Overwatch 2’s mid-season replace has been delayed on the final minute, leaving authentic hero Mei unplayable in the intervening time.
A publish on the official boards confirmed the patch has been pushed again because of an unexplained “vital situation” that was found shortly earlier than it was because of go stay.
“Immediately’s patch is delayed as we work to resolve a vital situation,” Blizzard confirmed. “We’ll present an replace right here and set the patch stay as quickly as the issue is addressed.” The patch will now go stay on November 17 at 11am PST, so Mei mains gained’t have too lengthy to attend.
Mei was faraway from the sport earlier this month because of a bug that allowed her to achieve out-of-bounds places utilizing her Ice Wall capability. Basically, gamers have been in a position to exploit this and conceal out of attain of different gamers.
“We’re briefly disabling Mei to handle a bug along with her Ice Wall capability that permits heroes to achieve unintended places,” Blizzard stated on the time. “We’re working to handle these points as rapidly as potential and intention to deliver Mei again in our subsequent upcoming patch which is ready for November 15.”
The delayed patch consists of another adjustments too, together with “upcoming stability adjustments, bug fixes, together with those who have an effect on Mei, and core content material updates we have now deliberate for this patch,” stated Blizzard.
“This delay additionally impacts the supply of Overwatch League Viewership Incentives and Perks from the postseason matches throughout the interval between October 30 to November 4, together with the rotation of cosmetics within the Overwatch League store.” Each day and weekly challenges, in addition to the same old store refresh, continued as deliberate.
IGN’s Overwatch 2 assessment gave it 8/10 and stated: “Overwatch 2 breathes new life into what was as soon as the sharpest multiplayer shooter round, earlier than it had its edges severely dulled by Blizzard’s consideration shifting away.”
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