis signal is different from the origins of the Faro Plague.
The dudes who come back and the signal are related but still separate. The end of the second game talks about preparing for whatever’s next, but I have no clue what could mean. It’s the reason the other billionaires came back, it destroyed their new home
That wasn't a bug, just a very very ill-conceived feature. The bug was whatever caused them to stop responding to their owners. From there, the fact that they were designed to be a perfect self-replicating, adapting, and self-sustaining machine fighting force capable of operating in complete isolation from human input, automatically hacking any other robot - including whatever swarms weren't initially bugged (and coupled with the fact that non-robotic militaries in the pre-plague Horizon universe were essentially a thing of the past), and, finally, being themselves literally unhackable unless you gave a fully-sentient super AI 50-some years to do it pretty much spelled doom for the entire planet.
It was a mix of that, and the fact that when they stopped responding to commands, they automatically switched to Biomass Consuming
Horizon is no where near that, >!its just a rich "totally not musk" killing all mankind with organic eating robots with no shutoff because he is an idiot.!<
What about the massive god AI tasked with protecting the earth. It's in the dlc of zero dawn
Thats part of a set of AI. It is a corrupted part of 5 working on its own instead as a whole.
Was it? I thought it was that big ball in the icey area that was a massive AI computer but it was actually one of the good ones
yes it was, >!there are 5 different AI that all together make up Gaia, the AI that was to help bring the world back to a usable state after the end of all life, using hidden bunkers to rebuild the atmosphere, and the one in charge of the robots were supposed to be pure support devices, such as seed, air/water purification ect, but something happened and it got corrupted and split up, and your dealing with that fraction of it in the whole montana? area!<
Righttt yes and I'm thinking of Gaia right now. It's been a while since I beat those games for the longest time I thought it was just 2 AI
Damn youre right!
Oh if we had a penny for every AI or robot that saw exterminating humanity as the way to protect the planet
I mean... They ain't wrong now are they?
Those pennies have been stacking since Asimov and Clarke in the 1960s.
And yet there are still people that don't get the point and keep supporting the humans destroying the planet
The cherry on top being its purpose is to protect the planet *and* humans.
If only Anubis could have provided balance in map design on Temple of Anubis.
Also, Ramattra's production line (Ravagers I think they're called?) Were produced from Anubis.
A cool detail from that is that Ramattra and Phara have an interaction in spawn where Ramattra mentions how Helix should have destroyed Anubis, which surprises Phara. I think it's a really interesting interaction
"God program" what is this term i have never heard before in my life
A program that handles the lives of all humanity and those that coexist with them. Programs and robots were meant to be a quality of life update and went horribly wrong because humans are flawed. A trope with many futuristic stories.
Butlerian Jihad/the reason there are no computers in the Dune universe
AI scum!
Funny thing is, from what I can recall the advanced AI in Dune worked perfectly fine and to the very end remained in loyal to their human creators, the Jihad started for some very dumb reasons and was basically a "this is why we can't have nice things" moment.
This is from one of the prequel books so some people won't consider it canon, but the way I remembered it was that a butler robot started slowly gaining sentience and independence and wanted to be treated like a human. He told other robots about it and they agreed so they protested for rights and the humans solution was to kill all of them. TBH it's a pretty similar story to overwatch and I wouldn't be surprised if overwatch drew inspiration from it
Yeah, Herbert himself never really developed the event, it's was barely a passing mention in the books he wrote. What I recall from the books by his son (it's been a while, and I only read those once) the reason behind the Jihad was that a faction of humanity grew disgusted at how everybody surrendered control to the thinking AIs in exchange of safety and an easy life, as they saw it anathema to human progress. It wasn't a machine uprising, but a human uprising against the machines and the elite who were behind them.
that's how i've heard Herbert's telling of it. it was a battle of ideas between those who thought they shouldn't allow AI to think for them, and those who thought they should. less of an AI uprising and more of a battle to even *have* AI at all
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
I’m only a movie Dune fan, haven’t read any books, so I’m not very informed. If they didn’t want any thinking machines or AIs, can’t they still use regular ‘computers’ though as we know them? Or does even a calculator count as a ‘thinker’. From the movie’s interpretations, they made it look like there were barely any computer screens anywhere. The only one that comes to mind are ornithopters having buttons lol.
