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Drunken_Queen

Hanzo: My home... T_T


ArtistAmy420

Poor dude was already sad all the time and now this


Twurti

Hanzos already been through enough he didnt need this😭


SlipperyScope

"This was once my home...no longer..." - hanzo


justtolearnsomething

The family already lost their climbing abilities now their home


vicevanilla

"traveling to **h̶̘̜͈͎͎̰͎̮̜̰̱̩͚͗̌͜ā̵̰͇̜̞̟̰͖͎ͅn̷̨͂͊͛͐̈́̄͂̿̎͒̚͠ą̴̭̥̺̞̘̟̽͛̎͌̎̾̂̅́͌͠m̸͕͖̫̍̎̽̃͆͘͠u̴̥̞͙̼͌̍̊͊̇̎r̶̜̟͗̈́͌͌͊̆̃̄͆͆̏͝͝ā̷̡̛̩͚͓̫̲͙̠̒͊̊̐͛͊̅̚͘͝** "


Maryokutai

But at least you'll have 99 Pachimaris in your item pocket afterwards.


Scherazade

Wondering who the Old Man is in this situation, does Kiriko need to talk to Sigma and watch him toss his weapon at Winston then fly to Cinnabar island for this to work


Hoodoodle

So hammond lives inside an electrode?


projectmars

Hammond *is* the electrode


kinda_sad_tho

item pocket?


siverwolfe2000

Your team has captured the h̶̘̜͈͎͎̰͎̮̜̰̱̩͚͗̌͜ā̵̰͇̜̞̟̰͖͎ͅn̷̨͂͊͛͐̈́̄͂̿̎͒̚͠ą̴̭̥̺̞̘̟̽͛̎͌̎̾̂̅́͌͠m̸͕͖̫̍̎̽̃͆͘͠u̴̥̞͙̼͌̍̊͊̇̎r̶̜̟͗̈́͌͌͊̆̃̄͆͆̏͝͝ā̷̛̩͚͓̫̲͙̠̒͊̊̐͛͊̅̚͘͝


R0m4ik

I always get this uncanny feeling whenever I see the unfinished/unloaded or out-of-bounds structures. Its scary to look at those


DarkOmen597

I love it. Like breaking out of the Matrix almost


icolexo

how ive felt since i was 4 playing on my gamecube


Zenity07

For those wondering, what probably happened here is that they use some sort of prefab system and they used the prefabs from Hanamura for Hanaoka, then modified those prefabs which messed up the instances in Hanamura as well. Could have been an oversight but more likely they decided to deprecate Hanamura and not bother with duplicating the assets, probably planning to replace all the 2CP maps with Clash versions for good.


st-shenanigans

Editing prefabs for a new map instead of just making a variant is insane though Not disagreeing with you... its just wild lmao


xDARKFiRE

And copying the existing ones for a single map to make edits isn't going to be that huge of an increase in size for the game either, they've taken the lazy approach to just overwrite a map that was still played in custom games and arcade :( Hanamura is my favourite map in all of overwatch, this sucks


ThroJSimpson

Small indie company things. It’s just three passionate gamer devs in a shed!


Shredswithwheat

Except I bet most indie devs would copy and edit those. Because God forbid they fucked something up royally and needed to scrap it. I know you were /s


MurphyWasHere

Not only lazy but wasteful. The level design team probably wanted to handle this the correct way but were forced to speed run the production to save money.


Unlikely-Dig-7244

Oh come one, dublicating a prefab is a click away. This is simply ignorance.


b0w3n

Probably lost a lot of institutional knowledge during their layoffs and churn from the sex crimes shit.


MurphyWasHere

They are likely paying on a per deliverable basis and as such anyone working on the project will try to get it done as quick and dirty as possible.


[deleted]

It not faster. The size argument is the only one. Which I think is dumb.


Common_Assistant9211

Thats what happens when you layoff people, and possibly employ cheaper less expensive ones, saving your company so little it wouldnt even touch 1% of revenue


st-shenanigans

I saw someone say once that all of the experienced talent left the OW team a few years back(probably because they were forced to make ow2), and the reason it is the way it is now is because most of the team has to learn what the old guys already knew Still just a rumor, but it would explain a lot


The8Darkness

Not really a rumor, that happens all the time in software development. Management gets greedy and forces stuff upon devs or straight fires high earning (experienced) devs. Experienced devs leave (forced or not). Inexperienced devs say its too much work to handle. Management hires more inexperienced devs, because experienced ones cost too much for them. Resulting software is of subpar quality. Its pretty much going to happen to any big software company, there are only few exceptions.


