Escort Map Investigation

Spawn Rooms:

• Spawn Rooms with number of exits are as follows:

• Dorado: 4
• Route 66: 3
• Junkertown: 3
• Rialto: 5
• Havana: 3
• Watchpoint: Gibraltar: 3

• Dorado, Junkertown, Rialto and Watchpoint: Gibraltar contain at least one high ground spawn door
• Route 66, and Rialto contain a large form of cover and/or blind between the initial spawn door and Payload.

• Havana and Watchpoint: Gibraltar contain cover outside the spawn, but nothing directly interfering the pathway to the Payload’s starting position

Gates

• Escort Maps with gates always had one that opened and then closed, followed by one that opened and remained open.

• Junkertown is the exception: Both gates opened and then closed behind the payload.

• Rialto is the only Escort Map without gates at the checkpoints.
• Dorado has the only gate that is not directly in front of a capture point (Checkpoint Two)

Courtyards: The space directly around the final encounter pocket in which the attacking team must capture a given checkpoint

• 8 out of 12 checkpoint had an traversable path or platform directly over them

• 6 of them were full pathways or bridges
• Other two were a small enclosed room on Havana Checkpoint One, and a platform on top of an archway over Dorado Checkpoint One (Only accessible to High Mobility heroes).

• All Checkpoints have some platform or bridge that acts as a high ground position

• Rialto Checkpoint Three has the only Courtyard area without any true high ground

• All Third Checkpoints have a Mega Health Pack within a reasonable, but out of the way position

• Only exceptions are Rialto Checkpoint Three Courtyard and Watchpoint: Gibraltar Checkpoint Three Courtyard

Overhead Archways/Bridges/Pathways: Directly over Payload Path (both traversable and non-traversable)

• There are 24 total of these that directly go over the path in which the Payload follows for the duration of each map.

• Dorado: 5
• Route 66: 2
• Junkertown: 5
• Rialto: 3
• Havana: 4
• Wachpoint: Gibraltar: 5

• Havana and Dorado each contain the only two non-traversable archways/bridges/pathways

• Havana: The Checkpoint Three Castle Doorway
• Dorado: Archway between two buildings directly ahead of Payload start point

• 14 of these are uncovered with limited protection

• The rest are either non-traversable or covered
• Covered archways/bridges/pathways all have at least a window looking out in the attacker’s direction

• All of Rialto’s and Dorado’s second archway/bridge/pathway have parallel windows

• 21 of these have landings on either side

• 2 of these have only one landing on either side

• Route 66: Bridge above first turn on Checkpoint One
• Havana: Room above Checkpoint One Courtyard

• Only platform to have no landings while being traversable is on Dorado

• Platform above Checkpoint One Courtyard

Health Pack Placement

        Note: Health pack numbers are inflated due to me counting some of them in other checkpoints.

• Watchpoint: Gibraltar:

• Checkpoint One: 4 Minis & 3 Megas
• Checkpoint Two: 3 Minis & 1 Mega
• Checkpoint Three: 3 Minis & 1 Mega

• Route 66

• Checkpoint One: 3 Minis & 2 Megas
• Checkpoint Two: 0 Minis & 2 Megas
• Checkpoint Three: 3 Minis & 2 Megas

• Junkertown

• Checkpoint One: 3 Minis & 1 Mega
• Checkpoint Two: 1 Mini & 3 Megas
• Checkpoint Three: 2 Minis & 3 Megas

• Dorado

• Checkpoint One: 4 Minis & 2 Megas
• Checkpoint Two: 3 Minis & 3 Megas
• Checkpoint Three: 3 Minis & 2 Megas

• Rialto

• Checkpoint One: 4 Minis & 3 Megas
• Checkpoint Two: 4 Minis & 1 Mega
• Checkpoint Three: 2 Minis & 1 Mega

• Havana

• Checkpoint One: 3 Minis & 1 Mega
• Checkpoint Two: 3 Minis & 1 Mega
• Checkpoint Three: 4 Minis & 2 Megas