If I am in my own custom game, where I’m the only one, and use a macro on a dummy bot for fun?
Or dose the game detect that and give an auto ban?
Given they don’t care about throwing, I think macroing would be pretty safe.
Hell, Macroing just would make you worse at the game, even if you tried to do it live.
Also no one is going to ban you for stuff in a solo custom game.
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Mercy supper jump would be EZ
Soldier would have no recoil. He would be EZ
One kind, at a VERY particular range, would be easy, but you would remove all of the minor tweaks in timing which makes her good.
Or you just get use to dragging the mouse down slowly, and he doesn’t anyway.
The point is, macro’s don’t help you any longer than say a week.
Where a Macro IS useful is in a solo area, where you test HOW a thing work. You can use it as a tool to work out timings, but, using it in a real game means you lose the ability to adjust the timings for your own benefit, and you DO want to do that.
So outside of being a teaching tool, they are worse than useless.
I’m not here to argue about the effectiveness, I need to know if the game auto detects and bans, because I just got a new mouse and I wanted to try out the macro feature in a custom.
I know people who USED to use macros, but I don’t know now.
I would be HIGHLY surprised if they policed it, and given you don’t see people complain that they had been banned because of macroing, you can be pretty sure it isn’t a thing.
Like, if they started banning it, I am SURE there would be a bunch of upset forumers.
But like, I don’t know. Signs point to it being safe.
I mean, throwing is a reportable offense that works like every other reportable offense, no?
I think the general rule for staying out of trouble is 1 button press = 1 key stroke max, though I don’t know how strictly it is enforced.
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they allow aimbot in custom game, so no
Do they? Can’t say I ever installed one, so, I wouldn’t know, but yeah, I think their policing the game extends to reports.
They allow aimbot created through their workshop system, yes. If you download a 3rd party aimbot and it gets picked up you get banned no matter what mode you’re in. I think 3rd party programs for macros go the same way.
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Given I think many mouse drivers install a macro program by default, I am sure those ones don’t get detected and thrown out.
All of the Razer mice do so, and if Blizzard was going to ban anyone using one of those, they would lose maybe 1/8 of their player base?
A dedicated 3rd party one? sure, but ones which come with the mouse by default?
I don’t recommend the use of macros whatsoever regardless of where you use them.
Now if a workshop script is made to automate the actions of a player or bot in your custom game, that is fair.
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Generally if you could do it using only your base mouse and keyboard, and only the game itself, it should be fine. But if you have to download another program and make a macro using a third party program or something outside of the game, probably not going to be allowed. I can’t say how well it would be detected, but I don’t think I’d risk it if I were you.
If I were to guess why it’s because it becomes hard to judge what it’s used for. Is it “a macro to walk left AND open VC because I don’t know a good way to keybind both?” vs “it’s a macro to ignore recoil, to auto flick up at things that got booped by wrecking ball’s piledriver” etc. While the first would generally be harmless, the second would be blatantly cheating. But how would it even be tested which is which?
And so it only makes sense to say “No macros” because otherwise you’re making a line that gets blurred very easily.
I was referring to something else similar but not for mice that I’m not going to mention by name here.
It’s usually what people who don’t have gaming brand mice use, but it’s also used for malicious purposes like aimbot/recoil negation
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Your best bet is sending a ticket to support and ask them to clarify. They may not be able to say anything, but there’s no harm in trying.
I would be afraid to come on some sort of list 
I’ve joined custom games accidentally where aimbot is somehow turned on and I can track people through walls. I don’t have any sort of software that would allow it, so idk how the creators do it, but I haven’t gotten banned so I guess it’s ok in custom games
Dont even put hacking software on your computer. Dont download it, dont pay for it. If you 100% need to hack, like its your job, then you should code it. The game will detect it, especially if your not careful.
I assume they programmed it with the workshop? So aim botting with the workshop code is totally fine since it’s only a custom game?