Hi, everyone! Our newest heroes or flashiest rewards frequently enough get the big headlines, but more goes into the day-to-day enhancement of Overwatch than you might think.Entire teams are dedicated to upgrading yoru in-game experience, whether that’s through user interface (UI) improvements, quality assurance, or engineering advancements.
In Season 20, console players get to be the belle of the ball thanks to a few of those engineers. Overall aim assist improvements and more customization options will be headed your way next week, so our system developers and gameplay engineers are here to explain what to look out for. They’re also sharing some pro tips on how to maximize your console game with advanced settings, so grab that controller and get into it.
aim Assist and You
Before we get into the advancements Season 20 will bring, let’s take a closer look at how aim assist works, and some settings to help level up your experience. Every Hero in Overwatch has an assigned “window” (shown in yellow in our diagram below) that interacts with your aim window, shown in blue. This area,frequently enough called the “aim assist bubble,” can be scaled up to trigger aim assist earlier when interacting with a target’s window. Lots of functions within this area can be tuned to your exact specifications as well.
The average console gamer likely won’t need to change anything, especially if you’re just playing for fun with your friends. If you’re looking to climb the ranked ladder, though, it might be worth it to tune your settings to your play style.
All of these settings-as well as the new settings coming with Season 20-can be found under the “Advanced” menu in the controller options.
* Aim Assist Strength: Changes the strength at which the game assists your aim towards the target, adding friction to the amount of slow when hovering over a target’s window. This also includes rotational aim assist.
* Aim Assist Window Size: Scales the size of the player window, which is used to track a target’s windows. Larger windows equal a higher assist. In Season 20,this will default at 60% instead of 100%.
* Aim Assist Ease In: Adjusts the amount of ease-in when the edges of the player window and the enemy window first intersect. At 100, you’d get the least amount of aim assist strength and with 0, you’d get full aim assist strength.
* This setting will be split into three individual Hero style sliders (Projectile, Hitscan, and Melee) in Season 20 so you can further customize aim assist strength to your liking. For example, melee tanks might want lower aim assist but a projectile hero may want to bump it all the way up.
* If you want to tune a specific hero’s aim assist ease-in value separately from these options, you can still do so on that Hero’s options page.
* aim Smoothing: Takes raw input from the controller and smooths it out. This tends
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