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Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Overwatch Outage Chart 02/06/2026 22:00

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Overwatch users through our website.

  1. Sign in (48%)

    Sign in (48%)

  2. Online Play (23%)

    Online Play (23%)

  3. Game Crash (15%)

    Game Crash (15%)

  4. Glitches (10%)

    Glitches (10%)

  5. Matchmaking (3%)

    Matchmaking (3%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Overwatch outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
FranceAnnecy Online Play
HungaryBudapest Sign in
United StatesAsheville Sign in
FranceMarseille Online Play
FranceBeauvallon Sign in
NetherlandsAmsterdam Sign in
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Overwatch Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • RayTheBlackWolf Ray (@RayTheBlackWolf) reported

    @WeasleyDixon indeed everything keeps happen, during turn on the video games and it same thing in queue and then they are unable to login or something has been wrong of connection or or communication failure, everything keeps happen when overwatch 2 has cannot entering game for something. :/

  • toxic_trash445 ^YUIizSMOL^ (@toxic_trash445) reported

    @OverwatchEU @BlizzardCSEU_EN This looks so bad for new players not only us overwatch 1 players coming back hyped but you even got new players wanting to play but nope login errors and have to wait for 30K plus other players to get in such a L

  • R3TRO_Gio Giovanni Fuentes (@R3TRO_Gio) reported

    @MonsterIslandB How will this affect the overwatch 2 server issues?

  • chaseruyle hell dude (@chaseruyle) reported

    i checked to see if people could "buy levels" on overwatch 2 and you sure can do that without any issues when you're logged. ddos attack my ******* ***.

  • HyliaStar Hylia🌟 Beri 💙 (@HyliaStar) reported

    I play Splatoon 3 and Overwatch 2. Or, in other words, I play “A communication error has occured” and “In Queue: 40000 people ahead of you”

  • ChrisJans5 Chris Jans (@ChrisJans5) reported

    @BlizzardCSEU_EN My controllers are glitching out when i play overwatch 2 now, the controllers are fine in other games. (Xbox and Playstation) Has anyone else got this problem?

  • Tye9312 Tye Phoon (@Tye9312) reported

    @AnUrbanTaco Honestly my issue is that I'm now required to unlock characters and costumes that I already had before in overwatch 1 😑

  • VitalVlogs ⚡️Thrive Vital⚡️ (@VitalVlogs) reported

    Since overwatch 2 keeps getting DDOS attacked what game should I stream?

  • Arrrrash Arrrash (@Arrrrash) reported

    How do I convey overwatch 2 is a pathetic marketing ploy but also convey I’m having fun when the servers are broken all in one title

  • urboyzach Bud (@urboyzach) reported

    @SpiralFPS Well I heard it’s free if you owned overwatch 1? Idk how true that is but I got all the time in the world for them to fix the server issues going on

  • dexyon04 Jon (@dexyon04) reported

    Internet went down for a brief moment, but we are back pin overwatch 2, the login simulator. Come by and hang out as I still have at least another hour and 30 minutes of the 24 hour stream.

  • SueKingCoxPDX Sue King Cox PNW (@SueKingCoxPDX) reported

    Ok so from what I'm seeing and connecting dots for for console overwatch, the error code bc-153 means the servers are down for maintenance and seeing as PC friends are still on... I'm hoping this means they're fixing the bug that leads to cross progression and account progress🙏

  • Hekoma_ -Hekoma- (@Hekoma_) reported

    I didn’t get to play overwatch much today I played for a few hours then it kicked my off mid game and I been in the queue purgatory ever since, I hope tomorrow they will fix this queuing issue sadge the game is so fun to play but with this issues it’s makes it so frustrating 😖

  • masteroogway43 carolina got HANDS (@masteroogway43) reported

    @alexscoops the problem is it’s night time for me rn 😭 i queued outside my local game store for 6 hours when overwatch came out and somehow that was easier than now 😭

  • linkmaster1996 Eric Newton (@linkmaster1996) reported

    @aaronkellerOW @PlayOverwatch Can Blizzard fix OW2 already. I'm wasting my time just for it to not work. If Overwatch 2 isn't fixed soon, I'll play something else 😤 🤬

  • ashavaraa Atlanta (@ashavaraa) reported

    anyone else having issues with loading up overwatch 2? my battlenet just says playing now and then thats it nothing loads up

  • chaseruyle hell dude (@chaseruyle) reported

    i checked to see if people could "buy levels" on overwatch 2 and you sure can do that without any issues when you're logged in. so the matches play like ****, the login servers are absolutely overloaded, but I can still buy skins and give blizz $$? ddos attack my ******* ***.

  • kzlol_ Pol (@kzlol_) reported

    @LemonKiwi_ So, you can’t login to Overwatch either?

  • TheOnlyNolan1 NolanaloN (@TheOnlyNolan1) reported

    Not overwatch 2 making my Xbox controller disconnect and forcing me to hard reset my console to make it work again.

  • KaleiRenay FaZe Kalei (@KaleiRenay) reported

    it is the current year of 2022. nasa is literally sending rockets into space, & you are telling me a TRIPLE A STUDIO COMPANY that makes billions is having issues running overwatch servers and can’t protect themselves against ddoss attacks?????????????????????????????????????????

  • romansempir3 roman & his andor era (@romansempir3) reported

    can overwatch just fix their servers omfg 😭

  • infinjtee hannah (@infinjtee) reported

    why are the overwatch servers down again BOOOOOO

  • politic_ian ian 🌞 (@politic_ian) reported

    @lackingsaint Overwatch 1 had the same issue.

  • yonkoj_ Josh 🇵🇷 (@yonkoj_) reported

    Damn so Blizzard still hasn’t fixed the sever issue?? #Overwatch #Overwatch2

  • surecasts Adora 🍂 (@surecasts) reported

    anyone else on ps4/5 struggling to get into overwatch 2 at all? Every time I reach the front of the queue I get a login error

  • ASingleChip Chip (@ASingleChip) reported

    @MMelon9229 @xenoqween @Blizzard_Ent Seems to me like overwatch did not prepare for a ddos attack

  • Stevenforbes80 Steven forbes (@Stevenforbes80) reported

    @PlayOverwatch this is a joke cant get on game yet again and even tho I paid out money for watchpoint pack none of the rewards have came to me u closed down overwatch 1 for absolutely nothing plz fix ur issues

  • connordanreese Connor (@connordanreese) reported

    @G27Status I actually managed to get in and play some matches last night for a couple hours. It reminded me why I liked Overwatch in the first place back in 2016. That being said I am terrible at it right now. I hope they can sort out the server issues.

  • StepsD2 Steps (@StepsD2) reported

    @BlizzardCS is this a known issue? Cause i know a ton of ppl lost their progress as well, i ain’t tryna grind overwatch 2 if i lost everything i had before, spent a ton of money and i had plenty of cosmetics and gold weapons. Thanks.

  • TheRatKing88 The Rat King (@TheRatKing88) reported

    @Blizzard_Ent @ATVI_AB @EA do you even want people to play Overwatch 2…??? Fix yo ****…