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Overwatch: Mei’s Ice Wall glitch being patched out today

Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan has taken to the Overwatch forums to report that Mei’s Ice Wall glitch will be patched out of the game today.

The exploit allows those playing as Mei to Ice Wall out of the Ecopoint Antarctica map. Whilst outside the normal play area, Mei can fire at enemies, but they can’t hit her.

“This bug was surprisingly tricky for us to track down but we believe we have identified a fix. Our hope is to have it fixed sometime tomorrow (1/5/2017 PST) but there is always the chance that our fix could fail. We’re currently testing to verify the fix,” Kaplan said.

“This bug is clearly an exploit and we consider this cheating. Do not attempt to reproduce this bug. If you see someone abusing this mechanic, please report them.

“We will be taking action against those who abused this exploit,” Kaplan continued. “Overwatch is a PvP experience so that means exploiting game mechanics like this comes at a cost to those you are competing against. We take aggressive action against people who abuse game mechanics, hack or cheat. This case is no different.”

Overwatch is available now on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.


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