Blizzard may be pulling out of "Overwatch 2" with the push map Esperança.

Reddit user u/ilax300 (opens in new tab) posted a glitch demo using the support hero Mercy. It utilizes a rock near the center of the map, which appears to have no collision. The player used Mercy's sit emote to move Mercy to the corner of the rock, then floated under the rock and disappeared completely. Not only was this problematic in itself, but the position was close enough to the target for the hidden player to contend with, rendering the robot immobile and quite confusing to the enemy team.

I tried this glitch myself. Sure enough, I was able to eliminate Mercy with relative ease. Only a small part of his knee was sticking out. I tried it on the other little heroes sitting on the emote. Lucio's bouncing hair gave him away, but Moira's bowing kept her head out of the top of the rock.

I rope in featured producer Imogen to check out the Widowmaker, but to my surprise, she somehow disappears more easily than Mercy. Although I don't personally possess one, Tracer's emote also appears to completely hide her, and comments on a Reddit thread confirm that Chirico's kneeling emote does the trick as well. It is possible that Genji's sitting emote could be included, but the sword might give it away.

Overwatch 2 has faced quite a few problems since its launch in October. No maps have been deleted so far, but three heroes have been temporarily banned; Torbjorn and Bastion were removed just one week after launch (open in new tab). They were eventually reinstated, but not long after, Mei was frozen out of the game due to a glitch in her ice wall (opens in new tab).

Mei was scheduled to return in a mid-season patch on November 15, but this was also delayed thanks to a "critical issue." (Open in new tab) Hopefully, Esperanza is not going anywhere. However, Blizzard has a habit of postponing things for weeks at a time, so we may have to say goodbye to this map for a little while. Some players have requested a ranked mode that disables the use of emotes altogether; in Overwatch 1, ramming a junkrat into a bush in Eichenwalde (open in new tab) resulted in a payload struggle; Blizzard temporarily disabled this emote and would then crash into the rock in question in the meantime.