Why is Mei disabled in Overwatch 2?
In the highly-anticipated Overwatch 2, Mei, the versatile ice-wielding damage hero, has been temporarily disabled by Blizzard due to a bug that allowed heroes to reach unintended locations using her Ice Wall ability. According to the official Twitter account of the Blizzard Customer Service, Mei will remain unavailable until the bug is resolved. In this article, we will delve deeper into the reasons behind Mei’s disability and the updates that led to this issue.
What’s behind Mei’s disability?
In an effort to strengthen her gameplay, Mei underwent changes to her primary fire functionality, which has ultimately contributed to her temporary ineligibility. Blizzard altered her damage output and shifting more of her power back to her damage rather than utility, as revealed by developers.
Impact of these changes
- The reduction of maximum slow applied by her primary fire from 50% to 40% means she no longer has the ability to completely freeze opponents. Although, this might give more time for the developer’s changes to be applied. This is evident based on various community reports which claimed to have encountered strange or abnormal behavior during a previous version of Mei in overwatch 2 beta gameplay, and we want players who play Overwatch game version for their normal activities that you have some concerns of using the features without errors that they expect that if some issues in mei is resolved before launch we also have our beta issues so that this situation isn’t happening on final stage with all features at mei.