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B4ymx's avatar
B4ymx
5 years ago

Ping Spam!!

It's really annoying when players abuse the ping system, because the sound is louder then the rest of the effects in the game, and players who usually are new or just don't know how to play the game having some teamwork in mind, abuse this tool causing me or the other player in the squad to not hear anything that's happening around us. The ping should be limited by a X amount of times withing a cooldown period, or maybe we could mute all the interactions from a player, being the chat, voice, pings. Maybe then we can actually play the game and have fun instead of getting pissed with bot like players.

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  • MandatoryIDtag's avatar
    MandatoryIDtag
    5 years ago

    @B4ymx  I must have written the words " add a cooldown timer to pings" a 100 times in the last two years, yet here we are still having to listen to angry ping spam.

    It's stupid that this is even still a problem at this stage in the game frankly.

  • B4ymx's avatar
    B4ymx
    5 years ago

    Yeah for real, even in ranked that I'm playing more often now, there's still players who would do this. But given the fact that I'm silver still, I can understand why this happens, but pubs for me are nightmarish.

  • LaughingSharko's avatar
    LaughingSharko
    5 years ago
    @B4ymx This is interesting. I actually thought I was helping my teammates by giving them realtime updates to the location of enemies as they move. Perhaps I should just let them figure it out themselves. Good to know.
  • B4ymx's avatar
    B4ymx
    5 years ago
    @LaughingSharko No, the ping is actually good, when used correctly. Because Apex is very sound and positional focused, and we need to hear what's going on so we can make decisions. The ping becomes a problem when it's used by players who are raging or who don't understand that we can't get the banner or revive them at that time, because there's teams coming towards us or we are very low on health, you know? If you use your ping like 3 times and you let them deal with the information, you are being a good teammate
  • MandatoryIDtag's avatar
    MandatoryIDtag
    5 years ago

    @LaughingSharko  Oh c'mon lol, you know that's not what's being referenced here at all. There's a portion of the playerbase who will just blindly ping in every conceivable direction simply because they've been knocked. 

    It isn't helpful in any way and it's up for there for toxic habits that the playerbase has developed lol. Repeatedly pinging the nearest respawn beacon is another irritating habit of some players.

    I've literally gone on comms to explain to them that it's a bad idea to respawn them at nearest beacon and they still continue to hit ping.

  • B4ymx's avatar
    B4ymx
    5 years ago
    @BaldWraithSimp The don't ping at all is for those players who are toxic and don't understand the situation the team is in. We all have sessions with toxic people who seem to enjoy making other people pissed and get mad whey they get knocked after rushing a building with two purple teams fighting.
  • dSKyNafinchin's avatar
    dSKyNafinchin
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago
    @MandatoryIDtag Extremely annoying!! I generally play with my two good friends, but even when I'm playing with randy's, I'll ping the enemy that knocked me, and then I try to be quiet so my team has a better chance of finishing the squad off. I don't want to be loud, obscuring footstep sounds and whatnot. I might throw in an extra ping to alert my team if an enemy is flanking, but that's about it. The only time we spam each other, is when we're just messing around. If one or two of us are waiting on being respawned, and it takes more than a minute or two, we'll start "complaining" in party chat, noting how "incredibly long" it's taking, and how we need a better team mate that will bring us back lmao. We're all fine with it though, as we are practically family, and we constantly hound each other.