Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop allowing players on console to use a mouse and keyboard.
There’s at least one mouse and keyboard user every other game on PS4. It gives them a clear advantage and makes it so frustrating to play for us proper players.
This has been a problem since the game came out and NOTHING has been done to stop this.
I understand that overwatch itself does not have mouse and keyboard support but that itself is not doing enough to stop this problem. A feature has to be implemented to detect mouse and keyboard use and give these players warnings.
This needs to stop!! Please!
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100% agree! I’ve come across a few undeniable Kbm users in my time, some of which having jittery stationary aim and Xim related usernames and alternate accounts recorded on their profile - yet nothing is done after all this time.
Its all well and good the devs saying we’re either going to fully support it or completely prevent it, but until they make that decision they need to start treating it like it is prohibited - as it is. Something needs to be done about Mouse users on console ASAP
yes sure it is annoying and unfair but its primarily because you decided and committed yourself onto inferior technology which is console inputs, but not everyone is willing to play that game obviously. Now you demand everyone else to be dragged down to your hardware standard for a level playing field???
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Are you actually serious? Like for real? Just so you know, overwatch ps4 has NO native mouse and keyboard support, which means, dumb faces have to get third party software to aid them, which is what Blizzard defines as CHEATING. You say I chose the inferior option (the only input available natively on ps4) and that it is my fault for not outright cheating like the ones that use mouse and keyboard and that it is selfish that I demand people to not cheat? Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
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Hes right tho.
buy a keyboard and mouse.
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I sound ridiculous because the whole situation is ridiculous.
You rely on people playing FPS games on crippled console input devices, but I got bad news for ya. There are plenty of 3rd party stuff for all consoles, they are legal and blizzard can’t do anything about it due to licensing agreement with sony.
You can’t blame people for using proper controls for their games, just because you are happy playing with 1 hand tied behind your back - thats the actually ridiculous part of the whole thing.
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Blizzard have outright stated not to report m+k on console, therefore they don’t view it as cheating.
Jeff did say he does not want people reporting mouse and keyboard on console, but that is not because it isn’t considering cheating. Jeff outright said it is considered an unfair advantage and it is a priority for them to combat this (at the time) but nothing has been done yet. The only reason he doesn’t want people reporting mouse and kb is because at the moment there isn’t any way to be sure they are using it.
All I want is Jeff to stick to his word and fix this massive and still growing issue on console. It is simple. You wanna use mouse and keyboard, play pc.
At the end of the day… there is no way to stop it… short of physically spot checking every single player randomly and without warning in person…
Blizzard has no control over what people plug into their console… and they never can have… mouse and kb on console works by emulating controller input… so you cant distinguish it in code only by eye…
Yes it’s an unfair advantage but it’s one that anyone can make use of…
If its causing you that much strife… use it yourself and even the playing field
There is litterally nothing blizzard can do on this issue that’s why it hasnt been done already
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also simple: why buy expensive PC if you can have a PS for 200 bucks and a kbm attached to it?? Much cheaper.
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this is exactly the reason I have shifted to pc gaming with mouse and keyboard .just last week a kid girl on twitch was bragging that she is using a mouse and a keyboard to play on ps4 and she is in the top 355 players on ps4.
I think they can do something about it .like paladins puts keyboard mouse and controller people separately regardless of the system they are using .so its very much achievable .
It is blizzard just being behaving lazy
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There is always a way around things like that… yes it can be done… but what’s the cost benefit analysis…
Blizzard already have your money… they dont get a monthly subscription fee from you for OW so why bother spending money when they get nothing in return?
Why do you think genji and tracer get the lions share of the decent skins?.. because they are the most “popular heros” and hence people are more likely to spend real money on loot boxes for them… or at least that’s how it was untill any developments stopped In favour of a new hot turd known as OW2
alot of people buy lootboxes or overwatch league skins .if overwatch was only depending on first time sale it would had closed by now .
And they will buy lootboxes regardless of whether some people use keyboard and mouse on console or not… because the people who buy the skins are the people sweaty enough to use keyboard and mouse on console
These people are called “Whales” and all that matters is keeping those select walking wallets happy and to hell with the rest of us
They don’t consider it cheating, an unfair advantage isn’t cheating.
if they haven’t fixed it (yet), this is also assuming it’s being looked at.
Ugh, “Unfair Advantage” is literally listed under “Cheating” in the Report tab.
Is it an unfair advantage to use a different controller? If you have no game sense, the controller you choose really doesn’t matter at all.
You could just use keyboard and mouse yourself.
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dont worry console players, you guys are right. FPS games are ment to be played on controller. all of these pc players or MnK players on console are just players that suck with controller and have given up on gaming and switch back to their mouse and keyboard because they are the type of people that play just to win and ignore the fun, they rather have a Mnk which is less satisfying than a controller but they dont care because as long as they have the advantage of winning thats enough for them. their excuse everytime when fighting a controller player is just " pc master race" when inside they know they suck and cant handle the heat with the controller. all these pc / mnk players, specialy ketakubanner or w.e his name is they are just triggered kids who will never be able to actualy enjoy a gsame and play it with controller