Overwatch 2 Best Settings ⚙ COMPLETE GUIDE (2023) ⚙

Complete settings guide for Overwatch 2 along with my personal crosshair and key binds 😎
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0:00 Intro
📺 VIDEO SETTINGS
0:36 Video
5:31 Graphics Quality
10:29 Details - Performance Stats & System Clock
🔊 SOUND/AUDIO SETTINGS
10:41 General Audio Mix & Elim Sound
🕹️ CONTROLS / HERO SETTINGS / CROSSHAIRS
11:39 Default Crosshair & Hero Outlines
🛡️ TANK
12:07 1 | DVA ⭐
12:34 2 | DOOMFIST
12:53 3 | JUNKER QUEEN
13:06 4 | ORISA
13:26 5 | RAMATTRA
13:48 6 | REINHARDT ⭐
15:24 7 | ROADHOG
15:44 8 | SIGMA ⭐
16:30 9 | WINSTON ⭐
16:54 10 | WRECKING BALL ⭐
17:12 11 | ZARYA ⭐
🔫 DAMAGE
17:33 12 | ASHE ⭐
18:30 13 | BASTION
18:35 14 | CASSIDY ⭐
20:26 15 | ECHO ⭐
21:19 16 | GENJI ⭐
21:44 17 | HANZO ⭐
22:11 18 | JUNKRAT ⭐
22:47 19 | MEI
22:53 20 | PHARAH
22:59 21 | REAPER
23:14 22 | SOJOURN
23:45 23 | SOLDIER:76 ⭐
24:02 24 | SOMBRA ⭐
24:20 25 | SYMMETRA
24:35 26 | TORBJORN
24:41 27 | TRACER
24:50 28 | WIDOWMAKER ⭐
💉SUPPORT
26:20 29 | ANA ⭐
28:00 30 | BAPTISTE ⭐
28:40 31 | BRIGITTE ⭐
28:51 32 | KIRIKO ⭐
29:40 33 | LUCIO ⭐
30:41 34 | MERCY ⭐
35:33 35 | MOIRA
35:37 36 | ZENYATTA ⭐
🎮 GAMEPLAY SETTINGS
35:55 Limit Client/Server Send Rate
36:06 Enable High Precision Mouse Input
36:41 HUD & Opacity Settings
🙋‍♂️ SOCIAL SETTINGS
37:37 Public / Private Profile
♿ ACCESSIBILITY
37:46 Camera & HUD Shake Motion Settings
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[@KarQ]

NVIDIA hooked it up so you should head to frameswingames.com to see all the benefits of 1440p gaming and the RTX 40 series! Side note at 5:51 - It turns out AMD FSR does affect framerate significantly for some people's hardware so just keep it off to be safe.

[@imawetad8870]

peg me

[@elmango8528]

KarQ Big fan keep it up it! Also Very cool intro how did u make it?

[@shiion6711]

You will cram your pinky on echo but not dva???

[@shiion6711]

The colour setting you want to use the brighter blue so you can see easier

[@andrewortiz6430]

My record is 14 wins 8 loses and I keep getting deranked on competitive im a bronze 1 despite putting up good games and numbers as a support, is the ranking system broken? I mean I have a 64% winning record at the moment

[@MrBubbabolly]

There's a certain tech for Echo that is MUCH easier to do if you have hold for flight ON. Just pressing the button will launch you much farther than if you had hold for flight off, so unless you can double tap it very fast, or bind flight to mouse wheel, I'd recommend hold for flight on.

[@romulomendes445]

Up

[@M0rg3nT]

How do you descend (if crouch is bounded Lctrl) and fly at the same time then lol. It's still really easy to do the burst flight thing with it on off. Like if you wanted to dip beneath a platform then back up to it that wouldn't be possible with it on hold to flight. Keep it off.

[@MrBubbabolly]

@@M0rg3nT I can still descend while holding it. It hasn't been a problem for me.

[@M0rg3nT]

@@MrBubbabollyI refuse to believe you can descend then fly back up in 1 flight cooldown unless you have 6 fingers or some shit.

