Ah yes, the gaming returns.
It seems like they might be looking into things. Finally?
Something caused it to break. Maybe they tried tuning the matchmaker or placements to warpzone people around. Maybe something to do with the queues (relaxing MM for better queues or pooling by flexpass etc).
Who knows - you take what you get, and you don’t get upset.
I would actually point out this is the first time a patch was launched right at the time a main competitive season ended. This is more likely a straight up bug, than any major changes happening. From what I have been told, there are no planned changes for season 27.
No changes for season 27, so why the nearly 2GB patch download?
huge experimental patch
There is an experimental play patch that released today. Details here:
They may also be pre-loading content for unreleased events (I would anticipate another Epic Skin mini-event, but this is speculation).
They never have communicated very well with the community. Never have they never will.
I had no download.
yo just give us like 5 days or whatever lol we codin’
Why are competitive matches being handicapped with Match Making Rating, “JoshNash?” Blizzard might as well leave the game offline. It’s not doing Overwatch players any good to use this corrupt product.
dangit im banned D: thats annoying
You don’t even play this game anymore, go do something productive with your life.
Mine says season 26.
So its back up? But also didnt the season end? Theres no placements to do for me
Welp Im not touching it for now lol
This is literally pinned in the comp section:
A technical issue arose with today’s rollout of Season 27 of Competitive Play. Our team tested a number of fixes, but in the interest of time and allowing players to get back into Competitive Play, we have made the choice to the extend Season 26 a few days while we continue to identify the cause of this issue and work on a fix.
Season 27 is now anticipated to begin next Tuesday. In the interim, you can continue to play games attributed to Season 26. Since this is a bit out of the ordinary, there are some known issues we’d like to note up front:
So it is lol
Go do something productive with your life
It usually downloads in the background while you play (causes you to lag and miss your shots)… In the client you can usually catch a big download by seeing the download icon on the lower left corner of the app.
I still don’t understand why it takes 2GB to toggle damage on a few heroes. I know there have been secret changes to ow… I still think ow1 is receiving major changes without the community having any input. Anyway, I got flagged for trolling on my previous posts for questioning these changes. Be careful guys, try not to reflect on the truth. From Smurfing to 50/50 forced loses, I strongly think this is unfair to an honest and smart community.
I have auto update disabled, set to “Never auto apple updates”. I also throttle pre-released background downloads throttled to 1KB/s to make sure even though I have more than enough bandwith and it wouldn’t lag me.
I would have seen if there was an update.
Also mine has only downloaded 600MB over the past 30 days.
https://imgur.com/CtdVpkO