- people like me who have chronic vertigo would be unable to play the game due to low lower refresh rates making me too dizzy to play for more than a few minutes
- there are still people who run the game below 60fps so if they are really trying to make an even field the game would have to run at 30fps
Yes. They could do other things to nullify some of the advantages that better hardware grants. Such as: no ultrawidescreen support (they already do this), limit packet send/receive rate or tickrate for those on low bandwidth connections, limit resolution to, say, 1080p, remove the option for high fidelity positional/surround sound, and so on. There are many things they could do on the software side that limit the advantages of better hardware, but they donât. Yet they state that they strive for a âlevel playing field.â
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Perfect 
- Youâre probably in the minority.
- Correct, theyâd have a never ending spiral of having to meet the lowest common denominator. Which is why a level playing field is unachievable and theyâre foolish to claim to have it to begin with, wouldnât you agree?
Completely illogical comparison.
Having a 144hz monitor or 7.1 headphones does nothing but present the game to you in the best way possible. The faster refresh rate or extra speakers donât show you things that arenât there or let you hear stuff that other players canât, it just gives you the optimal version of whatâs there for everyone.
Pursuit, Visor, etc. interpret that information and process it for you, the same way an aim bot takes your aim input and processes it for you to make you hit the target. Itâs an advantage over what is provided in-game to every player, and is thus considered cheating.
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You really want them to drop the tickrate? That thing many people argued over for months when the game released until they increased it?
Also why limit the resolution to 1080 if many players cant even hit that? It should be limited to the lowest resolution the game supports at 25% render scale and 30fps. That way even the worst potato can keep up with a good gaming pc
Also side note overwatch has done many live presentations at the games developers conference GDC. One of them being on the sound design and how the positional sound was built to be a core part of the game. You are asking them to take away a core part of what makes overwatch the experience that it is
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The original pay-to-win that affects any game. Better PC, internet and accesoires are an advantage many underestimate!
Ah yes I forgot, screw the minority. Doesnt matter if they have better hardware, garbage hardware, or disabilities. Just screw them
If you are wanting everyone to be on an equal level hardware and software wise then you need to switch to console
A 144hz monitor literally shows you 84 extra frames per second - meaning itâs easier to both track and predict targets, and see things that are moving with less blur. You literally see stuff other players donât. Plus, your mouse input to seeing it reflected on screen literally has lower latency. If youâve played at 30fps, youâll know how much harder it is to control your character because of input lag.
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A level playing field is also supposedly a âcore partâ of Overwatch, according to the devs. No, I donât want them to drop the tickrate, limit resolution, or limit FPS. In fact I believe people who have more money or better equipment should be entitled to a better experience.
I can tell believe part of this communityâŚ
If you want to play games with third party software, play ones that arenât for competition online and ones that you mod with friends.
The game has minimum requirements. If you canât meet that, youâre unable to play. If you meet it, congrats, doesnât matter what the game looks like, it plays and you can decide to use it for competition.
Third party software is completely different. You canât be bothered to do the work learning real gamesense so you needed a software to tell you.
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Youâre talking about âEveryoneâ which includes âthe minorityâ. Stop being such a hypocrite.
Then why are you complaining if you think they are entitled to it?
You seem confused. Obviously, having absolutely everyone in the world be able to run/play Overwatch isnât possible and I never said I wanted it to be so.
Iâm not. Iâm not complaining about people having better hardware having advantages. My opinion is that Blizzardâs statement of a level playing field and âeveryone equally equippedâ is disingenuous.
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You do realize when they said that they were referring to everyone having the exact same copy of the game right? Just making sure you are aware that no one on pc regardless of game is going to be on the same level when it comes to hardware. You play consoles if you want everyone on the exact same field
No, no reference was made to everyone having the same copy of the game. Which isnât the case anyway - some people have GOTY, or Legendary Edition, which arguably grant their own advantages through certain cosmetics being immediately available. And yes, cosmetics do give some advantage.
He doesnât want an equal playing field. He is saying that Blizzard claims they do, but there is so much that they can do to ensure that that they simply donât do. Thus their claim of am âequal playing fieldâ makes absolutely no sense
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Yes, precisely. Thank you.
Where do you draw the limits? 60fps? 30fps? 1080p? 480p? There is no real way to make an even playing field software wise unless you give the worst resolution possible, at the lowest settings, lowest framerate, and mute all sounds since people with better speakers will be at an advantage over $10 dollar ones.
Even then hardware-wise , people will still use 1ms monitors, people will always choose to use better keyboards, speakers, headphones, and mice which offer advantages. Almost forgot people living closer to the servers have a better ping. people who can only use wifi are also at a disadvantage over those who can run a cable to their pc
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