Not Planned [CS JB] Allow Wardens to Ping Players

[Jacko]

Wardens should be able to ping teammates and Prisoners. CSGO added Player Ping a while back under the Communications settings which is default set to MOUSE3 (Middle mouse buttons/Scroll Wheel button).

Pings are sometimes superior to markers because of the HUD icon as well as having directional sound queues.

Dedicated Supporters (DS) should also be able to purchase the ability to ping teammates as a perk.

 

[lain]

I do have somethings i want to point out with this. I do think this would be a interesting thing to add to jailbreak but its very situational and most people wouldn't think to use Player Pings. Wardens would just use a plain marker and paint since everybody is used to that.


On the other hand, If Dedicated Supporters had the ability to place Player Pings it would be easier to get information to your T Buddies across if you don't have a mic or its the beginning of the round. It would also be way faster than typing something in team chat then having your T Buddies read it.


But as you mentioned the sound queues would be make easier to understand where to go if you were lost but just think of the abusive things Supporters could do with it. I think there would have to be a cooldown across all of the Supporters, making sure that several people don't ping at the same exactly time. Maybe the cooldown wouldn't be necessary, I'm just looking out for the playability and being able to hear warden.

 

[4g0tt3nSou1]

There are two problems I can think of, centering off that this is controlled by the game, and not something that was created with a whole lot of use-cases in mind.

First, I don't think we can modify the in-game player ping system to ignore requests from specific users, so there'd be no way to restrict it to only warden, or etc.

Second, I don't think we can modify it to "Rate-limit" the amount of times one can ping/how often.

The reason it was disabled was to reduce spam as it does sound cue to the whole team, and if u get people spamming, it can get annoying quickly.

Would I love to see this implemented in some shape or form? Yes. Can we? I doubt it.
As far as I am aware, there is no other commands for this system other than on or off, and originally even that didn't exist.

There could be a hacky way of making our own ping system AUGMENTING the vanilla one.
If such a hacky method as described below worked, we then COULD restrict it to X users. (Warden, CTs, DS's), and introduce our own ratelimit.
(Rather than using the vanilla system, using SM and building a clone, and maybe firing a call client-side to "ping" the target, so the client sees the ping, but in reality, bypassing the vanilla system altogether), though I doubt it. Simply put I just afaik do not think CS:GO has implemented hooks needed for modifying how that system works, or included the desired setting in the vanilla implementation.

 

[sopheyy]

Taking all of what 4g0tten said into consideration, I think it would definitely be an important tool for wardens.

As for DS, I think it should be a Gold perk ($10).