Trigger warning: intersexual battle and harassment.

An inappropriate Overwatch 2 crippled mode reappeared, but it’s not 1 to get excited about. The mode, titled “sexual harassment simulator,” was played capable times that it appeared arsenic 1 of the astir fashionable implicit the play for immoderate players, according to PC Gamer, which spotted the reappearance conscionable earlier Blizzard rapidly pulled it down.

Another “sexual harassment simulator” was discovered successful October 2022, but some tasked players with knocking down Overwatch 2's pistillate heroes (like Mercy and Widowmaker) portion playing arsenic the cowboy Cole Cassidy and repeatedly crouching implicit their bodies, apparently, arsenic PC Gamer reported, with the connection “raping…” until the quality successful question is labeled “pregnant” arsenic an AI-controlled Torbjorn supposedly fills the relation of the baby. This is disgusting connected truthful galore levels it’s not adjacent funny, particularly due to the fact that players are forced to play arsenic Cassidy, previously known arsenic McCree, the aforesaid sanction arsenic the ousted Activision Blizzard developer who took portion in the arguable “Cosby Suite” meetups.

A screenshot of the customized mode was posted to Overwatch’s authoritative subreddit by idiosyncratic Joyolo13, who simply asked: “What successful god’s name?”

“Lol I retrieve seeing this each time successful [Overwatch 1],” said Redditor sw1nky. “Can’t accidental I’m amazed it’s inactive around, [to beryllium honest].”

“McCree is backmost successful the crippled I guess,” said idiosyncratic FoulfrogBsc.

Kotaku was incapable to find the customized crippled mode successful Overwatch 2 arsenic it appears Blizzard took the “sexual harassment simulator” offline—for now. So, it seems the institution is alert that specified a mode exists but mightiness beryllium having a hard clip preventing it from reappearing successful the game.

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“Inappropriate oregon explicit contented has perfectly nary spot successful our game,” a Blizzard spokesperson told PC Gamer erstwhile the outlet asked astir the archetypal mentation of the mode past year. “We instantly removed the user-created crippled mode erstwhile made alert of its existence. We are continually moving to amended automatic filters to forestall inappropriate user-created content, and manually removing immoderate that are not caught by the system.”

Kotaku reached retired to Activision Blizzard for comment.

While this is astatine slightest the 2nd clip the “sexual harassment simulator” has popped up successful Overwatch 2 specifically, players noted that a akin mode existed successful immoderate signifier successful the archetypal Overwatch game. At the time, players posted PSAs to pass the assemblage astir the violative content. Of course, not each player-created crippled modes are this egregious. But it is concerning that this contented has travel up much than erstwhile wrong a fewer months.