Automatic Squad Management
perky
Join Date: 2012-08-31 Member: 157042Members
The idea is every four players is grouped into a squad, except the commander. Each squad is labeled in the greek alphabet or the Nato alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma or alfa, bravo, charlie) and the player has the letter next to their name in-game and in the scoreboard. On the left side of the commander HUD are the squad letters and when clicked each member of that squad is selected.
Hopefully this will encourage and simplify tactical gameplay, it'll be easy to say "Alpha, push into Warehouse and Beta flank Warehouse from the left."
Hopefully this will encourage and simplify tactical gameplay, it'll be easy to say "Alpha, push into Warehouse and Beta flank Warehouse from the left."
Comments
Perhaps 3 per squad would be better, you would have a 3 man squad and a 2 man squad. You could make it a bit smarter on how many players it assigns to a squad based on how many players there are, but I think it should be automatic and the commander shouldn't have to worry about squad management.
For example:
2-5 players - no squads.
6 players - 3 & 2
7 players - 3 & 3
8 players - 4 & 3
9 players - 4 & 4
10 players - 3 & 3 & 3
I doubt it'll effect the comp scene since the teams know each other so well that they don't really need it but for pubs it could be nice to organise it a bit more.
I doubt it'll effect the comp scene since the teams know each other so well that they don't really need it but for pubs it could be nice to organise it a bit more.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What happens when players join a few minutes into the game? Perhaps there should be an toggle in settings for it to be user created or automatic, not sure how the GUI would work for user controlled squads though.