BillWarnecke

This person can no longer play Overwatch. This type of behavior isn’t welcome in our game.

Overwat2

Hey there, sorry for this bug, I know it's a frustrating one. We have a more robust change in the upcoming Season 2 release. Apologies we couldn't get this fully fixed in the update today.

Whoops will fix.

Yes, we felt like being very explicit about how this works was important to avoid any confusion.

This is correct. It’s a performance constraint.

RAMATTRA HYPE

Thanks for the reasonable take, it's appreciated. Having these changes delayed is frustrating, for sure. We'll continue to work to do better in the future.

Gameplay data, including hero abilities, is compiled into game assets that exist on both the client and the server. When we change abilities, even simple numerical values, we need to have both the client and server updated to match. This may seem overly complicated, but I'd highly recommend watching a GDC session we did in 2017 that dives into this system in depth before making that assumption!

When we need to update both the client and server, the simplest way is to release a new version. We release new versions every few weeks, but given Cross Play and Cross Progression, these releases require scheduling. We can urgently add a rele...

Hey there, we have a fix for this coming in the next patch. We're aware of many bugs with Ice Wall, and have been working to address them. Apologies for the impact to your games. :(

The info in this thread is correct. Almost all players go into the cross play queues, so being in a platform specific queue will be a much longer wait.

I’ll see if we can add some messaging in the client that warns you if you’re set this way.

Hey there we’re aware of this bug and have a fix coming in the upcoming patch this week. Sorry for the hassle.

We’ve seen reports like this and we’re looking into it. Sorry for the hassle.

Yes

Thanks for the report, we're on this.

Hey there, we are actively investigating this error still. This error indicates a problem with player data loading, and we have made a few fixes to address specific cases of this in our updates this week. Unfortunately there is more left to do here. We’re very sorry that this is impacting some of you and we’re working on fully resolving it.

We’ll keep sharing updates as we have them, but I don’t have an ETA for the next set of fixes yet.

Hey there. We’re aware some players are hitting LC-208 after the most recent update. We’re working on additional fixes for this error for these players. Sorry for this, we know it’s frustrating.

Waiting on database replication. Couldn’t go earlier.

Thanks!

Once the preload is available it will remain available up through launch. No rush.

Yep, they're on it. Sorry for the confusion!