Overwatch 2 has banned over 250,000 cheaters, and hangers-on are next

If you’re friends with an Overwatch 2 cheater and play alongside them even when their hacks are off, watch out: you could be in Blizzard’s sights.

Blizzard is broadening its Overwatch 2 anti-cheat efforts to also target players who “conspicuously group with cheaters in an attempt to benefit from the cheating,” the company explained in its Defense Matrix blog post on Sep. 8. The system is already live on select servers and will soon roll out to new regions.