{"id":5605,"date":"2025-08-24T02:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/overwatch-2-will-allow-kbm-on-console-but-youll-be-up-against-pc-players\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:36:39","slug":"overwatch-2-will-allow-kbm-on-console-but-youll-be-up-against-pc-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/overwatch-2-will-allow-kbm-on-console-but-youll-be-up-against-pc-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you&#8217;ll be up against PC players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\"><em>Overwatch 2<\/em> console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In <ins>patch notes<\/ins> posted ahead of the new season, the <em>Overwatch 2<\/em> 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, &ldquo;your internal MMR, skill ratings and ranks for all game modes will be separate from your statistics in the Controller Pool,&rdquo; according to the patch notes. This group won&rsquo;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<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you&rsquo;ll be up against PC players<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In patch notes 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&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/overwatch-2-will-allow-kbm-on-console-but-youll-be-up-against-pc-players\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you&#8217;ll be up against PC players&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}