

If you’re a newcomer, you can find out how to add a phone number to your account here. That’s still going to an issue, as Blizzard’s system doesn’t accept pre-paid numbers, which is keeping a significant number of potential players out of the game. New players will still need to enter a valid number, however. If you’ve ever played Overwatch on PC before now or you’ve played on console since June 9 last year, you no longer need to add a mobile phone number to your account to play Overwatch 2. “We will continue looking into the matchmaking queues through the weekend to identify any additional improvements we can make.”įinally, there’s some very, very good news. “We are changing configurations within this system today and hope to somewhat shorten that wait throughout the day,” Jodie wrote. On top of all that, Blizzard noted that the higher capacity and concurrent player count (would love to know what that is) has impacted matchmaking queue times, so you might need to wait a bit before joining a match. However, with the increased database capacity, it should be able to get through merges a bit faster. The account merge queue could get longer, as Blizzard expects more people to log in to Overwatch 2 for the first time over the weekend. MORE FROM FORBES No, You Haven't Lost Your 'Overwatch' Skins, Progress And Other Items In 'Overwatch 2' By Kris HoltĪs a reminder, your stuff isn’t gone, but it might take a while longer before your accounts are merged. Some folks who merged their accounts should now see all their skins, stats, cosmetics and everything else. It’s hoping to deploy fixes for some crashing issues too.Įlsewhere, Blizzard is getting through the account merge backlog and it thinks it has found a fix for the overall account merging issues. Blizzard has a fix for this as well, which it will implement during tonight’s downtime. This issue has emerged on Xbox, but it seems more prevalent on PlayStation. A fix is going out during tonight’s downtime that will hopefully resolve that problem.Īlso on the console front, some players who bought the Watchpoint Pack may not be seeing the items from it in their collection. Blizzard said that this issue is preventing login.
OVERWATCH PING CONSOLE CODE
I saw an LC-208 error code on both PS5 and Nintendo Switch. I couldn’t get into Overwatch 2 on console at all last night, and I didn’t get a chance to try again today.
