Blizzard will again take Overwatch 2 offline

Blizzard will be taking over the Overwatch 2 servers offline once again to fix more of the issues that have cropped up during the game’s rocky launch. The company will shut down the game at 9 PM ET (6 PM PT) and expects it to be down for about an hour. This downtime will be the third within two days. Blizzard already took the game offline twice on Thursday.

Blizzard provided details on the fixes and updates to some of the more serious issues. In a post to its forums. In Friday evening’s downtime, Blizzard plans to fix Watchpoint Packs not appearing as available for players who preordered them, and to address the LC-208 error that is preventing some players from logging in.

In Friday’s post, Blizzard confirmed that the change to its SMS Protect phone number requirements is now officially in effect. Originally, Overwatch 2Players were required to have an account with a postpaid telephone number in order to be eligible to play. Responding to this, however, to players’ outcryBlizzard announced that they would soften the policy in order to make it more accessible to people who had already played the game. OverwatchTo play the sequel, you don’t need to register a number with Battle.net.

The company is also studying the lengthy wait times players experience before matches. To address them, “we are changing configurations within this system today and hope to somewhat shorten that wait throughout the day,” Blizzard said in the post.

Blizzard is optimistic regarding the fixes it implemented Thursday. The changes “resulted in a quadrupling of our capacity and an eventual reduction in login queues overnight,” according to the forum post. Blizzard will continue monitoring things over the coming days, as “weekend gamer hours will be its biggest test yet.” Hopefully, things might be starting to smooth over for Overwatch 2.