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Overwatch 2’s third season is less than a week away, with its arrival scheduled for February 7.
Here’s what I learned.
The area outside of a spawn room in the Antarctic Peninsula map.
“We start to balance ideas, we start to get into a paper design.”
We iterate on the design, and we try and find the fun.
As it’s developed, this document is used by art teams to enrich the map with visual storytelling.
The area outside of a spawn room in the Antarctic Peninsula map.
So, we sort of establish that out," said Jurgens-Fyhrie.
Of the three arenas in the map, the Icebreaker level set on a shipwrecked vessel sounds uniquely interesting.
“It’s super rad to fight inside an abandoned ship as large as an icebreaker.
One of the control points players will fight over on Antarctic Peninsula.
We studied icebreakers pretty well to try and integrate this into the level.”
Jurgens-Fyhrie says that players can look forward to all of these elements and more in Antarctic Peninsula.
The answer is, Overwatch tried," Jurgens-Fyhrie explained.
The Icebreaker stage in Antarctic Peninsula.
The most exciting news of all, though, is that Antarctic Peninsula will havepenguinsin it.
“It was vital to the team’s happiness that penguins be included.”
If you’re worried about the feathered friends getting hurt in the chaos of battle, don’t be.
The southern lights, also known as aurora australis, are visible in the level.
“you might semi-interact with them … you might shoot the penguins, but you cannot kill them.
They’re very agile, almost Matrix-like,” laughed Rogers.
The Art Director then went on to highlight two of the map’s other humorous quirks.
Ecopoint: Antarctica, an Arena map from the original Overwatch set in the same location as Antarctic Peninsula.
That’s just three things; there’s a bunch of easter eggs and fun things to discover."
Overwatch 2 Season 3 and the Antarctic Peninsula map is expected to arrive on February 7.
Overwatch 2is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
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