Hello. I was wondering if Blizzard is planning on adding a left hand weapon in overwatch (or an option to turn it on). I find it really hard for me to aim as well right now, but in games like cs:go, where I can switch the weapon position to left hand, it helps me a lot. It actually means a lot for players like me and I would appreciate such update. I just watch my weapon’s movement when I’m shooting and its pretty problematic to be accurate. A lot of people talk about the dominant eye and weapon should be opposite side, but it doesn’t work for me and I rather have it on left. To be clear I’m supreme in cs:go, so its not like I’m bad at aiming.
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Do you control the mouse with your left hand?
Only asking because I’m a lefty, but have always used my right hand for the mouse. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t bother me? Just thinking out loud.
They are on the right because the mouse is almost always used in the right hand, so it lines up.
Doomfist uses his left hand to fire.
I would like to see the model of the weapon on the left too, because on CS i always swapped to the left (IDK, but it helps me quite a bit)
Weapon position has 0 impact over aiming no matter what hand you are using. There are heroes who carry even 2 weapons.
I imagine there could be a psychological component where things feel very disjoint to be aiming on one side and have the weapon on the other. While functionally the same, it may mess with some people. When TF2 first released the huntsman for the sniper it used a left handed view model and a lot of people complained that it felt weird to use, so they changed it, and also added a left-handed mode for all the characters.
That could require a lot of animation changes,maybe more than it would be worth. I’m right handed but shoot left handed irl so have always kinda wanted this (even though i’d still use my right hand to play), but i’d bet it would be a lot of trouble for what its worth. That said I know a lot has been done for colour blind people and that’s likely a smaller group so maybe?
I don’t think it is such a big deal especially if it is a common thing for every FPS to be right handed.
It took me just a couple of mins to get used to a left handed weapon. After that point it doesn’t really matter anymore.
Many games have left handed options for a reason. But with all due respect, I don’t think “It only took me a few mins to get used to it” is a valid generalization for everyone. Some people are affected by things that others are not.
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A tad bit late but I just wanted to say that games don’t reanimate for their left hand modes, they just flip/mirror the view model.
I’m sorry but that’s never happening. Some heroes have their weapon in their left hand like Doomfist, but each hero was designed with their weapon in a certain hand and the other hand usually does other things. I don’t think they’ll ever take the time to allow everyone to basically use a mirror version of the characters. It would probably also lead to many bugs.
Think about it this way–you may be left-handed, but your character isn’t.