So you’ve got to be careful when you do a peekaboo take strategy - you might catch a rocket from Pharah.” Rogers added, “There’s a lot of protection from flying characters on this particular level. We studied icebreakers pretty well to try to integrate this into the level.” It’s very clear to understand where that might be, especially if you understand the language of boats.
If you’re working together, you can call out a lot of very key areas where people are. “We’ve got cool tunnels and the engine room - you can get a lot of direction from it, because you can see the bow of the ship and you can see where the captain’s chamber is. “It’s just super rad to fight inside an abandoned ship as large as an icebreaker,” Rogers said in a group interview this week. Players will also experience new levels of verticality and new control point layouts, both on the icebreaker and in the sub-level map components, according to Overwatch art director Dion Rogers. There’s the lab, where Mei and her former team worked an icebreaker ship, which was sent by the original Overwatch team to rescue Mei and her colleagues, but got stuck in the ice and an underground tunnel system where the centerpiece is a massive drill that has bored a network of tunnels through the ice.Īs players battle in and explore the lab area of Antarctic Peninsula, they’ll get to see what Mei and her colleagues were up to before most of them met a terrible fate. Busan, Ilios, Nepal), Antarctic Peninsula is spread across three locations.
The map should feel both new and familiar to Overwatch players they’ve been fighting in a slice of that icy continent since 2016, when Blizzard added the Ecopoint: Antarctica arena map to the original Overwatch.Īntarctic Peninsula will expand on that tiny map, and on the game’s lore, by giving players a new battleground that offers hints about Mei’s past in the region, the fate of her former co-workers, and hints of things “even more exciting about the story to come” in Overwatch 2, Blizzard says.Īntarctic Peninsula is a Control-type map, the first new map of that type for Overwatch 2 and the first built expressly with the game’s 5v5 team structure in mind. 7, and will introduce an all-new map to Blizzard’s hero shooter: Antarctic Peninsula.
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