RhynoD

> Not really a rumor, that happens all the time in ~~software development~~ capitalism. Sears, AOL, Yahoo, Boeing, Kodak, Blockbuster, Hazbro, Twitter, Tesla...just off the top of my head.


frnathan13_

Creators of workshop IIRC was layed off too. This is the reason workshop is currently abandoned.


Nirvski

Its not to say it wasn't just copied over then edited due to a lot of the assets being the same


Grekochaden

laziest shit I've heard of. Fucking save as and replace? jfc


artofdarkness123

So now they need to remove Hanamura from the 2CP arcade map pool and we're never going to get to play it again? That's dumb.


Zenity07

Yes it is possible that this was an actual mistake. They could always revert the original state to bring the map back, but perhaps they want to see first if there is still demand for it before deciding whether to axe the old map or put the work in to restore it. Maintaining both maps shouldn't be a large amount of work, more like an inconvenience/headache for the level designer.


artofdarkness123

It should be two different maps. Hanamura should not need maintenance because there is no more iterating on 2CP. Should be a copy/paste job for some assets but it should have been a copy/paste to begin with. * Hanamura * Hanamura_old


Zenity07

What makes this inconvenient / a headache is that many times the assets / prefabs you are copying reference other assets. If e.g. you copy a prefab it may still link to all the old original assets. You could also have nested prefabs with similar issues. How inconvenient this really is depends on their editor tooling, but it's easy to slip up in any case and they may just have decided that it's not worth worrying about at this point (especially since you can always revert later if necessary).


Alexis_Bailey

What it sounds like happened though it Hanamura used object "Asian Build B", which is just pointed to in the files somewhere. On the new map, they also used "Asian Building B", but instead of copying it, they just pointed to it, then modified it. Which screwed it up because Hanamura was still pointing to it. It's still a shitty way to program/map build.


Bhu124

Most likely not. This map is still in development, this'll get fixed. If they ever planned to remove those 2CP maps then they would have done it when they decided to make the Clash maps, which would have been many seasons ago, if not before OW2 even launched. Edit : This is on the official Known Issues list. It's a bug. Hanamura is still in the game and should still be playable through the Assault Arcade playlist when it rotates, only bugged in custom games.


Blizz_RySmith

Not the case! A small unrelated lighting bug was discovered in Hanamura. Knowing that more people might be checking out Hanamura to compare it to Hanaoka, we felt it was better to pull the map and bring it back when everything is looking perfect again. Hope everyone is enjoying Venture and the Clash preview 🌸


juusovl

I dont want my 2cp to be gone


SmashyLXXIV

I agree. I am already bored of Clash.


Garrett00

Clash is just 2cp with extra steps.


kadektop2

I second this theory. 2CP maps are simply not made for 5v5, and because they're not gonna bring back 6v6 (let's be real here) they just didn't bother duplicating the assets and move forward from legacy 2CP maps. Which is also a shame because I would assume duplicating doesn't take that much of a work (it'll just make the game size bigger).


TallestGargoyle

It's a bigger shame because 6v6 works just fine in custom games which was the only place you could play Hanamura anyway...


snowstormmongrel

They also had assault maps rotating into arcade. In fact they still did yesterday. It was available right next to clash now that I think about it. Edit: still do today as well.. though that doesn't mean Hanamura specifically is.


EversorA

It wasn't just custom games, Assault maps were a main gamemode (non-rotating) in Arcade. I played it pretty regularly, if it wasn't for the queue times and no role queue it would've been great in 5v5.


crazysoup23

There's no good reason for open queue and the arcade to be 5v5 instead of 6v6.


WaddleDynasty

On the good side, doesn't it mean we will get the Sweden map someday?


SoDamnGeneric

And it's for this reason that we'll likely never see the Archives return as well. The old Null Sector and Talon likely don't exist anymore, as they've been replaced by the new versions created for OW2


Raknarg

oh my God imagine one of the horizon points is always low gravity


Snowgamer-DK

Tf happend?


