While Overwatch 2 is suffering through issues in its first week of availability, most of the problems are related to accounts, servers and the like. However, there is a pretty big bug that’s present now that affects gameplay, and that’s the Overwatch 2 Bastion ultimate bug!

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In Overwatch 2, Bastion’s ultimate ability has been changed from being able to turn into a tank in the first game, to something new called “Artillery” where the bot can rain bombs from above in three separate areas. Well, it seems this OW2 Bastion ultimate bug that’s present in the game now lets you rain hell loads of times until the ultimate’s timer runs out.

There is a MAJOR BUG with Bastion’s ult where you can shoot until the time goes out
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Want to see it in action? Check out how Zenyatta gets deleted with no chance of escaping:

bastion buff in OW2 is wild pic.twitter.com/UXuwP4oIoU

— Brandon Larned (@A_Seagull) October 8, 2022

While one can argue that in its non-bugged version, Bastion’s ultimate is one of the weakest in the game due to how easy it is to avoid, this still needs to be fixed ASAP.

Chances are, we’ll see the game’s first patch before the month is out, and once we know more, we’ll be sure to let our readers know. 

If you spot any bugs, glitches and the like in Overwatch 2, send us an email and we’ll credit you for running it.

With Overwatch 2 going the free-to-play route, Blizzard Entertainment has to find a new money source since they’re giving the game away for free. Understandably, the studio went to the Battle Pass route alongside selling items in the in-game store. However, it seems if you want to earn an Overwatch 2 Legendary skin just by playing, it’ll take you a very long time.

Checking the in-game store, if you want to obtain a Legendary skin (not a Legendary Bundle but just a skin), just by playing, you’ll need to spend over eight months (over 31 weeks) of grinding the Weekly Challenges! Don’t believe me? Check out the cost of one Legendary skin for Widowmaker that’s now available in the in-game store:

You can clearly see that it costs 1,900 Overwatch 2 Coins. Completing the Weekly Challenges will net you a max of 60 Overwatch Coins per week. So, if you do the math: 1,900 ÷ 60, you’ll get 31.6 (weeks). Mind, there should be in-game events and the premium (read: paid) Battle Pass tiers that can net you more Overwatch Coins, but even so, that won’t shave off enough time to make grinding for these worth it.

For reference, Epic skins (1,000 OC) will take you 17 weeks to grind, while Rare ones (300 OC) are “just” five weeks worth of grinding. Mind, when Blizzard explained  how the Battle Pass system worked, they didn’t mention this at all. Given the game is F2P, it looks like this the way Blizzard and Activision will earn money from the game. It’s debatable whether this is the less offensive way or just selling the game at full price. I mean, these are just cosmetics after all, but given how big of a factor these play into the game’s progression, I wouldn’t be surprised to see players get irritated by it. 

In other Overwatch 2 news, Blizzard has pushed out a list of known issues that are plaguing players, though hopefully a lot of them have been resolved by now.

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It looks like the Overwatch 2 servers are still being doused with hot sauce, as Blizzard’s launch woes keep on keeping on. The studio has relayed some of the issues plaguing players who want to play the game, which include the LC-208 and other login errors, and more.

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Overwatch 2 LC-208 and Login Errors and Known Issues:

Update: Blizzard has shared a new update regarding the LC-208 errors:

We want to share updates from the team working this weekend on #Overwatch2:

– Fixes are being rolled out over the next few hours to address many of the remaining LC-208 errors

– We are aware of lengthy account migration queues and are ramping up capacity to move it faster

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) October 9, 2022

Over on the official Blizzard forums, the studio has relayed that downtime is happening yet again today, though it’ll be just an hour. There are some good news though, as items like the SMS Protect requirement has now been removed for veteran players and more. 

SMS Protect

The change to phone number requirements is now in effect. As we mentioned in our last status update 2.0k, this means the majority of our console community (players who already had Overwatch connected to their Battle.net account, including any console player who has played since June 9, 2021) no longer need to meet SMS Protect requirements. Any PC player who ever played the original Overwatch has this requirement removed. If you have an active customer service ticket for SMS Protect but no longer need it due to this change, please close your tickets 753—this will help reduce our customer service queues and allow us to help other folks quicker.

Yesterday’s Fixes

Yesterday’s server shutdowns were to help address two issues: the first was used to deploy fixes for some bugs relating to account merges and logins. The second was to conduct some upgrades to our databases (we described these issues in our last status update 2.0k). This has resulted in a quadrupling of our capacity and an eventual reduction in login queues overnight. We’re keeping an eye on this, particularly as we roll into the weekend when we expect more people will be logging in—early signs are good, the database looks healthy, but we will be constantly monitoring it. Weekend gamer hours will be its biggest test yet.

Account Merge

We’ve made progress here, and we believe we have a working resolution for the general merging issues. Some players who merged their accounts should now be seeing their full collections, but we have many still in queue to be resolved, and we expect more to be added to the queue as people log in for the first time over the weekend. As we said previously, your collection is not lost, and with the database now updated, we now have more bandwidth to complete these merges.

Watchpoint Pack on Consoles

Console players who pre-purchased the Watchpoint Pack may not be seeing the items as being available—while some users are experiencing this on Xbox, this issue mostly appears on PlayStation right now. We have a fix for this that we plan to deploy in our downtime later today.

LC-208

We resolved a majority of these issues with our fixes yesterday, but the issue persists for a small group of players who are still seeing this error, which is preventing login. We have a fix for this that we are also planning to deploy in today’s downtime.

Matchmaking

Now that we’ve increased capacity and have a higher player concurrency, matchmaking systems are being affected, which means you may be seeing a wait before being placed in a match. We are changing configurations within this system today and hope to somewhat shorten that wait throughout the day. We will continue looking into the matchmaking queues through the weekend to identify any additional improvements we can make.

Miscellaneous Client Crashes/Black Screen Issues

We have gathered reports around crashes happening in a few different scenarios here and there. We will continue to work on fixes for these issues, and hope to deploy them in updates coming as soon as today.

Whew! I don’t envy Blizzard’s situation regarding the launch of OW2 — not one bit! Hopefully, things will be resolved soon and players can, y’know, just play.

Source: Blizzard forums