While gamers are discovering each nook and cranny from the brand new maps launched to Overwatch 2, some modifications are going to be launched to older ones sooner or later, in accordance with the builders.
In a Twitter house on Dec. 12, lead degree designer Ryan Smith revealed that each map set to return to the sport’s pool when a brand new season launches will function at the least one change.
While some maps will solely function graphic changes, others will supply new methods of taking part in round them. These might be adjusted to stability the maps higher and adapt them to the modifications made to Overwatch 2 (particularly the five-vs-five change).
Related: All maps out there in Overwatch 2
With Overwatch 2, Blizzard Entertainment launched a map rotation function to the sport. Every season brings a special array of maps gamers can play to convey “excitement” when returning to maps that had been gone for months.
In addition, each map that returns to the sport’s pool can have at the least one replace for gamers to stay up for.
This features a change to the climate, which has already been the case for a number of maps in seasons one and two, switching from day to nighttime.
But a few of them can have extra tweaks, resembling altering covers. They might be adjusted when the builders “feel it’s needed,” to maintain the sport recent and to adapt the map for five-vs-five matchups (as a substitute of six-vs-six within the first title), in accordance with Ryan Smith.
He added that Blizzard isn’t bringing modifications simply “for the sake of change” however to enhance the map’s balancing. He quoted modifications that had been made to Eichenwalde’s first assault choke level, which was modified so as to add one other path on the left to make it simpler to push via for example.
Meanwhile, some maps have already obtained lighting modifications when returning to Overwatch 2 within the season two. Here is the record of maps which can be again within the rotation pool.
