{"id":19129,"date":"2025-08-23T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19129\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:09:07","slug":"overwatch-2-will-allow-kbm-on-console-but-youll-be-up-against-pc-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19129\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you&#8217;ll be up against PC players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/overwatch\/t\/overwatch-2-retail-patch-notes-%E2%80%93-august-26-2025\/977669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:patch notes;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">patch notes<\/a> posted ahead of the new season, the Overwatch 2 team says matchmaking pools will be tweaked slightly so players are sorted into a Mouse and Keyboard Pool and a Controller Pool. Those playing on a console using keyboard and mouse (KBM) inputs will be paired with PC players and other KBM console players, while the Controller Pool will be reserved only for console players using a controller. Season 18 arrives on August 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">For players who switch to the Mouse and Keyboard Pool, &#8220;your internal MMR, skill ratings and ranks for all game modes will be separate from your statistics in the Controller Pool,&#8221; according to the patch notes. This group won&#8217;t have access to aim assist, as has been the case and will continue to be for PC players using a controller. KBM players will have to accept the prompt to switch to that pool in order to play, or manually switch in the Gameplay Options menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[16755,18,19,17,16753,16754,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-19129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-console","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kbm","13":"tag-pc-players","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}