Mei removed from Overwatch 2 for 15 days - Polygon

Overwatch 2 is losing different hero, this clip for astir 2 weeks. Blizzard Entertainment tweeted Monday that it’s taking Overwatch 2 leader Mei offline owed to a bug with her Ice Wall ability. If each goes well, Mei volition instrumentality to the crippled successful a spot connected Nov. 15. As a Mei main, I americium devastated. An retired of bid sign? Not the benignant of limb charm I was hoping for.

“We are temporarily disabling Mei to code a bug with her Ice Wall quality that allows heroes to scope unintended locations,” Blizzard tweeted from its lawsuit work account. “We are moving to code these issues arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable and purpose to bring Mei backmost successful our adjacent upcoming spot which is acceptable for November 15.”

The bug fto Mei propel herself extracurricular representation boundaries. You tin spot the bug successful enactment connected Overwatch 2’s Busan map, via a clip posted to Reddit. In it, a Kiriko subordinate uses the Swift Step quality to teleport to Mei. Later, the players usage the exploit to transport Symmetra retired of the map, excessively — efficaciously allowing them invincibility and casual targets, due to the fact that nary 1 other tin spot wherever they are.

While this is Mei’s archetypal clip sitting things out, these kinds of suspensions are not unheard of for Overwatch 2 during its rocky motorboat past month. Heroes Bastion and Torbjörn were removed from the crippled aft they unintentionally locked players retired of astir one-third of the game’s roster, arsenic good arsenic different bugs. These 2 were removed from the crippled connected Oct. 10, and were afloat added backmost successful conscionable past week.

Overwatch 2’s motorboat has been rough. On motorboat day, the crippled faced monolithic queues owed to an influx of players, followed by what Blizzard called a “mass DDoS” onslaught which made the crippled mostly unplayable for a important magnitude of players. Soon after, different arguable bug reportedly pb to Overwatch 2 players accidentally buying quality skins with in-game currency. This was seemingly caused by the crippled logging cardinal strokes portion players were focused connected chatting successful the Hero Gallery. That’s each connected apical of contention surrounding its conflict walk and monetization.

Overwatch 2’s Halloween lawsuit is unrecorded present with co-op missions. Thankfully, Mei’s not progressive there.