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Kaan Serin

Blizzard slams emergency patch button as Overwatch players spam chat to crash entire lobbies and use a bugged Soldier 76 skin to turn invisible

Overwatch 2.

Overwatch might be enjoying a second wind of popularity, but that also means more people than ever are capable of finding and then exploiting any potential bugs that pop up after each patch or update.

Look no further than the last 24 hours in Overwatch Land, where players have been nuking entire lobbies with the power of chat and running around as a half-invisible Soldier 76.

Over the past few days, Overwatch griefers discovered a bug that would let them crash an entire lobby if they spammed "<" enough times into the game's text chat. Whether the bug was used to troll or end a game before a potential loss, it was probably the most annoying thing to happen to Overwatch since that godforsaken hamster.

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