Ping System is Worthless (No One Pays Attention to it)

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And so is the “I need help/healing!” voiceline. Nobody pays attention to them. Ever.

Playing Ana. Hog is behind us. I ping him, then sleep. Continue to ping. Over and over. Nobody pays attention and just pushes the robot. He wakes up and hooks me and I die. He then goes on to kill everyone else because they didn’t pay attention.

Playing DPS, get enemy Tank super low. Nobody helps finish them off and instead opt to run for the objective ignoring everything else. Tank gets away, comes back with health and kills us all.

Playing support, Reaper is in my face trying to kill me. I ping him and use the I need help voiceline. Everyone instead runs to the uncontested objective and they let me die. He then rushes over to everyone else and ults and gets a teamkill.

Playing Tank. Sombra has hacked me, I’m dying fast. Ping Sombra, use I need help voiceline. Both support instead run to go kill a Lucio in the distance and let me die.

Also, though I don’t say anything about it in match, I’ve heard if you bring up people not paying attention to pings they will mass report you and you’ll be banned for abusive chat, regardless of how you word it. Is everyone just playing for themselves and stats on the scoreboard now?

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It’s tunnel vision… It happens a lot (as you can atest to)

It happens to me a lot… then when I’m done I sit there and think ‘what happened to my team’

For as much as the game puts in sounds and a display… it doesn’t help when they are on the edges of the screen

As for the scoreboard situation… IDK (I can only assume… and I would prefer not to do that

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Oh, god. They added that noise when a teammate gets killed. They picked the most annoying sound. Where I leave it off. What I personally want is ATHENA to say who got killed. And have an option to only tell me a healer is down. And I want the replay score board on at the top.

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This is not a consistent experience.

You gave an example of bad situation.

Once I was playing sombra in Open Queue and my team would follow up all my pings. Even if I died and was coming back from spawn and I pinged someone low health, even if I was far away from my team, they’d kill the pinged target.

Here’s an example of good situation for you, so you make it only about bad situations of the ping system.

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Pinging the sniper is not worthless.

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pings are great, having bad teammates is not the ping systems fault.

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The players are the issue, not the ping system. Even in the context of this post it just sounds like players ignoring you, not the pinging system.

Talk about a misleading title.

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Because as soon as this feature came out, everyone just started pinging anything anywhere all the time. It’s the ultimate cry wolf ability. I can’t tell you how many times I look at a ping and it’s just someone pinging their own spray. Haha so funny, little Jimmy or whoever with his broken arm. Yet you know what I never see pinged? The effing location of the sniper. Or where Ashe’s Bob ended up.

If 4 people on your team are constantly pinging things all the time, it quickly becomes more of a distraction than helpful. Which ping is real? Which ping is more urgent? I wish I could just disable them along with non-game specific voicelines.

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I gave three examples.

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The only reason its worthless is cuz all my buttons are already mapped to something. Ledt on my d pad is no right is 3,2,1. Gotta spam something

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Curious because no one ever uses the tool for me.

If a healer pings you with “Come to me for healing” does it highlight for the player where the healer is?

When someone pings an enemy location and keeps pinging it, does it show each marker of where that target has gone to?

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I pay attention to the ping system. Please continue using it. However, I may not pay attention to voice line spammers because if you yell „I need healing“ a hundred times when you actually don’t, I don’t know if it’s real if you actually do need healing the 101st time.

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it is a consistent experience

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