I wanted to make this sooner but I’ve been suspended. This isn’t a negative thread, just a practical one.
With this Applying Update bug I see so many people still complaining that they’re having their account punished for it.
STOP PLAYING COMP UNTIL IT’S FIXED! I get that some people really enjoy Comp, but I don’t see how having your account potentially banned for a season is worth it.
Especially when Blizzard flat out said that they won’t be undoing the bans for anyone.
hell i dont even play comp im strictly unranked QP and got that bug its the 1st time ive seen it since i got to my cousins but theyu should be legally required to unban anyone that got suspended or banned due to a bad batch of code
Thankfully this bug happened to me when i was playing qp. After i saw it I wasn’t risking comp
Wait for real what in the world
What?? I’ve been playing comp all day for like 2 weeks and haven’t had it happen to me. Haven’t had many leavers either. Only due to rage quit. Seems like an uncommon bug?
I think it should just be obvious that the right thing to do morally is to unban players.
Not sure exactly how common it is, but I know quite a few who’ve gotten it. The OW subreddit was full of people outraged that they were getting punished and Blizzard flat out said they won’t take the time to fix the wrong punishments.
Im disturbed that they flat out said they wont unban when its clearly a them problem what the actual f
the workaround is to join the practice range before you queue for anything and it shouldn’t happen
Still surprised they haven’t fixed this critical bug. Such a indie company even worst than that.
I had it happen once today. If it happens too much, I’ll have to quit comp for the season. Sure sucks because it gave me an L.
It literally just happened to me, this sucks.
Thanks for the warning.
I always stay away from Comp on days before and after maintenance, and definitely hours or a day after any new update patches.
My guess is it’s just too time consuming for them. And it’s not really their problem so long as we’re the ones who are having issues. I bet if the Shop was having problems they would fix it that week.
It’s still a crappy “fix”. And are we even certain it’s perfect?
I agree, it’s not a good fix, they haven’t done enough to fix this, and it never should’ve been an issue in the first place. That said, to answer you:
it’s not ideal but it’s worked for me. been starting up the practice range first every time I play and haven’t had the bug
It would be nice if we atleast got some sort of explanation. Tonight it took me and a friend probably 15 minutes to get a full game because she kept having this Applying Update bug and disconnects.
And Blizzard should honestly just freeze all Comp leaver penalties until they get this fixed. That, or suspend Comp until they do.
It’s way more common than you may think. I’m regularly playing in a group of 4 and all of us encountered the bug already. We thought that doing a “Scan and Repair” for the game fixes the issue until one of us had the bug happen again yesterday, less than a week after doing the repair.
The fact that the bug has been happening for two weeks and it hasn’t been fixed yet even though there’s a ton of complaints about it all over the forums just shows how much the devs actually care about the game.
I have just encountered this bug and locked out from comp for 10+ mins.
Whelp… what can I expect…
Don’t tell me what to do
The workaround for this bug is going into Training Mode every time you launch Overwatch.
There was a blue post on this somewhere.
It isn’t ideal but that’s how to prevent the bug.