The magic of mouse macros

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Just got a new mouse lately and for the first time, I tinkered around with macros and “rapid fire” scripts.

It was quite easy to create a macro that triggered the left mouse click event every 25ms. The result was a Soldier 76 that fired (constantly) without any kind of recoil, albeit his throughput was slowed down. Now my Soldier could be as precise as McCree or even Baptiste on distance (with less damage) without any personal skill involved (manually managing the fire rate).

Now Soldier is far from being meta right now, so this modification is not that relevant, but maybe there are other options for Macros in Overwatch.

What are your thoughts about this?

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The only reason I don’t use macros is anti-cheat?

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People will probably see it and not understand and report you (for good reason)

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Aren’t macros technically considered cheating? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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are macros illegal? it comes from official hardware manufacturers like Logitech or Roccat?

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Youll get banned with next ban-wave :joy:

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They are still against ToS since they are 3rd party software providing an advantage.

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to be fair i just practiced in the training area and was quite shocked, that such things are possible :joy:

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Yeah they are. I read a pretty strongly worded reason as to why, but more or less, its because it gives you advantages like the ones you stated above.

I have an OEM macro programmer with my mouse too. And I literally used it for spray control before my friends said it was illegal and saved me from a ban

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Ok I read some threads about it and until now it was unclear for me.

Thank you for the warning! No players were harmed during this :smiley:

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Using any macro in Overwatch will put you at serious risk of a ban, no matter how innocent. I would advise stopping at once. Blizzard has been notoriously harsh on this in the past.

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Macros are cheating. Blizzard’s general rule for all games is always “One click for one action.”

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that never triggered against mouse macroses

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Uh huh?

yeah they are anti cheat detectable

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Macro’s got Arikadou banned, it’s the reason he stopped making OW videos more than OW dying like he’d like you to think.
He needed the macros to get the plays.

You can even find a reddit post of him asking for help and acting like he wasn’t aware he was using 3rd party firmware to give himself an advantage.

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This is a bit off-topic, but macros are allowed in WoW, aren’t they? If I recall correctly, the game even gives you the tools to create macros.

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Macro’s nah, scripts yes.

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one click one action still allows for unusual hardware

you can always get a usb pedal and a really good mouse to get better keymapping options :stuck_out_tongue:

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It depends on the game.

Most MMORPGs are fine with macros as long as you are there actively clicking your macro after each macro instances is completed. Some goes as far as building macros into their game so that you can perform all action into a single button. Rift online is one example of such game.

There are some fps games where macros were allow too. Don’t remember which. I know Counter-strike allow you to bind your shop purchases as well.

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Or play with Doritos…