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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 01/21/2026 02:30

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (41%)

    Sign in (41%)

  2. Online Play (29%)

    Online Play (29%)

  3. Game Crash (16%)

    Game Crash (16%)

  4. Glitches (10%)

    Glitches (10%)

  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:

  • FalcoLambda 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

  • SorcererLance 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

  • xelensi 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. :-(

  • ASAPSmash1 ASAP_Smash (@ASAPSmash1) reported

    @Ask_Spectrum Hey guys, Blizzard recently opened their servers to be cross-platform. I believe this is causing interpolation issues with a lot of your customers, including me, when playing their games. Please, I just want to play Overwatch again. :(

  • Azedeaa (@Azedeaa) reported

    ok so why does vpn now lag so ******* hard in overwatch??????????

  • jgriffee 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.

  • MimiSuzuka 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....

  • FinchStrife 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?

  • sabretooth_27 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

  • Finessing_Ewok Ewok (@Finessing_Ewok) reported

    Overwatch has broken me.

  • HausofAlexnder Alejandro (@HausofAlexnder) reported

    Ok I want to get back into overwatch but not until problems are fixed at blizzard

  • haide023 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.

  • Phenomenal2nd Phenomenal1 (@Phenomenal2nd) reported

    @SophNar0747 Hm. How many newly gay Overwatch characters will it take to fix this?

  • ShadowRick_ 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

  • CrippledApe215 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.

  • BurnedOutStar1 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.

  • crisperstorm 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

  • kajoomafu 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

  • BenoitRianne rianne benoit (@BenoitRianne) reported

    @LuciaEverblack i’m not even making an issue. i’m questioning your judgement, i never said you specifically are harassing people but most people in the community are. like ML7 for example. he played overwatch on the 28 and people in chat harassed him for it. that’s not okay

  • PeroxUwU 🏳️‍🌈🇩🇪Maskn Wauwau🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈 (@PeroxUwU) reported

    Just had a power outage and it threw me out of overwatch

  • EeveeA_ 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.

  • BiggHungryPhill 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.

  • Tujungo1 Tujungo (@Tujungo1) reported

    @Xander947 @CORSAIR @anniefuchsia I use the buttons for key binds so i Dont have to move my left hand from wasd. Use it in games like tarkov, overwatch and especially eso! I have big thumbs and sometimes will hit other buttons but not so much its a problem!

  • GroverDosed GroverDose | Austin (@GroverDosed) reported

    Due to Blizzard issues, I will not be doing drunk bronze DPS Friday on overwatch this week... Sooo....

  • ChronoDevilTV 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

  • wootton120 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

  • ElusoryKitty ElusoryKitty (@ElusoryKitty) reported

    seeing people today no life overwatch extra hard like ??? the game/ your sr mean that much or is it an addiction problem that causes you to play 18 hours a day

  • Bezo_Ow 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.

  • deadkandy 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.

  • OniiChanSad sad (@OniiChanSad) reported

    when is there gonna be more astra counterplay this shits broken at this point ill play overwatch