What hero-specific options are available, and what do they do?
A few days ago when playing Mercy with a group of friends, someone told me that there is an option specific to Mercy to change from needing to hold down the mouse button to heal/damage boost to a toggle (click to turn on heals, click again to turn off).
What other hero-specific options are available, and what do they do?
Best Answer
There are some but not all characters have hero specific options. To find these go to options, controls, and then at the top right select the hero under the "ALL HEROES" dropdown. These specific options are about half way down under the "HERO" heading. The different options include.
- Soldier 76: Allied health bars (Shows your allies health above their head, same as seen on support heroes)
- Zarya: Allied health bars (Same as support and Soldier 76's option)
- Widowmaker: Toggle zoom (Single click/tap alt fire instead of holding alt fire to zoom)
- Widowmaker: Relative aim sensitivity while zoomed (Adjust your zoomed in aim independently from standard sensitivity)
- Lucio: Hold to crossfade (Hold to switch to speed boost and let go to switch back to healing boost)
- Mercy: Toggle beam connection (Toggle on/off the healing/damage boost beams instead of holding fire)
- Mercy: Guardian Angel prefers beam target (Guardian Angel flight will only pull you towards who your beam is attached to if you have it attached)
- Reinhardt: Toggle barrier (single click/tap instead of holding for your barrier)
- Genji/Hanzo/Junkrat: Automatically climb walls (Climb up walls without holding jump (Junkrat can only do this with his Rip-tire))
As of right now those are the only heroes and options available.
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