‘Overwatch 2’ Servers Are Back Online And It’s Much Faster To Log In — At Least On PC

Games ‘Overwatch 2’ Servers Are Back Online And It’s Much Faster To Log In — At Least On PC Kris Holt Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover all things games, especially Overwatch. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Oct 7, 2022, 01:03am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Junker Queen in Overwatch 2. Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard took the Overwatch 2 servers offline for several hours on Thursday night . The company was implementing some fixes for the account merge , login and server problems that have plagued this week’s launch.

And it looks like there’s some good news in terms of server stability, at least on the PC side. MORE FROM FORBES Is ‘Overwatch 2’ Down? The Game Will Have Around Four Hours Of Downtime So Blizzard Can Address Problems By Kris Holt I logged in with both of my PC accounts in no time at all on the Americas server region. I was in the game within 30 seconds of hitting the Play button on each account.

We’ll need to see how things shake out in the coming hours and days, but the early signs are looking good. It’s a different story on consoles, as I write this just after 1AM ET. I’m getting the dreaded “unexpected server error” message on both PS5 and Switch, even after restarting both systems.

The log in attempts times out after around two minutes. Hopefully, these are just little bumps in the road as the servers start to come back online and they’ll be smoothed out soon so everyone can finally start playing the game. MORE FOR YOU Patrick Byrne Of Overstock Fame Says He Was Involved In Monthslong Effort To Overturn 2020 Election Disney: The Metaverse, Digital Transformation, And The Future Of Storytelling Today’s ‘Quordle’ Words, Answers And Clues For Friday, October 7 There’s another issue, however.

It seems some console players don’t have the cosmetics from the Overwatch 2 Watchpoint Pack. Blizzard is working on a fix. One other thing I’ll mention for now: my accounts have been merged on my secondary Battle.

net account. As with other people, I ran into some issues with my merged accounts. The game told me I had been placed in an account migration queue in the 160,000th spot.

When I checked on Thursday lunchtime, that had dropped to 70,000. Now, the process is complete. The game says my cosmetics, Credits, Overwatch League Tokens, Competitive Points and stats and presets have been combined.

I don’t remember exactly what I had on each of the PC and PlayStation accounts that I merged. The total playtime hours are much higher on my profile than before so it seems to have worked. However, on my main account, I have 87,000 eliminations and somehow only have 124 lifetime assists.

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