Would anyone find it useful to be able to enable an option to see proximity or line-of-sight visibility to your supports? This might be good for DPS or Tank players who do not play much support and do not know their effective ranges.
As far as how it would look, perhaps either like a waypoint-like edge-of-screen icon of each support that goes grey if you are out of line-of-sight and/or effective range. Alternatively, it could be more like a pinned roster (which could extend to the whole team) that similarly goes grey for being out-of-range and perhaps could also show an ‘X’ if the support is eliminated.
It was just a thought I had to make some players a bit more situationally aware, because I would love an optional indicator showing if my support is getting attacked or if I went out of LOS of them.
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This would be cool, but I don’t want more skill to be taken away from the game
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I feel like even if it was a thing, not everyone would utilize it. Kind of like health packs or the fact that you can see how many people are on the cart and how far away it is from the checkpoint. (cough back capping cough)
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Yeah as a Juno main I’m tired of my hog 1v5ing and saying it’s my fault (I’m respawning)
I’d be happy with when they ping they need healing it would say “no support can see you” or something to let them know they’re out of position.
They did talk about trying a mini map. Another thing would be if they also implemented the team healthbars, like in the PvE mode, on the side of your screen above yours (again they mentioned thinking about that one). They could have the teammate picture throw up a LoS symbol, or just have the whole bar fade out a bit if you are out of that team-members LoS. They would have to be optional to turn on because not everyone wants the extra clutter in their screen. But they could add options like just add my healers, or just do team pictures and mini healthbars (similar to Bualdar’s Gate, just a picture and a bar on the side of it).
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No. People need to learn to play the game.
This would still require them to pay attention to it, which is the underlying issue - THEY DON’T PAY ATTENTION.
Adding in UI just removes skill while not at all solving the issue for the vast majority of players.
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Yeah, I think making it able to be turned on or off as an option would be ideal. For those who do not need it, they simply leave it off.
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I’d say, instead of tiny face icons just put one tiny warning bauble in the corner next to abilities or healthbar.
Green for in range of both supports, yellow for only one. Red for neither.
(Colors customisable for accessibility)
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i think this is just stuff you learn naturally through game sense, although half of it is using headphones and the surround sound audio mode
im sure it would help newer players but i think it would become a crutch. sounds like a fun idea, just dont know if it really belongs in overwatch
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Being in LOS is also many times a 2 way street. That obviously lowers the burden of DPS and Tanks, who can’t effectively turn their heads back to see where their Supports are at any time but then again … Supports would just not move and wait for their targets to come into LOS.
Also VoiceComms exist. Thats literally what they are for at least 30% of the time lol.