Overwatch 2 beneath “mass DDos assault” on launch, says Blizzard

Overwatch 2 turned accessible lower than 24 hours in the past, and as anticipated, there have been some teething points relating to accessing the sport. This isn’t one thing we aren’t used to by any means, however experiencing queues of as much as 40,000 gamers without delay nonetheless noticed me go to mattress early somewhat than stick round to attempt to play.

That stated, Blizzard has acknowledged the queue instances for the free-to-play multiplayer title by way of Twitter. Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard, tweeted that the crew was working arduous to repair the server points, and that Blizzard was humbled to see the thrill of its gamers.

Later, nonetheless, Mike Ybarra adopted up on his prior tweet by quoting it with, “Sadly, we’re experiencing a mass DDoS assault on our servers. Groups are working arduous to mitigate/handle. That is inflicting lots of drop/connection points.”

Whereas Overwatch socials stayed comparatively quiet on the difficulty, sport director Aaron Keller shared an replace simply two hours in the past that was retweeted by the Overwatch account. Aaron says that, “We’re steadily making progress on server points and stability, in addition to working by a second DDoS assault.”

“We’re all arms on deck and can proceed to work all through the night time. Thanks in your persistence – we’ll share extra data because it turns into accessible,” he concludes.

Apart from gamers being unable to entry Overwatch 2 with out a wait, there’s been some points concerning cosmetics having not transferred, and naturally, some bugs that want addressing. It appears to be like as if points are slowly being addressed by way of the Resolved part of Overwatch 2’s Identified Points publish, however proper now, the main focus is little question understandably on resolving server points and getting gamers into the sport.

Have you ever been fortunate (and affected person) sufficient to leap into Overwatch 2? Tell us the way it went! Possibly, simply perhaps, I’ll be capable to leap in at an inexpensive time at present and see what all of the fuss is about.