I can’t play with keyboard and mouse on console (ps5) because then I’m in console pool with keyboard and mouse and that would be unfair. But whouldn’t it be nice if they made it so that when you connect keyboard and mouse to console you could just use it and get put into pc pool?
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I don’t believe any console player would rather play against PC players instead of controller players.
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Lmao have fun in our pc pool then with your 60fps and general disadvantage from poorer quality.
In all seriousness though, it’s not just blizz that would have to implement that, but they would actually have to convince both Sony and/or Microsoft to allow k&m input on Overwatch. This is why, on Xbox at least, only a few games like Minecraft allow K&M but not others like red dead online or battlefield. Idk about how many games on Ps allow K&M though.
Yeah that’s what a good chunk of consols players want
Paladins, fortnite, warzone, all of them enable you to do that
Yeah lmao the same way you have pc players with insane pc’s and pc players with bad pc’s. Console gives you enough performance to reach higher elos
I already said 3 examples of major games that allow it and support it, it’s not that hard
I do it all the time because pc quickplay queue is a lot better than console queue
If console had access to MNK it would be completely fair. Most of console high elo is basically MNK already
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He has a PS5, does it not have 120fps and 4k capabilities like the Xbox SX?
That’s why I have 7 alt accounts. I’d make a new one when I hit GM and had that first match against M&K Widowmaker on Junkertown
It would be a win-win
I could get away of those using MNK with aim assist and I could use a legit MNk myself, plus play with PC friends
The only downside would be the possibility of eventually having a cheater no my team
They might, but the Xbox series x actually run at 60fps, unless something was changed, either way you need a display that can match that refresh rate too
Using m&k on ow console is already cheating, so the chances of cheating is probably similar.
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So there is no real downside to enabling it for console users in the end
My duo and I are both console but mainly play in PC pools due to our friends having one, idk why but console pool is so sweaty and impossible to win compared to pc pools it’s weird
What does “poorer quality” mean here?
Resolution quality and frames
no thanks. id rather the other players on my team not be limited by console abilities
Resolution isn’t that big of an advantage, though. Many of the top tier players used to play at 1080 and 75% render scale.
As far as framerate goes, I’d be willing to bet the vast majority of PC players have a 60hz monitor, so I don’t think that’s really an issue. New consoles also support 120hz.
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that is very doubtful, you can get a 144hz monitor extremely cheap (like 2 full tanks of gas cheap)
yup, they support that, but then you need the tv with that refresh rate
This would require Blizzard getting some expertise in console programming and integration they apparently currently don’t have. They really struggle with console based issues, and suspect they haven’t switched to control based pools because they don’t have the systems in place to handle that. Can you imagine if they did, and console k&m players accidentally had aim assist? I can.
Most people that game on PC actually do not have gaming monitors.
Shockingly, TVs have much broader support for high refresh rates than PC monitors. 60hz monitors are still the defacto standard. Most TVs have shipped with 120hz support for ages. My parents 10 year old $500 VISIO TV supports 120hz.
think whatever you want in this matter, most people are buying minimum 144hz monitor because as i mentioned they are extremely cheap to get. most gamers have a minimum 144hz
since most gamers with any sense will play with low settings on the graphics side to boost the frame rate potential its an extremely cheap upgrade
I think you’re largely overestimating the number of people with 144hz monitors. There’s a lot of people who haven’t even upgraded their monitors since before 144hz went mainstream, and even for those that have, most people value visual quality over performance - e.g. 4K 60hz ultra quality over 240hz lowest settings. I grew up going to LAN parties every weekend with a group of friends, we are all huge gamers. Many of them still use 60hz monitors because they either don’t care or never tried 144hz and are simply oblivious to how much better it is. And these are heavy gamers. Your average person gaming on their prebuilt dell or work laptop aren’t going out and buying gaming monitors.
There’s a reason why all new games still target 60fps as their release target on high settinsg and put so much focus on things like raytracing and advanced graphical features, and why the majority of marketing on Nvidia and AMD’s GPUs are around hitting a stable 60fps in games. It’s what most people care about.