I think the V key is neat. Being able to send multiple messages without typing makes communicating with your team a lot easier. Why not enhance this to cover 99% of the useful in game chat? See images.
+1 if you like this idea please. Perhaps I would set "X" as the ward ping and "C" as the Enemy Champion Here" ping.
P.S. Keep the V key as is. It's nice to have a generic ping for all other uses such as "Come to Blue" or "Let's Drag".
AquariusGine9 votesI need one for OOM, OUT OF MANA
thanks :P
FarRockBF2 votesI need one for OOM, OUT OF MANA
thanks :P
Yes!! Not sure where it should go though...
posalrt20473 votesYes!! Not sure where it should go though...
Maybe it's already there, in the form of a blue bar underneath your ally's/enemy's health bar.
qvG1cnWoUS4 votesSeems nice, but maybe a little too complex for really quick pinging. And what would the pings look like? I think it would be awesome to have something like this though.
FarRockBF4 votesSeems nice, but maybe a little too complex for really quick pinging. And what would the pings look like? I think it would be awesome to have something like this though.
Good question. Maybe the ping would be the actual image of the champ coming or the words such as "Enemy Warded?" or "
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ResponsibleDad4 votesI am a HUGE fan of this! I can't tell you how often I die typing commands to my team. This would be so helpful!!
SelflessTeammate4 votesYou're on the right track, because pings lack a particularly important option I think, which is essentially, "Gank incoming", which is not the same as "Danger". Also, to regard pings to nearby players or all players, sort of separating them to local or global pings. There's a lot of confusion and ambiguity about the ping system that could definitely be cleared up.
The "Danger" ping is very ambiguous and doesn't actually indicate what the team should do, or even if it's specific to anyone. It almost always requires some sort of other indicator or follow-up in chat to clarify what that person means.
While I can't fully go along with the complexity of what's suggested, I do think the pings are too ambiguous and fail to communicate any truly meaningful information.
A "fall back" ping would also be a much better idea than the basic "Caution" ping, for the same reason "Danger" doesn't really communicate what to do.
SciencePrime3 votesGood idea. The ping for a particular character could just have the ping + a smaller pic of the character in the mini map. Same with ward drop ping... just a small pic of the ward (or ward with an X) on top of the ping.
Actin3 votesRito already said they can't do anything with the pings because it's too confusing for new players and convoluted for everyone else.
Apparently the special olympics makes up a very significant amount of this game's player base.
PickleBabah2 votesI don't really know where you got this from. Can you explicitly link where you got this from? I disagree with that statement, anyways. I believe that making things a more little confusing for new players (who probably won't even notice it until they are decent; and while the game is already jam-packed at the beginning) is a really good trade-off in making everything easier for them later on, and even for us. Like, what the heck? It's like questioning chat.
LeeDark3 votesThis might be getting a little too detailed. You are losing a lot of needed information in order to make room for redundant information and warnings that are far too specific. Why do I need pings for individuals champions? I can already ping a lane missing to indicate that champion, ping a warning for where they were headed, or ping on top of their head to focus them. Why do I need a ping for "Enemy Warded?" and "Enemy Ward Here"? They convey the same information with only slightly different degrees of certainty. (Further, "Pink/Sweeper Here" is essentially the same thing, since the ping's primary usage is to indicate where to destroy an enemy ward.) Finally, I'm not fond of "Please Ward Here" in general. Either ward it yourself, or don't tell me where you think I should place my wards.
In short, the ward system does need to be more detailed with more options, but other threads in the past have done it FAR better than you did.
Aerothal2 votesi trained my fingers to use the F-keys for pings. i dont look at the keyboard for commands. its a short training period man! try it to key-bind.
TheKingDodo11 votesBlasphemy! F is for Flash! fool! :P
ThatAutofillSupp3 votesFire** D is for distance, teleport,flash,ghost Ect. =3
AbyssionKnight2 votesWhen I started playing I used c and v for my summoners. Then they added the new ping system, and it couldn't be removed from v at first, so I moved to x and c.... so these new ideas of yours make my summoner preferences sad.
I like the idea though! A bit overwhelming, but definitely a lot of info that could be quickly provided.
FarRockBF2 votesYeah thanks! I know the implementation needs thought but I think we desperately need better communication tools in LoL.
Gunpoint2 votesThere's this thing called chat...
FarRockBF5 votesThere's this thing called chat...
Really? So why invent a car when there is this thing called FEET.
It's called convenience. Also, in a rush sometimes you have to choose whether you have time to chat to your team or just react and not inform them. Typing takes time. Pinging does not.
Aerothal1 votes"v" ?!? you dont have smart pings hot-keyed?
i do agree that we need an "enemy ward here" ping!
DeynaTaggerung1 votesAren't please pink/sweeper here the same as Enemy ward here?
Lollop Ladies1 votesi can barely contain my enthusiasm to see someone pinging my face constantly trying to tell me something they could've told me in five seconds time over the ten second time of spamming pings
ïîï1 votesOr they could add a mic and we could have all the commands in the world.
FarRockBF1 votesWith all the new ping threads popping up, I figured I'd bump this.
You know, with this implemented I can't see why chat would even be necessary...and that's a good thing!
