Tens of thousands of players wanted to play Overwatch 2 right at release, but server issues and queues made that difficult. Streamers were not exempt from the problems, as the star xQc had to find out.
Who is xQc?
- Félix “xQc” Lengyel is the largest streamer on Twitch by hours viewed (via sullygnome), although newcomer Kai Cenat has surpassed him in subscriptions.
- xQc is known as a big loudmouth with poor impulse control who often loses his temper.
- Once, xQc was even an Overwatch pro in one of the Overwatch League teams – but got kicked out for bad behavior.
In a stream coinciding with the release of Overwatch 2 on October 4, xQc wanted to revisit his former main game. However, it apparently did not go as planned for him. The currently biggest clip of the game, with over 211,000 views, shows him flipping out.
He plays as a tank with his team in a round against others – and it does not look good. After some strong plays, however, xQc’s team manages to turn the game in their favor, and one of the teammates celebrates: “I knew we could do it!”
xQc seemed to never doubt it, he is quite confident in himself and boasts: “Yeah, because I carry so damn hard. You guys are doing nothing.” Hardly has he spoken, when he loses connection to the server, stares incredulously at the screen, and angrily pounds his table.
The camera shakes and xQc slumps back in his chair, saying: “Okay, that’s it for me. I can’t … this is just trash.”
Problems at the Release of Overwatch 2
xQc was not the only player suffering from the enormous server problems. Right at release, there were server issues and queues with over 40,000 players wanting to play at the same time. These problems continued the next day.
Even those who could log in were sometimes greeted by missing skins and cosmetics or quickly got kicked out of the game. As Blizzard explained, many of these issues were caused by DDoS attacks from outside.
Here you can find the most important information about Overwatch 2 in a concise 43 seconds:
Many fans were correspondingly outraged, complaining that streamers could play without issues. As seen with xQc, that was not the case.
By now, most issues should have been resolved, at least we were able to play again without drops during our tests on the evening of October 5 and got into the game on October 6 without problems. We will keep you updated if anything happens again.
Can you play without problems, or do you have time to browse through the queues? Then check out our tier list with the best heroes here:
Overwatch 2: Tier List at Release – The best DPS, tank, and support heroes
