In keeping with the law of live service launches, the first week of "Overwatch 2" was a mess. Matchmaking queues were endless, the game was completely down after two DDoS attacks, and many players had problems carrying over their progress and heroes from the original "Overwatch". It was a bit of a mess.

Blizzard is aware of this, and after acknowledging it numerous times throughout the first week of launch, the studio is now detailing some compensation: for those who logged in between October 25 and the end of Season 2, "a few" double match XP weekends and the legendary skin Cursed Captain Reaper, and the weapon charm Health Pack. Cosmetics include:

It is still unclear when the double XP weekend will actually be, but there will be several; Blizzard's update (opens in new tab) also confirms that another patch is coming this week, and links to a live document outlining all known issues The company has been working on a new patch for the game. This includes an issue that prevents users from accessing their heroes." This is due to a problem with the server that tracks player progression." The note says, "We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible."

It states.

This is a pretty serious problem, but less serious (or at least interesting) are the temporary outages of Bastion and Tall Bjorn. The former is "taking a little trip to the workshop" as the robot has turned into a bombardment mob thanks to the brilliantly busted Ultimate (opens in new tab); Blizzard, are you going to nerf it, leaving it in-game?