Apex Legends is constantly receiving updates and improvements to the game that are making it better over time and continue to show why it stands out from the rest of the battle royale games like PUBG and Fortnite. Even still, there are some issues that fans have with the game’s current state.

There are frequent posts from players with various suggestions that would make the game better overall. Some are general changes like having a true day and night cycle to features that would streamline everything. Then there are ones like the latest suggestion that is honestly brilliant.

Reddit User Suggests Useful Ping System Improvement

A Reddit user posted about their suggestion for Apex Legends ping system improvements. The user jarek104 posted the idea to the official Reddit page for the battle royale game. The idea revolves around the way players must ping certain items.

Jarek104 suggests players should ping the item they need to broadcast to their teammates from their inventory. It would be better than going through a series of hoops to make them aware. Along with their idea, they posted a screenshot to get their point across.

The player should let their team know about a specific item that they have already by opening up their inventory, moving the cursor over the particular item, and pressing a specific button to send an Apex Legends ping to everyone in the group.

Idea: Allow players to ping items directly from the inventory, without having to drop them on the ground. This would allow you to continue to carry the items and only drop them if team mates need them from r/apexlegends

For instance, you pick up a particular purple attachment for a weapon you don’t need, but thought would be useful. If you are far away from your teammate to ping them to pick it up, you pick it up and share it with your team later.

Or, you switch weapons suddenly and want to hold onto a certain ammo type or attachment to give to someone else. Under the Apex Legends ping system improvement, you would open your inventory, select the item and ping it for your team to see.

Next, affirm that they want the item and drop that for them. It makes sense and would seem like that is how it works, but this isn’t the case.

Instead, if you have an item like ammo or gun or batteries to share with your team, you must go through several steps. First, open your inventory, select the input to drop the item and then close the inventory.

Once closed, ping it to let your team know that you dropped it. There are a lot of problems with doing it this way, the first of which is the sheer number of steps necessary for doing so.

That is time that wasted in a battle royale match. The several seconds needed for extra steps can mean the difference between being ready to fight and letting the enemy get the drop on you, which can spell death and losing the match.

There is also the problem of whether your team needs the item you are pinging. You could go through all those steps for them to ignore it and not need it at all.

Then you would have to pick it all back up or leave it there. It would be a total waste of time spent trying to drop it, ping it and wait to see how the team responds. Time is too precious in a game like this to have to spend doing stuff like that.

Community Praises Apex Legends Ping System Improvement

The Reddit community for the game responded to the post. They loved the idea and agreed that it would greatly improve the game. It has since become one of the top posts for the game’s Reddit page. The comments from the community only serve to heighten the situation.

The top comment, for instance, notes that this would be perfect for the vault key item on the World’s Edge map. On that map, there are some vaults players can open to collect various rare and epic items. The items could go a long way towards gearing up for winning the match.

The three vaults on the map are valuable resources for the battle royale game. It would be best if you had a key to open one of them up. The problem is that teammates can’t see the vault you are heading towards if you are the one with the key. It is also something that players suggest needs changing.

The Apex Legends ping improvement would help this situation as well. Players wouldn’t have to drop the key over and over to ping it to remind their team that they are going to the vault since they could do it in their inventory.

Also, players could use the new ping improvements to let the team know that they have healing items that they are willing to share if they don’t have any or get too low. Other users chimed in that there could even be voice lines that accompany the ping so that the player hears it.

These Apex Legends ping system improvements may seem like simple changes at first, but they could make the whole game a lot better and streamlined for players. However, there could be a technical reason why this option doesn’t already exist. We have to wait and see for now if Respawn Entertainment will respond to this suggestion.