Highlight units in overview mode?
SuperCaffeineDude
Join Date: 2012-08-28 Member: 156675Members
Join Date: 2012-08-28 Member: 156675Members
<div class="IPBDescription">For both commander and spectator</div>I'm not going to pretend I've played the game, but I would be interested in trying out the game and even watching competitive game footage from time to time after seeing some of the youtube videos posted on your guys channel.
But from an overview...
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5BNrTx3yTM/UD08ygr-4aI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/a_fg9QRq5BI/s1600/wadwd.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
The game looks great, but for me to be able to sit and watch what is happening I think I'd need the aliens and marines slightly highlighted/illuminated/tinted in their faction colour or something of the like.
For me personally, some zones are too similar in tone to the colour scheme of the players, like the marines and all the blue neon-lights and the dark-greys.
Maybe I'd even go so far as to suggest a symbol to the right of a player representing the his/her unit type might be helpful. No racism intended but those marines all look alike to me. A little fire symbol on flame units, a little pack of bullets symbol on machine gunners and the like, would help me to understand what is going on. Unlike Starcraft where we are able to see a units weapon simply by silhouette, the marines all utilise the same basic shape (more or less), but that means we the viewer, and even the commander to a degree, cannot see the units he/she has clearly.
One step maybe too far might be to also have the ammo clips displayed.
Minor concern sirs, hope this isn't too petty. I look forward to seeing how the exosuit plays out in your later videos.
But from an overview...
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5BNrTx3yTM/UD08ygr-4aI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/a_fg9QRq5BI/s1600/wadwd.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
The game looks great, but for me to be able to sit and watch what is happening I think I'd need the aliens and marines slightly highlighted/illuminated/tinted in their faction colour or something of the like.
For me personally, some zones are too similar in tone to the colour scheme of the players, like the marines and all the blue neon-lights and the dark-greys.
Maybe I'd even go so far as to suggest a symbol to the right of a player representing the his/her unit type might be helpful. No racism intended but those marines all look alike to me. A little fire symbol on flame units, a little pack of bullets symbol on machine gunners and the like, would help me to understand what is going on. Unlike Starcraft where we are able to see a units weapon simply by silhouette, the marines all utilise the same basic shape (more or less), but that means we the viewer, and even the commander to a degree, cannot see the units he/she has clearly.
One step maybe too far might be to also have the ammo clips displayed.
Minor concern sirs, hope this isn't too petty. I look forward to seeing how the exosuit plays out in your later videos.
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