No Prompt To Change Batteries?
Klinn
Lost in a cave Join Date: 2016-03-09 Member: 214022Members
Lost in a cave Join Date: 2016-03-09 Member: 214022Members
Been a while since I last played, but I thought there used to be a message when the tool you're using ran out of power and you had to change batteries.
Tonight my scanner exhausted its battery but no prompt appeared on screen. I had to Google it to remember that you press R to switch batteries. Would be less confusing if that info appeared in the game.
Tonight my scanner exhausted its battery but no prompt appeared on screen. I had to Google it to remember that you press R to switch batteries. Would be less confusing if that info appeared in the game.
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Huh...that's weird. Houston, we may've found a bug.
Are we really that lazy?
Do we really need the game to do EVERYTHING for us??
With that same logic, your phone/laptop/whatever uses a battery shouldn't show how much is left and instead you'd have to take the battery out and check the percentage from a little screen on it
It's still rather annoying to have to stop and do that. Though its more like 10 seconds if you happen to be in the late game and suffer from slideshow syndrome.
Not quite...
Your comparing something in REAL Life with pushing a second key on your keyboard for a game.
There's a very large loss of comparison there.
That's not even logical.
So asking why a convenient feature, that used to be in the game, was removed is an indication of laziness? That having the battery charge always indicated when a tool was selected was something, that somehow 'did everything' for us? Or that knowing the charge without having to stop and manually check it somehow put the game into Easy Mode?
Your posts seem to suggest that line of reasoning, at least.
This particular change is not what I would call game breaking, nor that terribly inconvenient.
If the stasis rifle gets an alternate use, there should be a shotgun mode.
Well, if you want in-game instead of real life, there's the fact that both the Habitat Builder and SeaGlide have light-up LEDS that show battery power just by looking at the device (no HUD info). I imagine the devs could add something like that to the Scanner; or at the least add a percentage meter to the default "Ready" image on the LCD screen.
I would like to point out though, that for over a year the scanner had a normal power reading just like every other tool, before they added the "Self Scan" tooltip. So me asking for that functionality back IMHO isn't terribly selfish or lazy.