The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. Today, in an try to handle points pertaining to Torbjörn and Bastion, Blizzard introduced that it might be pulling the characters completely from some sport modes. Don’t fret if you happen to don’t see them, that half is intentional. While there’s no phrase on how lengthy the characters can be inaccessible, the transfer is presumably to repair Bastion’s infinite final, together with a Torbjörn potential that lacked its cooldown. Somehow, in doing so, Blizzard has created a wholly new downside: An complete swath of characters are 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 not entry. They are 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, despite the fact that I used to be enjoying with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier at present. And taking a look at social media, I’m not alone on this concern: There are a ton of confused individuals who don’t know what’s happening proper now, yelling at Blizzard to undo it.

“What is going on at Blizzard now???” one participant tweeted, whereas commenting on their incapability to entry their full roster. “Can’t play almost any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster concern stated.

This follows after per week of different big points, by 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 concern whereby the chat may someway purchase issues from the shop. While all of those points have been fastened or improved, gamers maintain discovering different bugs or unfinished belongings. It’s all left the impression that Overwatch 2 feels extra like an early-access sport than a fully-fledged, polished, completed product. And with the developer having to drag complete characters and ending up breaking the whole sport within the course of, it’s getting tougher 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 concern seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. According to gamers who skilled the bug previous to at present, it took a few day for it to resolve.

Update 11:41 p.m. ET: Overwatch went down for upkeep for an estimated hour, and is now again up if you happen to’re at the moment studying this. In a discussion board publish that compiles recognized points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “This is caused by an issue with our servers that tracks player progression. We are working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.” When I initially loaded the sport on PS5, I may entry all my beforehand unlocked roster. Speaking to different gamers, it looks like a blended 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. While my roster is again, I now have a completely new concern: I maintain getting kicked out of video games. 

Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This publish beforehand acknowledged it was over half the roster, when it’s 12 out of 34. However, gamers are reporting completely different numbers of inaccessible characters than I personally am experiencing.