Ping/Mark feature is finally added in Halo. It’s quite useful for random, no-mic or different language players to teamwork.
What I hope is 343 can improve the system.
Double tap or ping the same location again to cancel the the icon marked by accident.
Normal when I shoot an enemy, I ping him at the same time. If there is an option can enable this hit-and-ping scene (only once to a specific enemy within his one shield recharge cycle), it’s useful for us to press less button. But I know a lot players will hate this, we don’t know how BTB chaos would be in Halo Infinite right now.
I use Bumper Jumper settings with an Elite controller, but still struggling with the Ping button mapping to a 3rd paddle, I could only handle 2 paddles for a long time, lol.
Yeah I can’t see it being very useful personally, due to not having a good button to map it to.
I rinse it in Gears of War, as you can use the stick to ping as you’re aiming, having to take your hand off to ping means it’s effectively useless against enemy players that you’re in the process of fighting.
I’m very tempted to swap it with crouch as crouching is significantly less useful now we have mantle and I’ll rarely use it. Still feels wrong. I dunno I just need another button for it.
I really hope they expand the system too to be in line with Apex Legends. I want to let people know I’m at least defending an area or that I want them to move to a certain area.
I also struggle with the placement of the mark button on controller. The d-pad isn’t fun to use during combat. I’ve mentioned this before but with my bias to Apex I’d prefer;
LB for marking - RB for grenade - LB+RB for equipment - sadly combo button binds are not possible
1) Double tap or ping the same location again to cancel the the icon marked by accident.
The ping marker doesn’t last long enough for this to be necessary.
2) Normal when I shoot an enemy, I ping him at the same time. If there is an option can enable this hit-and-ping scene (only once to a specific enemy within his one shield recharge cycle), it’s useful for us to press less button. But I know a lot players will hate this, we don’t know how BTB chaos would be in Halo Infinite right now. What? I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Only thing I can think of to make the ping system better is to have it visually stand out a little better. Maybe have a small arrow to indicate there’s a marker behind you if you are not looking at it, and to also have an option to disable pings that are not in your fireteam.
