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Modinstaller's avatar
7 years ago

Wheel-less general ping or setting to change the wheel's threshold

The ping wheel that's used to select a specific ping is useless to PC players who have taken the time to bind all the specific pings. For them, it's more of a hindrance than anything, because the wheel tends to activate and replace the general ping when you don't want it to.

I have had this problem a lot, as did my friend, and I've noticed a lot of people using a wrong ping like pinging an enemy when trying to ping loot. I think most people have encountered this at least once.

I suggest two solutions : either give us a general ping without any wheel, or give us an option to tune the threshold at which the wheel appears. This way players can use the general ping without having to stop moving their camera to make sure that it won't activate the wheel.

3 Replies

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    7 years ago

    Pulling up the wheel isn't necessary if you want to ping an enemy. If you double-tap the key that should do it by default. Are you saying you have it set to something else which makes it difficult when you have it set to custom?

  • Modinstaller's avatar
    Modinstaller
    6 years ago

    Basically me and a bunch of other people (serious gamers, mostly) have already bound every specific ping to something else. I have the looting ping bound to X, for example. Enemy spotted to F, enemies have passed through here on C, etc...

    Note that attacking here has no keybind and it should - I made another report. Same for the "no" reacion ping, I suppose.

    The problem is that, since I have everything bound to a specific key, I don't need a ping wheel. The ping wheel is only there to annoy me, and annoy me it does. If I want to ping a body shield, I'll have to stop moving my camera, stand still, and ping, because otherwise, I risk unintentionally activating the wheel and pinging something like "enemy here". This makes the game clunky in my opinion, and I resent having to ping stuff for my teammates, because it means I must force myself to stop moving every few seconds at the start of a game.

    So my two suggestions are :

    - A keybind for a wheel-less general ping (able to ping supply ships, loot, etc...)

    - An option to reduce the ping wheel sensitivity, so I have to move cursor way more before it activates, as such reducing the chance of using a wrong ping

  • TheJumpingJawa's avatar
    TheJumpingJawa
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    Legitimate issue.

    The ping wheel could do with being slightly less sensitive.

    However, rather than encouraging individual binds, I'd suggest making the smart ping smarter.

    If I'm pinging near a high value loot item, I'm probably not wanting to ping the storage container it's sitting in, or the floor by my feet.

    Same with balloons, zip lines, and lots of other elements.

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