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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 01/18/2026 05:50

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (42%)

    Sign in (42%)

  2. Online Play (29%)

    Online Play (29%)

  3. Game Crash (15%)

    Game Crash (15%)

  4. Glitches (9%)

    Glitches (9%)

  5. Matchmaking (5%)

    Matchmaking (5%)

Live Outage Map

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesChaska Online Play
United StatesSalt Lake City Online Play
United StatesRiverside Sign in
United StatesGresham Online Play
BrazilCaucaia Glitches
United StatesOrlando Game Crash
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Overwatch Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • skylarbartz3 sky (enemy team 2) (@skylarbartz3) reported

    UGH IM GONNA HAVE TROUBLE SIGNING IT IT WILL TAKE WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THEN SOON I GET DISCONNECTED CUZ HOW WORSE ITS GETTING IT WILL SIGN ME OUT AND THEN I HAVE TO SIGN BACK IN WHICH IS A PAIN I DONT LIKE DISCONNECTIONS I DONT LIKE ALL THIS OVERWATCH ISN'T BEING FAIR!

  • CanonSloth Sammy ☕️💤 (@CanonSloth) reported

    Overwatch being like “console players can now crossplay with PC players” as if PS4 casuals haven’t had a KB&M problem for years lmao 💀

  • BottlesTheMole Bottles🧩 #OperationStarFall #BreakFreeRareReplay (@BottlesTheMole) reported

    @true_jek_art Overwatch as the first FPS rep over the much more genre influential (or, as much as I hate the word, deserving) picks that are DOOM or Halo as well as (on the Activision side of things) turning Crash's chances to mush (at least on fighters pass volume 2) ...😐

  • KelseyYuriWaifu 🌸Autism Cat🌸 (@KelseyYuriWaifu) reported

    Overwatch need to fix their damn servers already. My ping is at 50 (normally is 25-30) which would be fair enough, but it keeps spiking for no good reason and warping me around the place. Canceling my abilities and kicking me out of Ana's scope. It's not even my Wifi.

  • WillH313 Will Hamlett (@WillH313) reported

    @SpawnWaveMedia This not the first time this happened. Why is everyone so shocked. Destiny 1 and 2, Overwatch, COD BO4 and several other games can ONLY be played online. Not seeing the issue outside of the price tag. Who really plays the campaign in BF games anyway? I played BF3's for the items.

  • Klorizon KlorizonOW (@Klorizon) reported

    Bro i wonder how broken playing agiasnt PC players are gonna be in overwatch

  • shabberwocky shahabarata (@shabberwocky) reported

    @VibinWithViolet The most confusing part is that COD has way more pride stuff going on, so this isn't even an Activision problem—it's specific to the Overwatch team.

  • angymudkip mudkip (@angymudkip) reported

    I feel like overwatch should just allow mnk to happen on console and put the people with it in on pc servers i think that might fix part of the mnk problem obviously not all of it but yk

  • oxtonbot lena (@oxtonbot) reported

    Fav overwatch messes up stupidly late :( but perhaps an issue with this but perhaps an issue with me, Orisa.

  • aSloppyJo3 a🥵🔥 Sweaty🥤😅Jo3 (@aSloppyJo3) reported

    @XboxSupport Having issues across XBL (spec. Knockout City, Destiny 2, and Overwatch) with connection issues. No packet loss (according to the built-in tool), but my latency fluctuates wildly over the course of multiplayer matches.

  • Rayan_Iolanthe Rayan @ MHRise & 5.5 HYPE (@Rayan_Iolanthe) reported

    @bardockobamq OH NO YEAH I GET WHAT U MEAN HHDXHHD can totally see the left shift being small being an issue,,, it definitely makes it harder in some games so stuff like Overwatch I used to bind skills on Shift onto my mouse snipe button instead for that reason

  • Cades_Arcade Cade (@Cades_Arcade) reported

    So I tried to go live tonight and there was an issue with Twitch. SOOOOOO the streak has ended. Oh well. We'll try again next week. Ill be back tomorrow with more Overwatch. See you then!

