The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. Today, in an try to handle points pertaining to Torbjörn and Bastion, Blizzard introduced that it might be pulling the characters solely from some recreation modes. Don’t fret if you happen to don’t see them, that half is intentional. While there’s no phrase on how lengthy the characters shall be inaccessible, the transfer is presumably to repair Bastion’s infinite final, together with a Torbjörn capability that lacked its cooldown. Somehow, in doing so, Blizzard has created a wholly new downside: An whole swath of characters are now not accessible for some gamers.
Logging in myself, as somebody who beforehand had your complete roster unlocked, I now have 12 characters whom I can now not entry. They are Doomfist, Sigma, Wrecking Ball, Ashe, Echo, Mei, Sombra, Symmetra, Torbjörn, Zenyatta, Kiriko, Baptiste, and Brigitte. Restarting the sport didn’t assist with unlocking the characters, nor did restarting my PS5. The characters merely retained the little lock icon, regardless that I used to be taking part in with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier at present. And social media, I’m not alone on this situation: There are a ton of confused people who don’t know what’s occurring proper now, yelling at Blizzard to undo it.
“What is going on at Blizzard now???” one participant tweeted, whereas commenting on their incapacity to entry their full roster. “Can’t play almost any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster situation mentioned.
This follows after every week of different enormous points, during which gamers couldn’t log into the sport in any respect, had bother migrating their accounts from the primary Overwatch, couldn’t use pay as you go telephones, and bizarrely, suffered a technical situation whereby the chat might by some means purchase issues from the shop. While all of those points have been mounted or improved, gamers maintain discovering different bugs or unfinished belongings. It’s all left the impression that Overwatch 2 feels extra like an early-access recreation than a fully-fledged, polished, completed product. And with the developer having to tug whole characters and ending up breaking your complete recreation within the course of, it’s getting tougher to argue in protection of Overwatch 2 even whether it is enjoyable to play.
Kotaku’s reached out to Blizzard to inquire about this huge bug. From the sounds of it, this isn’t the primary time that some gamers have been locked out of accessing characters since launch, however the situation seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. According to gamers who skilled the bug previous to at present, it took a couple of day for it to resolve.
Update 11:41 p.m. ET: Overwatch went down for upkeep for an estimated hour, and is now again up if you happen to’re at the moment studying this. In a discussion board put up that compiles identified points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “This is caused by an issue with our servers that tracks player progression. We are working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.” When I initially loaded the sport on PS5, I might entry all my beforehand unlocked roster. Speaking to different gamers, it looks like a blended bag. Some are discovering the problem is now gone, others nonetheless have their characters gone. This tracks, as a result of the locked roster was a factor that some have been experiencing previous to tonight, it simply occurred to massively unfold after the preliminary Torb + Bastion repair. Your mileage could range. While my roster is again, I now have a very new situation: I maintain getting kicked out of video games.
Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This put up beforehand acknowledged it was over half the roster, when it’s 12 out of 34. However, gamers are reporting completely different numbers of inaccessible characters than I personally am experiencing.
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