Ping Suggestion

(Jorj) #1

I often find that you need to call out to your teammate where an enemy is but you don’t have a mic and typing is too slow. Kinda like League of Legends has it, it would be pretty neat to have a ping system so you can alert a teammate if an enemy is MIA or you need assistance. Not really sure how it would work though in terms of controls.

(Amerika) #2

The only way that could work in a fast FPS is if you had a key modifier setup to unlock the mouse cursor and the mouse cursor always showed up and stayed within the map borders. That’s to ensure that you’re able to quickly do a ping without taking you out of the game for long. However, how practical that is in actual play is very debatable. I don’t think it’s needed since few on pubs would use it or care about it if used and people in MM would mostly all have a mic.

(Jorj) #3

I meant in a 3d sense instead of using the minimap
for example if someone was repairing an ev, you could aim at/near the ev and press a hotkey

(Ribero) #4

So long as there’s a long enough cool down on it so that people can’t spam it, I don’t see why not.

(Amerika) #5

I guess if the entity you’re pointing at could be identified by the crosshair (already in the game) then this could be done. However, it would require you to have line of sight on whatever you wanted to ping which might be too late for your teammates (as in you just got killed and are respawning). So it could be useful but limited in it’s usability.

(Daltcore) #6

I didn’t play so correct me if I’m wrong but did Battlefield have a similar mechanic? But on the actual idea I think it wouldn’t really serve much use. Like maybe for some pubs, but then again you don’t play pubs for the team work. I wouldn’t complain about the idea being implemented but I’m sure there are more important things on the agenda of the devs.