The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. At this time, in an try to handle points pertaining to Torbjörn and Bastion, Blizzard introduced that it could be pulling the characters completely from some sport modes. Don’t fret in case you 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 potential that lacked its cooldown. By some means, in doing so, Blizzard has created a wholly new drawback: A complete swath of characters are not accessible for some gamers.
Logging in myself, as somebody who beforehand had your entire roster unlocked, I now have 12 characters whom I can 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, regardless that I used to be taking part in with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier right now. And taking a look at social media, I’m not alone on this difficulty: 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 incapacity to entry their full roster. “Can’t play virtually any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster difficulty mentioned.
This follows after every week of different big points, by 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 difficulty whereby the chat may someway purchase issues from the shop. Whereas all of those points have been fastened or improved, gamers hold discovering different bugs or unfinished property. It’s all left the impression that Overwatch 2 feels extra like an early-access sport than a fully-fledged, polished, completed product. And with the developer having to drag complete characters and ending up breaking your entire sport 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 difficulty seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. In response to gamers who skilled the bug previous to right now, it took a few 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 in case you’re at present studying this. In a discussion board publish that compiles identified points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “That is brought on by a difficulty with our servers that tracks participant development. We’re working to get this difficulty resolved as shortly as doable.” After I initially loaded the sport on PS5, I may entry all my beforehand unlocked roster. Talking to different gamers, it looks like a combined bag. Some are discovering the difficulty 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. Whereas my roster is again, I now have a very new difficulty: I hold getting kicked out of video games.
Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This publish 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.