Blizzard Entertainment is serious about keeping the Overwatch gameplay experience a fair one and will punish all those who keep breaking this code by permanently banning their accounts.
That's right, the company is not joking about this matter and those found guilty of cheating will get hit by the ban hammer as soon as they've been discovered. People can't seem to wrap their minds around this or believe they can get away with their exploits, knowing that the company, as well as the Overwatch player community, is intently monitoring their actions.
"[W]e have and will continue to monitor Overwatch for exploitative behavior, as well as take action as needed to preserve the integrity of the game," the company warned earlier.
The latest of these cheating sprees found players exploiting an in-game bug that caused Overwatch servers to crash, thereby effectively erasing any and all records of the current gameplay. In detail, players who found their team losing in a match would intentionally perform a set of actions that forces the game to crash.
And since we are always transparent around here, we'll be disclosing how this crash can be manually triggered. It only involves a certain player choice at the start wherein a specific playable character has to be chosen for the exploit to work. If you want to remain innocent and unaware of the exploit, you may skip past the next paragraph.
As for those who did not skip this part, it's either you have a morbid curiosity, need to know what actions to avoid or perhaps just desperately want to get banned. In any case, reports (and Google searching) have revealed that if a player picks Hanzo or Genji for a match and realize they need to perform a desperate maneuver in order to avoid getting their ranks negatively affected, they can bring the character to a very tight spot and repeatedly jump. This confuses the servers into thinking that the character is trying to climb but can't perform it and thus, the manually triggered server crash.
With the release of Competitive Play mode just recently, ranked gameplays have started to become an intense business and the community does not have any time to spare on wasted gameplays caused by manually triggered and intentional crashes.
A game like Overwatch can only keep its momentum by maintaining a fair atmosphere while providing an overall enjoyable experience. Cheaters and hackers detract from this goal and thankfully, Blizzard is doing its part to make gamers "play nice [and] play fair."
