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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.
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Sign inProblems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Overwatch reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
March 17: Problems at Overwatch
Overwatch is having issues since 02:00 PM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Overwatch users through our website.
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Sign in (46%)
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Online Play (24%)
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Game Crash (12%)
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Glitches (10%)
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Matchmaking (7%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Overwatch outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Armentières |
Sign in | |
| Voreppe |
Sign in | |
| Tourcoing |
Sign in | |
 La Louvière |
Glitches | |
| Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume |
Sign in | |
| Braine-le-Comte |
Sign in |
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Overwatch Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Bezo
(@Bezo_Ow) reported
My mental is broken, I can't play overwatch anymore I feel so ******* ******. Like actual feelings of depression over this game no meme. I put so much time and effort in this game and I feel like its all been a waste.
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SABRETOOTH
(@sabretooth_27) reported
the overwatch devs were too busy trying to come up with ideas for overwatch 2 to even think about harassing the women on the team - besides it was the CoD dev team that was the main issue in activision blizzard for bring run like a frat house and honestly i'm not surprised
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Phenomenal1
(@Phenomenal2nd) reported
@SophNar0747 Hm. How many newly gay Overwatch characters will it take to fix this?
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Crisperstorm
(@crisperstorm) reported
@_Daniel_M47 @UberNick_ Haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like Mei's icicle shot from Overwatch lol I feel like there's a noticable delay with the sniper and I'm not sure if that's intentional, a bug, or lag
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Phill ''Hire Me'' Moxley
(@BiggHungryPhill) reported
@ThatPacmanDude My current "coming from another community" problem is duplicating Overwatch's "For the love of ****, stop going in alone" problem and "We can't all play DPS" problem.
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Burned-Out-Star
(@BurnedOutStar1) reported
@Blizzard_Ent I suppose Activision Blizzard isn't going to care about my canceled pre-order for D2 and my abandonment of both Overwatch and the potential D4, but...being that I won't be a customer to Blizz anymore, I suppose that isn't my problem.
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Syed Haider
(@haide023) reported
@KaiserNeko Crash would be some unfortunate timing (yes, I know these were chosen long in advance, but reminds me of Overwatch on Switch's launch at the same time as the Blitzchung incident). Really tho, I'm guessing Gen 8 Pokemon or SMT V protag.
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✘
(@Azedeaa) reported
ok so why does vpn now lag so ******* hard in overwatch??????????
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Sorcerer Lance
(@SorcererLance) reported
@AshPaulsen @TAHK0 unfortunately I've got the Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawk games before this news hit... a bit late since they've long had my money :/ at least it cemented my decision to not double-dip getting Overwatch on Switch
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EeveeA 🧡 VTUBER
(@EeveeA_) reported
So when Overwatch comes along and gives women an opportunity to get into FPS games, they are understandably encouraged to play Mercy, but that's not the issue. The issue is what comes after that. The hatred for Mercy players is silly, and the issue loops into itself.
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Mark
(@Sebby_Tornado) reported
i q overwatch i get in lobby then no longer want to play then i throw i do i fix
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Ewok
(@Finessing_Ewok) reported
Overwatch has broken me.
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Alter
(@AIterXV) reported
@Koijutsu I think my main issue rn is that I get stuck having to edit the same clips over and over again because unlike overwatch, valorant doesnt have a replay system and seeing as Im not good enough to get my own clips, I end up having to edit the same clips over and over 😭😭
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Ricardo Augusto
(@ShadowRick_) reported
@RockstarSupport Down: 120mb Up: 10mb Nat: Type 2 Tried Google DNS, it didn't work Connecting to PSN and games like Overwatch, Street Fighter working just fine My ISP uses CGNAT so i can't portforward unless i ask them, the issue is that it was working before despite having CGNAT on my connection
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Kajumo
(@kajoomafu) reported
'gamers will be gamers!!! you cant fix toxicity!!' bro why is ****** DOTA 2 less toxic than WoW/Overwatch?? Blizzard just doesn't want to do the work to change anything
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Chandler Wood
(@FinchStrife) reported
I'm very curious to hear from people affected—women working on Black Ops Cold War, Warzone, Overwatch, Call of Duty 2021, etc—how would you like us in media to cover these games? I don't want game hype to sweep issues under the rug, but is no coverage the right answer?
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🏳️🌈🇩🇪Maskn Wauwau🇩🇪🏳️🌈
(@PeroxUwU) reported
Just had a power outage and it threw me out of overwatch
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Bezo
(@Bezo_Ow) reported
My mental is broken, I can't play overwatch anymore I feel so ******* defeated. Like actual feelings of depression over this game no meme. I put so much time and effort in this game and I feel like its all been a waste.
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Jenny Griffee
(@jgriffee) reported
@UrsulaV My heart pretty much dropped through the floor reading about the mess going on with Blizzard where I discovered that one of the main characters in Overwatch was named after one of the men who is, shall we say, Part of the Problem.
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ChronoDevilTV
(@ChronoDevilTV) reported
Why must there be a huge smurfing problem in Overwatch I can't ever have fun or learn and climb in competitive. It's honestly annoying. #Overwatch #PC @PlayOverwatch
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Chris
(@CTRDoesStuff) reported
@Warcraft go **** yourself, your egos destroyed the game. I was told by friends who are devs on Starcraft and Overwatch years ago that the WoW team was the most toxic environment they had ever seen in in their lives, just because you thought you were so big you couldn’t get in trouble. 🖕
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GroverDose | Austin
(@GroverDosed) reported
Due to Blizzard issues, I will not be doing drunk bronze DPS Friday on overwatch this week... Sooo....
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Mimi Suzuka🍓ミミ スズカ🍓
(@MimiSuzuka) reported
So I downloaded two FPS games today, Trying to get my fix without playing Overwatch. So far in my FPS library I have, Valorant, CSGO, Apex legends, and TF2. It's hard picking up a new FPS game when it took me years to get somewhat decent at overwatch....
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Kaius (they/them)
(@FalcoLambda) reported
@JaeAIK yeah. i assume the casual mindset has a lot to do with it too. when casuals play games like this they want to just go in and do flashy and cool things which supports don't seem to have at first glance. overwatch had that issue in its inaugural months as well iirc
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Sean.Dee.W
(@wootton120) reported
@blackhey50 I don’t mind crash or Spyro as long they only add toys of bob name in but Call of duty & overwatch fighter I totally don’t want to see in
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Cinnacake🆖
(@cinnacakeart) reported
I've been playing overwatch for like a week straight, and not working. So I'm gonna work on the Piconjo Poster and get some progress lmao, sorry
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XELENSI_OW
(@xelensi) reported
Discord Overlay bugging the **** out of OW? Check. Xbox Game Bar bugging the **** out of OW? Check. Overwatch not utilizing near 100% of my GPU? Check. In no other game than OW do I experience these issues? Check. Maybe OW is just an unoptimized piece of garbage. :-(
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Calicocat
(@deadkandy) reported
@BadBoyBeaman The only way this will ever be resolved is the day they will start banning at the motherboard level. Which Blizzard does for Overwatch. It’s so simple to do. I don’t understand why they don’t do it for WZ. It would resolve the cheating issue in seconds.
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sad
(@OniiChanSad) reported
when is there gonna be more astra counterplay this shits broken at this point ill play overwatch
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Frank
(@CrippledApe215) reported
@EeveeA_ ok I didn't play overwatch for obvious reasons but it took me 2 hours to realize that cod is also part of the problem...I'm not a bad guy I'm just ******* stupid.