[@Evade5431]

Was looking for this

[@iunnoo]

9:17 KEEP REFRACTION ON LOW if you want to be able to see enemies through the window in the first attacker's spawn on watchpoint gibraltar (to see far away enemies)

[@superstar308_]

@@Theofficial_KarQ think this guy meant * *DON’T* leave a message 😂 actually don’t it’s a scam (in case you didn’t know) edit: comment was removed XD

[@grife3000]

On my older hardware, it definitely affects fps. Looking at teammates and enemies through the glass in downtown Busan would cut my frames in half with refraction on.

[@faceLESS559]

Watchpoint Gibraltar isn't in Qp or Comp this season fyi

[@realchiknuggets]

@@faceLESS559 it's just the most obvious example. there are plenty more, like a few areas on last point dorado

[@LZC94]

I personally run subtitles on everything because if enemy players are using voicelines just outside of hearing range at the beginning of a match it will show the line and what hero said it, giving a small intel advantage before the match

[@in_vas_por8810]

5head strats

[@rajkanishu]

I keep it on everything because voice lines are cool and understanding what's being said is often really hard lol

[@joomster3091]

I personally think these small advantages are too small to make a difference. It just really isn’t that big of a deal plus subtitles can get distracting

[@connquernaut6190]

honestly thank you soooo much KarQ. there were so many setting options I had no idea about and how to properly tune them. I had done fairly well in my games with my setting as is but now I feel such a significant improvement in my performance that I cant believe I had been playing overwatch the way I had for so long

[@leloMT]

this video is definitely much better than the rest i've come across, you not only tell us the best settings in different situations, but you also explain in depth exactly why you would and wouldn't use specific options. i've not found a video recently that's done that as well as you so i really appreciate this as im just getting back into the overwatch 2 grind

[@patrickmitck21]

expectation: KarQ showing us the best ow2 settings realitiy: KarQ flexing on his godlike hardware

[@lyzder7298]

And Widow skills

[@senrign]

Kinda true. I was like wtf I didn't asked for 4080 flex

[@callumfootitt5366]

Yea the start of the video was pretty annoying

[@creolur]

Nvidia gave it to him for free and of course there were strings attached: he has to promote it.

[@Menepsis]

Thanks for the video! For Lucio, back in the first seasons of OW1 I used to disable the "hold to crossfade" but now I much more prefer to toggle it because now I know that when I hold the button, I speedboost, I don't have to think about it twice and I'm less lost this way.

[@mrerfrischend6046]

having a dot or circle and turning accuracy on on winston and symmetra shows the charge for their secondary fires with an expanding circle. highly recommend that.

[@myseglis]

The video settings part is very useful, mine got reset a few weeks ago and even though I had a screenshot saved somewhere, I had no clue what any of those options do. Now I can just choose what I like with an explanation so that's great, thanks a lot!

[@OcherGoose]

Hi Myseglis

[@myseglis]

@@OcherGoose hi Nap Time

[@omarmuhannad4258]

My video settings doesnt show any of the stuff that were mentioned

[@myseglis]

@@omarmuhannad4258 what do you mean? Are you sure that you looked in the right tab? Also, I'm not sure you can change those settings if you're not on PC

[@SoulCrushing]

A benefit for keeping toggle beam off for Mercy: If you’re pocketing someone you can alternate between heals and damage without looking at them. Just hold down right click to lock damage and then press left click without releasing right click to heal. Release left click to go back to damage. All without even looking at them, and you can use that to find more targets to potentially heal.

[@N4SixString]

With it on I feel like I can do the same thing. Just tap the other button and it switches without breaking even if you aren't looking at them. I'm no mercy expert but that's what I see

[@mumbo54jumbo]

My guy you crushed this video! Super helpful for the best competitive advantage while still looking great. Gonna have to readjust my ashe as I never knew I needed recover recoil off but otherwise my game looks great.

[@omoidenden]

Thank you so much for making this step by step tutorial! This actually solved my laptop's random lagging problem and the game runs now smoother than ever in many years! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us other Overwatch players! 💝

[@MondDragonn]

I was using the dot crosshair eversince I started playing OW. I tried using your settings and it helped me alot in game especially when it comes at aiming. I would like to thank you for sharing your settings!

