Ukrainian heroes

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Hi dear devs! As (I hope) you know, russia invades to my country - Ukraine… Crimea, Donbass. And it is not cool to play Zarya… And I even can not take UKRAINIAN hero. Is it ok for you? For me it is veeery sad and obnoxiously. Plz add ukrainian char #OverwatchUkraine

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You know… you can ignore the characters origins and just play heroes based on their playstyle?

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This list is frightening Oo

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Well to be fair, the US has been at war 222 Out of 239 years of it’s existence, so gotta give em credit where credit is due.

Not sure how appropriate this topic is though, so I’m out :thinking:

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Dont worry, the only code of conduct in question would be extreme violence and even that isnt broken, because you haven’t gave details to violence in those wars.

Basically you’re safe ^^

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these are all lies exept for the well known wars

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Aren’t political topics banned in the forum?
This is a completely different environment where politics has no place.
Where old men plotting wars, young people should not pay.
The organizers of those wars are not here.

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It’s too easy of a concept to use the virtual worlds to rise above the real world struggles. Now why anybody truly bothered by an armed conflict would play a shooter - of all things - is far beyond me. :joy:

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f off.
This is a wrong place for politics talk.

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Talking about political topics aren’t forbidden per se as long it is linked to a game related topic. They are only not allowed if they Express hatred towards a nation, ethnic group, gender, or sexuality. Then, they break the code of conduct.

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Be kind, share secret, in what place policy of the real world and talk about real war, are connected with this game, or with in-game events?
It seems to me that the conversation is still about disliking to a certain nation.

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For example, you can talk about toxicity ingame and refer to gender equality or homophobia in real life.

The op’s post was a suggestion to add in game content for real life reasons.

Personally, im against adding content out of pity. Even if it would represent me, I would not like it.

You can add content for any reason you like but pity isn’t one of them.

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Pity or not, there is just no place at all for any of that BS in the game. It’s a fictional setting in some more or less distant future with entirely different issues.

Hell, we got a talking monkey and a vicious hamster, and the only real-life reference I can think of right now is Hasselhoff.

How can I possibly sorta “main” a character who consideres Hasselhoff a likeable “classic”? And shouldn’t I complain about the parody expressed in Reinhardt’s voice acting as being discriminating towards Germans? Are Brits really nutcases like Tracer? And why does that floating machine keep bothering me with his religious wisdom?

It’s a freaking game, and I am playing it to turn my brain off for a while and get away from everyday’s madness and insanity. Just what is wrong with people trying to drag it all into a medium that should actually create some common ground for everybody to just get along regardless of whatever might be going on in the real world right now?

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True,
I think it’s an accidental byproduct by the games lore. It does happen on future earth an thus the heroes have a nationality.

Then people start to believe that those heroes represent their nationality and demand heroes of their nationality, just to feel included.

I bet the nationality of those heroes are afterthoughts, first they create a hero, then they choose a nationality that seems fitting.

The only real reason to choose nationality first would be if that nationality invokes an interesting concept, like a cowboy.

Oh and then there’s the fact that the nationalities mean absolutely nothing. We call her Tracer, not the British girl. We call him McCree, not the American.

Also, when setting the language to German, daddy Reinhardt loves to hear the good old classical dubstep :joy:

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Are you serious? I kept wondering how they were gonna get the Hasselhoff reference across to the Germans. Guess I might actually have to change the language just to find out what else they dubbed to death.

What did they do to Mercy? Is the enemy Mercy speaking English now rather than German? That woman totally confuses the bilingual me on English language Settings. I can never tell which one is actually yelling. Our Mercy? Theirs?

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She only speaks german but BOI! That accent tho :laughing:

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is ze german version supposed to be funny because is inaccurate? techno being older than dubstep, german legends of the 90s and all?

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The game happens in the future…

I don’t have to whoosh the joke away, do I?