Guild Wars 2

I’m glad that we have the countdown timer on the right side now, but really, could we get a critical message too? Warning people when the countdown reaches 15s, or something? It continually amazes me, halfway through ruby, that so few people even know the medis have spawned or are about to spawn. Considering that they can win or lose matches, I think a game-critical message is important.

I like to think that if people are unwilling to educate themselves on a map they want to win why should they be spoon fed. It’s up to them to learn or lose.

The timers are enough. Anyone with enough map awareness can glance to observe them. You even get an announcement saying that Stillness/Tranquility have appeared if you weren’t watching, anyway.
Nothing more’s needed, imo.

Yall are cold.

This is more for my benefit than theirs, though, admittedly. I prefer not to lose games because they weren’t paying attention. Such is life in soloq.

Sooloo.1364:

I like to think that if people are unwilling to educate themselves on a map they want to win why should they be spoon fed. It’s up to them to learn or lose.

By your reasoning all indications could be removed. Remove map visuals. Remove spoken audio queues. Remove countdown timer. Don’t add a pre-emptive 15s warning.

Otherwise including a 15s warning is just one more indicator. There’s legitimacy in the request. General QoL improvements to communication and map events can only improve the game for everyone.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Sooloo.1364:

I like to think that if people are unwilling to educate themselves on a map they want to win why should they be spoon fed. It’s up to them to learn or lose.

By your reasoning all indications could be removed. Remove map visuals. Remove spoken audio queues. Remove countdown timer. Don’t add a pre-emptive 15s warning.

Otherwise including a 15s warning is just one more indicator. There’s legitimacy in the request. General QoL improvements to communication and map events can only improve the game for everyone.

Nobody is advocating the removal of anything.
But seriously if you can’t glance at a timer why are you playing competitive PvP.
It’s like glancing at your CD’s.

With players that can’t even notice the blinking on the side (timer) + sound + big glowy icons on the map there’s basically no hope for them anyway.

If you made it any more intrusive chances are those guys would instead drop everything and zerg the tranq/stillness and probably lose you the game anyway just because tehy lost all the caps trying to cap tranq lol.

There are no fixes for bad players