[@MyNamesIris]

This interestingly made me realise multiple settings work on higher than I had ever used before with a fairly budget PC setup (in todays terms atleast), thanks to you explaining some of them use different parts of the PC and should have little to no effect on FPS, which you were definitely right about.

[@mythmage8231]

Crosshair: Make sure to mess around with different crosshair types on different weapon types. I've noticed that on tracking-based heroes like Sombra or Soldier 76, small circle with tiny crosshair lines popping out of it help me keep track of the spread while also helping me line up my targets. On single-fire heroes like Widowmaker or Kiriko, I typically run what is effectively a reverse dot, which is a small circle with a very small but noticable gap in the middle. Everyone aims differently on different heroes, so dick around and find out what crosshairs help what for you Ability Sensitivity (like Mercy, Ana, Zarya, and Kiriko): It all depends on how often you need precision on those abilities. Higher sensitivity means that out of 2 targets in close proximity to your crosshair, it will lock on to the one closer to you and not your crosshair. For someone like Kiriko, this doesn't really matter, since you're typically using it just to get from where you are to the general area of your target. For someone like Ana, who's having to hit the right target at the right time with an ult, you'll want to lower it a bit.

[@Expired_Twinkie23]

soldier doesnt have spread

[@MrWithmere]

u always make the highest quality overwatch youtube vids. keep it up karl

[@Rudydex]

Thank you so much for this video, it helped me understand so much more about the game. Much love man!

[@ikuha_XD]

the scoped sensitivity of Widow and Ana to match unscoped view is 37.89% to be accurate, this should work the same as 51.47% for Ashe.

[@alkestos]

just use 38% and 51.5%, those hundredths and thousandths don't matter in the general scale of the things

[@michaellin4553]

If your graphics card is beefy but your display is not up to snuff, you can use a render scale above 100% for supersampling, which renders higher resolution frames and downscales them, increasing detail

[@BuildAProWorkShop]

Baptiste show have auto reload off. If you use up your ammo but wanted to heal someone you can't cancel the reload animation. In a big fight you can use all the healing and ammo before choosing to reload. It will save you more than mess you up once you have had it off for a few matches

[@SebaProgre]

I came back to this video to thank you, just tried a few changes suggested here for a cuople of days now and I can tell you that it really improved my playing! Is not like I was bronze and now and GM, but it kinda made me be more accurate in the aim.

[@d00mnoodle62]

Maybe i'll finally git gud 💀

[@FVER8]

Nope

[@d00mnoodle62]

@@FVER8 OOF 💀

[@rileysharp5173]

@@d00mnoodle62 damn

[@cunnyman]

Wake up

[@grey822]

Something that will never happen to me on bronze 5 support lmao

[@johnharper8237]

Thank you brother! This made all those complicated settings easy to set.

[@idenrose1306]

Very informative video, I'm glad this popped up in my recommended. Thanks for the tips, man!

[@XXXXXMIKIXXXXX1]

Great video lots of helpful stuff, I just wanted to point out some extra things. On tracer on PC you should bind shift to ultimate so that you can still access all movement keys while ulting and Q does not allow that, you should be blinking with right click so it doesn't take anything away. On zen there's many occasions where you have two teammates near each other and you can't heal the one on low health due to 100% assist so i recommend 20-60 depending on your preference. Colour blind setting certainly give competitive advantage. Changing enemy colour to a more vibrant colour such as yellow or gold helps notice and react to enemies quicker.

[@Yukii0Shogo]

This is literally the best video, amazing work ! Thank you.

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

28:51 I think it's better at 50%, that way it doubles as an indicator of who you are teleporting to AND also if your healing ofuda will lock onto them or not, which is a QoL change that I think makes it better than higher sens. At the very least it would be something to mention in the video

[@julianthaler2741]

I just have my crosshair as a circle that shows my if my healing ofuda hits or not

[@realchiknuggets]

is it at 50% or at default? (is default 50?)

