Overwatch released a new map named Horizon Lunar Colony today on the game’s PTR servers. After teasing the map in a post on Monday, Blizzard released the map on the game’s Public Test Realm for PC.

Lunar Horizon Colony

Blizzard has also released an official description for Horizon Lunar Colony, which explains the origins of the space base and touches a little on what went wrong there.

“Horizon Lunar Colony is an Assault map set in a scientific base on the moon. Built as a first step towards humanity’s renewed exploration of space, the colony’s goal was to examine the effects of prolonged extraterrestrial habitation–on human and ape alike,”

Here’s a video of Jeff Kaplan talking about the map:

Map Features

Game Director, Jeff Kaplan has also talked about the various features of the map. “When you talk about the moon, you have to instantly talk about gravity”.

The new map includes features like low gravity. This should allow for some of the cool player moments with the gravity enabled. Low gravity will only affect certain parts of the map.

In addition, Blizzard will be adding an Arcade option for a limited time that enables low gravity on all maps. Custom Games will also offer a low-gravity setting.

Source: Overwatch

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