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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 01/19/2026 15:45

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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 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:

  • Dahii007 Totem cleanser 💀 (@Dahii007) reported

    No wonder overwatch is more dead than ever. Yall never addressed the smurf problem and now you have a **** show that’s impossible to enjoy. If it’s not smurfs its trolls, leavers, throwers, incels, everything; a circus of pathetic humans with no decency 😴😦😦😴

  • ARedCanadian A Red Canadian (@ARedCanadian) reported

    @realAyitSevi Not only that, it would also mean the game would basically be like Overwatch and all the other dumb live service games that kill the fun for the competitive players. Casuals cannot have any fun as long as those people are asking for ridiculous things.

  • Its_Gandy Black Jesus (@Its_Gandy) reported

    @NRGgg Red warzone is good Val I have no problem with I've never played overwatch apex is ok and rocket league is horrible

  • OneMonkeyCheese OneMonkeyCheese (@OneMonkeyCheese) reported

    Overwatch is such a broken dead game holy **** now I know why I stopped playing it. GG Blizzard

  • inzaiin1 inzaiin1 (@inzaiin1) reported

    @Cheataah @IceBorgRevived @NRGgg Overwatch is not broken...if you don't understand counters and what characters to pick then it can feel like the game is 'broken'

  • AreisReising Procedural Drew Process (@AreisReising) reported

    @LolOverruled Funny story: My friend started using "Cynthia Nixon" as an Overwatch username a few years ago. He then kept using it for other things, and I finally had to stop him when he told me he "nabbed it" as his New York State benefits portal login.

  • TelepresenceLen *** McCain (@TelepresenceLen) reported

    @milk_imbiber @shosar How do I "keep track of the ownership" of the skins I have in League of Legends already? And the skins I own in Overwatch? You seem fixated on inventing a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

  • octavcodrea Octav Codrea (@octavcodrea) reported

    @NadiehBremer i just look at lists of overwatch skins when i got that problem

  • Z3R0Gravitas Richard Lewis (@Z3R0Gravitas) reported

    @RaymondDoerr I must say, the technical side of making the hacks is interesting to know about... But as an Overwatch player, hackers are a real pain in the *** for the community. (Although my problem's more often the river of high skill player's smurf accounts being dumped into mid ranks.)

  • AmourTeddy Mulanie Amour (@AmourTeddy) reported

    My main issue with overwatch is that people are constantly talking **** the whole match. Imagine focusing time you could be using to play to talk ****. Make that make sense.

  • goddessZel1 goddess Zel (@goddessZel1) reported

    Overwatch fix your bugs I got kick out of match before I've even join it. your competitive to many bugs at this point I won't want to play if I get falsely kick out of match's or I won't want to buy Overwatch 2.

  • hesperiiaxo Hespi ~* Tasha *~ (@hesperiiaxo) reported

    I remember for 5 whole seasons of overwatch every comp game I played I would disconnect from my wifi 💀 I haven’t had the motivation to grind since

  • danlowlows Dan Lowe 💙 (@danlowlows) reported

    Even if the mapping could be automated; you then run into problem number 2: Different skeletons have different proportions. E.g. A soldier in COD has pretty normal human proportions, but Tracer from Overwatch is like 70% legs.

  • nicomon7 Grovy Sparky (@nicomon7) reported

    @ItsWashington17 Why not... instead of insulting ACTI because of Blizz, pursuit and chase Jeff Kapplan from overwatch team and the other Blizzard's Quitters... If they Run away, maybe is because they were part of the Problem...

  • SaveCats7 Mitchell Wilfong (@SaveCats7) reported

    @BlizzardCS I saw a thread that you replied to about lag on Overwatch for Xbox. I am struggling with lag and frame skips on Xbox as well. My account was affected with the login issue with the wonderland update. The recent update fixed the login issue, but has been laggy since.

  • RemarkablyDope Diabolical 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 (@RemarkablyDope) reported

    Is overwatch the worst live service game out right now??

  • CeraphKeilah Ceraph Keilah (@CeraphKeilah) reported

    Lets see if Overwatch 2 will get released this year. I'm sure it won't get carried and gain traction thanks to OW porn like the last one and this one actually have enjoyable balanced and non buggy gameplay with bigger problems than just renaming a character instead of fixing it.

  • Jacob42360456 Jcb999 (@Jacob42360456) reported

    @ValorantUpdated They should do it how overwatch does. OW had the same problem for a while where the team comp sucked so now you choose the role you want and you end up with a good team comp based on the matchmaking

  • Bapwockal Ethan (@Bapwockal) reported

    People keep talking about Overwatch 2 as if Blizzard's gonna get it right and fix the series

  • milk_imbiber Tokenized Milk Dealer (@milk_imbiber) reported

    @TelepresenceLen @shosar League and Overwatch aren’t great exemplars because they don’t have RMT. I should have used WOW or FFXIV as examples. In those cases, the problem is RMT doesn’t kick back to the company. You are trying to capture that income stream with NFTs by creating a RM secondary market.

  • BlizzardCSEU_EN Blizzard CS EU (@BlizzardCSEU_EN) reported

    @Vikkiloo17 We did have a connection issue relating to Overwatch and it was fixed shortly after we became aware of it. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

  • NaughtyBearJack Jack O' bear (@NaughtyBearJack) reported

    @zentreya Frustration maybe, Mostly for overwatch Anxiety would only be a problem if i used a microphone

  • gkrnours 🌺 L. Coues (@gkrnours) reported

    @Nibellion @CaseyExplosion I thought overwatch 2 was a strawman used by blizzard to distract people from real issue?

  • vaultah vaultah (@vaultah) reported

    @NaToSaphiX Overwatch certainly works. I can't imagine a Valve-designed system that's broken.

  • 21stcenturyblu1 The Hellon show (@21stcenturyblu1) reported

    Its so weird that valorant decides that adding more cc to the game is good for it, and overwatch has had this problem for years now

  • Spazerbeams &Drew (@Spazerbeams) reported

    @nemesismess If they released a version of overwatch that's just the launch version before they removed duplicate characters, changed my main 3 ******* times, and released a broken character that completely changed the meta I think I'd put a bunch of time into it again.

  • techdeckin PANE (@techdeckin) reported

    @windregalia role queue ruined overwatch thats an even worse idea ,, i dont even run into issues with instalocking everyone is a big baby

  • SaveCats7 Mitchell Wilfong (@SaveCats7) reported

    @BlizzardCS Yes I uninstalled it and reinstalled it multiple times since the wonderland update. I also deleted the save data stored on the system itself and then restored the data. It’s only Overwatch that is laggy. I haven’t had any problems with Overwatch before the winter update.

  • sorrygottagocry kt (@sorrygottagocry) reported

    one thing i hate about overwatch is anytime im trying to learn a character or even try playing them if its not working (bc its qp and who cares) i get screamed at ckdbdnxnnd like🤨🤨🤨🤨i cant get better if u keep screaming at me??

  • Macmood786 World_Gone_Crazy (@Macmood786) reported

    It's actually cringey how toxic some ppl can be on Overwatch. Like it's 2022 get over yourselves. I get you might have mummy or daddy issues but acting out for attention on a videogame ain't gonna solve your issues m8.