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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 01/18/2026 21:00

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • HvK_Star Tori St.Arnault (@HvK_Star) reported

    I gotta update Fortnite & overwatch when I’m done all my work the problem I’ve been having is that is I keep waking up early why?!? 😫

  • iPorzyy imoh (@iPorzyy) reported

    Bring Back Eu Servers This Is Really Unacceptable We Don’t Want Middle East Servers Anymore It’s Broken #Overwatch @BlizzardCS @PlayOverwatch @OverwatchEU

  • Sizusha94 Sizusha (@Sizusha94) reported

    @GameSpot I'm keeping it the devs seem hell bent to fix this plus........ Mf I play smite and overwatch I'm used to bugs

  • GoPokes777 CasinoBlake (@GoPokes777) reported

    @yes__lad @ShadeGaming8 @CTZNr6 Compare that to Overwatch where a bad Reaper is still going to give Winston major issues the whole match cus it’s ACTUALLY a direct counter.

  • MrJackMorrison Angry Little Ghost (@MrJackMorrison) reported

    @BioClay88 @PlayOverwatch I don't think Overwatch, Christmas skins, BLM, Pronouns, and whatever else you hate is a big picture problem. I think it's just a you problem. You're the problem. Accept it then grow up or you'll just continue to be a hate filled *******.

  • DEEE__MO Dboy (@DEEE__MO) reported

    All Overwatch needs to do to fix the double barrier meta is make more tanks that make space as efficiently as Sigma with tiny to no shields.

  • snackeba ash 🕊 (@snackeba) reported

    @konoline wait i just remembered my overwatch days... i have a problem

  • marvelousDrew82 Drew (@marvelousDrew82) reported

    I can watch Twitch streams on my PC while playing games like Overwatch and Destiny 2 no problem. But if I try and watch a stream while playing the steam version FF7, the streams are constantly lagging and buffering. Like wtf?! I don't understand

  • MythicalWolf5 MythicalWolf (@MythicalWolf5) reported

    First Cyberpunk 2077 glitch that actually pisses me off: Overwatch, the sniper rifle given to me by Panam, ******* DISSAPEARED FROM MY INVENTORY during a cutscene. Replaced by a bloody shotgun. Unbelievable

  • Arleyy__ Arley ♡ (@Arleyy__) reported

    Worried that Overwatch 2 won't fix the core problems of Overwatch.

  • Spectre_7 Fidel Destro (@Spectre_7) reported

    Yaaaarp... all these "request timed out"s on my tracert to Blizzard's LA servers would seem to indicate that my ISP is having problems with them again. Only impacts Overwatch. I picked a great day. ...but I might hit up some Spellbreak, and the plan is still Doom Eternal later.

  • QueenFawxButt 👑 Queenie 👑 (@QueenFawxButt) reported

    —I’m not getting call backs. So... if anyone wants to help, I’m stuck at home with cosplay, wigs, lingerie and more at my disposal. I’ve got a laptop that can handle things like Overwatch and Among Us, I’m offering dates and such for low prices if anyone can help pay to fix—

  • Chubbclub_TTV Chubbclub_TTV (@Chubbclub_TTV) reported

    No streaming tonight due to internet issues, but will be back up and running tomorrow with the Overwatch winter update!

  • ThaVideologist TheVideologist (@ThaVideologist) reported

    Is there anything that would cause Overwatch to keep matching me with European players causing constant lag? It's been bad lately, 4/5 games have me hopping around. Easter isn't for a few months guys. @PlayOverwatch

  • its_Garra Garra (@its_Garra) reported

    @unholyenema @Berns_ow @SamitoFPS I’m okay with increased the level required the problem is that overwatch in QP and Comp is fundamentally different. So you spend 25+ hours learning **** not to do in comp. people still haven’t unlearned ****, strategies and qp nonsense. Meanwhile we are here complaining about-

  • DanielEscoz Daniel Escoz (@DanielEscoz) reported

    I have no clue why but today suddenly Overwatch (through Lutris) was giving me like 5 frames of input lag, that turned out to be video lag. I've had this problem before with Satisfactory, and I solved it by disabling the window compositor. However...

  • MkQuish VanQuishMk (@MkQuish) reported

    @theezmoney_ @picpoocc @Halo i agree but every game does that it’s cosmetics like overwatch, cod, halo does that too with the mcc it’s just not as expensive as fortnite that’s the main issue that it’s so expensive not they have it

  • Lardo115 Lardo (@Lardo115) reported

    @Treyarch Ads ranked, dial back sbmm. Easy fix. Do what overwatch, siege, etc. does because it works.

  • YahyaDeeZy Yahya Bouderbala 🇩🇿 (@YahyaDeeZy) reported

    @MrForgotten4 @manyado99 @back4blood If all characters have an equal amount of pros, it'd be no problem, just as long as it doesn't turn out like Overwatch where nobody wants to play Mercy or something lol.

  • ChristalRaine ChristalRaine (@ChristalRaine) reported

    OVERWATCH TWITTER: has anyone else been getting sudden poor FPS for the past week and a half or so? I started getting really poor performance & I thought it was my GPU so I got a 3060TI and I'm still only getting avg 100fps... PLEASE lmk if anyone else is having these same issues

  • Marioshi64 Mario Ramirez (@Marioshi64) reported

    @PushDustIn - Doom/Halo/TF2/Overwatch (video game all-stars w/o an FPS makes no damn sense) - Dr. Robotnik (unlike Sonic's friends, he's been around since day 1 and starred in the movie) - Crash (Activision's been pushing him for a while)

  • mozzcheeze daniel (@mozzcheeze) reported

    @goss_aidan @oMztyy @OWAnonymous_ I had this problem when i used to play on ps4. usually restarting overwatch would solve it but if that or restarting your console does not work then I would reinstall ow

  • Defalt_games_ Defalt (@Defalt_games_) reported

    @Grace85644569 @Alex_Prior_0 @CyberpunkGame My character drift off and Ik it’s not my controller because on other games I play like CoD or overwatch I don’t have problems

  • its_Garra Garra (@its_Garra) reported

    @Berns_ow @SamitoFPS If I had to make a suggestion, the problem isn’t hero balance it’s the fact that players don’t know how to play overwatch.

  • Asb0lus Asbolus (@Asb0lus) reported

    @Yelllowjacket2 @EskayOW Okay true. League has over 100 heroes, the same ban system for Overwatch would be more fatal. But it also would still be a great way to deal with broken heroes. While the devs are working on balancing the game out, the community can just ban them in ranked.

  • ImJustjun Jun Reyes (@ImJustjun) reported

    @ChristalRaine Been having fps issues for the past few months while other games run normally for me. Only Overwatch gives me problems 😩

  • bryce_jackson Bryce Jackson (@bryce_jackson) reported

    @Flats_OW It’s nice to hear top Overwatch players/streamers actually discuss issues rather than just yell about them for 30 minutes and cry until a change happens.

  • WearyBunny80197 Jack (@WearyBunny80197) reported

    Why does my internet crash ONLY WHEN I AM PLAYING OVERWATCH

  • aeveternal ᴮᴱ𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒶⁷ 🍓✨ (@aeveternal) reported

    hey uh is anybody else having a problem connecting to the overwatch servers tonight? i've been hard stuck on the first screens and keep getting disconnected

  • ImaginaryNC ImaginaryNC (@ImaginaryNC) reported

    @TBs4g4 @MattyElmy @PlayOverwatch i think the main problem (at least in my opinion) is that there is already a mei Christmas skin (Mei-rry). Im not complaining that my main doesnt have a christmas skin, but it would be nice if all of the overwatch heroes had a skin for every event