No, You Haven’t Lost Your ‘Overwatch’ Skins, Progress And Other Items In ‘Overwatch 2’

Games No, You Haven’t Lost Your ‘Overwatch’ Skins, Progress And Other Items In ‘Overwatch 2’ 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 6, 2022, 03:56am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin D. Va’s EDM skin is one of the best new looks in Overwatch 2. But where are all your skins from .

. . [+] Overwatch 1? Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch 2 ’s launch issues are rumbling on, just over 36 hours after the game went live.

Blizzard is working hard to fix the problems, but some players are still confused about where their cosmetics, progress, currency and other Overwatch 1 items are. MORE FROM FORBES The ‘Overwatch 2’ Team Has Addressed Some Server Issues, But You Should Still Expect Queues For Now By Kris Holt Many of those who are able to log in have found that some of the the stuff that they unlocked in the original game isn’t in their collection. In particular, the gear they were supposed to have from other platforms after merging their accounts is missing.

You may be wondering: “are all my Overwatch skins gone?” Thankfully, Blizzard says the answer to that is a resounding “no. ” (Winston players could be forgiven for saying “all my ape skins gone. ” Just this one time.

) It turns out that the account merging process is taking longer than Blizzard expected. It’s planning to deploy a client-side fix (i. e on PC and console) for the issue.

However, it’s not able to do that until next week — it didn’t explain why. In the interim, it’s hoping to remedy the problem on the server side. MORE FOR YOU They Inherited Billions Upon Billions: Meet America’s Richest Heirs How This Woman Entrepreneur Smashed Ceilings And Made History With A Historic Deal Does Snowflake Stock Justify Its Lofty Valuation In A Rising Rate Environment? That’s the reason why skins are missing from player accounts in around half of reported cases.

As for the other half, Blizzard says the problem is due to players not completing the account merge process. Make sure to do that if you have accounts on multiple platforms! If you can, anyway. There are some in-game issues that may have made it difficult for folks to do so.

There was a bug that meant the launch build of Overwatch 2 didn’t display the account merge prompt on some consoles. Blizzard has rolled out a fix for one aspect of that, and it’s working to resolve other UI issues. I’ve had issues with progress and cosmetics too.

My Battle Pass progress didn’t carry over from the review build, but that’s getting resolved. On my secondary account (yup, I still have one of those), I was prompted to complete the account merge process. I did, and Overwatch 2 instructed me to restart the game so I could access all features.

When I eventually made it back in, it said on the main menu that my account merge was still queued. I clicked on that and got the same message to restart the game to complete the merge. That was on Tuesday night.

I just checked again on PC, and saw a message that reads as follows: “Your accounts are being prepared for migration. You are currently 160,000 in the migration queue. ” I’ve no idea how long it will take until it’s my turn.

But that’s progress, at least! No one, or at least no decent person, wanted all these launch window problems to bubble up. It’s a crappy start for an exciting evolution of Overwatch . Blizzard’s very much on the case, though.

You should get your stuff back soon. But if anything’s still missing after this client-side fix goes out, it’s a good idea to file a support ticket. For more news and updates on Overwatch 2 and other games, follow my Forbes blog ! You’ll get a weekly round-up email that includes everything I publish.

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