This new Overwatch 2 map may be awful for Mei but it’s great for us

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It’s no secret that the big addition in Overwatch 2 Season 3 would be a map. Blizzard made clear that each season would bring with it a big piece of content, alternating between a new hero and a new map. Last season brought Ramattra, so a map was on the menu for Season 3. However, in an interview with Blizzard's dev team, we found out some exciting details buried within this icy tundra. 

The new mode, named Antarctica Peninsula, can be found on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, closest to the southernmost part of South America. Here, the Overwatch 2 hero Mei, a climatologist, set out to research the effects of global warming on the ice caps. 

As this is a control mode, we’re getting not one but three separate maps. This style of objective capture is a best-of-three round-based mode where the goal is to achieve control of the target area and hold it until your team’s score ticks up to 100%. 

We will be traveling to the Ice Breaker ship, which the international league of do-gooders Overwatch used when they tried to rescue Mei and her friends after some trouble in the ice of Antarctica. As well as the ship itself, there’s an underground level set in the Ice Caves. Then there are the Labs, where Mei and her friends met an icy fate. In this area, “will we now get to see who they were and what work they were doing towards the Ecopoint of Antarctica,” lead art designer Dion Rodgers says.  

Each map will have individual aspects and details that’ll work to flesh out the stories and fights. “The terrain or geometry layout is pretty different between each of the points,” level designer Trey Spisak says. Each map will encourage different team compositions, and hero picks, so get ready for some nail-biting skirmishes.

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