[@Wutwut1n1]

Thanks a lot man great stuff :) I would also add swapping Kiriko left and right click, looking forward to trying soj with the switch too!

[@Zulfurin]

i would like to add for any aspiring mei players switching the primary and secondary fire like he did for sojourn makes it a lot easier to land the icicles. just keep in mind this changes the confirm and cancel buttons for ice wall.

[@vareos9874]

Been using that amd fsr sharpness for a while now and its a complete gamechanger. everything feels so much more visible. and for people who think 1.00 is too sharp you can also try something like 0.80 or less

[@miguelalonsogarcia2475]

I'd actually recommend the default Zarya crosshair, since it displays the number of bubbles available as well as the charge bar of your energy.

[@swegdoge]

i think these information still show

[@ThrdCardofDeath]

That was very extensive. Great guide for sure for the folks that are brand new or just need a refresher.

[@marcofoti9718]

This was so helpful tysm, awesome video

[@optiTHOMAS]

Absolutely phenomenal guide! good stuff, man! WOW! always detailed! 😁👍

[@user-qy2xk8yc8i]

True support help not only in game but out of it too. Ty for video!

[@AbyssaloftheVoid]

23:58 that transition was clean

[@VerdeletVIII]

Jeeeeeez man, some of these are major game changers and I’m seeing massive improvements. Thank you so much!

[@Sn0wwh173]

This was so helpful! I can't imagine how long it took to film this, thank you!

[@BellaGem]

thank you so much for this video. I am new to overwatch2 and was doing it all on default! it was hard and confusing. im, new to pc games and i didn't know about all these settings for each character. Thank you so much for you help. The crosshairs helped alot tyy :)

[@bigtbomb884]

Great vid as always. I'll be supporting the streams :)

[@barongrimoire9043]

This is great, the one thing I’d like to add is that Moira needs a setting for swap primary and secondary fire. It’s not a problem for keyboard and mouse but on controller the primary fire (healing, or left hand) is on the right trigger and secondary fire is on the left trigger. Swapping the keybinds to make the trigger input match Moira’s hands is a bad idea because for some reason it swaps the spectate keybinds too when you’re spectating a Moira player, which results in you flipping back the other way every time you release the trigger after moving onto the Moira, making it impossible to move past Moira to spectate another player. The other option the devs could do is to just outright separate the spectate controls into their own setting so your character keybinds don’t affect your spectate keybinds

[@bharathnaikkorra]

i've been waiting for so much longtime for a video on best possible crosshairs and there comes KARQ love you mate thank you so much

[@niranslotus]

this helped so much, thank you man

[@VanillaSpoon]

I would personally have hold for flight setting on Echo because with it on will it give you a sling shot launch if you press it.

[@ordln4ry]

Thanks for sharing! Always learning something from KarQ!

[@Zegoggy]

thank you so much for this informatonal video man

[@javihavi258]

Thanks, made a huge difference!!!

[@EJoseph-js6ec]

LOVE THE VID KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP

[@arthurlloyd5165]

The camera relative movement setting for rein was new for me, def putting that on!

[@klonewess9736]

I’ve been planing to reset my settings to default and start anew since there’s new things to compensate for in OW2, good timing as ever KarQ

[@krbaker89]

Thank you so much!!!

[@TOXIFii]

AYOO! Been waiting for this Video.

[@ilEagle3696]

I wanna suggest mapping Pharah's conc to her Secondary fire. I also mapped Hanzo's Sonic arrow to his secondary. For console, i highly suggest these settings along with mapping his ult to either L1/LB or changing his storm arrows to those buttons and mapping his ult to R1/RB

[@ibf94]

Thank you so much ! a great effort

[@charlesloveless4636]

Yo thanks bro this video is super resourceful. Also i'm new to PC gaming so this is a really good start to build my foundation :)

[@mollymcintosh2090]

I found reins toggle barrier really useful in ow1 however with the more frequent firestrike option in ow2 i think I’ll give it a try without! These are all super useful and helped immensely, especially the roadhog hook aim hack

[@ChickenLittleWW3-Collapse]

Thanks Kar! Very helpful.

