Overwatch is a game that has grown to firmly establish itself within the highest ranks of the very competitive market that is online first-person shooters. With its inherently unique cast of playable heroes undoubtedly being one of the main pulling factors for new players, it is often the intricate and deep lore that surrounds the heroes which acts as a catalyst for their personalities and likability.
One of the most interesting factors of lore within Overwatch is that of the Omnic Crisis. The Omnic Crisis is probably the single most important aspect of the wider lore, providing key contextual information for many of the game's heroes and precipitating the formation of the «Overwatch» group itself.
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It would be remiss when talking about the Omnic Crisis to not first give context as to what the Omnica Corporation was. The Omnica Corporation was a multinational corporate entity within the world of Overwatch that sought to revolutionize the process of producing advanced robotics via the use of their highly efficient and autonomous facilities dubbed «omnium factories.»
An added purpose to these highly scientific factories was to bring about a global economic golden age, typified by economic equality. However, soon after the global establishment of these omnium factories, evidence of serious malfunctions within their produced robotics were starting to become evident, as well as controversies of corporate fraud within the Omnica Corporation itself. Eventually, the company was forcibly dissolved and their patented omnium factories laid dormant.
The Omnic Crisis began once the condemned and empty omnium factories mysteriously reactivated of their own
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