This game desperately needs a microphone test option. Why doesn’t it have one 7 years after it’s release?
I noticed my microphone was playing my output sound as a small weird static noise through a different application recently on my new PC. I didn’t know that until recently. No wonder some people in voice chat left the voice channel after I spoke in chat. I would’ve known that sooner if Overwatch had a test microphone feature.
I see other players have the same problem as well. I would hear some horrible static noise when they speak. Or hear their output sound when they speak. They probably don’t know how their microphone sounds in OW. And that’s all because there’s no microphone test feature.
Add a microphone test feature!
Why u don’t test it through windows? Should be the same input.
Yeah I kind of feel like when you plugged your microphone in, you should’ve immediately tested it, lol.
I guess it could’ve gotten messed up later…but if you would’ve tested it in OW, why wouldn’t you just test it on windows? It’s extremely simple to do.
I did test it and it sounded perfectly fine. But that’s because I had no output sound playing when I was testing it, because I had no reason to play any output sound while testing it.
When I did use output sound to test it when I was recording a video, I heard that bad static sound coming from my desktop output noise.
An option to test your microphone is lots of other games. An adding an option to test your microphone should be easy to add to OW.
Of course it’s easy, but not necessary. Don’t know many games that have this. Mostly it’s older games.
Sounds more like a problem with your microphone. Run a youtube video, then test your mic. Maybe the sound is coming through your mic and that’s why you have the static sound. But there shouldn’t be a difference between Overwatch and Windows Input.