Marine Squads

kyLekyLe Join Date: 2012-11-14 Member: 170865Members
in Ideas and Suggestions
Hey there!

I thought about a squad feature for marines (or even for aliens, too I don't mind).

The commander can assign players to a squad. After that he can easily select all member of that squad via a new button in the commander UI. I made a screenshot of a concept which I try to attach to that post.
There shouldnt be any more functions than "Select Player X,Y and Z after I assigned them to Squad 1 and I clicked the Squad 1 Icon".
That way it should be way much easier for the commander to assign tasks to random ppl (especially on public servers).
Squad 1 spread out to the East, Squad 2 to the West, Squad 3 get the base up, whatever..

Any thoughts about that idea?
What do you think?

Greetz,
kyLe

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  • HusarHusar Join Date: 2012-11-11 Member: 169523Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Hmm...I've read somewhere that that function already exists. To build a squad select players and press ctrl+[1,2...,9 or 0] so a squad is assinged to that number [1,2...,9 or 0]. To select the squad press simply press [1,2...,9 or 0].
    This might be broken since there are other shortcuts seem to be broken, but you could try it out.
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  • sinbusinbu Join Date: 2003-02-02 Member: 12994Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited November 2012
    <!--quoteo(post=2023679:date=Nov 14 2012, 06:17 PM:name=Husar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Husar @ Nov 14 2012, 06:17 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2023679"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Hmm...I've read somewhere that that function already exists. To build a squad select players and press ctrl+[1,2...,9 or 0] so a squad is assinged to that number [1,2...,9 or 0]. To select the squad press simply press [1,2...,9 or 0].
    This might be broken since there are other shortcuts seem to be broken, but you could try it out.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    The squad system used to be in beta, but has been taken out. I don't know why, maybe because they introduced auto orders for marines. I never used the squad system because squads are so dynamic, and you shift members all the time (because people die and you need to quickly reallocate your team)

    That being said, the suggestion is not a bad one. You can still bind Mac's and Arc's, as well as buildings i believe, by hitting ctrl-#. I bind obs always to 4,5,6 (based on base) so i can do a quick distress beacon

    Good Luck!
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  • drilltoothdrilltooth Join Date: 2012-11-12 Member: 170096Members
    as far as I know, it's still there, at elast, it seems to be. dunno if it turns up on playerside like it did in ns1
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  • ArcL!ghtArcL!ght Join Date: 2007-11-27 Member: 63031Members, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester
    While we are at it :)

    I'll just post this here

    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKZkgCzzK8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKZkgCzzK8</a>
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