The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. Right this moment, in an try to handle points pertaining to Torbjörn and Bastion, Blizzard introduced that it might be pulling the characters totally from some recreation modes. Don’t fret in the event you don’t see them, that half is intentional. Whereas there’s no phrase on how lengthy the characters shall be inaccessible, the transfer is presumably to repair Bastion’s infinite final, together with a Torbjörn capacity that lacked its cooldown. In some way, in doing so, Blizzard has created a completely new downside: A whole swath of characters are now not accessible for some gamers.
Logging in myself, as somebody who beforehand had the whole 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 taking part in with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier immediately. And social media, I’m not alone on this subject: 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 lack of ability to entry their full roster. “Can’t play nearly any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster subject mentioned.
This follows after every week of different big points, during 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 subject whereby the chat may one way or the other 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 recreation than a fully-fledged, polished, completed product. And with the developer having to tug complete characters and ending up breaking the whole 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 subject seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. In keeping with gamers who skilled the bug previous to immediately, 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 in the event you’re presently studying this. In a discussion board put up that compiles recognized points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “That is attributable to a difficulty with our servers that tracks participant development. We’re working to get this subject 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 like a combined 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 could fluctuate. Whereas my roster is again, I now have a very new subject: I hold getting kicked out of video games.
Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This put up beforehand acknowledged it was over half the roster, when it’s 12 out of 34. Nonetheless, gamers are reporting totally different numbers of inaccessible characters than I personally am experiencing.
