Overwatch 2’s mid-season replace has been delayed on the final minute, leaving unique hero Mei unplayable in the meanwhile.
A put up on the official boards confirmed the patch has been pushed again as a result of an unexplained “important challenge” that was found shortly earlier than it was as a result of go reside.
“In the present day’s patch is delayed as we work to resolve a important challenge,” Blizzard confirmed. “We’ll present an replace right here and set the patch reside as quickly as the issue is addressed.” The patch will now go reside on November 17 at 11am PST, so Mei mains gained’t have too lengthy to attend.
Mei was faraway from the sport earlier this month as a result of a bug that allowed her to achieve out-of-bounds areas utilizing her Ice Wall skill. Primarily, gamers had been in a position to exploit this and conceal out of attain of different gamers.
“We’re briefly disabling Mei to handle a bug together with her Ice Wall skill that enables heroes to achieve unintended areas,” Blizzard mentioned on the time. “We’re working to handle these points as rapidly as attainable and intention to carry Mei again in our subsequent upcoming patch which is ready for November 15.”
The delayed patch consists of another adjustments too, together with “upcoming stability adjustments, bug fixes, together with those who have an effect on Mei, and core content material updates we’ve got deliberate for this patch,” mentioned Blizzard.
“This delay additionally impacts the supply of Overwatch League Viewership Incentives and Perks from the postseason matches in the course of the interval between October 30 to November 4, together with the rotation of cosmetics within the Overwatch League store.” Day by day and weekly challenges, in addition to the same old store refresh, continued as deliberate.
IGN’s Overwatch 2 assessment gave it 8/10 and mentioned: “Overwatch 2 breathes new life into what was as soon as the sharpest multiplayer shooter round, earlier than it had its edges severely dulled by Blizzard’s consideration shifting away.”
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