{MEGATHREAD} Console Players Still Feeling like 2nd Class Citizens. [400 likes, 1500 responses]

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You obviously don’t know what a port is, do you?

A port is a game that was released for a system, then later modified and updated to be released on a different platform.

Console-watch was developed, and released, at the SAME TIME as PC-watch and it even cost MORE money (with us on Console not able to get the standard version and whatnot). So no, it isn’t a port. The development team has even straight up admitted that they planned to develop Overwatch for all 3 platforms from the very beginning.

Well, we’ve been giving our feedback; and we have been for many months. You want to know what the Overwatch Development Team can do for the Console Players, that does NOT take a Sony/MS approval process of any kind to do? I’ll give you that answer: RESPONDING to said feedback.

Do you also want to know the last time any member of the Overwatch Development Team has responded to a thread trying to address Console-specific concerns? I’ll give you that answer too: JANUARY 18th, 2018. Yeah, the Overwatch Development Team has not responded to a single thread trying to address Console-specific concerns in over 2 months. This also means that they haven’t responded to a single thread trying to address Console-specific concerns on the new Overwatch Forums (which have been around for a month).
And before you try to tell me that they don’t have the time to respond to this thread/haven’t seen this thread yet, let me notify you on the following. First, this thread has been viewed over 2,200 times as of this post; and that’s not including the amount of times the thread on the original forums was viewed.
Second, I thrust this issue back into the forefront of the original Forums on NOVEMBER 30th, 2017 (that’s 4 months that it’s been around). In addition to that, the thread for this on the original forums even got capped (500 posts); and the only reason it got uncapped was because I filed a ticket asking for such.
Third, if they have the time to respond to threads such as these, among others:

then they obviously have the time to respond to either this thread, or any other thread that’s trying to address Console specific concerns. But somehow by some dog-talking level witchcraft, they don’t have the time to respond to this thread. Otherwise, we would have gotten a response by now. Yeah, if that’s not bull by any means to you, then I can’t exactly help you here.

^It is worth noting in every bit above to not confuse the Overwatch Development Team with the Community Managers/other Forum Mods; they are two different sets of people.

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Thanks for the idea, but for me the answer would be no. I spend 8+ hours a day on a mouse and keyboard for work. The absolute last thing I want to do when I get home and try to relax is pick up a mouse and keyboard.

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Peeking in to see if devs responded yet

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Nothing yet. Thanks for stopping by.

Anyone get the push to talk function to work yet?

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Every couple days I do lol

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We have a push to talk function now?

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I have a XIM4, but due to the state of the game, and my decline in skill, I’m still stuck in plat, 4 season later.

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Nope it doesn’t work. I think it’s faulty. Maybe they hoped they could add it in wirhout anyone noticing and plan to put out a patch with the necessary fixes next time.

Just thought of something else: it would be awesome to get access to different aim setting loadouts. My girlfriend loves playing OW but the problem is the aim setting. When I try to make little adjustments she immediately notices it and it bothers her while playing. Having the possibility to jave different loadouts would be nice. And no, she plays basically the same heroes than I do, so that’s not really an option either unfortunately…

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The control is there, but it doesn’t work. And it won’t work until the ability to change Voice Chat Modes gets implemented. As of right now, it is stuck on Open Mic on Console because there’s no way to change it. Obviously it can be changed between Open Mic and Push to Talk on PC

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You obviously don’t know what sarcasm is, do you?

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If you don’t make it obvious, I won’t be able to tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. And you obviously didn’t imply sarcasm in that post of yours, so there you go. That’s my response to it

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Not saying that you’re wrong to feel attacked, but you really didn’t imply any sarcasm in your initial post.

It would help if you put a /s following your post so that we don’t go all ballistic on you.

As you can tell, a lot of the people in this thread (including myself) is a little more than annoyed with some PC-players coming into the thread only to contribute nothing and generally put us down, you might not be one of those people, but they DO exist.

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I don’t see the point of this. Why would you need to swipe at all. Now, I am a console player, so I do understand a lot of these problems, but a lot of them aren’t really problems, just annoyances.

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Since the lunar update, I’ve felt aiming has been completely messed up. I use linear ramp, which is still broken, so I spent a lot of hours tweaking everything.

When the update happened everything was slow, drifty and uncontrollable. This is still the case. I’ve had to completely turn off aim ease and aim smoothing so I can atleast feel some sort of input response.

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just wondering: can topics now reach a limit of comments and be automatically closed? or will it remain infinite until a mod comes and closes it off? Because if it remains infinite, I’m willing to bet you that we will have surpassed at least 500 comments before getting a close to satisfying response from devs

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Before I state what I need to state: I know, I’m slow for not recognizing this as well. I probably would not have noticed if it wasn’t for me looking at the OWConsole subreddit. In my defense, the development team did not give us any transparency on this. All the more reason why the Development Team needs to be more transparent with us though!

To add from Tuesday’s update: They actually added the Toggle UI Control as well. It’s at the very bottom of Controls.

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For real???

Man, my screenshots are about to look extra-crispy!

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The most obvious use for swiping the touchpad would be for out of combat actions, like sprays or emotes. Maybe for quick messages like attack the point.

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Interesting, I never knew this. Why would they do something that’s half you-know-what? That’s odd…Maybe in an update coming soon?

I’m hoping we get it soon since it would really be useful.

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I don’t understand, why they won’t just talk to us, it doesn’t make sense.

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