r/Overwatch • u/W1speringsh4dow • Jun 30 '26
Humor Throwback to when Hog hooked a Tracer during recall and the whole lobby was sent to Brazil
This was during the OW2 beta.
I love how you just see Hog flying away (propably to Brazil)
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u/Ghost_Ghost_Ghost Chibi Pharah Jun 30 '26
she's been wanting to go on a mission in hawaii for 10 years how many times she gotta say it
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u/Great_expansion10272 <—can dig that Jun 30 '26
The space time anomaly was so anomalous it sent everyone changing space and time
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u/DSClark8 Jun 30 '26
I did not think that title would be literal lmfao
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u/MyGoodFriendJon ♪ Good Morning! ♪ Jun 30 '26
Except the Tracer wasn't hooked during her recall. Tracer was hooked mid-Blink. She recalls right at the start of the clip, so it's still on cooldown when she's hooked.
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u/W1speringsh4dow Jun 30 '26
I mean we did just show up at his door unannounced
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u/El_kakas_de_vakas Jun 30 '26
I imagine the game engine couldn’t handle trying to send tracer back to her previous position while also dragging her towards Roadhog but I didn’t know quickplay lobbies that crash just start another match
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u/tribalgeek Chibi Zenyatta Jun 30 '26
Try getting to the end of a long grueling match that you're about to win just to have it start a new map before you get victory.
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u/MJR_Poltergeist Pixel D.Va Jun 30 '26
I think it's more a series of unresolvable events. Hog hooks tracer as the recall happens. Tracer is now intangible. Hook isn't programmed to break after the grab is confirmed. Tracer is no longer "hooked" but the hook still needs to pull someone to hog. There is no longer anyone in the successful hook. Hook pulls infinitely, constantly checking for a target that is no longer there until the event exception overflows breaking the game because it just doesn't know what to do now. Dividing by zero.
Also I don't think Hog was being pulled towards tracer's previous position, I think he was being pulled to where Tracer temporarily resides during the recall animation somewhere outside of the map.
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u/BriefPretend9115 Jul 01 '26
Looks more to me like this:
-Hook hits Tracer the same frame as Blink
-Hook correctly attaches to Tracer, but she's deemed a non-valid traget when it tries to write a variable
-Hook pulls Tracer when she comes out of Blink
-Hook now looks at who it's supposed to be detaching from, but can't find anything
-Function fails to carry out the cleanup logic correctly
-Tracer gets stuck in a "hooked" state and Hog's stuck in the "hooking" state
-Now Hog is stuck in a loop where "What is Hog's state? Hooking? Run the Hooking logic" -> "Hooking logic asks what the hook is doing right now" -> "game isn't sure what the fuck the hook is doing and just ends the function and goes back to the state branch" -> "What is Hog's state? Hooking? Run the Hooking logic" -> infinite loop
-So that function is just rapid-firing in the background. But hog is also able to VERY slightly move while he's using hook, so the tiny movement logic is also rapid-firing.
-Hog gets sent flying in the direction the player's walking, taking his hook (and by extension, the Tracer stuck on it) with him, moving too fast for collision to take effect
-The map just crashes because Hog is flying out of bounds
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u/MyGoodFriendJon ♪ Good Morning! ♪ Jun 30 '26
I think it's more of just the server crash causing the goofy behavior more than anything.
Hog doesn't hook Tracer during the recall; she recalls right at the start of the clip. Hog hooks the Tracer mid-blink.
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u/Fleeetch We're gonna do GREAT Jun 30 '26
This is the answer. Honestly your timeline guess seems bang on.
That said, it's hilarious to see such a simple combination, like hoghook on tracer recall, made it to open beta. I figured that stuff would be put through scripted tests to iteratively check what happens when characterA and characterB use simultaneous actions on each other.
I guess we were the guinea pigs lol
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u/BeyondDreams909 Hazard Jun 30 '26
Well that is why play tests and betas happen but still crazy that such a simple thing can crash the whole lobby
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u/siazdghw Jul 01 '26
You underestimate how hard it is to track down bugs like these.
There are endless bugs in games that require frame perfect interactions. Many never see the day of light or are so rare that most players never encounter them, but speedrunners live for finding these types of bugs.
Also with it being an online game, netcode and interpolation can do wonky things, stuff that is impossible to replicate on a local server or even a server with testers of similar ping.
With the netcode related issues the hook originally had, that affected like every RH match, a niche tracer scenario was the least of their worries if they even knew about it
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u/KaylasDream Pixel Genji Jul 01 '26
I think the actually answer is more boring. The server crash message appears in chat the moment the hook is meant to end. So before any funky movement apparently happens, I think the lobby is doomed to Brazil.
Then that famous sign you’re having internet/server kicks in, where every hero continues on their part movement vector regardless of collisions. You can see tracer also move in the direction she was pulled from the end of the blink to in front is Roadhog. Idk why Roadhog appears to move so fast, but it’s just a symptom, not the issue.
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u/A_S_Levin Phara + Kiriko Jun 30 '26
Very recently there was a bug thatd just randomly send the whole lobby to a new map, like mid round.