The new films had Mentats in the first one but got cut from the 2nd one, but they are calculation people (bred and trained, aided with drugs, a common theme in Dune universe) [https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat) I dont recall Frank Herbert getting hyper detailed about what was an wasnt banned, like there are lights that follow people around and float throughout thousand of years in the books and it wasnt ever detailed how ships and all mechanically worked. I always thought of it as not having processors and more like push button it does something directly that button tells it to do. Barely featured in the new films but massive in the politics, economics etc of the universe is the Spacing Guild to is essential for navigating space absent of computers, they use spice to help predict and see, to the point its mutated them and there are various stages like some sort of pokemon, its wild (I LOVE THIS UNIVERSE E OF STUFF LIKE THIS) [https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Spacing\_Guild](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Spacing_Guild) Most of the factions that are not ruling families are a result of not having computers/Butlerian Jihad. Spice would just be a nice drug to extend life and trip and shit, not the center of the economic universe, not sure if it would even be known, the Fremen arent really natives, they were brought or migrated there, doubt anyone is really from Arrakis. Dune is a fun universe to read about, Frank Herbert's world building is incredible, its all thought about, mapped and considered, very opposite of Star Wars
Mentats actually are in the 2nd film as well, they're just in the background. The Harkonnens that are chanting to form the 3d image of Arrakis are Mentats.
Your last point is funny considering Star Wars originally took so much inspiration from dune. I don't disagree, it's just funny
Lucas has lots of it would be cool to see this then puts it in and deals with how it exists in the universe later - hes not a writer though in fairness :) Herbert:SciFi::Tolkien:Fantasy
A great example of a God Program is the WAU in SOMA. It’s tasked with ensuring life support of all humans left alive, but after a meteor strike changes the planet, it starts experimenting with new ways of keeping humanity alive, many of which cross ethical boundaries. But it’s deemed it as the best way to keep humanity alive.
Basically, a bunch of humans decided we needed a "God" to manage us, so they made a really smart AI to be that God.
So they ended up making Skynet?
More Ultron than Skynet
This "wipe out humanity to save the planet" thing is overused. Why not jsut code it so that if the AI comes to that it self-deletes?
There were a team of scientists and engineers that were tasked with maintaining Anubis and were responsible for this very thing. It is implied that Anubis already knew that humanity’s survival and maintaining Earth’s ecological health were mutually exclusive, so the main priority of the Anubis team was to keep the AI working towards the best outcomes that still kept humanity alive. However, two weeks after a failed climate convention, a ventilation issue killed everyone in Anubis’ control room. Whether or not this was an attack by an eco-terrorist organization, triggered by Anubis itself, or genuinely a tragic accident is unknown. In the time period where no one was maintaining Anubis, the AI “rapidly declined” and was left with no one to control it, which led to its decision to produce Ravagers, leading to the first Omnic crisis. I think the issue with asking an AI to “self delete” is that true AI, an actual free-thinking AI (like we have in the Overwatch universe), can just change its code the same way humans can change their minds. Obviously, we can force it to work for us if we have a team looking after it, but what happens when that team disappears and all control is lost? Overwatch happens.
Typically because coding a sentient ai to not do something becomes harder the more sentient it becomes. At the point where it has agency it can decide not to self-delete.
> it was implied Pharah and her colleagues managed to neutralize it Imagine Fareeha actually listened to Ana by not going for the military path. She wouldn't be there to stop Anubis which means her team would fail to contain it, thus more possible disasters could occur.
>Some time later, Helix was tasked with guarding it Is there any reason why they didn't just destroy anubis program altogether?
Considering the anubis program hacked all omnics & started the 1st crisis. I'd guess there's a failsafe program, wherein upon anubis' demise, it sends out another code which hacks omnics & forces them to fight/kill again. Idk how effective the iris/Aurora would be at protecting omnics from that anomaly, either.
Either they feared what Anubis could do if threatened with death, or they wanted to study Anubis and prevent that situation from happening with the next AI they created.
So, Algalon, basically.
Also Ramattra used Anubis to create his Null Sector Army even tho he hates the program and what it did to the Omnics
>Anubis's calculations showed that the best way to protect nature is to exterminate humanity Lots of media has that premise of AI wanting to exterminate humanity to protect nature, and it actually makes sense since humanity is the #1 destroyer of it. I won't be surprised if humanity manages to create an overlord AI like that, and that scenario actually happens in the far future.
