Hey all,
So I took a brief hiatus from the game, maybe a few weeks long, and for whatever reason, since the new patch, Overwatch servers/loading into matches, or just playing matches has been extremely spotty for myself as well as others. Maybe this is just a problem affecting a minority of players. Maybe my wifi just hates it when I play Overwatch and only Overwatch. I don’t know.
Details are as follows:
Once every hour or so I’ll have loaded into multiple games without any issues. However, after that I’ll start dropping matches with increasing frequency and then I’ll get the part that I hate the most. I just won’t load into a match. I’ll get the load screen, the music. And then nothing. Music cuts out, loading indicator keeps on spinning, but I never enter the game, and then I get kicked for inactivity. A newer experience to accompany this is the fact that the one time I ‘loaded’ into the game after what felt like a solid 5 minutes I just got a brightly shining sliver of sky texture and nothing else. I could move, hero selection didn’t show up, absolutely nothing else. Thankfully I could leave the game and accept the SR loss!
How I know others are experiencing this:
I’ve literally just asked people I’ve grouped with if they experience it as well, either at the same time or otherwise. I’ve asked people in matches as well, from both teams, I’ll get one or two other players who say they’ve experienced it as well.
I don’t know if it too many people on the server at the same time, or my computer is janky (probably not the case since I can run Skyrim modded to all hell with little to no issues whatsoever) but its really starting to become a bother, especially when it leads to SR drops.
Please post below if you guys are also getting this, thanks.
(I have an image of that weird sliver sky bug, but can’t upload it…)