{"id":7977,"date":"2022-10-05T01:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T01:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:14:17","slug":"overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Servers Hit By &#8220;Mass DDoS Attack&#8221; On Launch Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The free-to-play is now live on Switch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is a new era for Blizzard&#8217;s Overwatch series, with the company rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> across multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. It&#8217;s free-to-play, features cross-platform play and progression, and can be downloaded now from the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n<p>This new game will receive seasonal updates, new heroes, maps, game modes, cosmetics and more on a regular basis. Players can log in to play as the new support hero Kiriko and a number of other new characters such as the Junker Queen (tank) and Sojourn (damage) &#8211; with the roster being bumped up to 35 heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Overwatch 2 Servers Hit By &#8220;Mass DDoS Attack&#8221; On Launch Day<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The free-to-play is now live on Switch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is a new era for Blizzard&#8217;s Overwatch series, with the company rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a> across multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. It&#8217;s free-to-play, features cross-platform play and progression, and can be downloaded now from the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n<p>This new game will receive seasonal updates, new heroes, maps, game modes, cosmetics and more on a regular basis. Players can log in to play as the new support hero Kiriko and a number of other new characters such as the Junker Queen (tank) and Sojourn (damage) &#8211; with the roster being bumped up to 35 heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/overwatch-2-servers-hit-by-mass-ddos-attack-on-launch-day\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}