Watchpoint: Grímsvötn: where the fights happen
The first new Escort map since 2022: a prison inside a volcano in Iceland. Early guides agree on the broad shape, so here's a simple diagram. It isn't to scale, and the details will shift as everyone learns the map.
Point 1: a long, open corridor. Defenders have little cover until near the checkpoint, so hold late rather than early.
Point 2: a small hill in the middle that defenders like, but attackers get flanks and off-angles onto it. The end of this point is the best defensive hold anyone has found so far: high ground, room to move and real cover.
Point 3: the choke runs downhill, which favours attackers, and the defender spawn is a long walk away. There's lava near the last point, so knockbacks matter.
Run it a few times in quick play before ranked: health packs and flank doors are still being worked out.
There's no official top-down map yet, so the route diagram is our own, drawn over Blizzard's loading screen art. Swipe for a few of Blizzard's official screenshots of the map (images © Blizzard Entertainment).
Played it? Tell us what we got wrong and we'll fix the diagram. More on the [Overwatch Wiki](https://overwatch.weirdgloop.org/w/Gr%C3%ADmsv%C3%B6tn).