Overwatch 2 Maps: The Galpagos Islands

Overwatch 2 Maps: The Galápagos Islands

So, on my post about the Junker Queen, I mentioned that I was going to make another post about a cut map, so this is that post! Out of the cut maps I went over, I chose the Galápagos Islands. Similarly like my Berlin post, I am going to be going over what the real world Galápagos Islands are like and what the map would most likely be like in game. 

Real World Galápagos Islands: The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located in the Pacific Ocean. It is famous for being one of the best locations for wildlife-viewing with a diverse population of plant and animal species, some found nowhere else in the world. It is a province of Ecuador that lies about 1,000 kilometers off its coast. Charles Darwin’s, the father of evolution, visit to the islands in 1835 led to him developing his Theory of Evolution. 

The Galápagos Islands in Overwatch: Like Berlin, we know very little about the cut map, but I’ll go over what we know, then do some speculating.

It was supposed to be a control point map that, unlike any map in the game, was going to be underwater. It has a color pallet of blues, greens, greys, and black. There are two large submarines and three or four smaller drone like things. Now for speculation. 

Based off of the one image we have, the control pointing looking like an old-run down underwater military base with some details at the top that reminds me of a ship wreck. It looks like it is being searched by the larger submarines as well as the smaller drones. The larger submarines might be the spawn points which might mean that going from the spawn rooms(submarines?) to the control point(main base area) would be like the space area on Horizon Lunar Colony, but underwater. This would be a really cool concept because we have seen that the creative team for Overwatch makes amazing looking maps like Rome, Paris, and Castillo, and having an UNDERWATER map would be a huge flex. It would mean that we could see animals like fish, sea turtles, sharks, rays, or sea lions moving around in the map. As a marine biology nerd and an Overwatch player, I feel like people would LOVE this map! 

Anyways, I’m probably going to go over a concept for a possible new character soon, and once the Archives Event drops, I will go over all of the skins. 

TLDR: The Galápagos Islands are a volcanic archipelago found in the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its diverse wildlife and for being where Charles Darwin developed his Theory of Evolution. If it ended up being put into Overwatch 2 it would be an underwater control point map. The control point would probably be an old underwater base area. The spawn room would probably be two large submarines. I want this map because they could add a lot of animals in the background. 

OK YALL so I finally found an accurate use of measurement to find Leo’s actual height!

There’s a scene where Leo is holding onto his ōdachi (canonically 5 feet long) and the hilt reaches to the middle of his bicep.

Using the ōdachi as a tool of measurement and with an eye for a (VERY rough) estimate-

Leonardo is probably somewhere from 6’ to 6’6

Remember- ROUGH estimate. In this scene his head is tilted down and back making his neck seem shorter so I accounted for some extra height.

Idk why the sword is drawn so huge on official art but it seems they actually fixed it here. So for now my estimate’s for each character’s heights are probably

Leo- somewhere round 6’4, definitely not taller than 6’6

Donnie - is canonically taller than Leo, probably anywhere from 6’7 to 6’9- I don’t think he’d be much taller.

Raph- Big boy. Lorge. 6’10- 7 ft. Easy.

Mikey- Short (for a mutant) king. He’s a little taller than April so say April’s average female height (5’4) I’d assume he’s probably somewhere like 5’6- 5’7

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I had too much mental instability to take this on but WHATEVER. Here you go Rottmnt fan base- an actual basic height measurement for you to use. I’m going to die now, thanks.

Overwatch 2 Maps: Monte Carlo, Monaco

During Blizzcon 2019, we learned about a couple of maps including Toronto, Canada, Gothenburg, Sweden, Rio de Janeiro, and Monte Carlo, Monaco. I’ve made posts about all of these maps except Toronto and Monte Carlo. Currently, I can’t come up with any theories that involve Toronto, but I came up with one that has to do with characters that are linked with Monte Carlo. So, this post isn’t exactly a theory, it’s more of an overview about what the place is like in real life and what the map is going to be like. This will help me explain an theory I have planned for the near future. 

