Overwatch 2 has had a collection of points for the reason that title’s launch on Oct. 4, involving server points, huge ready queues within the 1000’s, and crashes. Disgruntled gamers have been voicing their opinions everywhere in the Overwatch 2 subreddit, throughout social media at giant, and fairly frankly everywhere in the web.
The Overwatch 2 devs haven’t let this problem go unnoticed both.
In a neighborhood weblog submit on Oct. 5, Jodie, a neighborhood supervisor for Overwatch 2, voiced the corporate’s apologies relating to the greater than tough begin.
When creating the discussion about the issues, the Overwatch dev stated, “login queues, server crashes, and stability issues are intertwined, so we’ll speak about them collectively.”
The neighborhood supervisor blamed the separate server queues, one being for Battle.web, and the opposite being by means of Overwatch 2 itself. In addition they shared Blizzard had made adjustments to enhance the queuing course of, making it simpler for gamers to be experiencing one queue earlier than getting into Overwatch 2.
Lastly, the dev defined the problems relating to fixes for server queues and crashes, saying “We’re persevering with so as to add nodes to ease the stress on the participant database.”
“The method of including nodes requires replication of information, which inherently provides stress to an already burdened system, so we’re doing it slowly to not trigger any additional disruption as devs and engineers work by means of separate points,” they added.
Regarding the extraordinarily lengthy queues, the neighborhood supervisor defined: “We’re additionally at present throttling queues with a view to shield the participant database as a lot as we are able to whereas we scale—this feels unhealthy within the short-term, however as soon as it’s achieved, will tremendously enhance the expertise for gamers throughout a number of fronts transferring ahead.”
These explanations are amongst a collection of different feedback relating to points involving DDoS assaults, “incorrectly locked heroes and gadgets for current gamers”, and “issues with account merges.”
The neighborhood supervisor highlighted the significance of taking to the neighborhood boards and flagging any points with their help workforce, saying “When you’re nonetheless experiencing this problem after taking these steps, please open a help ticket, that knowledge may be very useful for our workforce.”
Hopefully, these points could be resolved as quickly as doable so Overwatch 2 gamers can get again into servers, choose their heroes, and get grinding within the sequel once more.
