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Some Battle.net players may have experienced “high latency and disconnections” during the attack, Blizzard Supporttweeted. The attack began shortly after a period of emergency maintenance left Overwatch 2 offline for an hour. Blizzardacknowledgedthrough their forum that they were prioritising work to fix an issue that prevents players from accessing all their owned heroes, which they put down to a server error when tracking player progression.
Along with the most recent DDoS attack, Overwatch 2 also saw two of its heroestemporarily withdrawnfrom play for bug fixes to their ability kits. Transforming robot who’s not a TransformerBastionwas withdrawn from all play modes. Techie ZZ Top impersonator Torbjörn was booted from competitive, but stayed playable in Quick Play. Both of these heroes had bugs that “heavily impacted gameplay”, Blizzard said.
Bastion’s problem was a glitch with the character’s artillery ultimate, as noted onReddit. The ability was added for Bastion’s Overwatch 2 rework, but there was an issue with the timer if PC players pressed Q and the left mouse button at the same time as Bastion’s last shell fired. This extended the timer, letting Bastion fire as many shells as possible in that time. Torbjörn’s issue wasreportedanecdotally on the CompetitiveOverwatchsubreddit as a doubling of his overload ability. This would only work once, but extended the time the ability was active for and stacked the character’s armour.
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