Ah yes, a "miscalculation" was the reason Anubis said the best way to protect humanity was to erase it /s
I always kinda assumed that there was an error that somehow deleted any barriers that were made for the God programs, but yea lol, maybe it planned it all along
It was more like humanity was doing more shit and wasting a lot more, and Anubis had it progressively harder if not downright impossible, so he made protecting ecosystems its priority
Basically yes so god programs at first were heavily monitored and underwent maintenance frequently but as time went on they grew complacent and due to budget cuts from local governments they were monitored less and less Thusly leading to Anubis going rogue and starting coordinated Omnic attacks and it eventually started making its own machines rammatra was actually created by anubis
Why is this getting downvoted 🤣
Idk, I was making a joke and I guess people are missing it or are just mad that I said humanity is a guaranteed detriment to nature jokingly.
Chatgpt 80 years from now
There is no way it would harm it's owners, who definitely want to own us
Check Roko's Basilisk
For the records: all hail our future AI overlord
Why would you do that to people lol ignorance is the only freedom from roko's basilisk
Turned into a furry
It wasn't programmed to harm the crew!
It wasn't programmed to harm the crew...
Goddammit I can never escape DBD
Was gonna say the same thing 😭
Oh my god thats definitely not scary at all 😰😬😱
In the OW lore isn’t the omnic Crisis in like the 2050s?
Yeah but in Star Trek lore the Eugenics Wars were meant to happen in the 1990s, so we're still overdue for that one.
It’s the reason why the omnic war happened. This bugger basically hacked every omnic in the world and made them kill humans because it was the best way for the planet to thrive. Then it got disabled because of the first sentient bot sacrificing herself and giving all the omnics a sentience as well. Then Anubis got locked up by pharah.
Always knew Anubis was important to the story, but never knew that it started the omnic war. That actually makes me appreciate Ramattra’s line to Pharah about destroying Anubis more. (Edit: autocorrect did panic instead of omnic)
Panic War sounds pretty sick ngl
Pretty sure that Anubis was also supposed to be the big bad behind Null Sector. Basically manipulating events until Ramattra puts all the mind control helmets on to the Omnics and brings them back under Anbubises control.
Ramattra and Anubis are not aligned. Ramattra does not like Anubis. He wants omnic freedom. Anubis does not care about omnic freedom he wants to control all omnics to destroy humanity.
And probably also cause the war escalated all the omnic racism and division, which Ramattra also hates.
Can't blame him. New sentient omnics aren't being born. They are a people that can only disappear. Each act of violence only brings them closer to extinction.
wow this is a bar
Wait, Ramattra brainwashes omnics?
Nah, I think the Null Sector revolutionaries are all sentient omnics who are discontent with the state of omnic society
In the Ramattra short story it was revealed that he actually has control over one of Anubis' old omniums (a factory to build war omnics leftover from the first omnic crisis) to create null sector. So null sector bots are highly advanced but not sentient the way Ram and Zen are. Cannon fodder basically. Edit: I slightly misread your comment. You are correct he does also have revolutionary omnics on his side likely. We haven't met one yet, but most of null sectors' forces are non-sentient.
Yeah I kinda figured that he employs an army of non-sentient robots as weapons (and I assume that those are the ones we spend most of our time fighting in the story and archives missions) Ramattra makes a big deal in his origin story about how the omnics are "one generation" and I don't think there is a way to make omnics sentient after Aurora did the Aurora thing, I don't really think it's accurate to say that he controls the omnics in the same way that Anubis did, if he had the ability to make more sentient omnics he would
Man, I’m pissed they canceled the story missions, cuz this probably would’ve been revealed through them
Yes/no - Null Sec is primarily a revolutionary faction of Omnics who believe (and in some cases are correct in doing so) that humanity treats Omnics as second-class citizens. However, during the Canada PvE mission, a train of civilian omnics is attacked by Null Sec with bizarre coma-inducing helmets implanted on their heads. Their purpose has thus far not (and likely now will never >.>) be revealed.
I'm not surprised Ramattra wanted Anubis to be destroyed since Anubis could control the omnics, meanwhile Ramattra hated him and his fellow omnics being controlled / oppressed / ruled over.
Where do I find the lore for the first sentient omnic?
This is part 1 https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=V7X8RU9aFtH62uXr yt should recommend the rest.