[@maxrichardson9343]

Phenomenal video, I really appreciate you doing this!

[@OgawaBurukkuART]

I just started following you yesterday and today you blessed me with the guide I'd been hoping someone would post lol. THANK YOU for the explanation on Lucio's settings!!! I mained him in OW1 but never had trouble with going through doorways until this game. Could not figure out why it was happening but now I know to turn the wall jump on release setting off. This is going to have a huge impact on my pathetic bronze games (I'll be in silver someday...)

[@Jake-qo8mz]

watch eskay for lucio tutorial

[@strongsmith1897]

Me playing on console listening to you talk about your computer based settings like it will help me lol But for real thank you for the advice!

[@erictherisserjudihui9631]

gonna try it out thanks coach

[@brennancurry9186]

Great video! Im going to try most of these when I get on next!

[@underdog3784]

For my console players, put flight or hover of mercy echo and phara on the left trigger and the jump aswell so u can glide and turn camera at the same time. For echo I put one of her abilities on the L3 stick this allows me to fly/ glide, shoot sticky and then focus beam all while moving camera continuously

[@ChristianFromLb]

this really helped alot

[@sosuke1590]

Oh man, you are amazing!! Thanks for those settings ♥

[@ohkanzo407]

gonna try these out thanks for the video

[@Siks7Ate9]

For Lucio, there is a benefit in keeping hold to crossfaid on. If you keep it on and you for example get shattered you will automatically swap to healing instead of speed aura. If you keep it off you cannot swap to healing if you had it on speed. I would say if your playing in a low rank where speed isn't utilized that much it might be beneficial to keep the hold to crossfaid on.

[@vettebodee]

Doesn't work on shatter. Tried it many times it keeps you on speed, don't spread misinfo

[@Siks7Ate9]

@@vettebodee then they definitely changed it because that used to be the case anyways

[@NinjaPickle]

Old video, but as an Echo player, i actually recommend setting "Hold for Flight" ON. A very useful technique for Echo is tapping the Flight ability and immediately cancelling it, as it gives you a great burst of speed and cancelling flight lets you keep a lot of the momentum of the initial burst. It makes Flight a much better tool for escaping, getting to point faster, and general movement. Does make actually using flight slightly more tedious, but the upsides outweigh it in my opinion

[@vantablack7512]

These are aweosme thank you.

[@pizzapie7]

Very well made video! Overwatch 2 is a game where I always feel like my settings are always off.

[@umarrii]

Super important video. While it is a little long, you only really need to go through it once, so it's well worth investing the time to go through this once and having everything set for a long time to come!

[@ezramclain6320]

Thanks I really needed this

[@Bunta_Fujiwara]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but you can get higher than 103 field of view with a superwide resolution. I'm not sure that's intended by the developers but found this out by playing with custom resolutions and the aspect ratio of my LG C2 as a monitor.

[@SurveyingStudy]

Bro you do such a good job. You should ask people to subscribe & like your video. I almost forgot & it's definitely worth it

[@blakedake19]

Nice video as usual. Having a 4080 for gaming, especially for Overwatch, is like buying an industrial crane to move your shoe boxes around your house though.

[@keshamix_]

Very nice, detailed enough video. Thank you, much love

[@ericgamingland8853]

Finally the video I was looking for❤️❤️❤️

[@Stratus_00]

Awesome guide, I watched a few other radical videos and none of them put the amount of per character specificity

[@yasserboumediane1010]

Here's a insanely important info for controller players that for some reason he didn't mention at all, go to controls, select Lucio and bind jump away from A, I personally have it set to L2, with his boop set to R3 and melee set to L3, but you NEED TO SWITCH IT AWAY FROM A, it is very important to keep both thumbs on the sticks at all times, I also have the same thing set for Genji with his jump being set to L1 instead of A (NOT L2 both his secondary and primary fires are important to keep at default he's not the same as Lucio), and his dash set to again R3 and melee set to L3, that way I can keep double jumping and shooting without ever letting go of the sticks, this isn't as highly important, because not everyone likes to play Genji like that but if you want to you HAVE to change the jump button, otherwise I have Moira's damage set R2 and heal set to L2, not necessary but what she does with her right is on the right side of the controller and vice versa, same with Doomfist I have his rocket punch on R2 and his shotgun set to L2, I also have the melee button changed for certain heroes, if they punch with their left I have it set to L3, if it's their right it's R3, again these last three changes are not necessary but it makes the game feel more immersive and it works way better for me but I would recommend trying them out atleast

