Is it against the rules to use a button that presses two keys at once?

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I was just wondering because I don’t want to get banned or anything if I do try this.

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Software macros are not allowed I’m pretty sure

Are you talking about something with your keyboard? Hardware that is?

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I can set up buttons on my mouse to press more than one key at once, is that considered a software macro?

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You use software to program the mouse to hit two keys when you hit one correct?

That sounds pretty suspect to me, but I don’t know the specifics on the rules.

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Yes, because it’s an advantage. Any third part tool are not allowed, including macros.

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Okay, I’m just gonna not use it unless I find out it is allowed. Thanks for the input y’all

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That’s the safest option.

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Does that include binding your macro to do a voice line combination?

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Macros (a protocol to bind two or more actions to a single input) are considered cheating by Blizzard and if detected can result in severe actions against your account.

Source: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/42673

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Really? I’ve seen someone using macros for chat purposes. And they were pretty high level, so I imagine they’d been doing it for a while.

It wasn’t anything that affected the game, though. Just a re-hash of that old ‘cat facts’ meme.

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i read somewhere blizz has 1 keypress = 1 action policy.

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Yikes. I use my g502 to super jump with Mercy. Guess I’m getting the ban hammer. :man_shrugging:

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what if its something that triggers a voice line or spray when you use an ability or attack?

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There are people playing with wallhacks and aimbots that don’t get banned.

Macro away, you will never get caught.

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i think a macro that uses 1 button to press 2 buttons 1 after the other is not doing anything you couldn’t just do normally so how can it even be detected.
i know razer synapse only lets you create those kind of macros, it doesnt allow simultaneous keypresses.

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How would they tell the difference between a software macro and, say, physically installing a 2-wide key cap onto a mechanical keyboard so that 2 switches are activated simultaneously?

If they’re going to have a no software macro policy, it should at least be enforceable without false positives.

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You can do the Super jump as long as there is no macros. So say having your crounch and ability 1 programmed in a sequence is illegal, now if you have a custom mouse button binded to just crouch or ability 1, then that is fine.