Gearbox has revealed that Borderlands 3 will come with a pinging system similar to Apex Legends. This is one of the features that have been implemented in Borderlands 3 as part of increased accessibility features which will help players with disabilities to enjoy the game just like everyone else. The will support a wide variety of accessibility features to cater to as many gamers as possible.
Starting with the very first, the pinging system is heavily inspired by Apex Legends and it will allow players to mark and ping all important bits on the screen. Players will be able to mark containers, loot, enemies and other important points of interest on the map and relay the information visually to their entire party. This will help players who are unable to speak and still want to communicate with the rest of the party.
Apart from this, the major accessibly features included in the game are fully re-mappable controls, Xbox Adaptive Controller compatibility and extensive support for subtitles and closed captioning which includes text size and opacity options. These will greatly help players with special needs who want to enjoy their favorite game but were unable to do so before due to lack of all these additional features in games.
I will say here that we play games every day and we sometimes forget that not everyone in this world is as lucky as ourselves to have a body that functions properly. We have people who are unable to listen, speak properly or even see. These added accessibility features will definitely help these players to enjoy the game just like us.
Apex Legends might not be the biggest game in the world at this point but the pinging system introduced by the game is a massive step forward in allowing players to communicate with each other without actually speaking and it is super effective at that. This is the very reason why every developer is implementing this handy feature in their game now.
For detailed information on all these new accessibility features and the pinging system coming in Borderlands 3, you can check out the official press release by Gearbox on their website.
Borderlands 3 is slated for release on PS4, Xbox One, and PC via Epic Games Store on September 13, 2019.
