Commander/Khammander GUI-improvements
Mr.Greedy
Join Date: 2012-07-21 Member: 154270Members
Join Date: 2012-07-21 Member: 154270Members
In my opinion the GUI need to give much more information about the battlefield. Currently, It feels not like a RTS-Commander.
1.) Upgrades
Alien-players can see which upgrades are online. Khammanders cant. Why? Sometimes, if a evolutionchamber get sniped by marines, the khammanders dont note that until someone says in voice "khammander,we have lost xxx-upgrade". To search and check all evolutionchambers all 3 minutes on minimap is not a solution :>. Just display all researched evolutions on screen.
Upgrades in research needs a progress bar.
2.) Playerlist
I want a permanent list of all marines or alien-players on my screen (for me on right side) with informations about Playername, HP/Armor, Ammo/Energy, Location, Status( like "in fight" "following order" "respawning" etc. ), Weapon/Lifeform, Equipment/Evolutions, an icon if the player says something in voice(or the playerbar is highlighting), an icon if a player yells for "need ammo/medpack/order".
This list can be sorted. For example : press and hold STRG, choose Player 1,4,5 and press "1". They are now optical separated from other players in the list. And there is now a shortcut on "1" to select all this players and a shortcut-button on screen near those players in list .
The same List for all buildings(some frequently buildings like cysts are combined) with extra informations like "no Energy/Cystlink"(maybe higlighted in red colour) "is upgrading/evolving" etc.. This buildinglist is invisible until u are pressing a specifiec button(because thats to much on screen ).
3.) Minimap
New Colors for minimap is badly needed. I dont know why a cyst, when its fresh builded, glows RED on the minimap. Red indicates danger/damage.
Special buildings need different STRONGER colors. Letz say for example all Whips are deep blue, all Harvesters are White, all evolutionchambers are yellow etc.
The infestation indicates the alien-territory. Currently its yellow on yellow :/ . Yellow for infestation is fine. The minimap backgroundcolor needs a neutral color like grey for both commanders! Marine buildings create a own territorycircle on the minimap in blue.
Again: Alien-territory = yellow , Marine-Territory = blue, neutral territory = grey.
Buildings with no energy/cystlinks must be marked on minimap. Permanent changing the color between yellow-grey(aliens) or blue-grey(marines) until the territory is retaken(or lost)
Thats it. Sry for my bad english :/ .
Edit:
The Commander can give Medpacks, Ammo, nanoshield by just selecting the equipment and then clicking the marine on playerlist. Supporting marines will work much faster now and the accuracy is 100 %(no more faildrops). Maybe thats OP i dunno . Need to be prove
1.) Upgrades
Alien-players can see which upgrades are online. Khammanders cant. Why? Sometimes, if a evolutionchamber get sniped by marines, the khammanders dont note that until someone says in voice "khammander,we have lost xxx-upgrade". To search and check all evolutionchambers all 3 minutes on minimap is not a solution :>. Just display all researched evolutions on screen.
Upgrades in research needs a progress bar.
2.) Playerlist
I want a permanent list of all marines or alien-players on my screen (for me on right side) with informations about Playername, HP/Armor, Ammo/Energy, Location, Status( like "in fight" "following order" "respawning" etc. ), Weapon/Lifeform, Equipment/Evolutions, an icon if the player says something in voice(or the playerbar is highlighting), an icon if a player yells for "need ammo/medpack/order".
This list can be sorted. For example : press and hold STRG, choose Player 1,4,5 and press "1". They are now optical separated from other players in the list. And there is now a shortcut on "1" to select all this players and a shortcut-button on screen near those players in list .
The same List for all buildings(some frequently buildings like cysts are combined) with extra informations like "no Energy/Cystlink"(maybe higlighted in red colour) "is upgrading/evolving" etc.. This buildinglist is invisible until u are pressing a specifiec button(because thats to much on screen ).
3.) Minimap
New Colors for minimap is badly needed. I dont know why a cyst, when its fresh builded, glows RED on the minimap. Red indicates danger/damage.
Special buildings need different STRONGER colors. Letz say for example all Whips are deep blue, all Harvesters are White, all evolutionchambers are yellow etc.
The infestation indicates the alien-territory. Currently its yellow on yellow :/ . Yellow for infestation is fine. The minimap backgroundcolor needs a neutral color like grey for both commanders! Marine buildings create a own territorycircle on the minimap in blue.
Again: Alien-territory = yellow , Marine-Territory = blue, neutral territory = grey.
Buildings with no energy/cystlinks must be marked on minimap. Permanent changing the color between yellow-grey(aliens) or blue-grey(marines) until the territory is retaken(or lost)
Thats it. Sry for my bad english :/ .
Edit:
The Commander can give Medpacks, Ammo, nanoshield by just selecting the equipment and then clicking the marine on playerlist. Supporting marines will work much faster now and the accuracy is 100 %(no more faildrops). Maybe thats OP i dunno . Need to be prove
Comments
Only thing I disagree on is being able to do prefect drops by clicking on a marine and then clicking med/ammo. Accuracy in drops is an important skill differentiator for good comms.
Only thing I disagree on is being able to do prefect drops by clicking on a marine and then clicking med/ammo. Accuracy in drops is an important skill differentiator for good comms.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed. I love all the ideas, but manual dropping needs to stay. Its a nice penalty to jetpackers who have to dorp down to get medpacks usually.
On point #1, would be good if the upgrade icons were filled up in a pie-chart fashion as they researched, since they are all already circular icons.
When they died, they should go dark red and then fade away to make it noticeable.
Also, I think that the following changes should be made:
1. Commander Assistance (Ammo, Health, Scan, Armor) should be ALWAYS bound to Z, X, C, V (configurable) rather than be dependant on which tab you have selected. Also pressing B could bring up a menu to choose which weapon to drop and be in their own panel on the UI, instead of in the assist tab. This would make dropping things much easier.
2. We should have the ability to use standard keyboard keys to instantly select a building, rather than going through tabs
-Press T for Resource Tower, I for infantry portal etc, rather than the 2-key combos we have now
3. Automatically assign 3 or 4 people to a squad, which are automatically bound to 1-4 on the keyboard for commander (or something). Squad allocation is automatic, however it will try to put steam friends together in the same squads. This would allow the commander to easily give orders to groups.
4. OPTION to automatically assign all MACs to control group 5 and all ARCs to control group 6. This should make using them a little easier.
For example: outpost X is under heavy atack. U deactivate phasegates from other outpost and just need to say "use phasegate". Outpost x will be secured and no time.
I think that is a littel piece of controll that a commander rly need. To actualize this, all phasegates must be displayed on the screen by icons(blue shiny,bottom, in a line) with locationname (shortened name). Just click on a phasegate-icon to deactivate/activate it(by deactivating, the color changed to grey and its no more shiny).