What you need to know
- Blizzard senior game producer Adam Messey and lead gameplay engineer Daniel Razza took over the weekly Director's Take to address issues surrounding players using third-party, unapproved peripherals in Overwatch 2.
- The studio has been working on unapproved peripheral detection methods by monitoring gameplay closely for the last several seasons. It has been determined there is "highly apparent" usage of cheat peripherals in Grand Master and Champion rank competitive modes.
- New methods of cheat mitigation will be introduced with Season 11 to detect and deter players using unapproved peripherals.
- Special attention is being paid to prevent bans and mitigations from being handed out to the members of the community with specialized accessibility needs that are met with the aid of peripherals.
