We are already so limited to what we can have for bindings, and now we are getting another for pinging.
I had difficulties binding the interact button and now there will be pinging being added as another binding.
It replaces an existing keybind on PC so it’s probably gonna be similar on console. It’s the keybind to defend/attack the objective.
Honestly even on PC it’s really no easy to use at all in the middle of a game, it opens a wheel with way too many options and some of them you need to aim to point the direction.
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I’ve been playing on beta on controller and yeah I have no idea how it’s going to be done smoothly. Currently I don’t even think the new ping system is bound by default on a controller.
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There is no keybind on controller for that unless you get rid of something else.
More than likely the ping button will have to be a Dpad bind. Probably getting rid of one of the optional functions (spray, emote).
Thats the thing, for me my dpad already has interact binded to it
By a 3rd party controller with more buttons.
Third party controllers extra buttons just duplicate other buttons on the controller. They are just there for ease of use (i.e., so you don’t have to move your fingers from the triggers to use the face buttons). A few allow you to program in multiple simultaneous button presses into the new buttons (like R1+X). However, Overwatch can’t bind game actions to multiple simultaneous button presses, so that option is moot.
I have interact on L3. I’ll put ping on up on Dpad and remove having a binding for spray since I never spray.
So my pad will be ping, swap weapons (mercy, torb), chat command 1, chat command 2.
Alternatively the devs could allow us to set a modifier button and we would have basically unlimited buttons, but they haven’t so far
Its left on dpad to ping by default.