The Overwatch hero generally known as Wrecking Ball is lastly dwelling as much as his title. A not too long ago found bug within the Overwatch 2 beta was permitting the tank hero (a hamster named Hammond who rides round in a robotic hamster ball) to overload servers and crash the shopper of each participant besides his personal.
As you possibly can see from a clip of the bug shared by streamer supertf, crashing a server with Wrecking Ball was really easy that it could possibly be executed accidentally. Apparently, all you need to do is goal on the floor and spam the hero’s grapple hook whereas midair.
To stop widespread use of the bug, Blizzard has disabled Wrecking Ball within the Overwatch 2 beta till it is mounted.
“Wrecking Ball’s powers are a bit too robust on the Beta server,” the official Overwatch Twitter mentioned yesterday.
It is a peculiar glitch. It is not apparent simply by trying what’s pushing the servers or participant purchasers over the restrict—perhaps the power is bugged and making extra “grapple up to now” requests than a server can deal with? Perhaps all of the sparks produced on the bottom have one thing to do with it? Your guess is nearly as good as mine.
Curiously, the grapple bug will even have an effect on the Overwatch League when it returns later this week. Blizzard has deliberate since final 12 months to host the brand new season of OWL on Overwatch 2, and it sounds just like the Wrecking Ball bug can also be current within the construct execs might be taking part in. As such, he’ll be locked throughout this week of competitors. Head of OWL Sean Miller promised to “get our furry buddy [back] in by subsequent week.”
I do know we mentioned no hero swimming pools for 2022… however this time is completely different! Seems Wrecking Ball’s powers are a bit too robust for OWL servers too, so we’ll be disabling him for this weekend, however ought to get our furry buddy in by subsequent week 🐹 https://t.co/PhKYELIHbUMay 3, 2022
Overwatch 2 is proving to be a real beta. Final week, Blizzard additionally mounted a bug that had been causing Mercy’s ultimate to fail regardless of trying prefer it’s working.
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