New Commanding UI

NoctoverNoctover Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154721Members
<div class="IPBDescription">My ears, IT BURNS!</div>Hello,

im not sure if this is the correct place to put this post but im sure you'll move it if its not :).

The new patch is great, love the exo suit, but the commanding UI needs to go back to how it was.

Its very difficult to see who needs health, it takes far to long where as before you could see it in a blink and drop a medpack for them

Also, the UI for commanding now looks very washed out, its not a great look imo.

But the worst part, the part that is stopping me commanding until this is fixed, is the ear rape.

All i hear literally every 1.5 seconds in "Solider needs ammo/health" because for some unknown reason i cannot fathom you decided to make it automatically spam that in the commanders ear the second a marine loses 1 health, or fire 1 magazine, even if they are fighting next to an armory.

Honestly after 10 minutes i had to stop commanding and ask someone else to take my place, it was literally driving me nuts.

Now to me a feature like that is too ridiculous to be included which is why i asked the server if it was a server mod, they said it wasnt, it was the patch which is the reason for this post. If it does in fact turn out that you didn't put this in the patch as a feature you can disregard this complaint.

Noctover.

Comments

  • TonkaTruckTonkaTruck Join Date: 2012-08-19 Member: 155893Members
    Yea I have to agree. I didn't know the health/ammo requests were automatic now though, I figured my team was spamming that ######. The fact I can't see the health/armor/ammo of my team anymore makes it way too hard to try to assist people with medpacks.
  • NoctoverNoctover Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154721Members
    Indeed i was telling em to stfu spamming "need health/ammo" but had to say sorry because i realised it was automatic.
  • antacidantacid Join Date: 2007-08-07 Member: 61821Members, NS2 Playtester
    The auto health is the worst thing ever.

    It is impossible to tell who NEEDS it and who doesn't.

    When I know I am a goner I don't call for meds because it would be a waste of res, I only call them when I need them. Now the ###### is spammed nonstop and the comm cant figure out who needs them and who doesn't.
  • spellman23spellman23 NS1 Theorycraft Expert Join Date: 2007-05-17 Member: 60920Members
    Oh, that's automatic now? That's... annoying.

    Also, removing the HP circles on your friendly Marines makes it hard to know who to medpack.
  • CemCem Join Date: 2010-02-07 Member: 70472Members
    + the marine com alert sound effects are so bad for me. The orginal sounds were so soft and nice but the new one so hard and makes me tickly ^^
    not for marine commander when he was in stres in the middle of combat.
    also auto ammo / med request spams; omg
  • NoctoverNoctover Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154721Members
    I'm a firm believer in "if its not broken don't fix it", i cant understand why UW took the time to redesign a system for monitoring the HP/amour of the marines that was in perfect working order before, only to make it worse :/.
  • rantologyrantology Join Date: 2012-02-05 Member: 143750Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold
    For the healthbar bug this patch, if you command PLEASE go and download Schimmel's temporary fix:

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=120420&view=findpost&p=1968285" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=1968285</a>
  • NoctoverNoctover Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154721Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1968430:date=Aug 29 2012, 07:33 PM:name=rantology)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rantology @ Aug 29 2012, 07:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1968430"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->For the healthbar bug this patch, if you command PLEASE go and download Schimmel's temporary fix:

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=120420&view=findpost&p=1968285" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=1968285</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Cheers mate
  • GreenFlameGreenFlame Join Date: 2011-03-17 Member: 86860Members
    I liked a lot the previous GUI, this one is bit distracting and big. The Build, Advanced, Assist, Select buttons looked better than the icons and took less space, GUI transparency makes it worse, the animated Alien HUD makes it harder to concentrate, commander map design for marines seems to be too fancy, older looked better. I also miss old marine/alien HUDs and main menu. The new style direction doesn't seem to be better.

    Side note 1: I dislike the idea of Q being for medpack, I'd rather have taunt on it(with it's animation!)
    Side note 2: Don't like new voices at all. The old ones are just close to perfect
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