A runaway success and 2016's game of the year, Overwatch is a game shrouded in mystery. From the murky pasts of some of the characters to the origins and lore of the the Overwatch organization, this game, though rich in back story, still leaves us with a lot of questions and avenues to be explored. Part of why Overwatch is so brilliant is that the story it tells us is so multi-faceted and dynamic that it creates a world with so much possibility for continuation. There are so many characters with individual backstories, that we have so much to learn about stiꦏll. Though it's been out ﷺfor a while now, there's still things being found in it frequently, so players are constantly looking at it in different ways and trying to learn about the game.

And sometimes we can learn things, if we just look in the right places. From easter eggs, to little known behind the scenes facts, here are 15 hidden secrets that even the most seasoned Overwatch player has de🃏finitely missed. Was there something really cool that we forgot about? Let us know!

15 🌠 What Did He Say??? 🐟

Voice lines in this game are a great way to show personality for every hero. Whether it be Reinhardt shouting "BEER!" or Tracer with her iconic "Cheers love, th🅰e cavalry's here!", there aꦉre an abundance of classic lines that these heroes deliver. However, every now and then we hear a voice line that makes us go "WTF?" Reaper's "It's in the refrigerator" line has perplexed me since its release in the 2016 Summer Games, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks this line is a massive troll. But it does actually mean something. The phrase was coined by Lakers sportscaster Chick Hearn to mean that the game is won, or the match is over. So when Reaper says this line, he's basically telling you he's about to drop down on you and Death Blossom the s*** out of your squad.

14 🌠 Home, Sweet Home

There's a lot of beauty to behold in the maps of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overwatch if you only look close enough. Yes, they are all quite picturesque, but if you look with a keen enough eye, you'll see so much more. The stories these maps tell make the heroes Overwatch all the more real. A few characters' private domiciles can actually be found in game. In Nepal: Village, on the second floor near the objective, you can see the room Genji inhabited while training with Zenyatta. In Horizon: Lunar Colony, on the first floor below the airlock door, you can see Winston's dwelling. And, though not really a room𓆉, on Ecopoint: Antarctica you can see the cryostasis pod that Mei spent a few years in. Blizzard knows we love easter eggs and they do not disappoint when it comes to providing them.

13 💞 They Weren't♏ Cut Out For Retirement Anyway...

One thing Overwatch absolutely got right was finding a compelling and believable way to bring together a diverse cast of characters from all ends of the globe and unite them in several complex story lines that intersect at many points. Overwatch has playable characters that hail from every continent (even Antarctica... that would be Mei, aka Satan) and span a massive range of ages. The Overwatch organization's youngest member is Hana Song, aka D. Va, who is only 19, and their oldest member wou🌠ld be Reinhardt, who is 61 years young. Ana Amari comes in at a close second. It turns out retirement is a little underpowered right now and might get a buff in the next patch.

12 🔯 Payload? What's That?

This next one is for the 5% of Overwatch players that do not experience intense anaphylactic shock when nearing the payload. At least that's what I think happens... what other reason would be good enough to stay a good 50 feet away from the payload at all times? Any way, in the escort/hybrid maps, you don't just mindlessly push flying cars. Every payload has a destination for a reason. Attackers on King's Row are escorting an EMP to the heart of a known Omnic hiding spot to, as Junkrat would say, "Scrap some bots". If the attackers deliver it all the way to the end, you can see the detonation of the EMP as the match ends. On Hollywood, the attackers are escorting a famous Omnic director named Halfred Glitchbot in his limousine. Glitchbot can be🐟 heard making jabs at the attacking team f🌟or being too slow. Yeah... he's a dick!

11 Free Voice Lines!!! 𒁃

When released, Horizon: Lunar Colony really set the bar for Overwatch maps. It's amazing enough with the immersive story it tells about Winston's home, the🐓 zero gravity area, and the hydroponics bay (I just really love plants, man), but there's another awesome thing about the map that may easily go u🐎nnoticed. On the attacker's side, as soon as you spawn, there is a massive telescope pointed out an even more massive glass window behind you. Approaching this telescope actually allows you to interact with, and look through it to reveal a scenic overview of the Strait of Gibraltar. This is not only awesome because it shows us how Winston planned to escape from the moon to Earth, but each character will say a unique voice line when they look through the telescope. My personal favorite is Soldier: 76's "Earth, I've gone through a lot for you. Hope you appreciate it."

