Overwatch 2 Down: Thousands Report Connection Errors

Overwatch 2 Down: On Friday, January 30, reports on Downdetector have quickly climbed to 6,000 complaints, as Overwatch 2 players find themselves unable to stay connected to game servers.According to the latest data from Downdetector, reports of service disruptions have surged to 5,918 complaints, as Overwatch 2 servers struggle to stay online during the critical launch window of the Season 20 Competitive Drive.The technical breakdown is almost entirely centred on connectivity, leaving the community stranded at the gates:Server Connection (90%): The vast majority of players are being met with "Unexpected Server Error" messages or are being kicked mid-match.Login Issues (8%): A major portion of the user base is stuck in infinite "Entering Game"

loops.Latency And Lag (2%): A small group of players who managed to log in report unplayable stuttering and high ping.The outage is hitting major U.S. metropolitan hubs the hardest, with a massive concentration of reports coming from New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. With the high stakes of the Competitive Drive event on the line, the timing of this infrastructure failure has left many in the community frustrated as they wait for Blizzard’s engineers to stabilise the backend.