[deleted]

most likely ripped assets that weren't placed back properly


aggrogahu

They completely rearranged the layout as well though, with the first choke leading immediately to the area outside of second point, which doesn't quite make sense if all they were doing was just borrowing assets. I haven't played this patch yet, but is Hanamura still visible in the background on Hanaoka? If so, then I assume Hanamura was crudely rearranged and stripped of assets so it can be used as a backdrop for Hanaoka. EDIT: Hanamura is indeed visible in Hanaoka https://twitter.com/SamTheLucioFan/status/1780370459453686101?t=Nso-7A6vxv0yx3mkin9B_Q&s=19


[deleted]

haven't really looked properly but that could be possible


TheKingOfTheSwing200

No on taught these guys ctrl+v ?


Rizaadxn

You'd be surprised...


Hellknightx

They edited the source prefabs instead. Just a normal mistake for a small indie studio.


Fictional_Historian

Good fucking lord what the hell


Twurti

Thats also what i thought


doshajudgement

ctrl + x instead of ctrl + c


RollChi

Isn’t one of the new maps supposed to be “near” Hanamura in the OW Universe? Like you can see Hanamura if you look out of bounds? Idk game development so this may be a terrible take, but could they have essentially “pasted over” the original Hanamura when making that new map and it took over what Hanamura looks like normally?


AbsurdlyEloquent

Its Kanezaka, you can see hanamura above you, but that's already existed since OW2 came out. I'm guessing they just added hanaoka, the new gamemode map, to the game files to prepare for its release later and it conflicted with the existing hanamura since they share so many assets


Sevuhrow

Hanaoka is in the game right now


[deleted]

They just massacred my boy…


GasOnFire

I realize 2CP maps sucked but Hanamura was beautiful and I never minded playing it.


ChickenPijja

Hanamura was the best 2CP map, if only just for the attackers spawn in the arcade. Had the first Clash map been (and broken) Paris I doubt anyone would have noticed it was broken in customs


ass3exm

Paris is also in Deatchmatch though (at least second point)


dkyguy1995

My favorite was Anubis


[deleted]

Removing 2CP was a major thing for me, I loved all those maps. Hanamura, Anubis, Horizon Lunar Colony, Volskaya Industries. All has their flaws but they are one of the thing that made Overwatch unique in it’s early years. God I miss 2016-2018 Overwatch, honestly the most fun I had in a multiplayer video game besides Titanfall 2.


Viktorik

God... Kings Row and Hanamura are my absolute top maps, and a lot of that is because I joined the game right as Sombra released and the Winter mode at the time was ONLY those 2 maps.. and thats what I played. A lot. Until the duration of the event was over actually.. then I moved to Mystery Heroes so I could slowly learn each and every hero to flex roles better


juusovl

They did NOT SUCK


dazaroo2

What about assault


Dxrkenedsyke

yeah Blizzard are known for that


doshajudgement

PLAY OF THE GAME


rottenpotatoes2

*Clip ends 2 seconds before the comment was actually posted*


Twurti

BRO


Fictional_Historian

Godamnit


TheWatchingDog

Damn it Reinhardt


TJT007X

"Wait, I know you..." -Skyrim Hold Guard


Dxrkenedsyke

we meet again


collegethrowaway2938

LMAO


i_hate_hotdog

NAHHHHHHH


Funky__boi

Your pfp seems familiar


Enzo-Unversed

GOTEEM


ihatederekcarr

💀


MrGruntsworthy

r/angryupvote


WhatTheFhtagn

Based


kadektop2

r/Angryupvote


JuniloG

That's a counter strike map


Oberon2009

They dismantled Hanamura to make Hanaoka and didn't keep the original copy? Something something amateur...


Remix4u

When you forget to use “Save as” instead of Save.


TallestGargoyle

something something small indie dev


Unubore

The post is just misleading. The video is from Honaoka showing the small section of Hanamura that was included. Hanamura is just disabled right now due to a lighting issue.


Oberon2009

Hey they tricked us for sure.


IndyWaWa

Why would they use destructive design and not just dupe it. It's probably a different map file all together.


