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Last I heard Overwatch basically didn't have lore. For the entirety of the lifespan of "Overwatch 1" (though overwatch 2 isn't even actually a sequel) the timeline never advanced past the trailer cinematic from launch. All of the "lore" was just character backstory comics and backstory hints from their interactions in the spawn area of each match.
The gameplay really has nothing to do with the lore, but the lore never struck me as very optimistic. The premise of Overwatch is that once upon a time there was a team of superheroes who went around being superheroes and protecting people from the evil supervillains and stuff like that. But anyway, their superhero team collapsed and for a while it's just been a shitty world where the supervillains do whatever they want. Now the superhero team is reforming with some new members. The end.
Idk how that could possibly be seen as optimistic personally lol
It's just standard cape shit. Liberal optimism is a hero saves the world so I don't have to care!
A virus caused killbot factories to start printing omnicidal killbots. Each country's military was getting owned by the killbots so Overwatch was formed by soldiers from every military and some randos to shut down the factories. They suceeded, then became the world police. Robots were made to live beneath the cities and subject to "Detroit:Become Human" level discrimination. 10 years later, Overwatch was disbanded after a group betrayed them and bad press. 10 years later, some of the members came back to reform Overwatch.
Also their leader is a monkey who escaped from the moon.
...why... were there killbot factories?
I don't know if that ever comes up. The whole thing started with "There's a huge expansive world we wrote, this is just a tiny portion of it", and then it turned out no, they were just generating characters to appeal to the largest audience possible and then inventing the world/backstory from that.
When corporate calls for a copy-paste damaged goods femme fatale waifu with an exotic skin color and a corrupted backstory again.
i can ~~fix~~ be there for her
not very optimistic eh
OPTIMISTIC FUTURE
Overwatch was promised to have
EPIC BLIZZARD STORYTELLING(tm) 
coming any moment now and for years a lot of credulous fans waited for more that... didn't happen.
The porn flood that followed after (inevitable, because so many of the characters were committee-designed waifus) had more story packed in than the actual product.