When the player gets downed he is rendered completely unable to interact with anything, including the map to ping locations and objects.Please fix this. Allow players to not only still ping locations, but ping which res site they wish their allies to head towards. At present the primitive "ping res site" functionality simply selects the closest one Inside the next ring, not in the current safe area, nor any res zones slightly outside of the ring. This would be a great QoL feature that allows dead team mates to help give direction confused and less strategic allies towards better options. We have all had an ally run a marathon for the res spot that was auto pinged, VS one that was legit right beside them, but outside the ring, or even one that was in the safe zone, but not in the ring. Please strongly consider.

This is a fair Quality of Life submission. Would be nice to be able to ping a further specific respawn point so your random squad member doesn't go for the closest one while 3 other squads are battling it out nearby. 🤔

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11 Replies

TheJumpingJawa
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
While on the topic of pinging the map; it'd be nice to be able to drop more than just the basic ping on the map.
Ping the location of enemies, or where I intend to loot, for example, are useful ping actions on the map.
DarthVaapar
6 years ago
You can already ping these things on the map. Anything that’s on the ping wheel shows up on the minimap when you select/use it. Enemy pings also show up on the minimap.
Monhulio
6 years ago
@DarthVaapar We are talking about when you are Dead. While you are viewing your allies play, you can't do anything but ping the nearest respawn point in the ring....... It's in the post title.....
EA_Blueberry
Community Manager
6 years ago
This is a fair Quality of Life submission. Would be nice to be able to ping a further specific respawn point so your random squad member doesn't go for the closest one while 3 other squads are battling it out nearby. 🤔
Pretzelnutcake
6 years ago
@Monhulio is it a good idea? Probably, would it be abused? Absolutely
Monhulio
6 years ago
@Pretzelnutcake If every good idea was discarded because a subset of people would abuse it nothing would get done in just about any area of development lol. It's not like the dev's are unthinking and can't design properly.
Pretzelnutcake
6 years ago
@Monhulio "It's not like the dev's are unthinking and can't design properly." It's possible to spam characters in the selection screen and spam pings before you even land AND spam your banner and the respawn beacon after you're dead.
I'm not saying they're bad at their jobs but they clearly didn't take into account the overwhelming amount of 9yo * who would infest their game lol
Monhulio
5 years ago
@EA_Blueberry
So it's been nearly a year. You agree completely with this concept still?

I just watched a new player in ranked take me to a respawn beacon far away from him, towards combat, then proceed to threat scan as bloodhound, reveal an entire team in front of him, then try to respawn me knowing they were right directly in front of him (300-500m away).

Meanwhile an easy, nearby, safe respawn beacon was behind him, several meters from where I actually died....... But because it's not "in next ring" it cannot be pinged as the nearest beacon.......

Please either let us ping which beacon to respawn at or fix the game logic that tells players the nearest beacon to include the duration until ring closes. This would require extra work, such as calculating how much time the player gets to the beacon, use the beacon, and for me to actually get out......

But this current "nearest beacon" system is still as painful as it was back in August.....
MRGrantz9
4 years ago
I agree I remember being able to ping on the map in season 3 and then later it was removed for some reason. Also, people have the ability to mute pings by their teammates so it being abused wouldn't be too much of an issue. This is such a handy tool when trying to guide people in ranked rotates while you are dead.
peratril
4 years ago
@Monhulio Pinging near gas should be fixed since it only pings the gas