Gaming
By Mitchell
February 05, 2023
Overwatch 2
Overwatch 2’s map pool system will be removed, according to a recent article on the Blizzard website.
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Director Aaron Keller said that the map pool system in Overwatch 2 was made so that the team could focus on just a few maps at a time. However, most players didn't like this idea.
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Hi all! We’re back a little earlier than we had originally planned. Think of this as a bonus, Dev Chat!
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We’re going to mostly focus on maps and level design this go around.
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Map Pools… You were right. We were wrong. Map Pools are going away starting in season 4. We aimed to provide a bit of freshness each season and concentrate the number of maps that people were playing
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However player sentiment around map pools was pretty low, the map roster doesn’t have enough maps where we truly need them, and the impact they had on seasonal identity was fairly low.
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Map frequency. Some players seem to think that we set the frequency of maps in the pool higher for new maps and game modes. The example we hear a lot is that Colosseo comes up much more frequently than other maps.
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We don’t have any special code that prefers one map over another. However, it’s not entirely random. We have been looking into this based off of player reports and there is a detail of the matchmaking system
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The matchmaker tries to avoid people playing the same map as well as the same game mode over a short period of time.
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Since Push has fewer maps than other game modes this could cause those maps to come up more frequently than game modes with more maps.