I thought of an idea that would help out quite a bit. What if we were able to assign our own messages to the communication wheel? Sort of like a “quick message” function. Common messages I would use are “enemy behind us” or when I’m playing Mercy, I would have “rez down” assigned, so you can use it whenever you can’t rez someone. With the crossplay update, game chat being added to console was nice, but it’s pointless to use, it would take like 10 seconds just to say “hi” using game chat. I know a few people are gonna say “just join voice chat”, there’s people out there such as myself, who have social anxiety, I get super nervous talking to people verbally, so I feature like this would help us out a ton.
Just thinking about it…
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I think people would use such a feature to troll unfortunately. Not saying it’s a bad idea but the potential for it to be misused is great.
It would make somethings easier to communicate like “I’m using my Ult!” As opposed to the “ult 100%” line or if you want to charge your ult as hog using breather you could shoe in a line like “please don’t heal me I’m changing my ult with breather”
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even though im sure 90% of people would troll with it, i still think its a good idea.
the communication wheel we got was a nice touch, but having every line fully voice acted creates a bit of a scaling issue that i would imagine prevents them from expanding it to have tons of different situational lines (or even hero specific ones, like rez)
Oh yeah it’s a given that people would definitely troll with it, but people spam voicelines and troll anyway. Also I wouldn’t expect the feature to have any voice actor recordings, it would be a quick message feature, the delivery would be as if you typed in game chat.
I would use this to troll
Yeah, I can see people spam:
“noobs”
“trash”
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Nice idea, tho…
Maybe preset word combinations like
Need DPS
Want Support
Come Attack
Enemy Sheild
Help Defend
Help Support
Enemy Attack
Come Defend
Want DPS
Need Shield
A very crude creation off the bat but obviously can be improved
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