Overwatch 2: Blizzard Removes Another Hero Due to Bugs - IGN

Blizzard has announced that it is temporarily removing Overwatch 2 leader Mei from the crippled owed to a bug. The quality is expected to instrumentality to the crippled alongside the adjacent patch, which is owed retired connected November 15.

"We are temporarily disabling Mei to code a bug with her Ice Wall quality that allows heroes to scope unintended locations," Blizzard stated successful a tweet 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."

[#OW2] We are temporarily disabling Mei to code a bug with her Ice Wall quality that allows heroes to scope unintended locations. 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. pic.twitter.com/dHP65pMCsX

The bug allowed Mei to usage her partition to get her to locations extracurricular the gameplay boundaries, which often resulted successful players being capable to fell retired of show from opponents and gain casual harm and kills. The exploit tin beryllium seen successful this clip posted connected Reddit.

This determination comes conscionable weeks aft heroes Bastion and Torbjörn were besides removed from the crippled for bugs that were causing superior disruptions to gameplay arsenic well. Their removal was 1 of many issues that plagued the game's rocky launch, including extended queue times and incessant DDoS attacks.

Although the squad is moving dilligently connected quality bugs, they won't beryllium looking to rebalance immoderate of Overwatch 2's heros for different period oregon so. In a caller blog post, Blizzard stated that they'll beryllium looking astatine that benignant of in-depth rebalancing no sooner than December.

In our Overwatch 2 review, we called the crippled "a precise amusive team-based FPS, packed afloat of charm and emotion for the satellite it takes spot in."

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