Can we disable the ping WHEEL

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In the settings, you can turn down ‘‘Ping wheel press delay’’. This makes it so you have to hold ping for longer to open up the ping wheel. I have mine on max because i don’t want the wheel of options, I just want the contextual pings.

However, when you move your mouse too quickly, the wheel opens irrespective of your ‘‘Ping wheel press delay’’ setting. It opens immediately. This is an issue, as if im flicking to a low hp enemy to tag him for my dps, then flicking back into the teamfight, I dont want a wheel opening in the micro second it took me to ping a target. The menu doesnt close on release of the ping key. So my mouse can stray off screen. This is either a bug or silly design.

Can we have an option to disable the ping wheel?

Maybe it’s just a me issue or I’m missing a setting somewhere but I can’t find a solution to this other than to not ping, and the pings very useful and the contextual pings are implemented really well in general. It’s just the wheel that is causing me issues.

My ping wheel is bound to my mouse but keyboard binds seem to do the same thing.

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I’ve played Overwatch since the start and have experienced lots of annoying behaviours, but nothing has motivated me enough to take to the forums until this bug. I’m regularly losing fights due to trying to ping flankers who are on top of me.

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I feel you so much. I keep accidentally pinging “attack with me” or “defend with me” when I only meant to ping an enemy during a fight.

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Bumping this, because this interferes with me mid game and would like an option to have it completely disabled. If there’s something I need saying, I have it already bound.

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My recommendation is to separately bind the enemy ping. It’s not an awesome solution for console players, who have limited buttons to use, but it does help immensely with consistently pinging enemies. I’ve kept “Ping In-World” bound so that I can still use the ping wheel, confirm ping, ping the objective, etc, but my default, easiest-to-reach ping button is the enemy ping.

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bump this as much as possible!