Hey everyone, I’m getting really frustrated with these server outages in Overwatch. Just the other day, my entire team got booted from a competitive match when the servers went down, and it unfairly counted as a strike against me, like I left on purpose.
Earlier today, I witnessed players dropping out of our match one by one until it was just me and a Junkrat from the enemy team. Then I was removed too, stuck on the load-in screen with a message saying ’90 players ahead of you.’ When I finally got back into the game, I was shocked to find I had a 10-minute ban.
Is there any insight into why these outages are happening more often and affecting so many players? I’m hesitant to play again until I’m certain the servers are stable. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I feel you! Just recently, I was winning a Comp match when it suddenly showed ’40 players ahead of you.’ Then bam, I got banned too. Super frustrating!
Looks like there might be an exploit going around. I’ve heard rumors of a DDoS attack affecting their servers. That’s probably why so many people are getting hit with bans out of nowhere.
Yeah, they did mention the attacks which makes sense. It’s annoying though; they should address suspensions when server issues arise.