But hey, at least I can look forward to getting melted by the new must pick symmetra while blizzard tries to balance her for 6 months.
Obvious sarcasm is obvious
New symmetra is balanced stop being so salty
But the language thing, how is that not an option yet?
No language settings on console is mostly due to storage space I believe.
Different language options means a lot of audio files need to be stored in the game files, wasting gigabytes of space when you only use one language. Let’s say we assumed that 3 GB’s of the game’s size is just character audio (that’s a generously low guess.), and there are at least 7 different languages they support, that would be at least 21 gigs of just audio, only 3 of which the player actually needs.
Bloating the game files is avoided by just downloading the language the person needs instead of all of them, but I imagine this is problematic in a more restrictive environment like Sony or Microsoft where Blizzard can’t just update your game on the fly to reflect language settings (i.e download one language only) like they can in their Battle.net client on PC. I have heard though, on PS4 at least, changing the console’s actual language will change the language in Overwatch. I don’t own a PS4 or PS4 copy of Overwatch though so I can’t confirm.
Language text options should at least be available if they’re not already, if they are not already then that is pretty dumb, text strings don’t take up as much space as audio does.
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I am on console and i cannot speak. I use my in game qoutes and those work fine.
For those that can speak there are headsets. We don’t need more communication options when you can actually just talk to players. I can hear through my TV or i will be wearing a headset
If you need healing use your wheel if i don’t see you
in 751 day you could have learned any language you wanted…possibly even 3-4 languages
I think they mean that if their native language is spanish, they would prefer to play in that language, it’s a comfort thing
They can choose to adopt a language pack system.
This way then all the Console user has to do is change their System Language. Then, when they choose to boot up Overwatch, then the game updates to add that Language Pack to their game. The size of the Language Packs are negligible, so it should always be considered an option.
To explain a language pack system: say someone has their Console’s System Language set to Korean. When they choose to boot up Overwatch, then the game will launch an update to implement the Korean Language (Text and Speech) to their copy of Overwatch (assuming said user hasn’t already done it before for Korean). Then they wouldn’t have any problems playing Console-Overwatch in Korean.
To add the rest of PC’s Playable Languages to Console without issues, it would add about 3GB at worst to put in perspective. And the internal hard drives of both Consoles are at least 500GB, with about 400 of that being accessible for games.