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OnosFactory
New Zealand Join Date: 2008-07-16 Member: 64637Members
New Zealand Join Date: 2008-07-16 Member: 64637Members
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No Warning for this, nothing! And you know why... because, my BASE is always under attack, ALWAYS. So I hear every ten seconds... Your base is under attack... yeah, so what, one RT down, and... but wait, it was the bloody darn POWER NODE IN BASE!
Hate that game for this flaw.
Why not implement: If Power Node in Room with Command Chair is under attack play in 200% volume (since NS2 is so silent anyway): YOUR POWER NODE IN BASE IS UNDER ATTACK
SCREAM IT !!!! BLOW A HORN !!! Like in an bomb attack, something at least!
i cant count how many times i raise this already. the hud is so 1990
Well, Jucci, good for you, but unfortunately the world consists of more people as just only you, so the rest has a problem with it, move to an other thread to troll with your wisdom.
Aural cues help improve a commander's situational awareness. Right now the constant base under attack for all the res nodes is worthless. Commanders are tuning it out because its become a redundant annoying alarm cue.
I guess pilots shouldn't have alarms on their plane when important things happen. Air traffic controls shouldn't have an aural alarm when planes get too close together. The car shouldn't peep when you open the door and your keys are still in the ignition. All those people should be on point all the time. *dodgy*
The UI does need fixes. If you have an Observatory in your base, and aliens come in range you should beable to see how many, and of what type they are. At the moment you get a 'your base is under attack' and see a red dot on the map. I just played a game where I was comm and a unit came into the main and started sniping the arms lab, no-one was coming back to defend it so I jumped out assuming it was a skulk, and died because it was a fade. There was an obs about 2 meters to the right of the arms lab by the way. Why do I have to scan as comm, to show alien lifeforms that are within range of an obs?
Also being able to hotkey a building and double click that hotkey to center on the position would be greatly appreciated.
CTRL-Selecting would also be appreciated.
Sometimes it's even hard to initially see which structure is under attack, without clicking on each building in the area to see the lowering HP.
Introducing an intuitive UI to the game would actually raise the overall skill level of games IMO. Having a slow or cumbersome UI doesn't mean the comm needs to get better just so he can counter-act the UI problems.
I am by no means a bad commander, I have led my team to victory even on maps like Refinery, but I feel cheated every time the power gets attacked because I don't see it and the Marines aren't fast enough to tell me. It's actually pretty similar to the upgrade issue with the Khamm.
My power node is 1, my armory is 2, my observatory is 3, my arms lab is 4, my protolab is 5.
Then it will appear above your minimap and flash red when under attack. You can apply this with multiple base structures.
Most Commanders probably have the APM of like 12 so they can't handle multi-tasking/checking their base often? Either way just do what I said above.. hotkey your structures and you will get icons that flash red when under attack above your minimap.
Fixed.
I also suspect that these simple changes will also help balance out the win/loss ratio for marines/aliens just a little bit... not completely but a little.
Not doing it is like saying..... You should have to program the game yourself to play and not "feed the babies" who don't know how to do it.
I generally hotkey my observatories so I can beacon easily if I need to, but I only ever comm in PUB, not in scrims. In your situation Locklear I can see how your hotkeys would be a good advantage for you. But general PUB play seems to revolve around setting up 'bases' everywhere. I was also under the impression you could only use 1,2,3 and 4 for hotkeys - My bad. I'll definately be hot-keying key power nodes from now on.
Jucci - Adding things in like CTRL-Selecting or SHIFT-Clicking to add units to your selection isn't making the game easy mode. It's allowing commanders to act quicker. Do you think hotkeys should be taken out of the build menu? or removing CTRL-Grouping all together to make the game harder?
I think most of the stuff I listed was based around making the UI easier to navigate, not making the game easier.
Regarding actual notification bugs relating to priority and a proper UI :
Its known, and Its being worked on, just so you know.
A small improvement was made a couple of patches ago, but we rejected the fix overall still, as it was lacking like you know, and thus it is still being worked on by the devs. (I can even see which one.)
While i obviously cant say for sure when or even if anything will go in by next patch, I'll bump it up in priority just for good measure.
nor low apm should have been a valid argument against lacking warning.
Never said this at all. Im talking about a warning on everything being attacked. Might as well put more info in my face.
Ahh, my mistake - I thought you were disagreeing with my earlier post when you said you didn't want it to be easy mode.
I wouldn't mind more emphasis on tech point power nodes coming under attack, and less warning on things like RT's to be honest.