Controlling Overwatch 2's new hero won't feel like playing a flight simulator anymore

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By default, Overwatch 2's new support hero has one of the most complex control schemes in the game.

While sending out heals, Lifeweaver needs to drop his flower platform, destroy it, dash out of danger, pull allies, and swap to his secondary weapon to deal damage. Misusing one of these abilities can get him killed pretty easily compared to other supports who have much higher survivability. 

Immediately after his release last week, players found playing him a chore. Less than an hour after his release, there was a popular Reddit thread simply titled, «Lifeweaver's controls are a*s»(opens in new tab) with 190 comments discussing how to fix them. 

After only a few hours, Reddit user SammyIsSeiso(opens in new tab) had an entire custom game and video to demonstrate the community's desired keybinds, which circulated around enough to catch Blizzard's attention(opens in new tab).

Every change in the popular video will be implemented next week, according to a tweet(opens in new tab) from game director Aaron Keller. «This will become the new default, with options to use the old style,» he says.

Here's exactly how Lifeweaver's keybinds will change:

The change to Lifeweaver's Healing Blossom and Thorn Volley will probably save your life now that you don't have to swap between them using a keyboard key. Some players took his Petal Platform off of right click and made it swap his weapons, but you still had to fire with left click. With the new controls, tapping right click will swap and start to fire the gun with one click.

Like Hanzo's leap, double tapping space bar will activate Lifeweaver's dash. Lifelong jump spammers might struggle with not using it accidentally, but it frees up the shift key for Petal Platform, which you don't