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Jooki Chewaka
Freek Coalition
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Posted - 2013.03.06 06:35:00 -
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I'm also a hero medic, ressurrecting the unressurectable, repairing even when taking fire, dodging bullets...
To be honest I HATE when I'm repping someone and that one starts sprinting, I often think "you moron don't you see down there at the left the armor bar raising?-+?-+?-+?" but after a little exercise of empathy I realise that they simply don't because it's not enough, so i agree with you, ppl getting repaired should hav esome sort of warning.
BUT, I think that text on the screen "Youre being repaired bla bla bla" wouldn't make the thing right, people don't read while playing shooters.
I have a better idea:
-The Repair Tool throws some kind of golden rays loaded with nanites to your targets right? Then, why does not it appears on the screen of the target, on their HUD, some kind of golden rays around their screen? or even better, the same arrows that appear when taking damage, showing you from where the damage is coming, but in golden colour when being repaired? The cool and useful feature would be if these both appeared at the same time.
These would make it more intuitive to notice when one gets repped, more graphical, more visual, less invasive.
Another thing I think would be nice is, when you aim to your team mates, the bars of shield and armor appear, a cool feature would be if they would always show up for the guys who have armor damage when you have a Repair Tool fitted, so you could spot them faster.
Another thing that would also be nice is, when you have armor damage, the little -à above team mates heads which have a Repair Tool fitted should highlight, with some tiny but noticeable icon showing a team mate with Repair Tool, so you could approach them and let them repair you.
All of this with no text, no letters, I mean we already have messages: "Team is hacking A", "Enemy is hacking B", more letters would crowd the HUD, but there are lots of alternative and more visual and intuitive and less annoying and invasive ways of sowing these :) |
Jooki Chewaka
Freek Coalition
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Posted - 2013.03.06 15:15:00 -
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The Cabalist wrote:Well now, I don't run logistics because I'm a glory hog, I let my pals with the large guns and my ammunition do that. And my self esteem and ego will remain as they are, unrepentantly over inflated. Like I would need the input of some old crone, my clone machine, or pleasure companion to make me a believe I'm the best damn merc. I mean heck, there are thousands of clones with my name on it, what more of an ego boost do I need?
Then if you don't have glory hunger, why the need of showing your name? and your shinny fitting?
The Cabalist wrote:What I was actually getting at, is the kill feed isn't for glory, it's there to tell your friends and foes who did what to who. That information could be used by your team to realize that hey instead of ceasing cardiac function so I can decant into my next clone, maybe I should wait and see if that totally awesome logistics is close enough to pick my sorry bullet ridden clone off the ground, patch the holes and feed me more ammo. Alternatively, it also lets your enemies know to target you with more hate plasma because with out your logistical self out there on the field it weakens the team.
Please, realise that people DON'T care about "The Cabalist" ressing them, they just care about being ressed.
As I already stated, lots of letters flooding the HUD don't improve the game experience, they only fog it.
The Cabalist wrote:Logistics are high value targets.
Indeed.
The Cabalist wrote:P.S.: please leave the e-peen in the holster shall we?
You ask me to leave the e-*****, but you answered to that, not to my idea, its quite... ironic.
The Cabalist wrote:P.P.S.: Mercs do it for the cash and glory. Getting your name out there makes you a more valuable and desirable merc. More desire, more cash and glory. ectera ad infinitum.
C'mon man, seeking glory in an Instant Battle is the most carebear thing I've heard so far in Dust 514, when Corps will be able to control districts, coordinating with their members up there at EvE for orbitals, and holding them for long, Dominating, Corps will be the ones getting the glory, and by extension its members, not the individuals per se. |
Jooki Chewaka
Freek Coalition
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Posted - 2013.03.06 17:50:00 -
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Garrett Blacknova wrote:It was a LONG time ago, but I'll say what I always used to say in threads like this.
When being repaired, a directional indicator like the ones given for damage - but a different colour, maybe blue/green - would be awesome.
Exactly, that would be the best way of making it intuitive and easy to notice.
The directional indicator would show where the incoming reps are coming from, this way ppl wouldn't go around a corner and make you lose lock.
But about the colour, you say blue or green because it remembers to HP, in shooters HP has always been green or blue, though I said gold because the Repair Tool throws golden rays... the colour its not big deal really xD |
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