Blizzard will be taking Overwatch 2 offline again

Blizzard shall be taking the Overwatch 2 servers offline as soon as once more to repair extra of the problems which have cropped up in the course of the sport’s rocky launch. The corporate plans to close the sport down at about 9PM ET (6PM PT), and expects the downtime to final for an hour. This downtime would be the third in two days, as Blizzard needed to take the sport offline twice on Thursday.

Blizzard detailed the fixes within the works and a few updates on a couple of of the larger points in a publish on its boards. In Friday night’s downtime, Blizzard plans to repair Watchpoint Packs not showing as accessible for gamers who preordered them, and to deal with the LC-208 error that’s stopping some gamers from logging in.

In Friday’s publish, Blizzard confirmed that the change to its SMS Shield telephone quantity necessities is now formally in impact. Initially, Overwatch 2 gamers have been required to have a postpaid telephone quantity registered to their accounts to have the ability to play. Nonetheless, in response to gamers’ outcry, Blizzard mentioned it will be softening the coverage in order that individuals who had performed the primary Overwatch with a related Battle.web account now not wanted to register a telephone quantity to play the sequel.

The corporate can be trying into the lengthy wait instances gamers may be experiencing earlier than matches. To deal with them, “we’re altering configurations inside this technique immediately and hope to considerably shorten that wait all through the day,” Blizzard mentioned within the publish.

Blizzard is optimistic in regards to the fixes it carried out on Thursday. The modifications “resulted in a quadrupling of our capability and an eventual discount in login queues in a single day,” in response to the discussion board publish. Blizzard will proceed monitoring issues over the approaching days, as “weekend gamer hours shall be its largest check but.” Hopefully, issues may be beginning to easy over for Overwatch 2.