The Real Life Place: Monte Carlo, Monaco is at the base of the Maritime Alps and along the French Riviera. This places it close to the borders of both France and Italy with the main language spoken being French. It is known for several things including: how rich it is, the Formula Grand Prix event, their casino’s, and the beaches. 

In the Game, based on images: It is an escort map. The payload is designed to look like a blue race car that follows a road through a city that is close to a river. We know that there is one casino that you can get into which I think will be a spawn room and another spawn room will be a mechanics shop. In the area we know will be a spawn room, you can see a yellow race car that is being fixed or having its tires changed. 

In the Game, based on other parts of the lore: Maximillian owns a casino called Casino Monaco. It is used as his base of operations, we learned this in the Masquerade comic book. 

Anyways, I’m almost done with my masterlists, so those will be posted in like half an hour - 45 minutes. I’ll be posting about the Mystery Omnic from Storm Rising and eventually the MEKA Squad. 

TLDR: Monte Carlo, Monaco will be an escort map with city/streets terrain. The payload will be blue race car. Two buildings we know that will be in the map are Maximillian’s casino and a race car mechanics’ shop that is a spawn room. 

Overwatch/OW2 Theories: Future Character Challenges

With the Pachimari Roadhog skin challenge, I wanted to speculate about what character challenges we might get in the future. So far, we have eleven character challenges; Nano Cola D.Va, Pachimari Roadhog, Maestro Sigma, Mardi Gras Ashe, Brick Bastion, Kyogisha Hanzo, Marammat Symmetra, Comic Book Tracer, Bastet Ana, Combat Medic Baptiste, and Dr. Ziegler Mercy. So, I’m going to go over some fun ideas for skin challenges based off real world holidays and pieces of lore. 

Holiday Skin Challenge Ideas: 

Summer Solstice Lucio: This would be in between the Anniversary and the Summer Games, so in late June/early July. I don’t have as clear of an idea of what the skin would look like compared to other skin ideas, but it would be shades of blue, yellow, orange, and white, kind of like a sunrise. 

New Year’s Wrecking Ball: So this would be around New Year’s, so between Winter Wonderland and Lunar New Year, if Winter Wonderland started earlier than normal. So, Hammond would be in a white and black suit and the wrecking ball itself, would be a disco ball. 

Valentine’s Day Hanzo: This would be around Valentine’s Day, before the Lunar New Year event. I’m not exactly sure what the outfit would look like, but it would have a red, white, and pink color scheme. I think that it would fit Hanzo best because he is an archer and cupid is depicted as an archer. Ashe(maybe not Ashe since she got the Mardi Gras skin) or Widowmaker would also be ok, but it should be a sniper in my opinion.

Lore Based Skin Challenge Ideas:

Bride Widowmaker: This would be between the Anniversary event and Summer Games, or between the Summer Games and Halloween Terror event. This would be based off a photo of Amelie and Gerard on their wedding day, so I think that would be cool.  

Veteran’s Day Reaper: This would be in November, around the same time the Symmetra Marammat challenge happened last year. This would be a holiday based skin and a lore based skin. He already has his Soldier: 24 skin which is supposed to be a military uniform skin, but I think giving him a skin similar to Soldier: 76′s Commando and Night Ops. skins would be cool because he was part of the US military, like Soldier 76, before joining Overwatch. 

Patrol Officer Orisa: This would probably be between Archives and Anniversary. We know that Orisa was built from one of the destroyed OR15 bots from the Numbani Doomfist fight and we know that the OR15′s were used as defense bots that worked with the police. So, I think that Orisa should get a police skin that would be similar to D.Va’s Police Officer skin and Brigitte’s Riot Police skin. 

Deadlock Rebels Ashe: This probably wouldn’t be a character challenge skin, since Ashe already got the Mardi Gras skin. It will most likely(hopefully) be an Archives Event skin just like Deadlock McCree. If it is a character challenge, I think that it would happen in June/July of this year since the Deadlock Rebels book is coming out in June 2021. 

