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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 01/14/2026 17:45

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (42%)

    Sign in (42%)

  2. Online Play (29%)

    Online Play (29%)

  3. Game Crash (15%)

    Game Crash (15%)

  4. Glitches (9%)

    Glitches (9%)

  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 StatesSalt Lake City Online Play
United StatesRiverside Sign in
United StatesGresham Online Play
BrazilCaucaia Glitches
United StatesOrlando Game Crash
AustraliaSydney Game Crash
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Overwatch Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • woleverjj Jared Wolever (@woleverjj) reported

    @Blizzard_Ent destroying Overwatch cause you’re money hungry rather than actually looking into the problem. How have you turned ow into the state it’s in now. #deleteow #overwatchisgay

  • Gamarleton Gamar (@Gamarleton) reported

    @PlayOverwatch Will you make sure to fix wallclimb in Overwatch 2? Because you never did in Overwatch 1.

  • lumindirn Josh Smith (@lumindirn) reported

    @Rude_Raccoon These tweets low-key make me want to dl Overwatch. I think I have a problem

  • Max_Wumpa Max Payne (@Max_Wumpa) reported

    @valsvwic Same about my stories in Overwatch and Crash Bandicoot universes

  • AndresIndoril Lord Andres Indoril, Dragon in Disguise (@AndresIndoril) reported

    I don't usually have this problem, I say, as I only slept for like two hours instead of my usual 15. Trying this sleep thing again, because I'm absolutely horrid at Overwatch.

  • its_CRIMSON2023 CRIMSON2023 (@its_CRIMSON2023) reported

    Why is overwatch’s character select so broken..It takes me 5 minutes to get the damn character I want

  • MAKEMECRYMOMMY 💖 💞 ~ h e a l s l u t ~ 💞 💖 (@MAKEMECRYMOMMY) reported

    @Jay7Ow @OWAnonymous_ When it happens in every other ow game with a woman in it, it's an overwatch problem. Therefore, an overwatch take.

  • ItsStockings Stockings (@ItsStockings) reported

    @TheFireDen @OmidLotfi17 @HyuugaBB in situations where the enemies are hesitant to break a shield, it can lead to boring matches especially since once you destroy the shield, there is another one immediately up. overwatch has had that issue with combining 2 strong shield tanks, therefore their shields got nerfed.

  • ChannelDevon Devon The Channel (@ChannelDevon) reported

    That's not a ******* joke. We had a problem with people who were spectating complaining about the smell of the room at our Smash events that we had to add a rule about it. We hold stuff for League, Overwatch, most fighters, you name it. No problems with them. **** Smash. (2/2)

  • ValyrianFPS Valyrian (@ValyrianFPS) reported

    I think Blizzard changes their mind every month when it comes to balancing Overwatch. One month they are like "we're gonna fix the Powercreep issue" Next month they're buffing powercreep again, it literally makes no sense to me 🙃

  • SelthingsR6 CBT : Car and Ball Teamplay (@SelthingsR6) reported

    @Seb2_UbiDev @TheGodlyNoob Problem is, it feels like every single attempt at Siege art is targeting an audiance playing Overwatch or Fortnite. If you showed people what was the Rainbow Six Series about up to Siege 2016, i think they'd call it either too hard or not appealing to them.

  • anubis_ghost Nekrozzu (@anubis_ghost) reported

    Lagging issue pretty much solved, kinda not really though😭, although I figured out it's only steam games that have trouble rendering, and keeping up with frames, so I'm streaming overwatch in about 20 mins

  • 5uzue ً (@5uzue) reported

    i should probably quit playing overwatch before the anger issues get to me

  • sprigitte alrie (@sprigitte) reported

    internet broken: no more overwatch for me 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

  • PokeNer98881339 PokeNerd (@PokeNer98881339) reported

    I literally hate Overwatch right now! I feel like all the characters are broken in there own sense, but I think the biggest issue right now is arrogant players who think they’re better and don’t switch to different characters to help cause it’s their main, idk #Overwatch

  • mochiidreams 🍒 𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘦 🍒 (@mochiidreams) reported

    i havent played overwatch in awhile,, my controller is still kinda broken :(

  • Kamuiyato16 yazan. (@Kamuiyato16) reported

    i will never forgive sony for cursing my 2020 with that su-42118-6 error. its been a very long time, i just really miss overwatch 😔💔

  • yuuripaws vik @ aymeric's *** bed (@yuuripaws) reported

    Do yall use obs to screen record ffxiv? I tried but it hates me and the video lags or skips. Cant tell if it's my laptop or not... it had no issue recording when I used to play overwatch

  • QuirkSensei Sensei (@QuirkSensei) reported

    The thing that annoys me about overwatch comp is that people play who they want to play and not necessarily who needs to be played to address certain issues, and because of that we sometimes like in an area, annoying

  • dag_cc Dag (@dag_cc) reported

    @m2ro_ @necros_ow This is not real, the real Overwatch forums people would have said "everyone can play Genji, he is broken", are they evolving?

  • Falcon78711 Falcon7871 (@Falcon78711) reported

    @BehemothOW Good for you! I'm done with Overwatch. They have teased their fans with a promo back in 2019 and all indications point to the fact that the game isn't coming out until 2022! Say what?! Why bother playing a game with a broken competitive ranking system and sparse new content?

  • Metaph413 Metaph - Jade and Jane Simp (@Metaph413) reported

    @AghajiOgechi @Frosty2495 Overwatch isn't even remotely comparable to the problems of Legend of Korra.

  • BrainGamer6 BrainGamer (@BrainGamer6) reported

    @InfernoOmni Overwatch is a good game, and one of the biggest problems is not the balance team, but the player base's lack of knowledge about the game.

  • TomAnde85348365 The thought (@TomAnde85348365) reported

    have you considered googling your problems in overwatch to see if anyone else has overcome them? no, you just assume because of your rank you don't have to learn, huh

  • ilyseptic taylor (@ilyseptic) reported

    @gamermaniac55 cant fix smurfs, theyre inevitable. same thing in overwatch

  • singulartaeguk ◡̈ (@singulartaeguk) reported

    "i seriously dont know how i ended up with such a book nerd for a friend. share your brain with some of us idiots!" "your problem isn't your intellect yoongi, youre just a lazy ****. now c'mon, overwatch is calling me." "let's stop by the convenience store first."

  • DaLadybugMan Buggy (@DaLadybugMan) reported

    Sadly, not talking about Overwatch and it's poor balancing means I don't get to title a section "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Mercy-a" but I can probably use that bit for part 4.

  • MarcyIsAVamp sarah s. 🦇 (@MarcyIsAVamp) reported

    I can’t stream. :( I’m going to Best Buy on payday and getting a better wifi router. I don’t want anything to crash. I’ve been having issues with just trying to play OverWatch, I’ll be back into strictly on Friday I hope you guys understand :(

  • solace__c solace 🏳️‍⚧️ (@solace__c) reported

    im so angry holy ****. how am i going to stream on twitch when twitch community + overwatch community is so ******* misogynistic and loves toxic masculinity type dark “humor” like **** that ****. cis korean men is the reason why i have anger issues

  • zuyadragon zuyadragon🐉 (@zuyadragon) reported

    @ReverieDawns Blizzard can't prevent cheaters in Overwatch either - their miltimillion dollar esports game. The best thing that happened for anti-cheat with blizzard was a fan run service that looked for cheaters, found the source of the hack, bought it & shipped it to blizz for cracking