Button to toggle hud bits.

ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
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<div class="IPBDescription">For v2.</div>I would like to see, in a future version, a button that can be used to toggle the non-essential HUD components on or off. Looking at the recent screenshots I see a lot of icons denoting upgrades on the right hand side for both teams. I don’t see the point of having them there all the time. I loved the minimalist HUD approach of AvP1 and 2 for the aliens, something similar for NS would be good. Maybe the resource and energy bars for the aliens could be toggleable too.

Comments? Thoughts? Suggestions?

--Scythe--
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  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    it looks cluttlered, however its alot of usfull information.

    It's good to know how many of each chamber you have up.  You get some, you lose some and your hud is constantly being updated with that information.

    As well as the fairly new Hive addition.  It tells you how many hives, what chamber is associated with each and how close a hive is to being built.

    While I think the idea of a 'cleaner' hud is pretty good, I think you'd just loose too much information.  Perhaps if it was easily toggable, but, it may require more work then its worth, I don't know.

    I just dont think its warented ...



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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I was thinking of a key that you hold down to show the extra info, not a togglebox in the options somewhere.

    On a related note: What's that Hive-upgrade-relation thingo mean? I saw the wee icon to the bottom right of the Hive icon and thought it was something to do with something but I couldn't think what. Could a PT fill me in here?

    --Scythe--



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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    It's pretty simple.  Each hive allows you to build a single type of chamber.  If one hive gets taken out, the chamber that was "tied" to that hive can no longer be built until that hive or another new hive comes online.
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    I think you should be able to switch between Full and Compact mode. Compact wouldn't be anything fancy, just really simple icons that are made as small as they can but still viewable. (Like a simple bar running down the side for energy)
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    No.

    "Why?"

    Because I don't want to make 2 versions of everything, I'm sure Flayra doesn't want to code it, and it wouldn't be worth the overhead.
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  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    Especialy since the vast majority of players would probably not know of its existence and thus stick with the default mode.
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