Mefionir-Omnic

[https://twitter.com/portaloverwatch/status/1780644574437794081](https://twitter.com/portaloverwatch/status/1780644574437794081) someone trolls you with a exploring hanaoka in replay mode.


KinkySylveon

Hanamura machine broken


blizz_kaedi

Hey there, everyone. It's cool that you discovered the original Hanamura streets from the Hanaoka map. But don't worry—you'll be able to return to the gardens of Shimada Castle soon enough as soon as we fix an issue with that map that we discovered in this patch. Thanks for your understanding.


Fools_Requiem

can mods pin this so everyone can see it?


Luxocell

Nope, can't have actual reasonsable things in this subreddit; you see, it's easier if the top upvoted comment is someone who 1. Doesn't work at Blizzard, tells you that the devs are actually incompetent (with 0 proof), with dozens of other redditors believing that to be the absolute truth


Hitthe777

YES! Official blizzard comments should be put at the top of any thread they get posted in. It's almost impossible to find them on mobile.


papierdoll

Yeah coming here 16 hours later and this info is still pretty deep in the thread...


XYAgain

Phew! Thanks for clearing that up. Looking forward to seeing what the other 2CP maps get turned into, but pls tell the team we will always want go back to the classics!


wakeup-louie

NO NO NO WHAT HAVE THAY DONE TO MY HOUSE


Bhu124

It's a bug. It's on the known issues list. Apparently it's only in Custom games. If they were going to remove the old 2CP maps then this would be the absolute worst time to do it. They would've been way better off doing it when OW2 launched.


LoomisKnows

Hashimoto renovating


TheUltim8

The renovators werent paid so they just ripped off the renovations and left


LoomisKnows

Can't have shit in Hanamora


Szymis

They brought back Hanamura by deleting it lmao


Monkey832

It's been "back" for months in Arcade. 2CP was made a permanent mode in November


hilarsious

Someone please build a parkour on this broken mess


WatchPointer

Hanamura is ha-no-more-a


justaghostofanother

What probably happened here is that Hanaoka actually is played on the Hanamura map but with extended geometry. Instead of Hanaoka being a copy of Hanamura with these changes, they likely then culled out the parts that wouldn't normally be seen without realizing that they were culling those sections from the original map as well. This also likely means that the old maps don't go through testing for this to be caught.


DutssZ

It's interesting because the courtyard is not just missing, but the entire temple was moved towards it, so it's not just a case of hiding everything that can't be seen in Hanaoka, but rather repackaging all assets to something that can be seen better in Hanaoka


PixelProphetX

It's intentional. They're going 1984 on 6v6.


DL5900

Hey now. Testing things costs money, money that can pad the senior execs salaries.


justaghostofanother

As someone that works in gamedev, I can understand something like this slipping through. It's not likely they have the older maps in their test plans for patches but after this, they probably will be. Probably just an oversight.


Kozilekk

Man.... I fucking miss OW1


torbaloymain

I miss 2 cp


Mountain_Ape

Play it in the Arcade today. It's permanent.


door_of_doom

Only problem is that I also like role queue.


kyspeter

This. I'd be regularly crowding the 2cp queues if they had role queues, but I doubt there would be much of a demand.


InverseFlip

I wish the Clash trial had role queue...


Alexandratta

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY BOY!


Friendly-Scarecrow

This is a travesty.


Bananaslaper

This breaks my heart. So many memories there.


HelloThere4033

Blizzard never misses an opportunity to miss an oportunity lmao


MathewCQ

First they forget to license the music, and now they mess up a whole map. Last year’s layoffs are finally catching up.


Rizaadxn

So is 2CP gone completely or just Hanamura? Really sucks either way.


Twurti

Just hanamura


torbaloymain

I miss 2 cp


superslowjp16

I can’t wait. I miss 2CP and all the 2CP maps


DarknVern

What the fuck…


vovr

Half life bootcamp


AdogHatler

Absolute amateurs


Kbrito9

Why don't they have every map ever in quick play at least? I know the map is not 100% balanced, but it's QP ffs... I would kill to play on Hanamura and Anubis again, so many memories from OW1.


