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Her favorite thing is the Overwatch League; her second favorite thing is pretending iced coffee is a meal. She specializes in educational content, patch notes that (actually) make sense, and aggressively supporting Tier 2 Overwatch. When she's not writing, Liz is expressing hot takes on Twitter and making bad life choices at Target.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mizlizrichardson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mizliz_"],"url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/author\/lizrichardson1"}]}},"raw_content":"This article is brought to you by\u00a0StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Overwatch\u2019s Storm Rising event has given fans a lot to be excited about: tons of new skins, highlight intros, and a treasure trove of new game lore. A bonus surprise from the event? A new map with an explosive payload to escort. In a stream from Blizzard Entertainment headquarters, lead director Jeff Kaplan confirmed that Havana, Cuba will be Overwatch\u2019s next map. The Storm Rising event takes place in multiple areas of a re-imagined Havana. In the stream hosted by streamer OhNickel on Facebook and Fareeha on Twitch, Kaplan also confirmed that Havana will be on the Public Test Realm (PTR) \u201cvery soon\u201d so that fans can test it for themselves. The developer team likes to \u201clet all the Sombras and Reapers figure out how to get off the map so [they] can fix it before it goes live.\u201d Many fans and analysts theorized that Havana would be a payload map due to how it\u2019s laid out in the Storm Rising event. The map has three distinct areas that mimic the layout of other payload maps in Overwatch. First, players go through a pastel-painted city area of Havana. They then make their way through a distillery before actually taking hold of a truck full of explosives and bringing it to a castle on a stormy coast. Later on in the stream, Kaplan revealed a little more about Havana as fans will experience it. 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