Overwatch 2’s Launch Soured As Servers Are Struggling A “Mass DDoS Assault”

Overwatch 2 hasn’t precisely had the launch day Blizzard may’ve hoped. On the one hand, there are clearly lots of people who’re excited to play Overwatch 2.

On the opposite, servers have suffered what president Mike Ybarra known as “a mass DDoS assault,” and the studio is at the moment working to repair the problems.

“Sadly we’re experiencing a mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) assault on our servers. Groups are working onerous to mitigate/handle. That is inflicting plenty of drop/connection points.”

This hasn’t been very enjoyable for gamers, who discover themselves with hundreds and hundreds of different gamers in entrance of them in a queue to try to connect with a server, solely to have an error happen once you lastly get to the entrance of the road.

It’s nonetheless nevertheless simply launch day, and hopefully it gained’t be too lengthy now for Blizzard to get issues up and working.

On the time of writing there’s been no replace as to if points have been absolutely resolved.

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