Playing on console lately has genuinely been very demotivating for a few reasons. The beta is PC-only, which I understand because it’s hard to do betas on console, but it just sucks. Overwatch has been on a complete content drought because of OW2, and while PC players who got into the beta can say: “It’s all worth it for the beta”, console players can’t say that whatsoever. We can’t test out the game, and thus wont be able to voice our opinions on it.
Second, crossplay. I know this isn’t an issue that’s been brought up a lot, but it’s very demotivating to not be able to perform up to standard whenever I want to play with my PC friends. Aim Assist in OW isn’t nearly as strong as some people like to argue, and even with it, PC players would still be at a disadvantage. It’s not as if console players rely on it, but it’s more so that our muscle memory is not used to it, it’s like relearning controls all over again. It’s extremely hard to play with aim assist and then without it, and it’s something that console players can and will get used to, but why not give them aim assist? PC players are already at a giant advantage, they can move faster, flick faster, and it’s far more accurate and easy to aim on a mouse. The only issue is that people will use M+K on keyboard and get aim assist, but I don’t believe that all console players should suffer because of the actions of a few. It’s not like we don’t allow people to play on PC because some people use aimbots. Why not just let PC players opt out and give consoles aim assist?
The community also seems to mistreat console players and thinks of us as worse. For example, quite a few people said that: “If consoles get aim assist I will move to a XIM on console so I can ruin the game until Blizzard has to get rid of the feature”. People genuinely do not want to lose to console players so they want to weaken them as much as possible.
PC players get everything, and in crossplay, they’re heavily advantaged, and any possible advantage for console is removed. Console players are genuinely just second-class citizens in this game and it makes it super demotivating to play. I want to test OW2. I want to be able to play how I normally play when with PC friends instead of struggling because a lot of OW is based on muscle memory.
Most PC players probably won’t be able to test the game either. It’s a closed beta, after all.
You can’t balance around this. Either you get games where MnK players run rampant (CoD) or games where aim assist is far too strong (Halo). Why should a primarily PC game dedicate itself to serving, arguably, inferior hardware?
We’re not. Blizzard have had to purposefully hold back updates for all platforms in the past because of the MS/Sony approval systems. We’ve had content dropped to us at exactly the same time as PC players. Any disadvantages given to us lay squarely on the console itself rather than any ill will held by Blizzard.
I think these are very fair points. I was fortunate enough to be able to migrate from console to PC a few years ago, but I recognize not everyone can or wants to do that.
I think the beta challenge is probably insurmountable, or at least uneconomical. But the fact that console players have to deal with a worsened content drought with these remix events, while not even getting the benefit of the beta timeline these remixes were set up for, is pure garbage. I’d be furious if I was on console, and you have every right to be frustrated as well.
You also forgot to mention another big problem on console: free smurfing. Hopefully Blizzard does something to help mitigate this with OW2, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just continued to ignore the problem indefinitely.
Meh, I’ve been playing on Switch ever since my PC died a few months ago, and I really don’t sweat the differences.
As for the Beta, it’s a “Glass is Half Empty/Half Full” situation. I choose to look at it as it his, the game being Beta Tested for free by PC Gamers so that it can be improved for everyone.
You may be sad that you can’t play it when it launches, but see how you feel once it launches and the forum is flooded with folks complaining about how they can’t get it to run on their PC, how it keeps crashing to Desktop, how they can’t get into any matches, how the Servers keep crashing, how there’s some game-breaking exploit which keeps getting abused because some jackass on Twitch/YouTube decided to showcase it on his channel by trolling a server, resulting in his jackass viewers to copy him ad nauseam until it gets patched.
Then you’ll get to see all of the Official Threads by Blizzard about how all the technical problems are the fault of AMD Drivers (regardless of how many folks chime in who are experiencing the same issues while using Intel/Nvidia CPUs/GPUs/Drivers) and thus players will need to contact AMD requesting that their Drivers be adjusted to work with the OW2 Beta.
But then it was released for a bunch of consoles. If you didn’t want to support it on consoles, you shouldn’t have put them on there in the first place.
And I don’t know why they even bothered putting it on Switch. But the more important question is why the hell did I buy it for Switch…
Console WILL get a beta, just not the first couple.
I hear you though, 6 months ago I was also a console player and the lack of aim assist for crossplay was the primary reason I made the switch to full time PC.
This mistreatment I see console players receive from PC players is honestly comical. Half of them tilt before the console players even pick. In my experience, the console player isn’t even the worst player most of the time. Sure some are bad, but that’s not the platform’s fault, that’s just because bad players exist on all platforms. And I’ve seen far worse PC players tbh.
Aim assist would literally only improve the experience for everyone involved. It definitely doesn’t give console players an advantage over PC players, it’s literally just removing a handicap. PC players like to complain that console players are making them lose matches, but even suggest giving the console players aim assist so that they can land more shots and suddenly it’s “no way, that’s madness”. Makes no sense.
You named a whole two things with that whole post, consoles will get a beta as well too you know.
“Demotivating” you say, when there’s no difference between the versions? If a game makes you feel that way, either get a PC or stop playing it - and I say that as a console player that enjoys the game.
Look up how the most advantageous way to play Halo Infinite is with a controller with aim assist, rather than M+K to see why it’s best this way.
Overwatch was a simultaneous release on Xbox, PS and PC, what are you talking about?
Halo Infinite is a different game than Overwatch. If the aim assist in a game is strong enough, then yes it would be advantageous to use a controller. In Overwatch, however, that’s not the case. Even with aim assist, the controller is an inferior tool that’s disadvantaged compared to a PC. Taking it away only furthers that disadvantage and makes it nearly impossible for console players to keep up.
