Wrecking Ball has been disabled in the Overwatch 2 beta due to a bug that allowed him to kick every other player from the game.
Sometimes Overwatch games are frustrating, from your team not working together, to the other team being full of high-ranked players. Sometimes you would just like a quick reset of the servers and reshuffle of the players. Well, briefly, Wrecking Ball had that power.
The exploit cropped up in the Overwatch 2 beta and gave the tank hero the ability to kick out every other player from a match. And it was surprisingly easy to trigger. All you had to do was look directly at the floor and use Wrecking Ball's grapple hook. This would then send all of your teammates and enemies out of the server, leaving you all on your own.
You can see this in action, as demonstrated by streamer Mathew ‘Super’ Delisi. After it worked, he vowed not to do it again – supposedly to not get into trouble.
Thankfully, this exploit didn’t last too long. Blizzard stepped in and has removed Wrecking Ball from Overwatch 2 for the time being. The official Overwatch Twitter account tweeted out:
[OW2 Beta]Wrecking Ball’s powers are a bit too strong on the Beta server.
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