Given that to use it I’d have to take my finger of the movement stick or that I’d have to reach over awkwardly (while losing ability to look) I also simply don’t use it. That aside - when I see them come in force for our base in BTB CTF it would most likely (back when I still tried to use it) just ping one guy out of five (most likely due to them moving out of my field of view when I moved my finger of the stick).
So yeah, in most situations I don’t see it as working well enough to be worth the hassle to be honest.
Everyone (most people) knows but few people use it because if they’re in a gunfight (lots of people don’t claw or use paddles) they are trying to win that fight and taking their finger off anything to ping will probably cause them to lose it.
Most people if they are going to use it, use it to mark people when they know their position but can’t get shots to them.
Again, most people don’t use it for the same reason most people know how to hold a ball or carry a flag but walk past it staring at rainbows.
They definitely know because I use it many times during a game for the above reason and when a couple of shots down in a gunfight (if I know I’m going to lose) and to mark objectives when the time for the pull is right then others begin using it more and I see others using it more and more in press-20-times-to-annoy-people way.
People have different experiences though considering you, lots above and OP haven’t seen hardly anyone using it.
I love the Ping/Mark feature. I use it a lot but you don’t have to stop in mid combat to Mark effectively. It’s easier to master when out of combat or moving towards the action.
If you spot an enemy or two running passed an area, Mark the spots where you saw them, or better yet, where they might be heading if you know map layout. Spot a Warthog with a Gunner that is coming towards the base, or a sniper over on that ridge or Overshield or Invis running by? Mark it… the Kill-feed will announce whatever you are Marking to your team mates too.
It allows me to quickly let me team mates know I’ve spotted someone in that area, so be on the look out. Also, sometimes I’ll drop a weapon in favor of a different one and if that dropped weapon is still good, I will Mark it for my team mates so they can possibly pick it up before de-spawn or the enemy find it.
Unfortunately it doesn’t have a convenient enough binding, and getting killed by ensuring that I correctly ping would hurt my team more than them missing out on a ping.
Sounds like KBM is the only way to play this game. I dunno why controllers don’t have a few extra buttons these days like ABC,XYZ… using the D-Pad in a fast paced game is so clunky. The paddles on the elite controllers aren’t great either. Maybe next gen.
I have mixed emotions about the ping. On the one hand, sometimes it works exactly add you’d expect it should.
On the other hand, in some games when I ping somewhere all other 3 or 11 team mates I have will just go there and leave the rest of the map totally open for like 20 seconds lol
Pings should entirely be for Fireteam only, I feel.
This fulfils its core purpose for 4v4 where communication is key
This makes people play BTB with a Fireteam mindset instead of You +11 other players.
If you notice how some premades play BTB, they move around in hitsquads of 4 (a Fireteam) and just totally flush out a zone or pathway on their own. But most BTBs have people going chicken mode and scattering the moment the match starts.
I wish i had people who would play in a fireteam with me… i see it all the time in quick play a whole team moving together while my team are a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off.
Well, it’s only a convenience feature for people with no mic anyway. So if you play with a headset and know the correct location names that will likely always be preferable as it does not involve any additional aiming, etc. to get the ping right. Also allows you to add where they’re going instead of just where they are.
It’s actually helped me a few times when I’ve marked enemies, and my team came to help me, or when I warn my team that enemies are coming during matches with objective modes, but it really is difficult to use with the D-Pad when I accidentally run into the entire enemy team.
I’ve tried remapping it, but I end up losing other features I need to have quick access to.
I feel like it was more helpful when I played Battlefield 3, but I can’t really remember.
I rarely encounter anyone with a mic, so I don’t use mine.
You do, and you get points for killing someone you marked with a headshot, but what’s the point?
Score doesn’t seem to actually affect anything in the game.
I hadn’t thought about it until you said that, but I guess it might be useful to talk with the mic even when no one else is using one since they might still hear you.
Yeah a lot of the time people respond based on what I’m saying so it does tend to work out for me. I’ve had people start calling out after I am for a little while too.
Few people have messaged me after the game thanking me for doing it as well.