Overwatch 2 Patch Delayed Hours Before Launch, Leaving Mei Out In The Cold - Kotaku

An urgent update for Overwatch 2 was expected to person gone unrecorded this afternoon, but was delayed astatine the 11th hr erstwhile Blizzard discovered a “critical issue”.

Posting connected the game’s authoritative forums, a assemblage rep says:

Today’s spot is delayed arsenic we enactment to resoluteness a captious issue. We’ll supply an update present and acceptable the spot unrecorded arsenic soon arsenic the occupation is addressed.

This includes the upcoming equilibrium changes, bug fixes, including those that impact Mei, and halfway contented updates we person planned for this patch. This hold besides impacts the transportation of Overwatch League Viewership Incentives & Perks from the Postseason matches during the play betwixt Oct 30 - Nov 4, on with the rotation of cosmetics successful the Overwatch League shop.

Daily and play challenges volition reset today, arsenic good arsenic the modular store refresh.

Thanks for your understanding, we’ll beryllium moving connected releasing this spot arsenic soon arsenic possible. Follow our forums and socials astatine @PlayOverwatch for updates.

While the “core contented updates” and Overwatch League worldly are notable, the spot hold is astir pressing for Mei fans, who person been incapable to play arsenic the quality (but not wage $10 for skins) after she was removed from rotation precocious past month, saying astatine the time:

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.

The atrocious quality is that this patch’s hold means she’s inactive MIA. The bully quality is that Blizzard is present “planning to merchandise this mid-season spot connected Thursday, November 17 astatine 11 AM PST”, and would similar to accidental “thank you to our players for your patience arsenic we addressed this issue.”