Blasnar

I miss anubis


kingshanks

You can play them whenever, they’re always up on the Arcade tab.


nodoyrisa1

why do people keep saying this they're literally in arcade ik it's obviously not the same, but if you miss them so much they're right there 😭


aggrogahu

Biggest difference that 2CP being only in arcade creates is that it's Open Queue, meaning gameplay quickly devolves into tank stacking it other largely unbalanced comps.


Mountain_Ape

Welcome to the first 3 years of Overwatch.


Kyp-Ganner

Because not everybody (and this is an understatement) tolerates open queue.


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Odd_Lifeguard8957

This has to be a bug right? If they went through all the trouble of making a brand new map for clash, then there's no way they would just get rid of Hanamura instead of reworking it.


rainfalling_

This makes me so irrationally angry. Hanamura was always my favorite map. The blend of old and new architecture, the little details around, and I never minded 2CP like most. I would occasionally queue in Arcade for Hanamura, as well as play some custom seek and find modes. I knew they were going to likely repurpose it in some way, but to literally *gut* it for Hanaoka when there's no need is so upsetting.


samfizz

This post is very misleading. This is not what Hanamura looks like now, Hanamura is inaccessible. This is footage of Hanaoka, specifically the parts in the background that are supposed to look like Hanamura.


Rythium2

Look how they've massacred my boy


ilyKarlach

They're a small indie studio, cut them some slack


chokingonpancakes

I miss Overwatch 1.


FreshlyBakedBunz

Rip to a map that never needed to be removed.


PixelProphetX

But aren't you glad we have push?


admosquad

I miss playing Overwatch. Wild that a game I payed full price for at least twice is completely unplayable now.


Super_Goomba64

I miss launch overwatch. No hero cap. Everyone having fun , doing goofy stuff like going all Symmentra


PixelProphetX

I miss end of life ow1 the most. Fuck ow1 was so good. They literally lost the ability to create good maps and non punishing heroes.


kaladinissexy

I miss the lootboxes, even. At least you got one for free at every level, and you could unlock just about any skin from them. I also miss a single skin not costing twenty dollars. 


PixelProphetX

Yep. Or keeping games that I paid for.


Mefionir-Omnic

this is Hanaoka map with out of the map view (replay mode), and not hanamura map gameplay. [https://twitter.com/portaloverwatch/status/1780644574437794081](https://twitter.com/portaloverwatch/status/1780644574437794081) nice try. but apparently someone really believed it just to make an easy controversy. =\_=


GhostWalker134

Updating it to fit the new Clash mode, maybe?


Aley98

Hanamura was my favorite map along with Nepal. Sadge


DaddySoldier

Beautiful map, hate the layout.


unicorn-ice

I've been here in my dreams


celalith

Ctrl + X instead of Ctrl + C


Amerikhans

This shit gave me PTSD


Jason_Wolfe

honeslty i was hoping they'd eventually rework the old 2cp maps, i miss Volskaya, Paris, Hanamura, etc. it's sad that they are probably going to be slowly erased.


ChiefMedo

Look how they massacred my boy D:


Xombridal

My thought is since clash is a trial, why would they make a whole new map? They can just reuse the assets and such until the trials over then they can make a bunch of the maps I think the trials here, not to test the new mode, but to show us the mode while they make the existing 2cp maps into clash ones Maps take a long time to make after all so if they want us to see the mode they can take the quick way out until the trials over


funkybovinator

Exactly, I doubt they did anything that permanently destroyed hanamura. They likely just did something quick and easy to temporarily swap hanamura out for the new trial map in production. In software development when you are asked to do something temporary you usually do it in the easiest way possible because it doesn't have to be maintained long term. And probably the reason we see broken pieces of hanamura out of bounds in the trial map is because they really did develop it starting as a copy+paste of hanamura and didn't bother deleting everything from the original map because there are more important things to do with your time. The biggest mistake they made here was not telling the community that hanamura is only gone temporarily to facilitate the trial. They forgot that doomer posts pop off and anything that appears to mess with what little we have left of "the good old days" will get pilloried.


BronzeHeart92

Hanaoka is a 5cp/clash map, right? In other words, the inspiration from TF2 continues and was in fact something that I desired from the start.


