I have Overwatch installed on my personal PC. I'm playing it trough a friend's battlenet account. I'll soon buy a copy for myself and simply login in battlenet and play on the same installation on my PC. Will the settings I have for graphics, sensitivity and different heroes be saved for me, on the new account, or will they be saved on my friend's account and I'll get some default settings ?
Are Overwatch settings installation related or account related
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From an interview with Michael Chu, a Senior Game Designer on Overwatch (emphasis mine):
If you look at a game like World Of Warcraft, the Horde/Alliance split is such a big deal and such a defining aspect of the game. But Overwatch, pretty much from the start, we didn’t want to restrict ourselves that way. Because the game is so much about having the flexibility to play all these heroes and finding all the ways they play well together or against each other. Because of that we decided that the gameplay of the Overwatch universe wouldn’t be bound by that.
Our story justification – what I usually tell people – is that I think of it as, it’s clearly not canonical, but I think of it as how in comic book stories sometimes Iron Man and Captain America fight each other. Maybe in this instance on this map they’re fighting – for some reason they have some ideological difference or something that’s bringing them against each other.
But I think ultimately it was important for the game that you were able to play whatever characters you want. Blizzard has this development philosophy which is ‘Gameplay first’ and this is definitely an example of where we’ve gone with that.
This might be caused by the "Render Scale" setting.
From the main menu, click OPTIONS, then ADVANCED and then set RENDER SCALE to 100%.
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Best Answer
The settings are installation specific. They are stored in
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Overwatch\Settings\Overwatch\so your best bet would be to copy the files in that location from your friend's computer to the same location on yours.