I could only find a year-old thread about this.
If your team is scattered everywhere, and you try to say “group up” with the comms wheel; it says “I’m with you” instead.
If you try to ping both snipers, and then spot Mercy with 20 health and try to ping her, you’ll get silenced for too many pings.
Meanwhile it’s like your teammates can endlessly spam “thank you” or “no” with impunity. Or “and they say…”
Is there any objection to making pings actually say what they mean, and removing the limit on the number of realtime gameplay type things you can ping?
There is already a way to silence spammy players. If spam is the concern, everyone already has the option to address it. And it cannot possibly be beyond Blizzard’s programmers’ ability to distinguish between 200 “No’s” and pointing out enemy teammates.
Or am I just being naive in the assumption that people actually use pings in the first place?
I stop, take cover, and let go of my mouse so I can type “group up please.” I guess I could use a keyboard macro or something but we could also just remove all the extra cruft that’s making the pings useless.
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I love how I as a support am subtly told that I’m inferior when “Group Up” is effectively replaced with “I’m with you”. It makes me shriek, so this is how the dev team sees us? 1950 called, it wants its role models back. Supports are not just obedient healbots, they can also do strategy, just like the 2 other roles.
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That is not a ping.
Also if ppl have chose to ignore you, they will either way no matter if it is ping or vc
I see your point. It’s even worse on console, because there aren’t enough buttons on the controller. (Unless you have one of those freakish pro controllers that have more buttons than you can count, and at that point that’s a buncha money down the drain) And because of this and the necessity of certain comms like “I need Healing”, “Thank You”, and some other actions, there aren’t enough buttons… Though I do love seeing teammates using them. Last night I had a QP game where the supps actually kept tagging a Hanzo that kept flanking. So I kept ON HIM. Didn’t let him BREATHE. Until I died.
I replaced emotes with ping. But yea, not many pay attention to them it seems.
I’ll GA up high to scout who’s coming and from where - ping the tank coming on point, and the dps flanking on the right: My team looks left
Yea I’m on console. I just set left D-Pad to ping and don’t really use the comm wheel very often
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I would say that I only use the one to mark on the dpad, I think the wheel is a waste of time.
But ping was one of the best mechanics they implemented, just marking a location or enemy is great
it is a communication complement, but nothing replaces Voice chat
the real problem is that people do not enter voice chat and/or do not behave
Only ever ping the crotch region of the statue on blizzard world
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