Compared to Vermintide 2, the callout wheel is pretty lackluster and neccessitates more frequent use of the chat (which takes significalntly longer and takes you out of action).
The lack of “yes” / “no” can be felt the most, but “help” (which also existed in VT2) and “sorry” for courtesy would be helpful too.
I think those should be added to the game to make the communication and overall experience better when playing with strangers.
EDIT: would also be great if we could address other person on the team when pinging like in VT2, for example “characterName, use Medicae Station”
The “communication wheel” can be improved quite easily.
As an example, Insurgency Sandstorm has a similar system that’s far more responsive (no delay before displaying the wheel, it allows fast callouts).
It has 9 choices. And it’s controller-friendly as the game is on consoles.
Here’s a demonstration of the communications wheel in Insurgency Sandstorm.
You’ll notice how fast and easy it is to trigger the callouts.
Also the fact that the social wheel callouts are not in the same position as VT2’s equivalents is extremely frustrating and constantly messes with my muscle memory. There was no reason for them to change the position.
Hold/wait is the big one I’d make use of a lot more. Ping a patrol and wanting to say WAIT but having no choice besides ENEMY and having people shoot it hurts me.
I’d also just like a simple hello just to be friendly at the start.