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Overwatch’s competitive mode will be patched to forgive legit network issues

5 Jul 2016
Steve Wright

Overwatch‘s competitive mode will be patched this week to address legitimate issues with network connections.

At the moment, the competitive mode will penalise anyone who leaves a match early — including those with crappy internet connections that drop out intermittently. Those players are punished in exactly the same fashion as those who purposefully back out of a match.

Thankfully, that will soon change.

“We have some fixes coming (hopefully) next week,” Kaplan said last weekend.

We’ll keep you posted.

Overwatch‘s competitive mode is live on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

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