Blizzard provides a giant, essential replace on the messy Overwatch 2 launch, a bevvy of latest Pokemon Scarlet and Violet particulars, and the brand new Need for Speed seems to be… good??? All this on at this time’s GameSpot News.

Blizzard’s long-awaited Overwatch 2 arrived this week, however the launch did not precisely go to plan. Blizzard has apologized for the launch points, saying it failed to satisfy the expectations of gamers and Blizzard itself. The studio additionally introduced it’s eradicating the cellphone registration requirement for a lot of and offered an replace on what’s being carried out to mitigate server points to assist gamers get into matches.

The record of identified points for Overwatch 2 presently stands at practically 15,000, however there are a couple of key points that Blizzard wished to deal with proper now, the primary of which is the cellphone quantity requirement. Blizzard initially stated the cellphone quantity requirement was a part of an effort to fight dishonest, however many individuals complained about it for quite a lot of causes, and a few pay as you go cellphone plans didn’t work.

While most customers will not require a cellphone quantity, accounts not related to Battle.internet and new accounts should nonetheless present one.

Regarding stability, Blizzard only recently launched a patch for the login expertise that has already been proven to extend the “reliability” of logging in. Blizzard is now engaged on one other server replace to assist scale back how usually gamers grow to be disconnected once they can handle to connect with a sport.

Players have additionally reported that they’re logging in to Overwatch 2 solely to see that some or all of their objects and information are lacking. The excellent news is that no objects or progress has been misplaced.

Blizzard stated this problem comes from gamers not finishing their account merge course of. Another issue is that objects are taking time to populate from the unique Overwatch to Overwatch 2. “In all circumstances, no participant information has been wiped or misplaced. We have a client-side repair for this that can not be deployed till subsequent week, so we’re exploring server-side fixes and can present updates as extra data turns into accessible,” Blizzard stated.

Blizzard went on to say that anybody who has unlocked a hero however that hero continues to be displaying as locked ought to log again into the sport, and it will resolve the difficulty “generally.” Players can open a assist ticket if they’re nonetheless experiencing issues.

Finally, Blizzard stated all of Overwatch 2’s launch points had been exacerbated by the DDoS assaults towards the sport. “They didn’t instantly trigger any of those points, they made the atmosphere through which we work on these points more difficult. We haven’t suffered any additional assaults,” Blizzard stated.

Blizzard is not only the identify of an enormous online game developer, but in addition the identify of a transfer in Pokémon, which simply revealed in a brand new trailer for the upcoming Scarlet and Violet titles that gamers that gamers will have the ability to craft their very own TMs utilizing sources dropped from Pokemon which were caught or defeated in battle.

The Pokemon Company did not go too deep into what number of “TMs” may be crafted or the right way to unlock recipes, however from the video proven off, it seems to be like you possibly can create TMs primarily based on basic Pokemon skills utilizing League Points, berries, and different supplies. The remainder of the video confirmed off extra of the customization that you can experiment with, Girafarig’s new evolution that transforms it into Farigiraf, and a sandwich-making exercise.

Check out the complete 15 minute trailer right here on GameSpot’s YouTube.