Hello All,
I think the shortcut wheel could use some redesign. There is the main wheel, which is locked to have “Emote” on the top, and some callouts (thanks/hello/group up…) around.
Then we have other customizable wheels dedicated to emotes, sprays, and audio. Unless I am mistaken, the main wheel can’t be customized.
Now my issue is in 2 parts:
- First, I don’t like that the main wheel mixes audio callouts and an “emote”. It’s a bit dumb but sometimes you want to say hello or thanks, you go a bit off and you end up locked in an emote animation, which in many cases will mean your death.
- Second, I think the callouts (I mean audio lines that give an icon overhead and are usually meaningful socially or tactically) should be a bit more varied.
My proposition:
- First, make the main wheel customizable entirely, and possibly add a new wheel for the callouts.
- Second, add a couple of new tactical callouts (audio + overhead icon), that allow a bit more basic tactics without the use of voicechat. This is standard in many team-based FPS but is lacking in OW. For example: “Let’s Attack”, and “Let’s retreat”. In addition to the “group up”, this is a rather simple thing that could help create tactics easier in QP / random teams environments. Would synergizes beautifully with the recent 222 update as well.
Let me know your thoughts.
PS: I know this means more audio recording costs, but since new audio are made for heroes regularly for events, this could be a chance to have them record some actual useful tactical callouts as well…