Anyways, I think I’m going to go over a character I want added to the game soon or a map that I want added to the game that wasn’t actually added but already had a concepts created for it. 

TLDR: Some ideas I have for possible character challenges include: Summer Solstice Lucio, New Year’s Wrecking Ball, Valentine’s Day Hanzo, Bride Widowmaker, Veteran’s Day Reaper, Patrol Officer Orisa, and maybe Deadlock Rebels Ashe. 

Overwatch League: SF Shock Midas Roadhog 2020 Championship Skin

A while ago, we were told that the San Francisco Shock was getting a Midas Roadhog skin for their 2020 championship win. We got a glimpse at it but now you can buy it. Roadhog got the skin since recent buffs at the time made him a key part of the SF Shocks win. Super played Roadhog during the four match series. Like the Good vs Evil Echo Fleta MVP skin, it is 200 Overwatch League tokens or $10 in USD. If you want to know more about the creation of the skin, check out the concept art video on the Overwatch League YouTube channel. Now to the badly taken screenshots. 

Anyways, I’ll be doing a post about possible ex-Blackwatch character soon.

TLDR: We got the Midas Roadhog skin for the SF Shock 2020 Championship win. It is 200 OWL tokens or $10(USD).

Overwatch/OW2 Theories: Fio

I am writing this while waiting for my Nintendo Switch to update so I can play Overwatch. That’s why it’s pretty short, but it wasn’t going to be that long either. Hope you all are as excited about the Roadhog skin as I am. Although I play D.Va a lot more than any other hero, I am a tank main with D.Va, Wrecking Ball, and Roadhog being some of my most played heros. ~ Nova

Alright, back on topic! Since Archives are coming up in a couple weeks, I was thinking about what I could talking about before it started. I came up the my theory on the Mystery Storm Rising Omnic(link), I wrote about what skins I wanted(link), so this theory is going to be about Retribution, my favorite game mode. The first thing that came to my mind was Fio. So, I’m going to go over what we know about her and I’m going to theorize about what role she might play in the future, if she plays any at all. 

Basics: Fio is a former Blackwatch pilot who was deployed to pick up Gabriel Reyes, Jesse McCree, Genji Shimada, and Moira O'Deorain in Rialto during the Venice Incident(which is the Retribution game mode). I’m not exactly sure who her voice actress is, it might be Echo’s voice actress, Jeannie Bolet. If you want to listen to her from Retribution, here is the link, her first lines are at 4:25.  

Overwatch Theory: Since we know Fio was a pilot, after Blackwatch and Overwatch disbanded, she probably joined the Air Force of the country she is from (maybe the USA? I’m not sure). Eventually, she would have gotten the recall message. We know that she didn’t respond to it like Tracer, Mei, or Reinhardt and Brigitte, but it would be cool if she showed up. It would me interesting to see her interactions with McCree and Genji.

Talon Theory: We know from Baptiste’s short story, What you Left Behind, that some ex-Overwatch/ex-Blackwatch member joined Talon after the groups were disbanded, some examples are people like Moira and Gabriel Reyes/Reaper. So, it is possible that Fio joined Talon. During Blizzconline, the Overwatch Devs. mentioned that we might get to play as Talon characters during hero missions, so they might have Fio as the pilot that drops them off wherever they need to go.  

Anyways, I got a lot more done yesterday than I thought I was going to, so I might just not post tomorrow. I think that I’m going to start theorizing about possible new characters and new maps, but I am going to make a post about ideas for future mini events/character challenges since Roadhog just got one. 

TLDR: Fio was the Blackwatch pilot that saved Reyes, McCree, Genji, and Moira. After Overwatch/Blackwatch disbanded, there are two main options of what would have happened to Fio. One, she joined the Air Force of her country, then she eventually shows up to help the Recalled Overwatch. Two, she joined Talon and acts as a pilot for Talon themed hero missions.