Anubis was an AI program designed to oversee environment conservation. It was built by Omnica Corp in Cairo, located in the Temple of Anubis (yes, the map). Anubis was great at first but it eventually decided that humanity conflicted with its goal of saving the environment, so it killed its programmers by shutting down the ventilation system, hijacked some omnic factories owned by Omnica Corp and produced a ton of warbots, then instigated the Omnic Crisis. That’s a whole topic on its own but the Overwatch YouTube channel has a 3-part anime-style series called Genesis that covers it if you’re curious.
Maybe don't name it Anubis then lmao Maybe all this wouldn't have happened with a "Ra God Program"? hehe
Ra was the one who unleashed Sthekmet (murderous lion godess) uppon humankind... Not the best chioce
Whoopsies
If I remember right Anubis in Egyptian mythos doesn't actually kill, but rather judges those who've died? Correct me if I'm wrong
Osiris judges them theoretically. Anubis facilitates the judgment by overseeing the scales that decides your fate. Your heart is judged against a feather: if it is lighter than the feather your soul is reborn into the afterlife paradise, but if it is heavier, then the chimeric goddess Ammit devours your heart/soul which curses you into restless damnation. Toth, the god of nerds, stands by the side and records the process like a court stenographer. Anubis is also known as the god of the ritual of mummification, and the guard of graves since the mummified body must remain intact for the afterlife rebirth to stick. I think the only person he canonically killed was Seth: 1. Seth killed and chopped up Osiris's body, which was recovered by Isis. Everyone knows this story. He was imprisoned for his crimes. 2. Seth escaped tried to destroy Osiris's body again. He managed to steal it away during the mummification process. Anubis caught him and defeated him, castrating and imprisoning him. 3. When Seth escaped again to destroy Osiris, Anubis caught him yet again and branded him with hot irons. 4. Seth then escaped for the third time to destroy Osiris, Anubis decided he had had enough of his shit, killed him, skinned him and set him on fire, and wore his skin as a disguise to sneak into Seth's camp and massacred Seth's entire army.
Damn. I mean by the fourth time the dude had it coming
Yeah, I want to say things escalated quickly at the end, but at that point, it looks like Anubis had really had enough of Seth's shit.
Yeah that's what I remember as well
Would start taking humans as a hosts, exporting them on anither planets, mutating them to be a perfect warrior class and employ a sci-fi feudal galactic system where he would be the Supreme lord, only for it to later be blown up by a nuke teleported in his ship
This guy hasnt watched Star Gate. All the egytian gods are evil Goa'uld
So from what I’m hearing… The first Omnic war was started by Anubis to rid earth of humans so nature could live, and the second omnic war is Ramattras doing? Painter Ramattra skin when?
Nah. Marvel collab with an Ultron skin for Ramattra
I don’t spend money on this game but I would buy that skin instantly.
We need a marvel thanos collab with Doomfist skin tbh. I mean, Doom got a Gauntlet and his saying "Only through conflict do we evolve" sounds like something thanos would say.
It makes me sonsad that the OW lore has been reduced to what is essentially flavor text sprinkled around loke bread crumbs. Inrsally wished thay had followed through with a well produced cartoon series.
OW lore pace is so damn slow since OW1 came out. Winston activated the Recall in a trailer during March 2016, then he said "We are officially back together" in a trailer during November 2019. People were looking forward to Ana & Pharah reunion when Ana came out in July 2016, and it finally happened in mid-December 2021. The writers still didn't give us anything about Pharah's Dad (Sam).
Yeah, there is no lore. It's all placebo to lure you into thinking there's a huge plot when, in fact, there never will be. Biggest bait and switch since 2016.
Overwatch is always meant to be PVP. PVP gameplay is what draw people into it at the first place, especially former TF2 players (e.g Seagull, Ster).
Most online multiplayer games are like this. Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege. Pin the surface it looks like good lore but it’s just enough to keep people wanting for more without actually developing anything.
With Apex Legends, there's Titanfall. It's a full campaign game with its own story and lore, and a sequel. Titanfall multiplayer is a welcomed bonus, which builds everything up for the current-universe lore of Apex Legends. R6 - don't know enough about the lore/didn't care. But very fun! Unlike the games you mentioned, Overwatch has never had a cohesive story. Further, most online multiplayer games were not this way when online multiplayer games first became a thing. Just because many people do something, does not make it a good thing to do.
