Just built an armory

autograder

<div class="IPBDescription">please dont open the buy window</div>I find this rather annoying at game start.
You build an IP and an armory, all the while watching the door for skulks... as soon as the armory is built you are stuck in the buy screen for 3 seconds while you scramble to shoot the skulk that just walked through the door.

Mileage may vary.


*edit for tpyinng

Techercizer

I've never had this conflict with combat, but I do agree that it needs to be remedied.

internetexplorer

Build it to 99%, then finish it when it's safe and teammates are around? I dunno.

It should probably be harder to trigger the buy menu since standing up close and looking at the armory already obscures your vision, and it's healing you anyway, with or without the menu.

IeptBarakat

Just delay the menu popup for a second after building it. Although it doesn't really work as there is no real deploy animation for the structure.

twiliteblue

There is another hotkey conflict between "Pick up weapon", and the Use key (to build structure, lock door, or weld).
Picking up a weapon dropped next to an unbuilt structure, door, or marine by accident can befrustrating.

Wolpertinger

+1

I say let us use the 4 screens that are on the amory to buy weapons and not enter the overlay-menu at all.
More of a Dead Space Interface approach.

Align

That would be significantly more time-consuming and difficult to implement than just allowing ESC to close the menu instantly or having the armoury menu function be disabled for an extra second after it's finished building.

Flayra

This is definitely a bug and will be fixed. We have the concept of "warm up" time for structures, where they can't be used for a short amount of time after they are built but this seems to not be working at the moment.

sumguy720

Seems like you could just have the buy menu come up only if the use key was just pressed, as opposed to opening if the key was being held down previously. To buy from building you would have to release use, and press it again.

Harimau

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This makes sense.

Andrew_e1

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I say let us use the 4 screens that are on the amory to buy weapons and not enter the overlay-menu at all.
More of a Dead Space Interface approach.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


You mean like doom 3's interfaces? I remember when I first saw them back in 2004 my first thought was "omg, these would work perfect for NS"...

While its got its advantages (being aware of your surroundings in case aliens come), the main disadvantage would probably be that it could get too crowded during critical moments.

So, part of me wants it, part of me does not... lol

IeptBarakat

<!--quoteo(post=1897208:date=Jan 24 2012, 10:41 PM:name=Andrew_e1)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Andrew_e1 @ Jan 24 2012, 10:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1897208"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->You mean like doom 3's interfaces? I remember when I first saw them back in 2004 my first thought was "omg, these would work perfect for NS"...

While its got its advantages (being aware of your surroundings in case aliens come), the main disadvantage would probably be that it could get too crowded during critical moments.

So, part of me wants it, part of me does not... lol<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Well the armory does have 4 sides, a marine runs up to a side then that arms opens up and the menu hologram appears in front with the choices. Keeping as 'in the game' as possible.

IronHorse

when i saw that doom 3 flash driven tech in game, i remember thinking "this will be used from here on out in every game, its so intuitive and fluid."
but no. i havent seen a single game use that, to include dead space, with that level of ease to use. would take a player less time to select what they wanted than the current menu so being limited to 4 slots isnt so bad.