In comp queue, about every 1/10 games, my queue ends as it found a game. Then it says “Entering game…” but i never arrive in the game. I get stuck on the main menu. I can type in the match chat but I don’t get in the game. I do see the rejoin match option but that does nothing. About 15 seconds later, I get the error in chat “Failed to connect to game server”.
This is resulting in a leaver penalty. I already have 2 accounts up to 20 hour bans and a third account up to 8 hour ban now. It happens basically everyday I play.
If i never leave the main menu and I get this message in chat, I should not get a leaver penalty. At the very least i should be able to requeue again without any leaver penalty.
It’s not that I get in the game and then i lag out, so it makes no sense to give me a leaver penalty. In OW1 this happened maybe 1/500 games but I would be able to requeue right away
Also this or something similar was apparently fixed last month but it still happens everyday so it’s not fixed:
Overwatch 2 Status Update - October 25, 2022
Fixed an issue that resulted in players receiving competitive mode penalties for leaving matches when the game crashed during launch. We have reset the leaver penalties on affected players so they can play ranked again
I have been getting this issue sometimes as well, and it happened to me again last night. I was able to talk to everyone in the match via chat but I was unable to rejoin, saying it failed to connect to the game server. Each time this happens it lasts for about 5 minutes or so. And each time I able to confirm my internet connwction is running fine… 10 Gbps Ethernet to my router, 1Gbps fiber with ISP, speedtests are (>900 Mbps), DNS and ping monitors I have show no disruptions. I even run Wireshark to see what is going on and it seems like in this time the game server IP is the only IP mot responding to me.
I got the exact same problem. Switched from Lan to Wlan or used mobile connection. Nope nothing helps.
Still have an open ticket. We tried finding issues with WinMTR but its really hard to log such a random event.
This pretty much prevents me to play ranked with my friends b/c it also sometimes keeps me in the game long enough that the early game breakup wont happen.
You are not alone in experiencing this bug. Here’s a link to my post in case you’d like to read more about this issue: Comprehensive Thread Of All Top 500/Competitive Bugs. I put your thread under: Competitive Match Disconnection And Temporary Ban. Any help in spreading the word about this megathread would be greatly appreciated.
basic blizzard, only game where not connecting to game because of game servers and youll get banned.
Happened me yesterday exactly the same and today aswell. Now im sitting 1 hour ban and probly gonna derank aswell because of 2 “disconnects”…
At the time of writing this, the error continues, I was already banned from the previous season due to this error and in the current season I have a timer of 8 hours since it puts me in a queue and gives me the same error which proceeds to ban me permanently. immediate with no option to re-enter the game