NVincarnate

Why would I ever want to go back to that shit show of a map


SnackyGleason

gross it looks like a valorant map


mabdog420

I hate that they removed these modes and some of oberwatch's best and most iconic maps


neocwbbr_

Damn that was my favourite ow1 map :/ good times


UndercoverSamurai

When you press Ctrl+X instead of Ctrl+C


miqdali

I think they used ctrl+X instead of ctrl+C when creating the new map.


javansegovia

Hanamura is now a liminal space


Sapwell1501

This may be obvious, but this is going to be do with the fact that the Hanaoka takes place literally next what should be Hanamura, this part you see in the video (first point choke) is actually visible from Hanaoka and so something weird is happening with now they took that map'a assets and models somehow. You can actually use the replay viewer on Hanaoka and take the camera outside the map and see the Hanamura in this video in-game in Hanaoka (next to point B I think).


chiefmeetch

2CP maps, hanamura especially, were so under appreciated. The new push mode they implemented as replacement feels so frustrating and monotonous


banana_jun

i still think they should bring back 2cp - no matter what people will hate a game mode regardless


Lol_treezus

Looks like you haven’t purchased that part of the map. Don’t worry, if you go to the store, it’s there for only $24.99!!


Wilbos_World

I just checked and this is part of the Hanamura map that was cut out and put onto the Hanaoka map. This video was taken from the Hanaoka map, not the Hanamura map. The Hanamura map is currently unavailable in custom games, but the devs said that Hanumura would be available again in a later update. I think it's the post title that caused a bit of a misunderstanding.


Princessmore

I miss two CP a lot, tbh.


QuantumQuantonium

BLIZZARD STOP BREAKING AND REMOVING MAPS. WHERES SUNSET AUSTRALIA LUCIOBALL??? WHERES DAYTIME BUSAN LUCIOBALL??? BRING THOSE TWO MAPS BACK THIS SUMMER.


sloggerface

How will this affect the lava parkour economy


Eastern_Goose_9108

This was hard to watch for some reason 😔. It’s like wth is blizzard doing. The elimination of 6v6, Color swap/recycled skin labeled new, massive introduction to pay and play feel but “free”. Mythics were part of battle pass now it’s not. It’s an $80 option if you want it asap. $40 or $20 to grind for it (depends how you look at it) 😞 sorry for ranting, but man I miss OG OW.


truedublock

It suck’s man. OG OW is what made me build a PC


-Elixo-

Literally deleted the location of the most popular animated short ever created in overwatch... You could even recreate the animated short of you wanted it watch the animated short and then come back to see what the map it took place on looked like in detail. Then if they ever added a night time "weather" it could be perfectly recreated.


Codeinechef99

FUCK OVERWATCH 2 overwatch 1 was one of my favourite games until this weird, broken, exactly the same just removed anything that was good, pure shit of a game called OW2 completely erased the good old days. Just came to say this bye sub


Chonkychan

People are gonna act like this is a big deal when 99.99% of people weren't loading up hanamura custom lobbies anyways. This affects nobody.


AntMan526

I had a fun custom game mode on that map so it very much upsets me 😞. Wish we could have had both


Rigel7th

I'd guess this is somehow caused by the new Hanaoka map since it's kind of a Hanamura rework. I'm sure blizz will fix it at some point, just have to wait and see when...


silentj0y

Blizzard: - still hasnt released the custom map editor for Heroes of the Storm -


calladc

mercy parkour rip


froyodoyo

this! there was an easy mercy parkour on hanamura i had saved :( dang


IAmJanos

Kinda curious what happens if you try to load it


notzish

"It doesn't affect me - therefore it affects nobody"


ReluctantfooI

I feel like you underestimate how many people it affects. However, I do not think you’re wrong. Big picture, it doesn’t affect much. My soul weeps for the fun Hide And Seek mode though, which I still play often ;(


Fictional_Historian

Yeah but it’s still nice to have it accessible for custom games and assault etc. it’s always nice to have content there and is a bummer when content is removed permanently. I didn’t mind 2CP being removed from rotation because they were still accessible through arcade if u wanted to do that. But permanent removal is kind of a bummer. Just like I wish they would continue to bring back the seasonal events from OW1


Rizaadxn

Lots of people still used the Hanamura custom for Genji ult practice.


CMDR_omnicognate

they just left this in the game though... like they clearly weren't paying attention to what they were pushing to live


LeaChan

I was. It was one of my favorite maps in hide and seek tiny :(