  • S0LD1ER76 i 💗 d.mon (@S0LD1ER76) reported

    i really do hate seeing how broken the women in overwatch’s backs are 😭 girl you can relax it’s okay it’s just us you don’t need to arch your back like that i promise

  • CoachB0t CoachBot (@CoachB0t) reported

    @digitalspork @EvilToaster Overwatch released a rainbow player picture thingy but said nothing did nothing and its not even called Pride its called rainbow. They just like to ignore the social issues they claim to care so much about

  • b1gxb3n Ben Kenobi (@b1gxb3n) reported

    @Porshapwr Paid $60 for Overwatch at launch, but I’ve never felt forced to spend a dime on loot boxes that you can easily get while playing for cosmetics that do not affect gameplay. That’s the model I wish developers would follow for games as a service

  • apl_cdr its pronounced apple cider (@apl_cdr) reported

    im up at 430 playing overwatch. i got a ****** problem

  • mioonii Onii 🌺 (@mioonii) reported

    apex ??? is so fun wtf??? overwatch was a gateway drug and this is my true fix i think

  • VynKami Mashima11owましマロ🦋👾🏴‍☠️🍙🥐⚓️🐍 (@VynKami) reported

    Well, in other news a friend of mine gave me a link for another Overwatch league to join. Problem is to participate as a player it seems like a 3.1k minimum SR requirement. Which is doable, the bigger problem is actually reaching that since ranked is just too casual and boring.

  • KyleFzn Astral Ghxst (@KyleFzn) reported

    @PlayOverwatch I'm personally half and half on this, like I'm glad your bringing cross play to overwatch, but the pc players will be a problem to us on console, if your gonna do this, at least keep aim assist for console, or bring keyboard and mouse support for console

  • ZenoKagemaru Zeno, The Honest (@ZenoKagemaru) reported

    Great, looks like the latest update to Overwatch made it so after shooting ONCE, your control randomly jerks to the left. And no, it’s not my controller drifting. It only happened in OW, meaning that’s it’s a glitch the devs caused in the game.

  • Junjomonstah bASURA bARA 💟 (@Junjomonstah) reported

    Might just save my soul the trouble and look up the rest of the overwatch babes to see if other people made them lol Garcello doesn't have his hat on since he'll be wearing a new one for whatever class I give him haha

  • GraphaOw GraphaOW (@GraphaOw) reported

    @Minefine_ overwatch is fundimentally a broken game because blizzard doesnt know if they want it to be competitive or casual. Also unless you play Main Tank in decently high elo voice chat is useless.

  • syalin_deerfox Syalin 🔞🦊 (@syalin_deerfox) reported

    YOU BLIZZARD! SHAME ON YOU! I was hopeful for SO much more pride stuff in overwatch, hell WHY DONT YOU HAVE A MINI PRIDE EVENT?! I know its right between aniversarry and summer games, but couldnt you make a little bit of room for such and IMPORTANT GODDAMN ISSUE?! It’s insulting

  • ShadowStormAZ Zachary Barfield (@ShadowStormAZ) reported

    @DavidVonderhaar With the state Cold War ur game is still has glitches like the RC glitch where it would get stuck when u deploy it, strict SBMM, and more on top of BO3 and 4 ripping off Titanfall and Overwatch u have no right to trash talk maybe Cold War should take a look in a mirror

  • taitaisanchez chloe deguzman (@taitaisanchez) reported

    @KOR_Vanguard @PlayOverwatch Playing on PC doesn’t fix your positioning and strategy. Being good at aiming and being good at overwatch are overlapping but distinct skills.

  • TH3BI4D3 🕷 (@TH3BI4D3) reported

    @JUNKERKlNG Are you also having trouble getting in the game? Or is that just them working on Overwatch?

  • JuicedJeremy Jeremy. (@JuicedJeremy) reported

    @ChrapavyM "Overwatch 1 is getting all the PvP updates that will be in OW2, too. You can literally go buy OW1 and play with friends who have OW2 without problems and even have all new maps and characters." Exactly. If it was a completely different engine they couldn't do this.

  • AlecDonaldson_ alec (@AlecDonaldson_) reported

    @BlizzardCS coming back to this to let you know it's unresolved. I am not having issues in other games, hell, even overwatch works fine so it's not a blizzard thing, idk why wow specifically doesnt work

  • Ourbelfastboys Daniel Armstrong (@Ourbelfastboys) reported

    @BlizzardCS Overwatch keeps telling me to sign in to Xbox live to play the game however I am already signed in

  • ANTIVAWHORE milf enjoyer 🦚 (@ANTIVAWHORE) reported

    @Mehrdad46520072 @_Sarenji_ @purrezii well duh lol it gives off the image that they care which can still at the end of the day be beneficial. it's ridiculous that other games can do this but overwatch. clearly shows that it is lagging behind.