The Ping System is GARBAGE

[Chaosolous]

EDIT: THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE PING MENU. It's about the ping system aiming mechanics. It is trash and NEVER targets the correct thing. I am NOT accidentally using the ping menu. I am aware of how pinging works. That is WHY I am bringing it up.

Why are we not talking about this more? I'm not talking like internet connections, I'm talking the press the middle mouse ping.

It's absolutely trash. I have on so many occasions gone to ping an Iron Man in the sky or a Spiderman flanking us and instead of OBVIOUSLY pinging the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing I'm looking DIRECTLY AT, the game is like "Hey! I can heal you! I can heal you!" (I mean healer).

Or it'll ping something on the ground like the mission area, when I'm not looking at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ground, the mission area just happens to be in front of me, even though I'm CLEARLY LOOKING UP.

This ping system is absolutely, 100% the worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ping system in creation.

Trash.

[Arc]

i see enemy
i am run at them
ZOOM
i run
i press m3
(i had to google how to do this because its not listed in the controls; not the only action i had to google, still dont know how to spray)
i call for healing because i pressed m3 without stopping
i wanted to mark the enemy
sucka system

[Crunchy[Daz]]

Click the button to ping. Hold the button to bring up Ping menu. You are holding the button too long. Just press it.

[Chaosolous]

Trust me, it's just a press. I am just pressing it.

I'm not saying "I NEED HEALS" like what the ping menu offers if you hold it. I use the default 4 options.

It is PINGING ME on click and NOT the ENEMY when I ping them. Saying "I CAN HEAL YOU!" which is NOT in my ping menu at all. I have no option to say that, it only says that if you ping yourself.

I'm not EVER trying to ping myself wtf is that? It shouldn't even be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ option.

[JG2thend]

trying to ping jeff and the raccoon is quite the task.

[Knowsome]

you can always rebind m3 to something more natural like "T". for pinging

[Chaosolous]

Again, it's not about the difference between ping and ping menu.

It is LITERALLY the ping system itself is trash. It doesn't ever ping the proper thing.

[Knowsome]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Again, it's not about the difference between ping and ping menu.

It is LITERALLY the ping system itself is trash. It doesn't ever ping the proper thing.

i think its fine. Bind "Caution! Here" to something like 6, if you can't ping something directly, because a direct enemy ping requires a bit of precision.

it will do the same job, but for less accuracy in exchange for less information.

[Chaosolous]

It's so easy to fix though, give it a "what is closest to middle screen"

The problem is, when there's a line of people you go to ping and it's like

"Oh you wanna ping the healer that just walked infront of you instead of the DPS destroying you that no one is looking at? Hahahahahaha good. That's all we're gonna let you do because ♥♥♥♥ you."

It's rude. There needs to be a priority set for "if X damage taken from Y player THAN ping priority +100000" or whatever mindless easy to write code there is.

There's easy fixes to this, they're just being incompetent.

[Chaosolous]

Still trash.

[HighLanderPony]

Aim labs.

[Hunu]

It is straight up garbage.

[Hunu]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Aim labs.

You know Overwatch? That game that so heavily inspired this game, and probably several other hero shooters... No problem with pings there. This is just some Marvel Rivals reinventing the wheel nonsense. So many things they could pick to be different on, the ping system really wasn't the one to pick, imo.

[EternalLoop]

yeah no game has bested apex legends in that aspect

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Hunu:

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Aim labs.

You know Overwatch? That game that so heavily inspired this game, and probably several other hero shooters... No problem with pings there. This is just some Marvel Rivals reinventing the wheel nonsense. So many things they could pick to be different on, the ping system really wasn't the one to pick, imo.

I don't know it there but it felt fine here.

[pppino]

I agree about pinging problems, it's friggen hard to ping the right thing that you're looking at. Even modifying sensitivity sliders it pings the wrong thing. Overwatch's pinging system is way better.