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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

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.

Overwatch Outage Chart 01/18/2026 12:30

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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:

  • ReemoGBR Reemo (@ReemoGBR) reported

    @Crane_Lillith The game has literally been out for like 24 hours. You're not the only person wanting to play Overwatch, of course they're going to have server issues when there's 50 thousand people at once trying to log in and play. Have some patience...

  • ManiiacWRLD Jordan loves midnight hours ₉⁹₉ | 🔥🧃🌏 | ✞ (@ManiiacWRLD) reported

    @iFireMonkey Everything is having issues, Overwatch 2, fortnite by everything I mean 2 things

  • zeusdolls 127 D-1 (@zeusdolls) reported

    OVERWATCH 2 STILL HAS A LOGIN QUEUE?

  • dan_walk3r DΣΣKΔΔY (@dan_walk3r) reported

    If the option to invite your friends to a group in Overwatch 2 is greyed out and you get a message claiming they’re playing a different version of the game, open up the game’s chat and type “/invite” with their Battle net ID it should bypass the error message. #Overwatch2 #ERROR

  • takkimin takki (psg comeback era) (@takkimin) reported

    this whole overwatch 2 launch has been a ******* mess. two ******* ddos attacks and a ton of server issues for the ones that are working, on top of issues with account mergers and phone verification, hate how this game has just come with its legs shot off out the ******* gate.

  • Sparkify_ Ben (@Sparkify_) reported

    @trussliz Liz can you fix the overwatch 2 servers

  • exdmg EXDMG (@exdmg) reported

    @Andy2r5 @WS_Shinobi @PaulTassi How was the core gameplay of Overwatch broken to the point that it needed to be completely overhauled? If it was broken they wouldn’t have made a multimillion dollar franchised league around it and orgs wouldn’t be spending millions to buy into a broken game.

  • scarldoc Scarldoc (@scarldoc) reported

    @AcidQueenOW 1. Its not someone DDoSing - They have dreadful servers and its the traffic causing the "DDoS attack" 2. There's good reason to be annoyed at Overwatch, people paid for the game, now its completely gone and it just doesn't feel like overwatch 3. The game isn't enjoyable anyways

  • Ignis2reckless IgnisDPE (@Ignis2reckless) reported

    Whats so funny about the overwatch ddos attack is. If we require a phone number to have an account and a ddos attack is a flood of data created peofiles. Then would that mean it has stolen phone numbers to make said bot accounts? Or am i dumb.

  • Verlaxify Verlaxify (@Verlaxify) reported

    @NuanVtuber Overwatch is still having queue time issues?

  • KazeTalks Kaze (@KazeTalks) reported

    Yeah, Overwatch 2 is so much fun… once you get in. Feel bad for the devs. Multiple DDoS attacks must be so devastating

  • horsebox98 liam liam liam (@horsebox98) reported

    OVERWATCH 2 PLS STOP NOT WORKING

  • ataltna dani 🍂🍄 (@ataltna) reported

    man overwatch 2 won’t even let me DOWNLOAD it bc of server errors 😭 it’s like “no more people PLEASE”

  • _tremains ³³³𓅓 (@_tremains) reported

    @healzwho @K4IROS_VI yeah i feel you, i’ll get down in queue just to have it go back up 100-200 more then the previous queue and a login fail. mad frustrating. overwatch 2 is a lobby queue simulator at this rate.

  • Chapapi14 Randy (@Chapapi14) reported

    HAHA no way I couldn't get into overwatch it kept giving me the error and eventually I turn on a vpn and it works?

  • TeddyLuis16 POTETOFROG2 (@TeddyLuis16) reported

    @iFireMonkey Ohh thank god , I tought my console was broken , cus overwatch 2 dosen't work either( I know what I said , it worked earlier)

  • leopgdcall Leopgdcall (@leopgdcall) reported

    Here’s my summary about overwatch 2 Part 1 server crashing (hopefully they fix it) most of the characters are now locked interesting voice lines same thing as overwatch, kinda new characters are kinda confusing or the characters that got re worked are also kinda

  • scoutbuggy Ray (@scoutbuggy) reported

    as much as i feel for the devs of overwatch 2 for getting ddos attacked, you're off your rocker if you think the ow2 launch day experience would've been different without it. you would still not be able find a game.

  • ShenZxro Shen, a bit SPOOKY 🎃 (@ShenZxro) reported

    Second day and overwatch 2 suffers another DDOS attack This **** is targeted bro how the hell

  • cqrterVAL cqrter (@cqrterVAL) reported

    @Clix y’all have been milking fort for all it has, if u ask me theres nothing left for it to give, there no quick fix that will bring back attention, say what u want, but the game is on a steady decline to being in a coffin beside overwatch

  • GavinWilken3 SleekSky (@GavinWilken3) reported

    Payed 40 dollars for overwatch 2 and cant even play the game. @Blizzard_Ent Fix your servers bro.

  • TheGreenBlur The Green Blur (@TheGreenBlur) reported

    It's been over 24 hours and Overwatch 2's servers are still a complete and utter **** show. If Blizzard tries to shift the blame to a fabled third DDOS attack instead of just admitting they didnt prepare properly I'm gonna lose it.

  • verypermanent Kira hanik (@verypermanent) reported

    @Qwik Fix overwatch idiot

  • stawshipped star (@stawshipped) reported

    im sleep deprived and annoyed at people just spreading misinfo about overwatch idk about u but ive seen multiple streamers get kicked from the servers mid-game so stop saying that blizzard somehow makes their biggest content creators immune to server issues bc ✨ money ✨

  • Manni______ Onni (@Manni______) reported

    @HYPEX They wanted to show their support for overwatch 2 servers having problems🙏

  • GameVman GameVman (@GameVman) reported

    @XboxWire Where do I go to download anything other than the Overwatch 2 “Free Trial”. Everywhere I look on the Xbox Marketplace that’s all I can download and when launching the game I’m greeted by an error saying the “Trial Version isn’t active at this time”

  • visstrapon Yoyo (@visstrapon) reported

    overwatch still with the servers down but not for popular streamers... the favoritism

  • bigfatm80865075 bigfatman (@bigfatm80865075) reported

    @Qwik @Blizzard_Ent Fix overwatch 2

  • ballistic972 BallisticChillz (@ballistic972) reported

    its been 24 hours and overwatch 2 and the servers are still ddos'd

  • Chasegie_ toastie_the_toaster (@Chasegie_) reported

    @ManiiacWRLD @iFireMonkey Well overwatch is brand new so everyone is flocking to play that, fortnite is just having issues.