Button combos for controller?

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Just random thoughts I’ve been having, overwatch has so many button binds yet controller is so limited I can’t put much of the stuff I’d like to have compared to PC

So I was wondering how viable is it to have button combos or maybe a “hold” option (where if you press the button it does A thing but if you hold it it does B thing)

This would also come slightly into PC keyboard since some binds are defaulted to be a button combo (alt X to hide HUD) but if you switch that bind you can no longer put it back to any button combo unless you clear defaults

This would give freedom

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get an elite controller on xbox, its huge upgrade for OW.

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You pretend I have an Xbox :person_shrugging:

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Even then, you can’t bind new things to the extra buttons. You can just move existing buttons around. So like I can press X by pressing the X button, but I can also press X by binding it to a button on the underside of the controller. So I can press X twice with two different buttons, but I can’t tell X to do different things, which is what I really need.

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i have one so i know how it works. why do you need more buttons when ow doesnt have that many skills though?

the extra buttons are great for heroes the double jump, fly or wall ride

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It’s not really for the skills but rather extra buttons such are

Comfortable emote wheel
Capture highlight
Hide HUD

Would also be cool to see the “network” stats on console, that’d be a massive help for trouble shoot

And the only viable way without disturbing gameplay would be button combos

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Would be great, but programming for controllers is a bit out of Blizzard’s wheelhouse. They had to get help from another Activision company to add linear and exponential ramp. Probably would have to the same for button combos.

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And a start would be PC
PC has default combo binds for some of the stuff like removing hud, but you yourself can’t make a button combo bind which is… Sad

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On Mercy you can hold left trigger to float and that’s also the button Rez is on…

So I accidentally Rez people that died under me pretty often :sweat_smile: I could probably just hold down my jump button to float, too, but it’s a bad habit.

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