Blizzard is disabling one more Overwatch 2 hero because of bugs with their talents. Just a few weeks after we briefly misplaced Bastion and Torbjorn (opens in new tab) for bugs that made them wildly (however entertainingly) overpowered, Mei is now being taken out of play for a bit of bit with a purpose to repair a glitch together with her Ice Wall capability.
“We’re briefly disabling Mei to handle a bug together with her Ice Wall capability that permits heroes to achieve unintended areas,” Blizzard stated in a tweet posted yesterday (opens in new tab), “We’re working to handle these points as rapidly as doable and purpose to carry Mei again in our subsequent upcoming patch which is about for November 15”. Dangerous information for Mei mains (‘Meins’?), who must discover another person to play as for the following two weeks.
Blizzard is attempting to handle a bug that allowed gamers to make use of Mei’s Ice Wall to traverse outdoors the meant boundaries of Overwatch 2’s maps. You possibly can see the bug in motion in a clip posted to Reddit (opens in new tab) (initially noticed by Polygon (opens in new tab)), by which a Mei participant is ready to get beneath the extent geometry and fireplace up at gamers above them. Personally, I believe Mei-Ling Zhou, planeswalker is a good new twist on the character, but it surely seems like Blizzard disagrees.
The Ice Wall bug is one more bump in Overwatch 2’s already bumpy launch. For the reason that sport got here out in early October (placing a swift finish to Overwatch 1 (opens in new tab) within the course of), it has been beset by agonising queues (opens in new tab), controversy over its cellphone quantity requirement (opens in new tab), and even the creation by some gamers of a gross “sexual assault” customized sport mode (opens in new tab) that Blizzard needed to crack down on. It hasn’t been clean crusing, to say the least, and the issues surrounding characters like Bastion, Torbjorn, and now Mei definitely have not helped the notion that the sport has gotten off on the improper foot.
Nonetheless, for essentially the most half, Overwatch 2 is a sport we like regardless of its flaws. We gave it 74% (opens in new tab), noting that the inspiration established by the primary sport is “too sturdy and too distinct to be utterly erased,” however that the transition to a dwell service mannequin dangers hollowing out one of the best elements of the Overwatch expertise if allowed to run amok. Here is hoping the ship will get righted quickly.
