Highlights
- A viral clip from Overwatch 2 showed a D.Va mech getting destroyed by a passing car on Oasis, giving the community some much-needed humor.
- Players in Overwatch 2 often serve as live QA testers, reporting bugs to the development team who work around the clock to release patches.
- Strange interactions, like the D.Va mech getting destroyed, are often intended features that add chaos to Overwatch 2's tactical gameplay.
A viral Overwatch 2 clip recently emerged of a D.Va mech meeting a humorous end during a ranked match on Oasis. This gave the Overwatch 2 community a much-needed moment of levity amidst the game's rocky launch and its controversial reception on Steam upon its 2023 re-release.
Like for any other live-service competitive title, the development team of Overwatch 2 works around the clock patching new updates and features into the game, as well as resolving any bugs found by the community. In a way, players for titles such as these also serve as live QA testers. When huge, game breaking issues are discovered, the Overwatch 2 community is typically quick to report them, at which point the development team can get to work right away with a patch resolving the issue.
However, there are also times when the mental stack of keeping Overwatch 2's current meta and all the game's mechanics and interactions in mind in the heat of a live match can be too much. In short, many of the strange interactions players can come across in their Overwatch 2 lobbies is simply the game working as intended. A humorous example of this occurred when Reddit user Typical_Plane4874 shared a gameplay clip of D.Va's mech getting destroyed instantly after they used D.Va's Call Mech skill to punish a failed Reinhardt Charge. In a show of good sportsmanship, the opposing team's Reinhardt and Brigitte chose not to finish off the D.Va, instead showing amusement over the interaction.
While some users in the thread were quick to criticize Overwatch 2 for what seemed to be a newly discovered bug, more experienced players understood why D.Va's mech instantly got destroyed. From the very day Oasis got added to the original Overwatch map rotation in 2016, the development team let players know that the traffic passing by on the outskirts of the map could potentially be lethal. In the clip, D.Va was clearly shown to have activated her Call Mech skill right on Oasis' busy streets, and when slowed down, a car clearly hit the hero right in the middle of Call Mech's animation.
Although it might not make much sense that rockets, energy beams, explosives, and the vast majority of Overwatch 2's in-game arsenal can't one-shot D.Va's mech at full health, but a mere passenger vehicle can, interactions like these give Overwatch 2 its distinct splash of chaos amidst its tactical squad-based gameplay.
Overwatch 2
Overwatch 2 is Blizzard's free-to-play team-based first-person shooter. The title features some new heroes like Junker Queen and Sojourn, as well as returning favorites.
