marine com easy fixes
sparkzbarca
Join Date: 2010-09-09 Member: 73949Members
Join Date: 2010-09-09 Member: 73949Members
simple to implement (10 lines of code or less basically) that would greatly improve the marine commander experience
1. Single button assist drop. Allow you to simply press S to drop health instead of S then click. This isn't just about shaving that 1/100th of a second off the drop time either. If you comm alot as I do you will often press S click to drop AND THEN IF you click again before pressing S.
normally your rushed as a comm trying to drop a few meds really fast so you just kinda spam S and click, but that results in sometimes hitting the mouse click twice. if you do that while hovering over a marine (which is exactly where your trying to hover your cursor) you drop the med and then select the marine well now your out of the assist menu and into the orders menu so now your all screwed up.
It's a problem with all assists. The solution called quick-cast in League of Legends is when you press a hot key it targets where your cursor currently is. Should be really easy to add a gameplay option and just skip the wait for click.
2. allow the spacebar to cycle through multiple commander focus requests. Right now it appears there is a single map co-ordinate saved, and pressing spacebar centers the view on that point. Change to an array of 5 and have spacebar cycle through them. The problem I encounter is when a marine is calling for ammo AND a skulk is attacking a res node for example. I'm staring at skulk while people on voice are complaining because they still don't have ammo.
1. Single button assist drop. Allow you to simply press S to drop health instead of S then click. This isn't just about shaving that 1/100th of a second off the drop time either. If you comm alot as I do you will often press S click to drop AND THEN IF you click again before pressing S.
normally your rushed as a comm trying to drop a few meds really fast so you just kinda spam S and click, but that results in sometimes hitting the mouse click twice. if you do that while hovering over a marine (which is exactly where your trying to hover your cursor) you drop the med and then select the marine well now your out of the assist menu and into the orders menu so now your all screwed up.
It's a problem with all assists. The solution called quick-cast in League of Legends is when you press a hot key it targets where your cursor currently is. Should be really easy to add a gameplay option and just skip the wait for click.
2. allow the spacebar to cycle through multiple commander focus requests. Right now it appears there is a single map co-ordinate saved, and pressing spacebar centers the view on that point. Change to an array of 5 and have spacebar cycle through them. The problem I encounter is when a marine is calling for ammo AND a skulk is attacking a res node for example. I'm staring at skulk while people on voice are complaining because they still don't have ammo.
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also if I am spamming meds and I run out of energy, for some reason the assist menu changes and everything gets screwed up then too, and marines are wondering why i'm telling them to move to some weird place or something
that's what I mean, it would be better if you could still select it when you have no energy but not place it down maybe?