If you’ve been having occupation getting into Overwatch 2 connected launch, you’re not alone. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announced connected Twitter that the Overwatch 2 servers are presently undergoing a “mass” distributed denial of work (DDoS) attack, which typically occurs when thing is maliciously flooded with postulation to forestall others from connecting. This is apt the main culprit for the transportation issues plaguing anyone who’s trying to log into the game.

Overwatch 2 conscionable launched today, and radical person been reporting obscenely agelong wait times, with immoderate sitting down tens of thousands of players. There person been other motorboat issues, specified arsenic missing cosmetics, missing lucifer histories, and buggy cameras. Weird errors are mean for a monolithic unrecorded work crippled launch. But idiosyncratic trying to inflict a cyberattack connected Overwatch 2 is not rather truthful common.

The servers volition apt beryllium backmost soon. Probably. We conscionable don’t person an nonstop ETA connected that. Kotaku reached retired to Blizzard astir erstwhile the servers volition beryllium backmost to afloat capableness but did not person a effect by the clip of publication.

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Blizzard’s caller free-to-play shooter is intended arsenic a implicit replacement for the archetypal Overwatch, which conscionable saw its servers spell offline yesterday aft six years. That means you can’t conscionable hop into Overwatch portion you hold for the DDoS onslaught to beryllium over, unfortunately. Critics who pre-screened Overwatch 2 seemed sold on the existent gameplay, but felt a small acold connected the gated unrecorded service progression for unlocking characters. People were already convinced that Overwatch 2 is hardly much than an update for a perfectly serviceable competitory game, truthful the free-to-play displacement felt similar 1 of the bigger changes was a immense bummer to galore fans.

Anyway, I anticipation you tin astatine slightest get your spot successful enactment backmost erstwhile Blizzard gets the servers backmost nether control.

Update 10/5/22 astatine 11:29 P.M. E.T.: In a caller blog post, Blizzard has addressed the ongoing connectivity issues plaguing the caller free-to-play leader shooter. The developer says that portion it is moving on, and has improved, immoderate of the conditions, subordinate should inactive expect a wait. The quality is that fans won’t beryllium seeing 2 queues hap aft 1 another. Unfortunately, trying to hole this astatine each besides puts further strain connected the crippled servers, truthful the contented volition proceed for the foreseeable future. Blizzard writes:

Login queues, server crashes, and stableness problems are intertwined, truthful we’ll speech astir them together. Players whitethorn person been seeing their queue numbers jumping around, going from a tiny fig to a larger number. This is owed to determination being 2 queues for players—one done Battle.net, past 1 done the crippled itself. This process is usually invisible to players, but was being seen successful existent time. We person made changes to simplify the queuing process, truthful players should present lone beryllium experiencing the 1 queue earlier entering the game.

There are respective areas wherever we’re moving to amended stability. Today we’ve patched a server that is captious to the login experience, and this alteration has accrued login reliability. Beyond queues, we’re successful advancement with different server update that volition trim the occurrences of players being disconnected erstwhile they’re already successful game.

Finally, the subordinate database is being overloaded, which cascades and causes a backup successful the login system, which yet leads to immoderate radical being dropped retired of queues oregon being incapable to log successful astatine all.

We’re continuing to adhd nodes to easiness the unit connected the subordinate database. The process of adding nodes requires replication of data, which inherently adds unit to an already stressed system, truthful we’re doing it dilatory to not origin immoderate further disruption arsenic devs and engineers enactment done abstracted issues. We are besides presently throttling queues successful bid to support the subordinate database arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin portion we scale—this feels atrocious successful the short-term, but erstwhile it’s done, volition greatly amended the acquisition for players crossed aggregate fronts moving forward.

Update 10/5/22 astatine 10:00 A.M. E.T.: The crippled manager of Overwatch 2 says that the crippled has present suffered a 2nd DDoS attack. There is inactive nary connection connected erstwhile the servers volition beryllium backmost to mean functionality.