Didn’t work for me either. Thanks for sharing though.
there has been a massive issue with OW since thursday , where thousands of people are being kicked when trying to join anything in game and it gives an error; I have yet to see the dev team openly talk about this issue and how and when it will be fixed. I am tired of lack of transparency and dark patches while we wait for days with no feeback…
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i decided to try this despite not having huge issues with this applying update thing, it only pops up once per sitting and it goes through with no issues, this did not fix it sadly. ty for posting it though.
I hope they fix this and extend the Bastion event. I want the skin but I cant play the game 
any updates on this? still not working
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same here - getting kicked because of error applying update
c’mon blizz - fix it guys - I can’t get my bastion brick skin
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I literally just had a tech support say it’s been a quiet weekend and there is no issues going on…ya this is the type of crap you get from blizzard like wth?the name was [WyomingMyst] and that’s what they literally told me…I like how they think we are stupid.they are saying is US that is the problem…its our connections not theirs…yah…
6 days passed, nothing is fixed.
same goes for me. hope this gets fixed before the Bastion Brick Challenge ends (>~<)
Maybe we should spam that in tech support forum
Sounds like a good idea to me
this is a issue that has been happening for a week now. Every time i try to join a game i get a popup saying “Error applying update”. Please for the love of The Holy Trinity fix this and extend the lego Bastion event
This has been an issue for a while now. Each time I join a game (even practice range) I get a message saying “Error applying update”. I’ve tried everything recommended by the techies and other people and nothing has worked. When is this blizzard caused issue going to get officially noticed and fixed.
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Find a competitive match. Start to load in. Then the screen flashes applying update. I have to relog into my battle.net from overwatch. I do so. Click rejoin button. Does nothing. Im suspended and i lost SR. Basically got kicked out of match and could never load back in. This happen to anybody else? Other times it says applying update and it doesnt kick me all the way out to the log in screen.
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Here is solution
Hey there. The “Applying Update” prompt is a case when your game client is getting some sort of hotfix (a new feature of the Overwatch Game Client). However, this still comes down to potential connection issues that you can try to resolve through these common troubleshooting steps:
Otherwise there may be more advanced issues that Blizzard is investigating. See this post for details:
When I entering OW, appear error applying update(-1). When I am trying to join a game, another popup error applying update(-2) and be disconnected. Relogin with my ID and retrying to join a game will cause applying update for a while and then be disconnected with error applying update (-5), regardless of which type of game I am joining.
For the past 4 days i’ve been getting an “Applying Update” pop up before every game that goes away right before the match starts. I dont get booted or anything. However i recently started having these weird ping spikes and happen every few seconds as well. not sure if these two issues are related but they’re both annoying. My ping only skyrockets in overwatch, when i play games like destiny 2 it’s completely fine.
for clarification when i said, i dont get booted or anything, i meant that the game continues regularly after the pop up goes away with no disconnects or relogging needing to be done.
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The “Applying Update” prompt is a case when your game client is getting some sort of hotfix (a new feature of the Overwatch Game Client). However, this still comes down to potential connection issues that you can try to resolve through these common troubleshooting steps:
Otherwise there may be more advanced issues that Blizzard is investigating. See this post for details:
can i disable this feature?