Progress Metres - Building, Fixing, Healing

Ace42 · 07-27-2007, 12:30 AM

Are these turned off, or is it just my client showing a bug? If I'm healing someone, using a shovel on a bunker, or a spanner on a vehicle, the "progress" meter shows up, but doesn't appear to do anything. I just figured it was a case of "well, it's not realistic to know how healthy your target is, so you just keep going until it's done" or some such, but now I'm thinking that is just silly.

When you are building a bunker, you know how far you've got. You're not like "oh, it's three planks left to nail in before it's done, but I have no idea if I'm even over half-way done!"

Ditto for patching up the armour on a tank. "Oh, I've only got three screws to bolt in, but that could take years!"

In real life, you have visual clues to indicate how well you are doing. You can ask people "are you still a bit sore?", you can see how much material is left to construct with, etc. In PR bunkers go from components to assembled.

Now, if it's a bug, then "whoops, sorry, wrong section, I used the search function, checked the first couple of pages in the bug-rep bit, couldn't find any likely candidates, sorry." How do I fix it?

If it's intentional, then can we have a third model for construction at the very least that represents "functional, but not at 100%" ?

Like a bunker that's at 100% gets a flag up at the corner when it's 100%, and sandbags get an intermediate level (or even a fixed gun on top when complete, *joy*!)

At present I think a lot of people run past stuff because they see it up and assume it's complete. Particularly the command post, for example.

Or give us a working progress meter? It's a lot easier and more effective than modelling realistic (and thus ambiguous and hard to see) damage on people, vehicles and tanks that you have to watch for to work out if they're fine or still a bit peeky.

[R-DEV]eggman · 07-27-2007, 12:34 AM

Ace42 · 07-27-2007, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by [R-DEV]eggman

bug

Nuts, I was worried that might be the case... Time to try slightly more obscure search criteria then, I guess. Is this the first it's been heard of?

TheAmazingYant · 07-27-2007, 01:18 AM

That's a bug? Holy crap. I've never seen the meter work.

solodude23 · 07-27-2007, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by TheAmazingYant

That's a bug? Holy crap. I've never seen the meter work.

Thats the bug.

RooWarrior · 07-27-2007, 03:19 AM

I always thought it was intentional.

Burning Mustache · 07-27-2007, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by RooWarrior

I always thought it was intentional.

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Originally Posted by eggman

bug

Bad marketing there

Waliwalu · 07-27-2007, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RooWarrior

I always thought it was intentional.

Same. lol

Ghost1800 · 07-27-2007, 06:19 AM

Wait, before this I thought we weren't supposed to know the exact progress bar. A 4 tiered bar like |Wrecked|Critical|Not-so-Critical|Finished| would be kind of nice, but being able to tell people that the bunker is 57% done is stretching the imagination a tad.

Zybon · 07-27-2007, 06:49 AM

The fundamentals of BF2 are already stretching the imagination more than a tad... knowing the exact progress (instead of rough estimate) wouldn't affect anything.

07-27-2007, 12:30 AM	#1
Ace42 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 95	Progress Metres - Building, Fixing, Healing Are these turned off, or is it just my client showing a bug? If I'm healing someone, using a shovel on a bunker, or a spanner on a vehicle, the "progress" meter shows up, but doesn't appear to do anything. I just figured it was a case of "well, it's not realistic to know how healthy your target is, so you just keep going until it's done" or some such, but now I'm thinking that is just silly. When you are building a bunker, you know how far you've got. You're not like "oh, it's three planks left to nail in before it's done, but I have no idea if I'm even over half-way done!" Ditto for patching up the armour on a tank. "Oh, I've only got three screws to bolt in, but that could take years!" In real life, you have visual clues to indicate how well you are doing. You can ask people "are you still a bit sore?", you can see how much material is left to construct with, etc. In PR bunkers go from components to assembled. Now, if it's a bug, then "whoops, sorry, wrong section, I used the search function, checked the first couple of pages in the bug-rep bit, couldn't find any likely candidates, sorry." How do I fix it? If it's intentional, then can we have a third model for construction at the very least that represents "functional, but not at 100%" ? Like a bunker that's at 100% gets a flag up at the corner when it's 100%, and sandbags get an intermediate level (or even a fixed gun on top when complete, joy!) At present I think a lot of people run past stuff because they see it up and assume it's complete. Particularly the command post, for example. Or give us a working progress meter? It's a lot easier and more effective than modelling realistic (and thus ambiguous and hard to see) damage on people, vehicles and tanks that you have to watch for to work out if they're fine or still a bit peeky.
Ace42 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 95

07-27-2007, 12:34 AM	#2
[R-DEV]eggman PR Operations Lead Join Date: Dec 2005 Canada Posts: 10,370	bug
	Cheers! egg

07-27-2007, 03:19 AM	#6
RooWarrior Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5	I always thought it was intentional.
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Zybon Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 196	The fundamentals of BF2 are already stretching the imagination more than a tad... knowing the exact progress (instead of rough estimate) wouldn't affect anything.
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07-27-2007, 01:18 AM	#4
TheAmazingYant Join Date: Jul 2007 United States of America Location: Lakeland, Fl Posts: 62	That's a bug? Holy crap. I've never seen the meter work.

07-27-2007, 06:19 AM	#9
Ghost1800 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wouldnt you like to know Posts: 901	Wait, before this I thought we weren't supposed to know the exact progress bar. A 4 tiered bar like \|Wrecked\|Critical\|Not-so-Critical\|Finished\| would be kind of nice, but being able to tell people that the bunker is 57% done is stretching the imagination a tad.

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