Recently I've been playing a lot of league with my friends (I know kill me), and I really liked the whole ping system where you can click on the minimap or screen and issue a global ping to your team, alerting that something is there/you need help. How hard would this be to implement in tf2? Often times people don't listen to comms; maybe a ping and a notice will help people be more aware of the surroundings. Also helps people without a mic communicate with their team.
I'm talking about something like the current coaching system where you can tell people to attack/defend/target/move here.
Just an idea.
tl;dr viability of LoL ping system in TF2
Recently I've been playing a lot of league with my friends (I know kill me), and I really liked the whole ping system where you can click on the minimap or screen and issue a global ping to your team, alerting that something is there/you need help. How hard would this be to implement in tf2? Often times people don't listen to comms; maybe a ping and a notice will help people be more aware of the surroundings. Also helps people without a mic communicate with their team.
I'm talking about something like the current coaching system where you can tell people to attack/defend/target/move here.
Just an idea.
tl;dr viability of LoL ping system in TF2
you can get a mic at the dollar tree
you can get a mic at the dollar tree
We don't have a minimap, why would we want to ping stuff? Plus using mics after learning maps gets the info across quicker with less effort of the receivers part while trying to figure out why you pinged something could take longer. And as ckap said mics can be dirt cheap, nobody's expecting you to be singing Queen or something like Freddie mid game so don't say quality is the restriction.
We don't have a minimap, why would we want to ping stuff? Plus using mics after learning maps gets the info across quicker with less effort of the receivers part while trying to figure out why you pinged something could take longer. And as ckap said mics can be dirt cheap, nobody's expecting you to be singing Queen or something like Freddie mid game so don't say quality is the restriction.
this is silly, just comm it. if your team doesn't listen to comms, then they are bad. if you don't have a mic, pick up every coin you see on the ground for a week and get one
this is silly, just comm it. if your team doesn't listen to comms, then they are bad. if you don't have a mic, pick up every coin you see on the ground for a week and get one
Go play natural selection
Go play natural selection
Just use the Coaching function built into the game. Thing's incredible.
Just use the Coaching function built into the game. Thing's incredible.