How about emotes that actually help?
Playing in the DZ earlier someone appeared as I was waiting to extract and begun helping me fight NPCs.
We teamed up and then a short while a later they invited someone else and we were 3 strong.
For about 40 minutes as roamed DZ-7-8-9 taking on NPC and collecting a fair bit of serviceable loot.
However, like anyone of us who.has been in that situation we found communication difficult at times.
No verbal communication was possible, I assume they had no mic, and I later found out after sending a ps4 friend request that one was Italian and one Danish.
It's certainly possible with English being the global lingua franca that they might have spoken English, but I don't know that for sure.
So I, like lots of players have, wondered why a more effective system of non verbal communication isn't in the game...as opposed to meaningless clapping and ridiculous Irish jigs.
Why is there not a simple wave for "This way" or a gesture for "Let's extract" or something to say "Follow me" so that it is much easier to work as a team without second guessing and constantly stopping to look back and hope they are still behind you?
At one point in our play time I had filled my bag and wanted to extract, lest a team of socially inadequate gank tramps happened upon our persons and attempted a tasteless armed robbery.
Being unable to signal this to my fellow agents I ended up having to just walk off with the hope they would follow...which they did eventually.
So, if not now but in a future patch/update, or even a sequel, could we, should we, have some emotes that actually aid teamwork and tactical play, making non verbal communication much easier, as opposed to inane air punching and salutes?
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