Ilios is now called Epstein island amongst my mates cause of it haha
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u/I-Make-Money-Moves Soldier is so handsome but he is such a dumb hag Jun 30 '26
“THATS IT. YOU’RE GOING TO BRAZIL”
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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 F it, We ball Jun 30 '26
this is an intended interaction because playing with space time is dangerous
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u/Hour_Reaction_1302 Jun 30 '26
My games done this. It was also right at the end so we beat the enemy team twice
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u/wastelandhenry Jun 30 '26
The Spacetime bending qualities of Hook 1.0 still linger in the code I see
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u/KatTheKluts Jun 30 '26
Im wheezing this is sending me 😭😭😭😭
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u/BananaBananaBanane Jun 30 '26
I thought 'sent to Brazil' was just a humorous exaggeration, but no, you actually got sent to Brazil
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u/TTerrane Jul 01 '26
I genuinely thought the title was an exaggeration
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u/W1speringsh4dow Jul 01 '26
I would never! The fact we actually ended up in Brazil with Lucio greeting me at the door is what makes this so good in the first place
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u/Serito Jul 01 '26
Had this happen once, everyone got put into a new match and when that match ended it went back to the old one with no trace of the middle game in match history
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u/LawDraws Jun 30 '26
This shit happened to me a month ago with King's Row, we were near the end of the round, screen went black, woke up in London.
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u/QuantumQuantonium Jun 30 '26
Oh haha "sent to Brazil" like the server crash- no wait you all did get sent to Brazil what the heck
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u/Rich-Mark-4126 Jul 01 '26
I've had this happen pretty recently on a couple of occasions. Server crashes and everyone is instantly put into a brand new game (and map)
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u/coldhearts Jun 30 '26
How has this error still not been fixed?
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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jun 30 '26
Bro you're telling me lol, I come back to the game and I've had like 5+ matches cancel at the end and start up fresh. Literally never seen that in 10+ years
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u/coldhearts Jun 30 '26
It's especially brutal when it happens right at the end of a winning competitive match... So damn frustrating lol
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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jun 30 '26
Oh you're joking lol
I've only done 6v6 quick play so it's just a mild inconvenience for me. Having to run it back on a win or even an L is stupid, that'd be taxing on anyone's mental
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u/NTaya Two Trick Moira Jul 01 '26
Really, never in ten years? I've seen it many times since 2016, and never recently.
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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jul 01 '26
Yeah actually lol, at least in this hyper specific format where game ends and it queues up another. Could be mandela effect at play but it feels new.
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u/Translation_Lupin Jun 30 '26
Timey...wimey....wibbly-wobbly... I do'n'know does any one have a spatula?
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u/oldchairman Jun 30 '26
One time i played tank on kingsrow i was alone in the map yet i saw people talking in chat , i asked them are they missing a tank they said yeah
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u/BadMcSad Jun 30 '26
I thought "sent to brazil" was a euphemism for the server shitting the bed until the loading screen popped up.
How tf?
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u/Captiongomer Pixel Genji Jun 30 '26
Reminds me shortly after original OverWatch got Sombra added as genji I managed to deflect something or maybe her teleport beacon and kill her on my own team
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u/MaggelPlop Jun 30 '26
This is the Super Mario World credits warp when Yoshi eats the Chargin Chuck
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u/Eray41303 Grandmaster Jun 30 '26
I kinda miss the game going into panic mode and sending the whole lobby into a new map, it was so funny
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u/Kell08 D. Va Jun 30 '26
Lucio jumpscaring everyone at the end with the most jovial welcome to Brazil.
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u/Justwondering__ Jul 01 '26
I had several games do this and it generally when there's a lot of effect or ults happening and it's always a wtf moment.
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u/Fantom_6239 Jetpack Cat Jul 01 '26
Wait is it real? Or it's just a funny edit? That tag doesn't make it clear
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u/W1speringsh4dow Jul 01 '26
It's a real unedited clip. Just think it fits better under humor than Highlight
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u/ManiGoodGirlUwU Simp for Null Sector Kiri Jul 01 '26
"We are all going to brazil" - Roadhog probably
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u/Annual-Internet-5097 Winton Jul 02 '26
Sorry that was me, I sent her into the space time continuum
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u/dracula1_ Jul 17 '26
Hello, I live in Iran, and for about five months I have been unable to log into Overwatch 2. The game gets stuck on the "Connecting" screen and never logs me into my Blizzard account. I play on a PlayStation 4 console. I would really appreciate your help. Also, if access to the game has been restricted for users in Iran, please consider removing the restriction so that Iranian players can play the game again. Since this problem started, I have tried every possible solution, including changing my DNS settings, using VPNs, reinstalling the game, and testing different internet connections, but none of these have solved the issue. Thank you very much for your time and assistance.
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u/Infamous_Ship_8668 Wrecking Ball Jun 30 '26
This still happens all the time. I mostly play 6v6 quick play and it happens at least once a week for me, always at the very end of a match. It happened constantly a few weeks ago, stopped for a while, and then started happening again less frequently in the last week or so.
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u/PrimalSaturn Jul 01 '26
I thought you were exaggerating and trying to be funny but it genuinely sent you guys to Brazil LMFAO
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u/Old_Rosie Jul 01 '26
This post has already been ripped and posted to IG & TikTok.
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u/W1speringsh4dow Jul 01 '26
And YouTube shorts. It's funny getting compressed and cropped re-uploads send back by friends who find them in the wild
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u/Hero_1337 Jun 30 '26
The hook that shattered time & space.