Today, July 18th, is the last full day of the Beta, and there are still several more hours to go before the playtest ends. For some of you, this will be deep into the 19th for your local time zone. Enjoy everyone!

Hiya folks,

The patch will be coming later tonight, so as not to interfere with today’s Contender’s tournaments

Yep, its me.

Thanks for your patience everyone as I am still getting my feet wet. I look forward to engaging with all of you more in the weeks to come. Going to step away for the moment, but I have been reading a lot of the feedback about the Beta and passing it on.

Enjoy the beta everyone! (^^)v

For PC players, access to the beta may be granted several hours before you receive any email. Occasionally try completely closing down the BattleNet launcher and restarting it as that will check for access. Also understand, that it may take a few hours still as they roll out invites. Cheers everyone! (^^)v

Hey guys,

To be transparent, we are working hard to get beta access rolled out to everyone who opted-in for this beta test. Your patience is appreciated.

(^^)v

There have been a lot of changes in OW2 that affect Symmetra-- like 2CP being removed, one less tank per team, less barriers, and an overall more offensive, aggressive playstyle.

With these testing iterations, our goal is to make her feel more natural in Overwatch 2’s ecosystem. That being said, we recognize that this previous change wasn’t helping us achieve our goal, so we’re starting to test some different things internally.

She means a lot to us, too, and we will share more with you soon!

I know! I wish we could have, too. We were unfortunately unable to patch as frequently as we did in the previous beta.

These changes are coming to the beta soon! I am so excited for y’all to try out the Mercy and Moira changes.

Welcome to the penultimate competitive season before Overwatch 2!

Season 35 of Competitive Play is here!

Unlocked at level 25, Competitive Play is designed for those players who want to put their skills to the test, and offers a more serious experience than our Quick Play or Arcade Modes.

GETTING STARTED

Before you can kick off your competitive career, every player will be required to complete five placeme...

We just published a dev blog that goes a little more in depth on this post!

Hit me up in an hour!

we agree completely

If you’re a console player, you should receive an email from Blizzard that contains a code for the platform/region you signed up with at the opt in.

PC players are granted the license automagically by us, and we then follow up with an email

FYI, access being granted will probably happen for folks before they receive the email. Keep an eye out for the “Overwatch 2 Beta” option to appear in your dropdown menu

Today is our first day back from a holiday weekend. We’ll have more updates later this week

Folks should start getting emails later this afternoon. We’re currently rolling out PC invites (they take time to roll out), and will be adding folks from both Xbox and PS today

Howdy, folks!

We hope everyone has been enjoying themselves playing and keeping up with the Overwatch 2 Beta! We’ll have more in-depth updates next week, but there are a few things we wanted to address before then.

Symmetra’s Teleporter range has not been reduced as stated in the initial patch notes. The decision to keep her range came in pretty close to the beta, but her Teleporter range remains the same as it was prior to the beta at 30. This is now reflected correctly in the patch notes.

We’ve seen some feedback and thoughts on Mercy’s Guardian Angel changes, and this is something we plan to address next week. There will be updates to this ability in an upcoming mid-cycle patch.

Finally, we wanted to be completely transparent about when we’ll be patching the beta. Due to some tech limitations, it’s going to take a little longer before we can work in our planned changes across all platforms. However, there will be a mid-cycle patch including changes to ...

Overwatch 2 Beta

Known Issues

• Some hero skins may appear twice in the hero gallery
• Investigating connectivity issues with PS5
• Sprays are not appearing on some objects
• Several Issues/Bugs with Golden Weapons
• Controller Rumble is not present for all of Junker Queen’s abilities
• Sombra’s “undetected” highlight will sometimes not play during Play of the Game
• Some Zenyatta skins are missing coloring
• Players can clip through or jitter when changing directions...

Welcome to the Overwatch 2 Beta!!

Here’s how players on participating consoles can access the Overwatch 2 Beta if you purchased Watchpoint Pack!

Xbox Consoles

• If you have auto-downloads on, Watchpoint Pack will automatically begin downloading in your game library
• If you do NOT have auto-downloads on, you need to search for the Watchpoint Pack in store and can download there

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this is untrue

beta drops were limited as well

I’ve said this in previous threads (months ago at this point), but it bears repeating: just because a minority of players ever even look at the forums, doesn’t mean they’re not valuable in their own way, at least as a representation of a certain kind of player’s experience

I understand that folks don’t like hearing that a negative reaction from the forums was anticipated, and probably don’t like it more when they here us essentially say that we considered it an acceptable risk

Support a Streamer is new grounds for us. There was a zero sum possibility that this activation wasn’t going to upset some folks. Concerns like this are always raised during the planning of events like this, and we weigh it together with the needs of the business, the needs of the broader community (of which content creators are part of), and the needs of the team. Time will be the ultimate judge of if this activation is successful or not (I certainly hope it is), and you can rest assured that th...