Here’s immoderate bully quality for those who got the dreaded “Player is successful a antithetic mentation of Overwatch” error. You tin inactive play with your friends close now. It conscionable takes a precise elemental workaround.
Overwatch 2 players are genuinely going done an immensely unsmooth launch. On motorboat day, the crippled suffered two full DDoS attacks, and the resulting monolithic queues had players struggling to get into the game. Before a caller patch, galore besides couldn’t log into their accounts with their phones. And that’s not counting the litany of bugs and errors that person plagued players erstwhile they yet managed to log into the game. Players person adjacent been getting a connection saying that they can’t invitation their friends to play due to the fact that they’re successful a “different version” of Overwatch 2.
Thankfully, players have discovered that’s not really true: The UI connection has been lying to you. Deep successful its “known issues” forum post, Blizzard published an authoritative workaround that should fto you play with your friends arsenic you’d expect. You conscionable person to benignant /invite successful chat, followed by your friend’s battletag (their unsocial identifier).
Blizzard has been chasing aggregate large errors ever since Overwatch 2 went unrecorded connected October 4. “While millions of radical person been enjoying the game, the motorboat has not met your, oregon our, expectations,” wrote an Overwatch assemblage manager. “We clasp ourselves to a higher modular and we are moving hard to resoluteness the issues you are experiencing.”
There are a batch of outstanding bugs successful Overwatch 2. The camera tin beryllium placed astatine the incorrect level connected the Highlights screen, definite maps are disabled, and assorted challenges aren’t awarding tokens. Some players person reported falling done the representation portion spawning successful Bounty Hunter Arcade, which is my favourite one. Blizzard has had to contented refunds for incorrectly priced poses and skins.
You tin support up with the presumption of the motorboat bugs successful Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 known issues thread, which conscionable passed 4,300 replies.