Overwatch 2 wasn’t playable last night, but the memes were thanks

If you haven’t been able to log in and play Blizzard’s highly anticipated Hero Shooter Arta sequel, surveillance 2, you weren’t the only one. After months of developer updates, the free-to-play game’s launch day has arrived not just one, but two DDoS attacks, forcing players to suffer through ungodly long queues, only to be faced with the high probability of subsequent login failures redirecting their asses to the back of the queue. Truly the real thing surveillance 2 were the queues we waited in along the way.

I was ready to write down my own impressions surveillance 2, but last night I too suffered from the login errors and was only able to squeeze in five matches before being thrown back into the queue. In trying to make mountains into Mountain Dew, I recorded my experiences of playing and (mostly) not playing surveillance 2. Prepare yourself for these stories from the surveillance 2 queue.

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Hour: 1
Queue Status: 40,000 players ahead of me
Emotional vibe check: troubled

I didn’t lose the irony though over watch team is committed to it OW2 is not just a glorified update too OW1I literally sat at my Xbox and looked at the loading screen OW1 received an update called Overwatch 2. As annoying as it all was, I couldn’t help but feel nostalgic about my bizarre journey with this game. It felt like it was only six years ago (because it was) when I first waited for it over watch‘s Xbox launch while sitting in my college dorm as a freshman. I’d played the beta, recommended it to friends, and was pretty much ready to put it alongside The witcher 3 and rocket leaguethe games that would support me between journo classes.

So it was more than ironic that six years later I would be sitting and waiting in the living room of my second apartment surveillance 2‘s start so I could cover it for work. I still have to put up with going to journalism school alongside playing over watch in my spare time to become a games journalist with a thoroughbred bachelor’s degree that covers over watchis a kind of sequel. Shit is weird.

Suffice it to say that last night surveillance 2 quickly became a meme as I and countless others waited to finally be allowed to play. In reality, thanks to the different 20,000 to 40,000 players in front of me and for some time, this would not happen OW2The servers of are under attack.

Hour: 2
Queue Status: 20,000 players ahead of me
Emotional vibe check: Hungry

It would be dishonest of me not to admit that at this point OW2 Purgatory I gave in to temptation. I lost focus and bought my second – yes you heard me, second –McDonald’s Happy Meal toy for adults. Now hear me out, I still stand by these plastic toys destined to occupy US landfills because they’re ugly as sin, but I can’t deny my desire to own my own biblically correct grimace and continue to note his presence for any future house guests. At least that’s how the scenario played out in my head. So far I’ve only got the Cactus Buddy (boo!) from the Hamburglar and Cactus Plant Flea Market, so I can only hope that a theoretical third trip to the fountain will give me the purple bastard. As you might have guessed, there aren’t any OW2 Update for this lesson because I’ve been too busy maxing Chicken Nuggies.

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Hour: 3
Queue Status: 40,000 players ahead of me (again)
Emotional vibe check: Bored

At that point I had given up all hope of ever playing OW2 and resigned myself to booting up my Steam deck to do anything but play a video game. I was technically off duty anyway, so why not? Why shouldn’t I live deliciously and use my glorified portable PC to catch up on my stories? I got caught up on episodes of What we do in the shadows and even started watching the latest episode of HBO’s medieval white drama house of the dragon. These are Targaryens chaotic. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who took this purgatory as an opportunity to touch grass metaphorically. Another wannabe OW2 Players hit the city and ended up winning fourth place at his local pub’s quiz night

. Cheers.

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Hour: 4
Queue Status: 20 people in front of me
Emotional vibe check: WE’RE MOVING

The promised time was finally with me. Much like the Creation of Adam, Junkrat’s dirty fingers touched my own over the Xbox controller and I was greeted with an unnecessary slow-motion shot of Genji’s new epic skin trying to trick me into giving this game more money than I already had Buy loot boxes in past summer games. But my willpower stayed strong because all I worried about was how my cute babies, D.VA, Mercy and Moira, looked inside OW2. Lo and behold, all my skins and emotes were still there, albeit updated OW2‘s new character models. It literally pays to be a grandfather OW2. The only thing left to see was if I could still hang in the game.

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As you can see, This old boy still has the moves. And by moves I mean maining healers and tanks because OW1Queue times were abysmal when attempting to play a damage character. Of the five games I played last night including OW2‘s new push card, I only lost one. That’s how far I’ve played OW2 plays basically the same as OW1 only with the added bonus that character models look more detailed and the maps are at different times of the day.

I take the main criticism with me OW2 so far, firefights no longer feel like wars of attrition, where employing team-based strategies in tight bottlenecks feels rewarded. Instead of this, OW2The larger maps and 5v5 gameplay are more like Team Deathmatches in call of Duty where individual pop-off games are the focus.

A tip too OW2, compared to closed beta, is that when you or the opposing team have an early advantage, the outcome of matches no longer feels like a foregone conclusion. That’s because of OW2

‘s new passive healing and damage attributes, where as you work your ass off, your health and movement speed will gradually increase. I found this update to the game a welcome change of pace to make characters across the board feel more durable rather than reintegrate OW1is feared barrier. No one liked it when each character and their mother had a barrier to break down, or were stumped left and right by annoying heroes. (Looking at you, Bridget.)

However, my hubris about actually getting into the game would catch up with me very soon and ruin me. Sharing my PotG clip on the internet to let people know I’m “that guy” came to bite my ass for coming back by the time I got back to the game OW2The servers of had decided to log me off and banish me back to the shadow realm of the login queue with the rest of you plebs. Sad.

Hour: 5
Queue Status: 400 people in front of me
Emotional vibe check: Sleepy

Ultimately, just like the previous one, which kept my Jimmys from rustling over watchThe many shortcomings of — long content droughts, perpetual login failures, or the promise of a canonical story that constantly received retcons — were the memes pouring out of the community. You guys were in full force last night and reminded me why I love this damn game so much in the first place.

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To play over watch meant I could hang out at late night sessions with my friends across the country. It didn’t matter if we were rolling aggressively during multiple games or executing a monumental strategy to win the game; At the end of the day, AU served as the ambiance, like playing my favorite movie on mute while catching up on house guests. Weekly Challenges were less about getting skins and emotes and more about an excuse to call a friend and set up a game – something I hope to continue with OW2‘s weekly challenges because I won’t pay for no watchpoint pass. That would just ruin the fun of getting items by playing with my friends.

The best part of waiting to play OW2 not finally getting in but seeing the memes everyone was making while we waited. It was heartwarming to see ours over watch The community was still alive and active in the only way we could be, by sharing memes from our when folders surveillance 2 is good and when it inevitably fails. By the time I feel the urge to get back in the fray and maybe play some of these new characters, hopefully Blizzard will have its servers sorted out.