

Console players can disable Cross-Play.Keyboards (and the Xbox mobile app for Xbox) let you type into chat quicker on consoles including Switch, via USB and adapters And obviously there are people on consoles that still use adapters to allow them to play using keyboard and mouse unofficially. A supported keyboard does work on console and could help you type in chat faster. Despite consoles supporting keyboards and controllers, at the moment Overwatch on Console does not officially support keyboard and mouse play.
#OVERWATCH CROSSPLAY PC#
Console players will always move to the PC pool.

Console players might not know that you can type /list to bring up a list of players who are in the general chat at the moment. White text on the main menu is a general chat of random players. Yes you can turn it off by typing /hidechat or going into the Social menu and turning off chat icon bubbles for team and/or match chat. Aim assist still works when playing within the Console Pool.However, next competitive season, Console players will be able to play Competitive with Console players on different platforms. PC players and Console players cannot play Competitive together, ever.Unless you go out of your way to be put into a group with a PC player and be placed into the PC pool.Ĭonsole players cannot ruin PC competitive matches and vice-versa. I see lots of console players seeing the new text chat and assume it's a PC player typing gg ez, it's not a PC player, it's someone on console typing that. Otherwise, console players by default will only match with other console players in the Console pool. Console players grouping with PC players join the PC pool. The queue time indicator will also remind you which pool you are queuing into. No, console players do not queue into PC matches unless they are already grouped with a PC player, via player invite for example.Here are answers to common questions or things that have been misunderstood in the subreddit. Tons of people are flooding the subreddit with the same questions, so I made this post to sort of pool together everyone's questions into one thread with hopefully useful information.
