{"id":197766,"date":"2021-02-20T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/overwatch-2-will-not-assault-maps-competitive-play\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:42:31","slug":"overwatch-2-wont-have-assault-maps-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/overwatch-2-wont-have-assault-maps-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Won’t Have Assault Maps | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

On May 24, 2016, Blizzard finally released their team-based competitive shooter\u00a0Overwatch<\/em> that captivated audiences.\u00a0A diverse cast of characters that all brought their own unique skills and abilities\u00a0along with fantastically arcing storylines that continued to resonate across animated Overwatch\u00a0<\/em>shorts<\/a> and graphic novels that fans consumed faster than Blizzard could hope to produce.<\/p>\n

Yet there were growing pains, and fans have been desperately awaiting\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em><\/strong> that has been seemingly on the cusp of release for the past two years, although there has been little\u00a0mentioned from official channels. Today, on the first day of Blizzcon, Blizzard finally offered a bit of news for\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0Overwatch 2 Will Have More Frequent Updates After BlizzCon<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Assault maps, better known by players as 2CP maps, are not going to be in\u00a0competitive play for\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em>. Blizzard has attempted to make Assault maps work as\u00a0it originally imagined within Overwatch<\/em>, multiple times. In mid-2019, Blizzard nerfed the additional time teams get when successfully capturing a point in Assault. On July 30, Blizzard pushed forward an experimental card<\/a> that\u00a0it noted as ‘failed’ that would have teams alternate between attacking the first point, then the second point.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

Still, matches would snowball quickly, resulting in attacking teams grabbing both points in quick succession before a competent defense could be mounted. Other times\u00a0they would simply refuse to end, as both teams would successively mount agile offenses that would take advantage of the snowball opportunity, resulting in matches that could reach over 35 minutes of gameplay. There was a happy medium that Blizzard clearly envisioned, but it’s safe to say that it couldn’t find said medium in the past five years.<\/p>\n

Game director\u00a0Jeff Kaplan<\/a> further clarified the statement of Blizzard’s intent within the\u00a0Overwatch <\/em>Creator Discord channel: 2CP will still be available somewhere in\u00a0Overwatch 2,<\/em>\u00a0likely still to be found in both arcade and custom games.\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em> will not add any further 2CP maps into\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>but the new title will still hold the original\u00a0Overwatch<\/em> Assault maps.<\/p>\n

This could also incite new problems within\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em>, however. 2CP was originally added with the intent of shaking up the standard pacing of play, offering additional avenues for players to experiment with team compositions and heroes. Some heroes, such as Bastion and Symmetra<\/a>, can struggle to find proper purchase outside of an Assault map. This could also hinder the overall time that players are willing to spend grinding competitive\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em> matches for days on end if the maps can’t offer enough variance to ensure that players don’t feel as they’re repeating the same task in a different environment.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how this may all eventually shake out for the arriving\u00a0Overwatch 2<\/em>, it’s admittedly difficult to downplay the sheer excitement coming from fans of the team and ability-based shooter. With new Overwatch\u00a0<\/em>heroes on the horizon<\/a> to join into the fray, fans of\u00a0Overwatch<\/em> have a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Overwatch 2<\/em><\/strong> is currently still under development by Blizzard.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Don’t Expect Overwatch 2 To Release Anytime Soon<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Rod Breslau\/Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n

\\\"IT\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2
\u7acb\u523b\u8a3b\u518a\u53ca\u5831\u540d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2\u8ab2\u7a0b\u5427!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/br>Find A Teacher Form:\r\n<\/br>https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1vREBnX5n262umf4wU5U2pyTwvk9O-JrAgblA-wH9GFQ\/viewform?edit_requested=true#responses\r\n<\/br><\/br>Email:\r\n<\/br>public1989two@gmail.com






\r\nwww.itsec.hk<\/a>
\r\nwww.itsec.vip<\/a>
\r\nwww.itseceu.uk<\/a>
<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overwatch 2 confirms to not have Assault (2CP) maps within competitive play after struggling to make the scenario viable in the original title.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Overwatch 2 Won't Have Assault Maps | Game Rant - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"Overwatch 2 confirms to not have Assault (2CP) maps within competitive play after struggling to make the scenario viable in the original title."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197828,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197766\/revisions\/197828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}