Overwatch 2 server error woes plague launch of Blizzard FPS

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Overwatch 2 server error notifications have become the talk of the FPS game’s community as players rush to try out the newly launched sequel. Developer Blizzard is hoping that Overwatch 2’s reimagining as a free game will breathe new life back into the ageing hero shooter once hailed as one of the best multiplayer games on PC. However, server queues and a DDoS attack have kept many players from playing the new release.

Many players have been sitting in Overwatch 2 login queues for lengthy periods of time only to be served with the message ‘unexpected server error occurred.’ After this, you are booted back out and must attempt to requeue again. Furthermore, many players who managed to get in have found themselves being unceremoniously dropped from the servers.

Blizzard president Mike Ybarra took to Twitter to address the issues, saying that “Unfortunately we are experiencing a mass DDoS attack on our servers.” A DDoS, or distributed denial-of-service, attack is when malicious users employ a network of bots around the world to mass flood a server with requests in an attempt to overload its capacity and force it to stop functioning as intended. Ybarra adds that “Teams are working hard to mitigate/manage” the situation, but acknowledges that the DDoS attack “is causing a lot of drop/connection issues.”

In addition, Blizzard has posted a series of known launch issues and bugs, which includes black screens when alt+tabbing out and certain cosmetic items and currency not showing up correctly. The full list of acknowledged issues is as follows:

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