10 Potentially Obscure Refere🙈nce⛄s

Overwatch is a game where references run amok. On several maps in the game, you can see arcade games such as "Super Siege Mode 3" and "Fighters of the Storm", which are references to other Blizzard games: Starcraft and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Heroes of the Storm. They also reference Diablo with the arcade game "Soul Stone Demon Slayers" and the infinitely less subtle "The Lost Vikings VI", which is a nod to the game The Lost Vikings. They don't stop here with the references. The movie poster entitled "Some Like it Bot" on the attacker's spawn in Hollywood is a reference to the old classic movie, Some Like it Hot, and then of course, because Blizzard cannot help but plug itself, they have another movie poster entitled "Hero of my Storm", which again, is a nod to Heroes of the Storm.

9 𝔉 Heroes Neve🐼r Die

I have got to give Blizzard props for this next one, because they sure do know how to show love to their fans. A day before Overwatch's release in 2016, Wu Hongyu, a Chinese student, who was eagerly awaiting the release of the game was tragically killed in a motorcy𒈔cle accident as he was trying to thwart the robbery of his friend's bike. Blizzard pays tribute to Hongyu in the map Lijiang Tower: Control Center, with a display of astronaut suits. On the red side of the map, these suits can be seen, with the one in the middle emblazoned with Hongyu's name and the phrase "Heroes never die" written in Chinese characters above it. A fitting homage to a true real life hero, and as Tracer said, "The world could always use more heroes".

8 ICONic

There are only two things in life that are certain. Your Genji will spam "I need healing" all game, despite being full health, and Blizzard will easter egg the crap out of their games with pieces of their other games. Hell, the entire game Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's MOBA game, is just one massive easter egg essentially. Overwatch is no exception because you can represent your favorite characters from other Blizzard franchises with your profile icon. Classic characters available in icon form are: Li-Ming, Kharazim, Sonya, Valla, Diablo, and the witch doctor from the Diablo franchise, Varian, Illidan, Sylvanas and Arthas from the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Warcraft franchise, and Jim Raynor, Kerrigan, and Artanis from the Starcraft franchise. They also have Jaina and the Hearthstone icon available if that's your game. You can also set tang🐬erines as your icon.𒉰 No reference here... just some small oranges.

7 Athena: God O🍸f War 🌃

This next one is more of a fact/theory hybrid, but it is certainly an interesting and quite feasible possibility for the future of Overwatch. This one is in regards to Winston's AI companion and Overwatch's in-game announcer, Athena. There's a good chance that Athena is what's called a god program. God programs are complex forms of artificial intelligence that can control lesser forms of A.I. The implications of this are huge, as another speculation of Athena becoming a playable hero seems quite likely. The Athena program icon can be seen on the upstairs computer system in the attacker's spawn in Watchpoint: Gibraltar. This icon can be seen again on the forehead of an unnamed, mysterious omnic character in the picture above. Could this be Ath🧸ena? There's a very good chance.

6 ﷽  Rock n' Roll Into The Iris ꧑

Your friendly neighborhood ball chucking, purple orb giving, Iris passing into-ing robot monk, Zenyatta, is one of my personal favorite heroes in this game. His ability to delete heroes off the map with his orb volley and discord orb along with his ultimate, Transcendence, which can neutralize many ultimate abilities in the game are part of the reason why, but I liked Zenyatta a lot more when I learned the origin of his name. Zenyatta, along with his omnic Shambali brother Mondatta, who has a massive statue erected in his likeness on King's Row, were named after the third studio album of The Police, Zenya📖tta Mondatta, released in 1980. Also, a little known fact about Zenyatta is that he is 20 years old. Yeah, that's right, Zenyatta is a freaไking millennial. Here's hoping the next skin for Zenyatta has him throwing fidget spinners instead of orbs.