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Rory Norris

An Overwatch bug which allowed you to crash the game by typing in chat has been fixed, so don't make Blizzard regret letting you talk again: 'That bug accidentally made OW a safe place'

Overwatch: The thumbnail for ThatPunchKid's video 'The Lucio 2.0 Update', showing a Lucio's face distorted and surrounded with a green glow.

Usually, Overwatch's bugs are pretty harmless—like Ramattra's occasionally wonky Nemesis form—but there have been some game-breaking ones lately. Just a week or two ago, progression systems were completely borked, with Blizzard issuing apology lootboxes and event items to all.

Frustrating as it was, it was nowhere near as game-breaking as yesterday's discovery. Quite literally, in this case, as players discovered that if you spammed the '<' character in text chat, you could roleplay as Sombra and crash everyone's game.

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