rotate buildings?

Price

<div class="IPBDescription">how?</div>How can i rotate buildings like sentrys, or is there no button?
The first time i have no clue how rotate a building in a game, or is there right now no button for it?

cH40z-Lord

Check <a href="http://www.abload.de/img/ns2directionys82.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.abload.de/img/ns2directionys82.jpg</a>

Price

D'OH!
Thank you, looks like " spread out / go to waypoint " to me ^^
The recylce button looks more like "rotate" (hit it by mistakes -.- )
And the info for non english people "set Target" sounds like set (alien) target, a bit confuse for me.
Maybe they should change the rotate button to recycle and the recycle to a "trash" icon (yes i know its the trash icon, but it doesn't looks like it without a "trash")

AssassinGT

Honestly, I feel like every time I hit the damn thing its so unresponsive that it makes me question it. But yes, that is the button for it. They should have a TF2 style drop down for it before building to save time.

Price

here is my example, better understanding...in my mind.
<a href="http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6339/ohnetitel1kopie.jpg" target="_blank">http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6339/ohnetitel1kopie.jpg</a>
I mean the icon has only 3 directions, why not in every direction?
Why only 3, what ever, i know it now and i hope they change the icons later.

weezl

i think they should do the c&c3-style building placement,which imo is perfect:
- click on which building to build, and the building follows your mouse like in all other games, and you click LMB to place it
- IF you want to rotate it, click and HOLD LMB and the building spins around the spot you clicked facing the mouse, release LMB to place it
- if you're rotating but changed your mind and want to cancel, click RMB

it's stupid the sentry always is pointing in the same direction when built, this means one direction is always favored (no delay after finished)

Kouji_San

@Price, that icon kinda looks more like a recycling icon (missing one arrow) then a turning icon in my book and probably also in general understanding.


@weezl that would be so much better, this unneeded extra move to position your sentries is just annoying. However, I'd rather have it the way Company of Heroes does it with the bunkers.


Press once, place a ghost structure at your crosshair (rightclick disables it). It will then follow your Crosshair around by turning, while also displaying it's range (not the silly circle as it currently has, which would indicated it can fire backwards as well). When you're happy with the placement, press once again to place the structure.

weezl

@Kouji_San i think it's way easier/faster to holdclick-drag-release than to click-realease-drag-click-release (even though a regular "click-realease" is very fast)

RUben1

<!--quoteo(post=1819889:date=Dec 28 2010, 08:08 PM:name=weezl)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (weezl @ Dec 28 2010, 08:08 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1819889"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i think they should do the c&c3-style building placement,which imo is perfect:
- click on which building to build, and the building follows your mouse like in all other games, and you click LMB to place it
- IF you want to rotate it, click and HOLD LMB and the building spins around the spot you clicked facing the mouse, release LMB to place it
- if you're rotating but changed your mind and want to cancel, click RMB

it's stupid the sentry always is pointing in the same direction when built, this means one direction is always favored (no delay after finished)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--quoteo(post=1819890:date=Dec 28 2010, 08:15 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Dec 28 2010, 08:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1819890"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Press once, place a ghost structure at your crosshair (rightclick disables it). It will then follow your Crosshair around by turning, while also displaying it's range (not the silly circle as it currently has, which would indicated it can fire backwards as well). When you're happy with the placement, press once again to place the structure.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

+1

Any plans to include this in future releases?

Harimau

I see no reason why they wouldn't (along with a set of other features that are online FPS and RTS staples). It's just a matter of when they get around to it.