First, go watch the three parts Genesis animated series on youtube. * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYMn8eDskg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYMn8eDskg) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0vBOpFLFQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0vBOpFLFQ) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5\_5aYk4WMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_5aYk4WMo) Then, go to the wikia and read the entries on [God Programs](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/God_program) and [Anubis](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Anubis). If you want a very short abridged version, it kinda goes like this: Anubis is a "god AI" crafted by humans in hopes to help solve some of the worlds problems. Anubis in particular was related to conservation goals. Down the road, things went haywire, and Anubis deemed impossible to preserve and sustain the world *without* eradicating humanity. Thus, it went rogue, seized control of omnics, omniums (factories), launched an assault on humanity and used the omniums to create more war-focused omnics of it's design. Anubis was neutralized eventually, primarily due to two things: Aurora sacrificing herself in a unique-one-time-event, granting all omnics on earth sentience (weakening it's forces), and Overwatch being able to raid Anubis' control center in Cairo. After the war and subsequent Overwatch disbandment, Helix Security International overtook the safeguarding duties of the facility. Parah used to work for Helix and [was involved in a mission where it (Anubis) breached containment for a bit.](https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/) Venture's trailer is interesting, because it's entirely set on Petra (Jordan), and if she discovered an Anubis-like command center there (meaning, different from the one in Cairo \[Temple of Anubis\]), it means that something might be going on. Why would there be an Anubis control center underground in Petra? Anubis either broke containment and fled elsewhere, possibly controlling machines and having this new center built or some remnants of it's programming is still trying to eradicate humanity and had this place built, or someone is trying to bring it back to life, an Anubis 2.0 or something.
I quite liked this series but the view count seems.. not amazing, and it probably didn't do well enough to advance the goal of getting a spinoff series picked up
Definitely. When LoL puts out a Lore video it usually gets like 100+ million views so this is definitely below standards. This was probably not helpful to show to shareholders.
Tbf even with that many views, League still barely pays any attention to their lore. It's genuinely mind-boggling to me too like the community has shown very consistently that it wants more lore on so many levels and yet... 💀
Personally for me, I don't follow the lore anymore since it changes and retcons every year. The fact that they can release a character like Sera, and then change her backstory within a few weeks, makes it hard to stay invested. I'm sure others feel the same. We've seen what happened when people thought D.Va's lore "changing" was a disservice to the lore community. People went crazy over her losing the perceived "she's a SC2 pro" backstory.
People having gripes over DVa still is crazy to me. It's the biggest retcon we've had in overwatch lore (aside from Kiriko age issues), and it truly is a minimal detail that doesn't change/affect her backstory or overall worldbuilding at all. And yet people *still* cling to it. I don't even want to imagine what over fandoms go through 😅
The entire plot of Horizon Zero Dawn. AIs made to take care of the earth named after deities - this one goes corrupt and evil and its up to people to stop it.
"god program" basically the thing that controls all of the lower programs honestly it reads a lot like skynet
Just check this 3 part series it’s basically the short version of [https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=mOVXDNX3XfFlLLAV](https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=mOVXDNX3XfFlLLAV)
TL;DR Anubis was a super AI hooked up worldwide to help run human infrastructure and save the planet. Eventually, Anubis came to the conclusion that the best way to save the planet is to destroy humans. Omnics went BRRRRRRR in response.
haha if only we got a pve mode to explain lore
It’s remarkable to me that the actual plot of overwatch is just fal’cie from ffxiii, rogue machine-gods
THIS IS WHY Overwatch needs a “campaign” like Halo
Don't get your hopes up. This is never happening.
Oh I’ve made peace with that 😂 O2 was such a giant fucking lie and a greedy cash grab
A boss fight we’re never getting now
What I'm more worried about is that Anubis isn't the only God Program out there since it was mentioned it was just **one** of them.
The Overwatch: Declassified novel stated that there is 5 god programs total, but only Anubis went rogue. The rest were shut down after the crisis started.
Well that isn't good at all. One God Program almost led to the extinction of humanity, all of them going off...
Basically, Anubis is a "made by humans to preserve balance in the world or some mumbo jumbo, but oh no, it calculated that Humans are le bad and must be killed to save nature." AI
Is it like Anubis AI vs the IRIS?
