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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 03/22/2026 09:35

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (48%)

    Sign in (48%)

  2. Online Play (24%)

    Online Play (24%)

  3. Game Crash (11%)

    Game Crash (11%)

  4. Glitches (10%)

    Glitches (10%)

  5. Matchmaking (7%)

    Matchmaking (7%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Overwatch outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
BrazilSão Paulo Sign in
BrazilPorto Alegre Sign in
NetherlandsHuizen Sign in
United StatesBoise Sign in
United KingdomEdinburgh Sign in
BelgiumCharleroi Online Play
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Overwatch Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • albin100000 Myran (@albin100000) reported

    @PlayOverwatch fix your servers you have literally made billions of overwatch 1 buy more servers or Im gonna smash my monitor

  • _Hyogs_ Hyogs (@_Hyogs_) reported

    they shoulda ddos'd the overwatch servers while I'm sleeping, I think that woulda been very neat

  • timotheehal daniela (@timotheehal) reported

    the way i bought the overwatch 2 beta and never got into it because of a glitch on my playstation.. still pissed but i will be playing the actual game tomorrow if i have time

  • LightinOfficial Lightin (@LightinOfficial) reported

    Technical difficulties aside and ignoring the fact that I was literally thrown out of my ranked game due to "unexpected server error", overwatch 2 actually feels fun

  • noblesponds Adam (@noblesponds) reported

    overwatch 2 still telling me unexpected error when the error is expected at this point

  • hainyire ☸︎ ༃ (@hainyire) reported

    @Blizzard_Ent @ATVI_AB I finally got into OW2 and yet all my skins are gone and I have to unlock all the characters despite me already playing overwatch 1 for YEARS. Wtf is the issue. @PlayOverwatch

  • klawlr kaely (@klawlr) reported

    im an overwatch server. fix me

  • hextexhOF HEX/ 🖤 (@hextexhOF) reported

    Bro I got an unexpected server error message after finally getting into overwatch after the queue and now I’m 20k in line again 💀

  • TaeKwonzy TaeKwonzy 🥋 (@TaeKwonzy) reported

    I Guess I’m going to have to get a Career in CyberSecurity because Overwatch 2 is receiving a DDOS Attack and I want to play this damn game brb

  • simpleduality dualitySpookified ∞ 🟩 (@simpleduality) reported

    blizzard says overwatch 2 servers are being ddos'd but i doubt it probly underprepared for launch day due to the amount of scandals they keep creating

  • StickyHoneyDude Honey (@StickyHoneyDude) reported

    IT'S BEEN 2 HOURS AND OVERWATCH 2 JUST GOT DDOS ATTACKED????? #Overwatch2

  • JayRyan84 JRyan (@JayRyan84) reported

    To the permavirgin or permavirgins allegedly currently engaged in a ddos attack against Overwatch 2's servers: what's it like getting negative *******?

  • Hexudus Hexudus (@Hexudus) reported

    I knew there was NO WAY I'd be able to login, and play Overwatch 2 without issues. I am still disappointed.

  • Helixzo Ace (@Helixzo) reported

    @battlenet Heya just want to tell you I'm having problems with your service When I put in my phone number into Battle net for overwatch 2 it isn't seeming to work or send me really any security code as it should

  • virtuallucifer_ Sebastian Nightingale (@virtuallucifer_) reported

    Thought I could go play Overwatch as is my comfort game but the servers are not working, is giving me an error every 2 ******* minutes and I need to go and wait in line with another 20000 people. Do you want me to kill myself @PlayOverwatch? Is that want you want?

  • Cla1913 Cla19 (@Cla1913) reported

    @PlayOverwatch @BlizzardCS Wow thanks Overwatch for making me quieue for 4 straight hours just to see “connection error” at 70, it has been 4 hours since the opening of the server and this is what we get? I hope everybody did their best and I’m happy for that but you had time to predict and fix this.

  • gh0stleyy 🌸 renae 🦇 is missing stream (@gh0stleyy) reported

    Love watching the four streamers that I follow that are playing overwatch 2, actually play the game, while I’ve been in queue for three hours with endless errors

  • tom_derosa22 Tom D (@tom_derosa22) reported

    @BlizzardCS I'm on xbox and played overwatch 1 for its entire lifespan and have a bunch of cosmetics and none are showing up in the gallery, is this a known issue? Also don't have access to characters from OW1.

  • Pikavidss Pikavideos (@Pikavidss) reported

    Overwatch 2.. I hope the problem will be solved soon.. its been more than 2 hours that I try to get in.. I understand server issues.

  • squenixninja MusicJoshua (@squenixninja) reported

    Any Overwatch 2 players making fun of or saying “sounds like a you problem” to prepaid phone users…eat a sick **** *****! @Blizzard_Ent @PlayOverwatch you guys are fouls for doing this to people. Note I have a post paid phone. Doesn’t make it right.

  • izanagiUwU IZA 🦊VtuberEN | 2.0 coming soon 🤍🤍 (@izanagiUwU) reported

    Nvm I forgot my pc cannot stream overwatch without it dropping frames anyone know to fix it I have i7-8700k and a 2070 so I should be more than capable to play 😭 I hate my pc so much might just play Val or Pokémon today as apex also has the same issue 😭

  • eillewilliams ells (@eillewilliams) reported

    was gonna try overwatch 2 but seems like it’s having some issues lmao i’ll stick w fight or fright for now

  • ItzBoboLol BoboOnYT (@ItzBoboLol) reported

    Went from being 900 in queue, to 2000 just to have my game get an error and now its back to 20000th in queue, day 1 and this games already a ******* **** show #Overwatch2 #Overwatch #Blizzard

  • mintyfreshlife The Nanny Named FranXX (@mintyfreshlife) reported

    Overwatch 1 DPS queue was a training program for OW2 login queue.

  • sora82628 sora (@sora82628) reported

    @UtdConor02 @Vengeful_Katana @PlayOverwatch Did you find a way to fix it because the same ******* thing happened to me and i had A **** LOAD of money in overwatch

  • WookieeSoup Закари (@WookieeSoup) reported

    Overwatch console players are literally just waiting in the queue to get a error code and go back in line to get another error code

  • mackenziebeyer Mackenzie Beyer (@mackenziebeyer) reported

    Have I played Overwatch since 2016? No. Am I sad that the servers were shut down? Yes. Yes I am horribly heart broken about it.

  • chaiitii_ 🌿👑Chaii👑🌿 (@chaiitii_) reported

    WHAT ********- I GOT DOWN FROM 20000 TO GOING INTO THE GAME, GOT AN ERROR MESSAGE AND NOW IM AT A QUEUE OF 40000 #Overwatch2 #Overwatch

  • factual_factual Adam Dowling (@factual_factual) reported

    Logged into overwatch 2 to find that none of my cosmetics from ow 1 carried over, any way to fix that? (Also I am definitely logged into the same bn account as ow 1)

  • jessevitelli Mama Vitelli (@jessevitelli) reported

    Rude that my small drop of serotonin today was going to be Overwatch 2 and it is not working