After a really tough launch week, Overwatch 2 appears to be lastly discovering its legs. Large points reminiscent of server stability, SMS authentication, and automated pores and skin purchases have been improved, fastened, or are within the technique of getting adjusted. Nonetheless, 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 most important errors that have an effect on the broadest swath of gamers. And I’ll eat my sneakers if their QA testers hadn’t already caught most, if not all of those main bugs earlier than launch. Nevertheless it nonetheless would have been good if Blizzard not less than acknowledged a few of these gameplay points on their pinned publish of recognized bugs and points. So as a substitute 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 method to greater constructions. Sadly, leaping on prime of those constructions 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 can provide 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 part via it.
Since Mei is a much less in style character, followers really feel slighted by Blizzard’s unwillingness or incapacity to repair her potential earlier than launch. The bug felt particularly disappointing as a result of her previous freeze potential had been eliminated, which was an essential facet of her play fashion.
Bastion mains however, are having the time of their lives. Inside the span of his final potential, he lets you spam artillery at his opponents whenever you proper click on very quick. The buff will probably 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 doable that sitting on the whole is bugged proper now. And Cassidy’s victory pose appears much more suggestive when he’s twirling the air as a substitute of his pistol. It’s much less that any one of many points is catastrophic than it’s that, alongside the opposite broad points and a extra sparse sport general (like within the post-match outcomes, or the variety of maps which can 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 probably get to character-specific bugs as soon as it’s accomplished with placing out server-wide fires or bugs that have an effect on each participant within the sport. For now, we are able to nonetheless snigger at Overwatch 2 gamers getting completely obliterated by Bastion’s infinite missiles.
