Add pings / shared waypoints in Multiplayer

1.9K votes

As of right now it's a bit laborious to communicate exact locations with fellow players. The ability to ping on the worldmap / share waypoints would simplify that issue.
Pings would probably be the easier solution as it's a short term signal, which could be connected to a short cooldown, avoiding cluttered maps with lots of shared waypoints.

Done Feature or content Suggested by: Chris (24 Jan) • Upvoted: 19 Apr • Comments: 24

Comments: 24

25 Jan
Derajmi Merged
Add a ping system in game to let team know where to go
15
25 Jan
Tigerlilium Admin
"Multiplayer pings" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Jan
Gaming with Kristi
Definitely need to be able to ping in multi-player!
4
27 Jan
Joel Merged
It would be good to be able to somehow share map reveals in multiplayer, either just automatic or a special workstation where players can update the communal map.
9
27 Jan
Rob. Merged
I think the game needs more waypoints.
2
27 Jan
LifeisReal Admin
"Shared map reveal in multiplayer" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
1
27 Jan
De4dlnside Admin
"waypoints" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
27 Jan
CuddlySloths
The ability to add text to custom markers and share them with your friends!
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28 Jan
George Sanchez-Vega Merged
Ping keybind needed.
1
28 Jan
Aonyx Admin
"Ping" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
28 Jan
Rapscallion1138
This really should have more upvotes.
30 Jan
Hannes
very useful for coop!
31 Jan
1gamerdad
Yes please, my wife and I are in the same room playing mp and struggling to know where to go or point things out. It would be nice to say hey pick this up (pinged). Or we are heading here and ping on the map or in game.
02 Feb
Mike Yang Merged
I want to be able to add markers and waypoints so my friends on the same server as I can see that I found some resources/interesting area just by marking it on the map. This way we can also remember where certain nodes are when found.
02 Feb
LifeisReal Admin
"Improve mini-map so that we can add markers to share with everyone on the same server" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-02-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Feb
Hannes
pls allow more communication and coordination for this as social game experience, i think its a core unique selling property.
text and pinging each other (and maybe emotes) would help!
07 Feb
Cole
I like how Valheim has a cartography table, the ping, etc. Also, suggestions for Emotes and custom-typed text markers.
08 Feb
Alex
Also, I think being able to mark spots when looking around in the overworld, similar to games like fortnite, or other shooters, even zelda has a way to look at somewhere, and mark that spot. Whether that's a temporary marker for multiplayer, or if you hold it you get more options to make permanent mark on the map, but a way to look in gameplay and look around to mark what you see in front of you
08 Feb
Foraxen
We really need that, also some text chat in-game.
15 Feb
GR
Not only a ping in multi would be great as a marker. I saw a cool place I wanted to look at but I had to dig up the mountain ended on top of the mountain and had no clue where it was just a ping or something waypoints are cool and all but good to have a marker you could add in the game view
21 Feb
Nick
The fact that a shared waypoint / ping system isnt there already is fairly shocking for such a muilti PVE game.

However...

I'm 77 hrs in and the game has captured my heart like so few games do nowadays and im very thankfull. I hope all the sugguestions get made and the game has cult level success!
21 Feb
Arashi
This would make group navigation so much easier, and is a fairly standard feature in most map games.
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10 Mar
Viper
Need this more than anything else right now. Need this to make co-op playable, even just a WIP placeholder mechanic, anything.
06 Apr
Eryx
Its good for pinging the whole group where we are going atm but not good enuf, theres no way for us to quick excess a very specified ping, such as when we reach location, we would see a box from a different perspective from our member who happens to be very near to the place, but would not know if theres anything above or below them. Like Apex Legend ping system, which is what i think the game really need.