New Overwatch map Havana details – game mode, and more
Blizzard EntertainmentThe next new Overwatch multiplayer map will be Havana, based on the map through which players must battle in the Storm Rising mission.
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The Storm Rising in-game event introduces a new PvE mission in which an Overwatch Strike Team chase down the omnic Maximilien, a Talon operative who acts as Doomfist’s accountant.
Like last year’s Retribution event, which saw a Blackwatch team fighting through Rialto, the location for Storm Rising is also set to become a multiplayer map.
After the release of Storm Rising, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan joined a broadcast with Overwatch streamer OhNickel to play through and discuss the event’s mission, during which he revealed more details about the upcoming Havana multiplayer map.
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Havana plays host to the latest mission of the Archives in-game event, Storm Rising.
What game mode will Havana be?
Given that the Storm Rising mission involves escorting a truck carrying explosives through the map, it seemed almost certain that the multiplayer map will also involve a payload, and Jeff Kaplan has now confirmed that this will be the case.
It remains to be seen whether this means Havana will be a full-blown Escort map, or a Hybrid map in which the payload is unlocked after the first point is captured. In the Storm Rising mission, the payload doesn’t appear until the map’s second stage, but this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case in the multiplayer version.
While a Hybrid map is arguably “due” given that the other modes have had new maps more recently, there’s nothing to say that Blizzard have to balance their releases exactly, so it’s very possible that Havana could be Escort like last year’s Archives map, Rialto.
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Players have until May 6 to play through the Storm Rising mission.
Willl Havana be exactly the same as it is in Storm Rising?
While the Havana multiplayer map will be largely the same as it appears in Storm Rising, there will be some differences.
According to Jeff Kaplan, these will primarily be time-of-day and weather changes – likely brightening up the map compared to how dark and miserable it appears ahead of the incoming storm in the PvE mission.
While Havana will become a permanent feature of Overwatch in the form of the multiplayer map, those that wish to experience it as part of the Storm Rising mission will have until the event ends on May 6 to do so, after which the mission will disappear until Archives returns the following year.
