overwatch
In other games like Source-based games like CS:GO or TF2 or UE3 games like Dirty Bomb and Unreal Tournament I am able to enable the console in order to set binds, or play with commands to test specific features or practice in gameplay.
In Overwatch itself, is there a way to manually enable the console? Is there a console at all? I've tried the tilde key and combing through the options-control menu and haven't found a setting for enable console.
Presently there are some options that are configurable in the Options menu (such as turning the kill feed on or off), but many of the UI components are not yet customizable. Blizzard is working on some crosshair customization in the near future.
Source: Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4ccvgc/crosshair_customization_is_coming_soon which points to a battle.net forum post from about a month ago that is no longer available
Blizzard has also indicated that they would like the spectator experience to match the casual player's UI as much as possible, which will limit the complexity of the customizations that they will be willing to offer.
ETA: There is a hotkey to turn off all UI elements (defaults to Alt-Z). I'm guessing this is for machinima creation purposes and probably not what you are looking for as far as customization.
No, there's is not. In fact Jeff Kaplan himself has stated in an interview:
So we we basically stopped displaying any form of scores, kills, deaths because it really wasn't telling the story of who was doing their job properly to win or lose as a team. And really, what it's all about is, "Did you win or lose as a team?" None of that other stuff really matters at the end of the day.
You have some form of knowing if you were one of the top performers of the game by the medals and upvotes you get.
You can also view your performance in the "Tab Menu" or tab-screen. See the next section.
The tab-screen is not the hero select screen. Here's an example of a tab-screen:
As you can see there are some of your stats there that you can check but you can't compare them against any other player. As I've explained in the previous section, this is intentional to promote team play.
During development, Overwatch had indeed a scoreboard that has since been long removed.
The scoreboard used to look like this:
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In past Blizzard games such as
Diablo 2andDiablo 3you could access some console like commands from the chat window, they weren't cheats and some were game mechanic changing options.According to this Reddit thread Overwatch seems to follow a similar structure but almost all of it is to do with actual chat and nothing that changes game mechanics.