The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. Right now, 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 for those who don’t see them, that half is intentional. Whereas there’s no phrase on how lengthy the characters will probably be inaccessible, the transfer is presumably to repair Bastion’s infinite final, together with a Torbjörn skill that lacked its cooldown. By some means, in doing so, Blizzard has created a wholly new downside: A 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’re 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, although I used to be enjoying with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier right this moment. And taking a look at social media, I’m not alone on this problem: There are a ton of confused people who don’t know what’s occurring proper now, yelling at Blizzard to undo it.
“What’s going on at Blizzard now???” one participant tweeted, whereas commenting on their incapability to entry their full roster. “Can’t play virtually any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster problem stated.
This follows after every week of different enormous points, wherein 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 problem whereby the chat may by some means purchase issues from the shop. Whereas all of those points have been fastened or improved, gamers preserve 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 drag complete characters and ending up breaking your complete recreation within the course of, it’s getting more durable 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 problem seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. In line with gamers who skilled the bug previous to right this moment, it took a couple of day for it to resolve.
Replace 11:41 p.m. ET: Overwatch went down for upkeep for an estimated hour, and is now again up for those who’re at present studying this. In a discussion board submit that compiles recognized points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “That is attributable to a problem with our servers that tracks participant development. We’re working to get this problem resolved as shortly as attainable.” After I initially loaded the sport on PS5, I may entry all my beforehand unlocked roster. Talking to different gamers, it looks as if 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 might fluctuate. Whereas my roster is again, I now have a completely new problem: I preserve getting kicked out of video games.
Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This submit beforehand said it was over half the roster, when it’s 12 out of 34. Nonetheless, gamers are reporting completely different numbers of inaccessible characters than I personally am experiencing.
