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Overwatch – Player facing problems after Crossplay update

Overwatch-Player facing problems after Crossplay update. Overwatch has introduced a new Crossplay in a beta version, which allows Players... Fragster | 23. June 2021

Overwatch-Player facing problems after Crossplay update. Overwatch has introduced a new Crossplay in a beta version, which allows Players from different consoles as well as PC to come together to play with each other. In order to find your friends, the update includes a Friends-List on Battle.net, so that players don’t need to change regions to talk with their friends anymore.

Region-lock and weird region bug

Unfortunately many players are now reporting errors in playing with different regions. When those groups queue up for Overwatch, the system will place them into any region that requires players for faster games, which is a feature that is meant to be, but solo players are also reporting a lack of regional selection within their games.

Apparently this could happen to players queuing for competitive mode in any region in order to accommodate matchmaking during low-peak times or at extreme ranks. It seems that players could be sent to any server region so that they don’t have to queue for a long time – basically it is just a feature that is supposed to make the player experience more enjoyable as well as more efficient.

In the evening of the Crossplay beta-update reports started coming in from high-ranked players saying that without any prior warning they’d been sent to servers that they didn’t select.

Scott “Custa” Kennedy, an Overwatch League analyst was put to a high-ranked game on South Korean servers and Streamer Jay3, who is a partner with Florida Mayhem, had to queue into an European server from North America.

It all seems to be very chaotic but we should remember that the Crossplay feature for the game is only at its beta release, and as always it should be expected that there would be a few problems coming up, which are surely going to be fixed soon. If you experienced any of these issues you can go to the Blizzard forums, because there is a thread where you can report these “out of region” matches to the technical support.