Overwatch 2 Status Update (October 7): LC-208, Account Merge, Matchmaking, and more fixed × Create Notifications New User posted their first comment this is comment text Link Approve Reject & ban Delete Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Esports & Gaming News Overwatch 2 Update October 7 LC-208 Account Merge Matchmaking and more fixed Overwatch 2 October 7 update (Image via Blizzard) Like Like Excited Happy Anxious Angry Sad Comment Share Suryadeepto Sengupta FEATURED WRITER Follow Modified 08 Oct 2022 Overwatch 2 officially launched last Tuesday, and unfortunately, it stumbled right out of the game. Over the next two days, the game servers were hit with DDoS attacks, which resulted in many players being stuck being unable to log in as well as several error codes. After deploying a few fixes during the maintenance on October 6, Blizzard again took the Overwatch 2 servers down on the 7th to address a bunch of issues as pointed out by players and community members. With that being said, let's take a look at Friday, October 7th update to Overwatch 2. Overwatch 2 latest server update fixes a lot of issues including LC-208 Account Merge Matchmaking and more The latest Overwatch 2 server update brought a lot of necessary changes. In the blog post, the Community manager shared all of the issues addressed so far and promised more fixes down the road. with that being said, let's take a look at all of the fixes for Overwatch 2. Overwatch@PlayOverwatchWe have made progress working through launch issues. Here is an update on what we have addressed and other things we are doing to make your play experience smoother. We plan to take #Overwatch2 offline at 6PM PT for an estimated 1 hrRead more blizz.ly/3CkoDQf7279545We have made progress working through launch issues. Here is an update on what we have addressed and other things we are doing to make your play experience smoother. We plan to take #Overwatch2 offline at 6PM PT for an estimated 1 hrRead more blizz.ly/3CkoDQf SMS Protect Changes to phone number requirements are now in effect. As we mentioned in our latest status update, this means that the majority of our console community (players who already have Overwatch connected to their Battle.net account, including any console player who has played since June 9, 2021) no longer need to meet the SMS Protect requirements. Any PC player who ever played the original Overwatch has this requirement removed. If you have an active customer service ticket for SMS Protect but no longer need it due to this change, please close your tickets 460—this will help reduce our customer service queues and allow us to help other folks quicker. Sportskeeda Gaming@skesportsgamingCan players play Overwatch 2 without a phone number? dlvr.it/SZcxkK #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamingnewsCan players play Overwatch 2 without a phone number? dlvr.it/SZcxkK #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamingnews Yesterday s Fixes Yesterday’s server shutdowns were to help address two issues: the first was used to deploy fixes for some bugs relating to account merges and logins. The second was to conduct some upgrades to our databases (we described these issues in our last status update). This has resulted in a quadrupling of our capacity and an eventual reduction in login queues overnight. We’re keeping an eye on this, particularly as we roll into the weekend when we expect more people to be logging in—early signs are good, the database looks healthy, but we will be constantly monitoring it. Weekend gamer hours will be its biggest test yet. Account Merge We’ve made progress here, and we believe we have a working resolution for the general merging issues. Some players who merged their accounts should now be seeing their full collections, but we still have many still in the queue to be resolved, and we expect more to be added to the queue as people log in for the first time over the weekend. As we said previously, your collection is not lost, and with the database now updated, we now have more bandwidth to complete these merges. Watchpoint Pack on Consoles Console players who pre-purchased the Watchpoint Pack may not be seeing the items as being available—while some users are experiencing this on Xbox, this issue mostly appears on PlayStation right now. We have a fix for this that we plan to deploy in our downtime later today. LC-208 We resolved a majority of these issues with our fixes yesterday, but the issue persists for a small group of players who are still seeing this error, which is preventing login. We have a fix for this that we are also planning to deploy in today’s downtime. Sportskeeda Gaming@skesportsgamingOverwatch 2: What is LC-208 error and how to possibly fix it? dlvr.it/SZY2wc #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamingnews2Overwatch 2: What is LC-208 error and how to possibly fix it? dlvr.it/SZY2wc #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamingnews Matchmaking Now that we’ve increased capacity and have a higher player concurrency, matchmaking systems are being affected, which means you may be seeing a wait before being placed in a match. We are changing configurations within the system today and hope to somewhat shorten that wait throughout the day. We will continue to look into the matchmaking queues throughout the weekend to identify any additional improvements we can make. Miscellaneous Client Crashes Black Screen Issues We have gathered reports around crashes happening in a few different scenarios here and there. We will continue to work on fixes for these issues, and hope to deploy them in updates coming as soon as today. Thank You We understand that the launch experience has been frustrating for many people in our community. We deeply appreciate your patience and thank you for your support, and we are laser focused on improving the Overwatch 2 experience for all players. We’ll be back early next week to provide more updates on the forums, but if anything needs to be communicated in the meantime, we will post to Twitter to keep you informed. Overwatch 2 is available for free on the Xbox One, Xbox Series XS, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via battle.net. 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