Communication Wheel in DBD
So solo queue in Overwatch is more bearable because even if you aren't in voice chat, they give you a communication wheel to tell your team numerous different things. Like group up, attack point, heal you, your ultimate status, etc.
DBD needs that for survivors. I feel like a communication wheel could help kill the problem that is SWF because I know tons of people do SWF because there's no other way to communicate with other survivors.
This could be simpler than it sounds. Want your team mate to do gens? Select the gen picture on your communication wheel and a small picture of a gen will float over your characters head in a small chat bubble only survivors can see that'll last a couple seconds. Want them to do totems? Same thing. Need to be healed? You guessed it. What about if you want to tell them to search chests or open the exit gates? Right again. Hell, even add a yes or no option while you're at it, just to really help with communication in game.
I think this would help the game a ton. As someone who has been solo queue as survivor for 4 years, this would be everything I ever needed. I could finally help new players by showing them what they need to focus on. Show them how to coordinate properly and not have to hope that they just know what to do. This would also help kill a lot of SWF groups since they won't feel stressed about there not being an in game communication option.
I feel like overall this could benefit the game as a whole and I'm honestly shocked it's made it this far without implementing something like this.
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I tell people things like perks i run and similar stuff in the pregame chat, and half of them ignore it anyway. I dont see how that would be different in a communication wheel, especially if its not useable in a chase. But i could live with the option if you have to be near the survivor.
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I mean it wouldn't be ideal to use it in a chase, but the ability to set up a game plan in game would only be a good thing for the game. Plus most people are afk before the match starts so having it in game is ideal.
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