I don’t talk in vc, so I rely on the communication lines heavily.
As someone who enjoys playing ana, I’d love the ability to let my team know when I am reloading. Thoughts on adding something like this in the future?
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That would be nice! A ping system would also be a nice improvement as well.
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By the time the character has said they’re reloading and other people have heard & registered the message, you will have already reloaded and begun applying more shots.
It would be useless for that reason if the call was made as you press reload.
A better way to communicate an impending reload would be for Ana to shout “I need to reload” or “I’m low on ammo!” When there are 2-3 bullets remaining in her magazine.
The same would apply to baptiste.
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omg YES–a more thoughtful implementation, I can dig it.
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D.Va: "Reloading!’
jk
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Reloads in OW are not even noticeable, they are there for show. Even ashe who reloads bullets one by one does so incredibly fast. So i have no reason to say no to this, but i don’t think it is useful either.
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So many people have died while I was reloading on Ana…just saying. 
than you get blamed ofc.
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the time it takes to finish the line is way longer than just reloading lol
would be nice to also add “i want your hero” line during start up
Maybe the gun could scream really loudly RELOADING while you reload. Maybe even type it in the chat too.
Totally not thinking about the Bane gun from Borderlands 2
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It’s useful for a tank to know they have to stay in cover or they might die.
I tell people I’m reloading all the time.
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No no, baby dva does reload
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“SWAPPING WEAPONS!” For Mercy/Torbjorn too 
Alternatively could have a call out attached to reloading that plays automatically.
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On the topic of this, it would be nice if there was a voice line for every hero for certain important abilities. I.e “My projected barrier is on a cooldown!” Or “Rez is on cooldown!” Etc…
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Indeed, reinhardt calls out his shield going down, ideally they should add it to more things like mercy’s resurrect, while it shows in the kill feed, sometimes you can miss it and a verbal queue that she resurrected someone would be helpfull in letting the team know its now on cooldown for 30 seconds. Same thing with IF.
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“Running Low”
“Almost out”
“Nearly Dry”
“Last Three” OR “Last Shot” (Not both)
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Give Ana the bane from Borderlands 2. For the uninitiated, it’s a ‘cursed’ gun that you’re warned against using but turns out to just be extremely annoying:
…or just have her say a voice line if you press R during your reload.
No. Absolutely not. There’s already too much voiceline spam as it is, I don’t need any “ReloadingReloadingReloading” as well. We’ve got so many useless voicelines no one ever uses anyway. No one uses the “countdown” for anything other than thinking they’re funny and try to time it with Athena at the start of the game. Not to mention, the voiceline would be longer than the actual reloading animation itself for 90% of characters, especially when you cut it short with a melee.
If anything, you should be calling out your abilities, cause they actually have long cooldowns. You know like in Heroes of the Storm - you can shift (IIRC) + click and it shows up as “Lucio can use amp it up in 5 seconds”. And you don’t even need to record actual audio lines, just have it show up in the team chat (assuming people don’t voiceline spam it away). You could even make it and ultimate callout show up in different color in team chat, or at least the number. Like Ana calls out her ult “nano boost” and the “58%” shows up in white with black outline or something.
What for? Adequate player should know that youre reloading without useless voiceline
That would be nice! A ping system would also be a nice improvement as well.
What do you need ping system for?