{"id":128778,"date":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-138978"},"modified":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","slug":"blizzard-has-temporarily-removed-two-heroes-from-overwatch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/11\/blizzard-has-temporarily-removed-two-heroes-from-overwatch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Has Temporarily Removed Two Heroes From Overwatch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dc6b179eb116\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dc6b179eb116\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Bastion\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dc6b179eb116\/bastion.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dc6b179eb116\/bastion.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Bastion\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Blizzard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> launched across multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch last week, and well&#8230;it&#8217;s not exactly been a smooth rollout. The game&#8217;s servers were apparently hit by a &#8220;mass DDoS attack&#8221; at launch, and some users with pre-paid phones were also having issues logging in.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard is still ironing out certain bugs here and there, and the latest update is the removal of two heroes from the game. Yes, it&#8217;s actually gone to the extent of removing Bastion and Torbj\u00f6rn from play to sort out of issues with them.<\/p>\n<p>Bastion is currently unavailable across all modes. However5, Torbj\u00f6rn is still playable in Quick Play:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 QUICK PSA \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>Bastion and Torbj\u00f6rn will be taking a quick trip to the workshop while we iron out a few bugs in their ability kits! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Bastion will be unavailable in all modes during this time, while Torbj\u00f6rn will still be playable in Quick Play. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ghjLL5KV7b\">pic.twitter.com\/ghjLL5KV7b<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayOverwatch\/status\/1579605928495616000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Overwatch 2 can be downloaded from the Nintendo Switch for free, but you&#8217;ll still need a Battle.net account to login and play. First-time Overwatch players and Battle.Net users will also still require to add some extra details such as a mobile phone number. You can read more about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/overwatch-2s-new-phone-number-requirement-is-rejecting-pre-paid-plans\">our previous coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"0axYd7evDiE\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Have you given Overwatch 2 a go on the Switch yet? How about other platforms? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2 launched across multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch last week, and well&#8230;it&#8217;s not exactly been a smooth rollout. The game&#8217;s servers were apparently hit by a &#8220;mass DDoS attack&#8221; at launch, and some users with pre-paid phones were also having issues logging in. Blizzard is still ironing out certain bugs here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}