After a really tough launch week, Overwatch 2 appears to be lastly discovering its legs. Large points corresponding to server stability, SMS authentication, and automated pores and skin purchases have been improved, mounted, or are within the strategy of getting adjusted. Nevertheless, there are nonetheless tons of particular person points with Overwatch 2 characters which have gone unaddressed. A few of them are irritating. Others are hilarious, and I hope that Blizzard by no means fixes them.
Understandably, Blizzard is focusing its sources on addressing the key errors that have an effect on the broadest swath of gamers. And I’ll eat my footwear if their QA testers hadn’t already caught most, if not all of those main bugs earlier than launch. However it nonetheless would have been good if Blizzard a minimum of acknowledged a few of these gameplay points on their pinned put up of identified bugs and points. So as an alternative of discovering out from Blizzard, I discovered them on social media. Let’s go over them.
Harm-dealer Mei can create an ice wall, which she will be able to use for canopy or to platform her technique to larger buildings. Sadly, leaping on prime of those buildings in Overwatch 2 will trigger her to rubber band. For these not within the know, rubberbanding refers to a lag that happens between the sport server and your native software program. This may give the impression {that a} character is teleporting immediately from one location to a different. Overwatch gamers have been importing movies of Mei teleporting immediately on prime of her ice wall after a short delay. Gamers have additionally discovered that her wall behaves inconsistently. It permits her to fall out of bounds, and Mei gamers have reported with the ability to section by means of it.
Since Mei is a much less standard character, followers really feel slighted by Blizzard’s unwillingness or incapability to repair her means earlier than launch. The bug felt particularly disappointing as a result of her previous freeze means had been eliminated, which was an essential side of her play type.
Bastion mains however, are having the time of their lives. Throughout the span of his final means, he means that you can spam artillery at his opponents once you proper click on very quick. The buff will seemingly be nerfed within the close to future. For now, Bastion mains will nonetheless have the ability to rain terror on their opponents.
There’s additionally been different unresolved points exterior of gameplay. Ashe gamers report that she T-poses when sitting or carrying a particular pores and skin, although it’s potential that sitting normally is bugged proper now. And Cassidy’s victory pose seems to be much more suggestive when he’s twirling the air as an alternative of his pistol. It’s much less that any one of many points is catastrophic than it’s that, alongside the opposite large points and a extra sparse sport general (like within the post-match outcomes, or the variety of maps which might be gone now), it’s left some gamers calling Overwatch 2 extra of an “early entry” or unfinished expertise than anticipated. Even minor particulars, just like the UI, are being picked aside for not being completely flush proper now. Different points, like gamers getting booted from video games or having their sport crash completely after incomes achievements, have persisted since last week.
Sit tight: Blizzard will seemingly get to character-specific bugs as soon as it’s carried out with placing out server-wide fires or bugs that have an effect on each participant within the sport. For now, we will nonetheless giggle at Overwatch 2 gamers getting completely obliterated by Bastion’s infinite missiles.
Replace 7:40 p.m. EST: Blizzard has announced that each Bastion and Torbjorn will probably be taken out of the sport briefly because the developer addresses “just a few bugs” of their means kits. Presumably, that is in response to the reported points with Bastion’s infinite ult, although within the case of Torbjorn, it appears to do together with his Overloaded means, which reportedly could possibly be used twice in succession. Bastion received’t be out there in any respect throughout this time, whereas Torbjorn can solely be performed in fast play (that means, no ranked.)
