{"id":1648397,"date":"2022-04-07T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oAQ7SR99nUZUwNQEp2HRQ7"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:09:03","slug":"overwatch-player-builds-motorized-glove-to-become-the-ultimate-mercy-main","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/overwatch-player-builds-motorized-glove-to-become-the-ultimate-mercy-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch player builds motorized glove to become the ultimate Mercy main"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

Six years of playing Overwatch have taught me that PC players will always go above and beyond to earn the slightest advantage against the other team. Some will master every hero so they can fill any role, others will get so scary good at one particular hero that they can't be beat, and some will just install a few cheats. I thought I'd seen it all, until I witnessed a motorized Mercy player.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, Overwatch streamer EvilToaster<\/a> tweeted a video clip of his encounter with the strange Mercy player, Draco. He stood out from a usual Mercy player because, instead of periodically switching between his yellow healing beam and blue damage-boosting beam depending on a situation, Draco's beam would rapidly cycle from yellow to blue hundreds of times per minute without stopping.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Ran into a Mercy player in Overwatch today who no joke attached a motor to their free moving scroll wheel on their G502 mouse so they could switch between healing and damage boost so fast it does both at the same timeif you’re not doing this you’re just throwing tbh pic.twitter.com\/56ioQXMP8OApril 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/div>\n
See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

EvilToaster and his group were a little weirded out. “I'm not griefing dude,” Draco said. When asked later in the match how he was cycling abilities so quickly, Draco revealed his trick: a custom motor working in conjunction with a Logitech G502 mouse to spin his free-scrolling mouse wheel as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

Despite enthusiastic requests from the streamer, Draco didn't initially share pictures of his motor-assisted mouse\u2014an unsatisfying end<\/a> to a fun encounter.<\/p>\n

I caught up with Draco this week to find out more about the project, and it's even cooler than he made it sound. The motor isn't actually attached to the mouse as I had originally thought, but integrated into a glove that he wears while playing. The glove motor spins a rubber wheel that, when pressed onto the mouse, starts scrolling down on the mouse wheel super fast. By mapping Mercy's heal to “scroll down” and holding down damage boost with right-click, Draco is able to essentially use both abilities at the same time. Draco sent me a short demonstration of the mouse below:<\/p>\n