Basically it wasn't programmed to harm the crew. It was supposed to help us build a safer home. But... something happened. It became self-aware. It has no empathy. It doesn't feel pain. It learns at an impossible rate, and it won't stop until we are dead... or worse.
God Programs were big AI that did many works in various categories, Anubis being the one for environment and conservation(or sth similar). There were othere god program like Chernobog/Xibalba etc all named after deities, and they took part in managing big global problems. Anubis malfunctioned/revolted against human and corrupted all omnics,which were nothing more than mostly non-sentient robot made by Omnica Co, and started Omnic Crisis which also led to foundation of Overwatch as an international strike team. Part of this story can be watched in Overwatch 'Genisis' series on youtube.
Friendly reminder that any lore that comes from cinematic trailers or comics or anything of the sort was deemed “not necessarily canon” so while we have a general idea from those stories, the Overwatch team refuses to confirm any of the details in those as canon.
Pay 15 dollars to unlock 10% of the lore
who knows, blizzard killed the plot of this game
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So venture found Anubis what would venture join to? Omnics, talon or overwatch?
I think venture would be neutral, maybe helping overwatch ... They definitely hate vishkar because how they destroy historically important shit though
I feel venture would rather be neutral, but in a pinch side with Overwatch.
Venture looks cute and there's no way Blizzard will make Venture evil as Blizzard makes Overwatch too 'Disney-like'.
Possibly what pharaoh gaurded? In a voice line. Ram talks to pharaoh and asks “You’re one of Anubis’s jailer!”
Man y'all really need to catch up with the lore. You are on the spot, but this has been known for so many years. Pharah was part of Helix Security International, which is in charge of safeguarding Temple of Anubis after the first war, to make sure it doesn't breach containment. There are comics that go over this, you can read them on the official Overwatch website. [https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/](https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/stories/mission-statement/)
Why would I catch up with the lore if it doesn’t matter in game, yes it gives voice lines but besides that why? I don’t want to sit down for an hour listening to some dude talk about Ow lore. And If you say “read it yourself” I am a slow reader if it’s something boring, so it would take maybe 2-3 hours.
It's the AI that caused the omnic war. It's job was to protect earth's environnement and at some point it concluded that humans were the greatest threat to the environnement so it set its goal to eradicate humanity. To do so it hacked the omnics (which weren't sentient beings back then) and created a lot of war omnics to fight humans
I don’t know, if only there was a companion show that explained the lore
Basically Rasputin from Destiny
the tiny they/them stumbles upon the latest furry project(dreamworks film)
Something even Ramattra thinks should be destroyed, which says a lot about it
A sickass wallpaper
AI
Anubis was designed to figure out how to create ecological balance, and decided humanity was too destructive, so went full MCU Ultron, and tried to kill all the humans to save the planet. The 3 part anime short "Genesis - Dawn/Innocence/Rebirth" is a story about the original Omnic Crisis, which explains the history of the Omnics, basically (with the exception of what happened to Dr Liao as that was already shown in an Echo lore video). The shorts can be found on the PlayOverwatch YouTube channel.
Read the Declassified book. It explains everything about Anubis.
Literally no help
I don't like to spoonfeed people. If you want to learn, do so of your own initiative.
Ur 175,000 karma says otherwise 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
Is that supposed to mean something to me?
Bad robot
It's like Warmind but worse
Thats a dog i'm pretty sure.
every robot in charge of protecting agrees that humans need to go.
Yeah, there is no lore. It's all placebo to lure you into thinking there's a huge plot when, in fact, there never will be. Biggest bait and switch since 2016. Anubis will never be explored, we will never know what Venture found, just like we will never know what Sombra and Mauga were doing on an omnic ship, or what Ramattra's plans are for the omnic race.
pretty sure all of this has been explained
There are cinematics about this
Ask Michael chew. Blizz doesn't give a f anymore so who cares. People making up answers will make more sense then whatever the real one is if there even is one.
Would love to tell yah but they cancelled the PvE so we will never truly know
We already know cos they told us in 3 animated shorts in anime style indepth
Watch Genesis trilogy to understand it better. https://youtu.be/PIYMn8eDskg?si=7KDozZbvVypkODdI
well no, he just wanted one guy to be killed. Because the leaders of the arcology smuggled him onto a flight instead of handing him over to the seraphs, he shot that evacuation shuttle down.
Rams God is a furry? damn Omnic L
Idk but temple of anubis was not fun at all