Blizzard is giving away freebies to ‘Overwatch 2’ players to apologize for its rocky launch

Blizzard beforehand admitted that Overwatch 2’s launch, which was spoiled by a bunch of bugs, DDoS assaults and different points, has not met gamers of the corporate’s expectations. Whereas the corporate has made numerous progress to make the sport playable — numerous gamers could not even log in at first — its work is way from executed. Now, the developer is making an attempt to make it as much as followers by giving out freebies and operating occasions. It’s going to maintain a number of Double Match XP weekends to provide gamers the possibility to rack up factors and rank up. Blizzard will announce particular dates for the occasions quickly. 

It’s going to additionally give gamers who log in from October twenty fifth till the time Season One ends a Cursed Captain Reaper Legendary pores and skin and a Well being Pack Weapon Appeal. Each objects will mechanically be added to folks’s assortment once they log in inside that window of time. In its announcement, Blizzard mentioned that it’s going to deploy extra stability updates, beginning with one other patch scheduled for launch this week. It additionally mentioned that it is monitoring the sport intently for any extra points and bugs that emerge. 

The developer retains a public record of recognized points on its discussion board, however gamers are discovering extra that it has but to acknowledge. Customers are reporting issues concerning particular characters within the sport, akin to Mei, whose ice wall has been behaving inconsistently, in keeping with Kotaku. Blizzard even needed to pull two heroes out of the sport fully to handle a couple of bugs within the potential kits.