Overwatch 2’s troubled launch continues: On Monday, Blizzard needed to take the sport offline for emergency upkeep after a plan to take away Bastion and Torbjörn from rotation had the unintended side-effect of locking a complete swath of characters — round a 3rd of the roster — for some gamers.

According to a tweet from the official Overwatch account and a identified points tracker on the official boards, Bastion was utterly disabled within the recreation, and Torbjörn disabled in aggressive play, at 3 p.m. PDT. “Both of these heroes are experiencing bugs that heavily impact gameplay, and we’ll share an update on them soon,” Blizzard stated. According to reviews from gamers, a bug with Bastion’s final capability was permitting gamers to spam artillery at their opponents, whereas Torbjörn’s Overload capability could possibly be triggered for double its normal period relying on the timing of the button press.

But quickly, massive numbers of gamers have been reporting {that a} substantial portion of their rosters of unlocked heroes have been all of a sudden locked. For Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez, 12 of 34 characters grew to become unavailable.

At 7 p.m. PDT, Blizzard acknowledged the issue on its subject tracker, and blamed a server-side bug. “The team is aware of a new issue that prevents players from accessing all their owned heroes,” the developer stated. “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.”

Soon after, Overwatch 2 was taken absolutely offline for an hour. When it got here again on-line, the problem gave the impression to be mounted for some, however not all, gamers, in accordance with Kotaku.

Overwatch 2 has had a really troublesome first week. At launch, the massive inflow of latest gamers, plus what Blizzard referred to as a “mass DDoS” assault, brought on server points that rendered the sport unplayable for a lot of gamers. Connection points have endured, regardless of server upkeep, whereas Blizzard has been compelled to roll again the controversial requirement for a telephone quantity to be hooked up to a Battle.web account for a majority of gamers. Another bug brought on gamers to by accident purchase gadgets from the in-game store as a result of the sport was nonetheless registering key strokes whereas they have been chatting with associates.