What a terrible week - thanks blizz

Started the week with no backfills in games with “leavers” (in quotes because I don’t think they really left - they were kicked).

And now we have unusable servers where you get into a game and get stuck in hero select, or hero is uncontrollable and everyone else is floating around, and can get kicked if you can’t manage to get out of spawn because your hero is jumping around everywhere as if your connection is broken.

Lots of people in tech support forum and on reddit with same issues so this is a biggy.

This all seemed to start from the patch this week. So I guess they’ve released a dud.

Maybe try shipping the previous version before the patch out to us all so we can get back to normal? Then hire some quality control people so you don’t do it again!

You need to cancel all leaver penalties from today (at least) and reset endorsement levels to what they were at the start of the day. We shouldn’t be punished because you can’t run your servers.

just so you know its not the patch its because of the ddos attack they were getting

Ah that’s why I played a 3v5 earlier and server didn’t fill my team for whole duration of the match, that was weird never seen that before and i play since ow1

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I had to play almost an entire game as a 4v4 because of this recently :smiling_face_with_tear:

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This is a separate issue from the DDoS. This came with the latest patch and is a regression of a previous bug (most likely) from last year where backfill would only happen sometimes.

The DDoS was causing unplayable games - everyone floating around, not being able to get out of spawn because it kept moving you backwards, not rendering your hero, not able to shoot, being kicked for not getting out of spawn, leave button not working, etc.

2 separate problems.