[@gumdroplollipop]

Or get back pedals? Cheap 26$ option for ps5 controllers

[@gumdroplollipop]

And i will add changing anas grenade to L1 is a terrible idea even though she throws it with her left arm, you will feel it but i agree with doom and moira

[@Stak0]

no OW player should be using a default controller. Hell, no competitive FPS player should. Buy a controller with paddles. They’re fairly cheap and always worth it.

[@dsjfcibuwildvsdi9307]

@@Stak0 no OW player should be using a controller. Hell, no competitive FPS player should. Buy a Keyboard. They’re fairly cheap and always worth it.

[@yasserboumediane1010]

@@dsjfcibuwildvsdi9307 Bro some people are way better at controllers and feel more comfortable with them, like me, even if I get a lot of experience with keyboard, I would still be better with controller, to each their own obviously, but for me, controller just feels way more natural and smoother (obviously you're gonna struggle with snipers but the others feel fine), and it feels weird to use keyboard

[@DamnAwesome]

Thanks for the settings I changed all of them!

[@random_weeb1067]

The first setting videos I found were some kids trying to scream out the settings, I didn't watched much of your video but it at least looks more professional and the intro with the Lucio and junkrat settings also was really good, hope to learn much in the next couple minutes of the video 👍

[@98684ever]

Thank you so much man, I am eternally grateful. - A Junkrat main

[@Cr4nched]

Such a helpful video thank you

[@theodorestolasz6124]

My good I just turned off the recoil compensation and my aim almost instantly improved. Thanks Kar

[@DoctorDarlingTTV]

Two basic gamechangers for me were setting melee/ping to my thumb mouse buttons. Melee on V or whatever is so awkward. Ping is the immediately close thumb button so I don't have to take anything off of aim or movement. Reaching a little further for melee is fine because it's a finisher moment up close.

[@eightbitspliff]

thx for a new settings guide for ow2 , appreciated

[@PeachyBlack_UwU]

Thank you so much

[@Vugen18]

BEST SETTING OUT THERE. TYSM

[@AshOverWatch]

HEY THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE CROSSHAIR I DIDNT KNOW IF U TURNED ACURACY OFF IT GETS RID OF THE SPREAD TY

[@Cybrtronlazr]

Since you recommend keybinds for Sojourn and some other heroes, I thought you were definitely gonna cover the Zen scrollwheel tech. It is highly recommended you put both your orbs on scroll wheel up and down (personal preference which one is on which), just makes playing Zen a lot smoother because you can orb people faster.

[@tetsmon]

For Moira and Kiriko, I have their primary and secondary fire switched so that I can attack with my right click, heal with my left click. Just more intuitive for me

[@spacepillow]

very good stuff. thanks!

[@samsegalloldude]

@KarQ It should be worth noting that you might want to cap your framerate to something stable your system can output almost all of the time. This eliminates input lag difference, meaning when you get 600 fps your input lag is much smaller than when you get 400 fps, for a more consistent experience, and possibly prolonging your GPU's lifetime and conserving energy - you better off capping at 400 fps, if it doesn't drop below that.

[@dhoyft411]

What a fantastic video. This is what so many people need

[@TheRevelationTheRevolution]

I actually accidently discovered the rein thing but didnt know how to use it or know what it was xD thats sick

[@jabbebe]

sooooooooo satesfying for you to tell what all the setting do ty man

[@larrykarandreas1292]

Thank you for the time and effort expended to produce this video.

[@jklew9486]

High quality stuff man

[@LeonSaysAllo]

Ive been playing since 2016 and didnt even know some of these settings exist. Thanks alot KarQ