Overwatch 2’s mid-season replace has been delayed on the final minute, leaving authentic hero Mei unplayable in the interim.
A put up on the official boards confirmed the patch has been pushed again resulting from an unexplained “important concern” that was found shortly earlier than it was resulting from go stay.
“At this time’s patch is delayed as we work to resolve a important concern,” Blizzard confirmed. “We’ll present an replace right here and set the patch stay as quickly as the issue is addressed.” The patch will now go stay 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 resulting from a bug that allowed her to succeed in out-of-bounds areas utilizing her Ice Wall skill. Primarily, gamers have been in a position to exploit this and conceal out of attain of different gamers.
“We’re briefly disabling Mei to deal with a bug along with her Ice Wall skill that permits heroes to succeed in unintended areas,” Blizzard mentioned on the time. “We’re working to deal with these points as rapidly as potential and purpose to carry Mei again in our subsequent upcoming patch which is about 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 deliberate for this patch,” mentioned Blizzard.
“This delay additionally impacts the supply of Overwatch League Viewership Incentives and Perks from the postseason matches through the interval between October 30 to November 4, together with the rotation of cosmetics within the Overwatch League store.” Each day and weekly challenges, in addition to the same old store refresh, continued as deliberate.
IGN’s Overwatch 2 evaluation 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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