Misc. ideas

[Atkinson]

* Combine squad radar and Group VON channel so that if you see in the radar the guy who is speaking atm, his icon in the radar could perhaps turn green/flash/whatnot. This could help to grasp better who is speaking and where and where is he facing. How many times have you heard the "Enemies at my location" and then u usually have to ask "who said that" cos u missed the first time who was talking and then u have to check the map where he is in relation to you and which way he is facing...

* vA2 type icon showing the direction and distance to the marker just placed by the SL. Kinda like the one u now get when placing Navigation Point, but for the marker that SL put in the map (move here, attack here, observe here etc.). Would help to orient urself a bit better and not checking the map every 2 seconds. Edit: Is this in already? I've now seen this marker few times in-game. Got to test it more... This icon only appears if you are inside a APC etc.

* Squad radar showing the degree number for the direction of your 12. Now it just shows the direction to N. IRL you would easily point with a hand and talk at the same time saying things like "Watch that house over there". Now in-game you have to either take out the compass and check the direction to that house and tell the mate that "watch the house at 285" and he has to take the compass as well to check where that direction is. Or you could start describing the house "Hey watch that little house on the left with the weird thing on the roof and second door broken from the right" though you would have to presume that the mate u r talking to is facing the same way as u so "left" and "right" have same meaning.
Anyway the point is that like in PR:BF2 it becomes more fluent when u just say "Watch house at 285" cos u see it so easily in the screen all the time and others can orient themselves really fast to this.
I know, u can toggle the compass, but currently that thing takes half the screen. Any way to make it smaller so u could have it 24/7 on the screen?

* Thin out the control page in options. Like just leave for the default view the really simple basic stuff that most ppl use 99% of the time. Rest could be under the scroll list with Advanced controls or whatnot. At least you can see more of the controls atm than in vA2 but it could still be made more new player friendly.

Feel free to criticize my ideas, I just wanted to put them out somewhere. I might even change my mind about them once I play more or someone convinces me otherwise...

[Atkinson]

* Toggle-able compass while inside an APC. Now the compass direction value only holds for like 3 secs and the toggle doesn't work like when just being infantry.

[Atkinson]

* Add few HE rounds to LAT backpack or 50/50 HE and AT perhaps.

[Atkinson]

* Option to enable automatic freelook when entering any vehicle. This should be an option cos I can imagine that not everyone enables freelook immediately when they enter a vehicle of any sort. I've just noticed that every single time I enter a car etc. I will enable the freelook cos I want to look to sides as well and I use WASD to steer 100% of the time, and I could imagine that quite many use the same method.

* Remove the "XXX connected" and "XXX uses BAF blaa blaa" texts and make them only to appear in some console or whatnot. Now the screen is always spammed with "connecting" and "disconnected" texts.

[Beee8190]

Originally Posted by Atkinson

* Toggle-able compass while inside an APC. Now the compass direction value only holds for like 3 secs and the toggle doesn't work like when just being infantry.

Is it me or is the inside vehicle compass missaligned lol? I mention this becouse whenever I ask my gunner / driver to go EAST, they go NORTH, go south, they go west...
Now the funny thing is it happened to me X times too, except I was driving...but back to suggestion - yes, its not exactly convenient atm so +1 to the suggestion

Originally Posted by Atkinson

* Add few HE rounds to LAT backpack or 50/50 HE and AT perhaps.

No thanks, I need the freedom to choose the right gear for task at hand at given moment

Originally Posted by Atkinson

* Option to enable automatic freelook when entering any vehicle. This should be an option cos I can imagine that not everyone enables freelook immediately when they enter a vehicle of any sort. I've just noticed that every single time I enter a car etc. I will enable the freelook cos I want to look to sides as well and I use WASD to steer 100% of the time, and I could imagine that quite many use the same method.

No. You can easily toggle btw freelook - fixed with doubletapping L Alt key by default I believe but yes I watch the sides all the time too.


* Remove the "XXX connected" and "XXX uses BAF blaa blaa" texts and make them only to appear in some console or whatnot. Now the screen is always spammed with "connecting" and "disconnected" texts.

I wouldnt mind if the chat only mentioned - XXXX name connected, leaving any missing mods and whatnot unnoticed.

Smaller font could also do the trick as we still need to use side chanells within team.

[-=Leon=-]

How about reducing the noise level when walking crouched to make it something of a stealth mode? But you would have to get rid of the sickening weapon sway in that stance of course. I know that PR is not about special forces but i think IRL even a simple grunt can face the need for a stealhy approach from time to time especially in urban areas.

[OverwatchX]

Originally Posted by Atkinson

* Remove the "XXX connected" and "XXX uses BAF blaa blaa" texts and make them only to appear in some console or whatnot. Now the screen is always spammed with "connecting" and "disconnected" texts.

YES!! Would be great if the text spam at the bottom was stopped/hidden somehow.

[Bumgie]

Originally Posted by Beee8190

No thanks, I need the freedom to choose the right gear for task at hand at given moment

I do not understand what you mean. How would that hinder your freedoms ? The backpack has the stuff that it has and thats it. If you want to change the equipment in the backpack, then you have to do it manually anyways and this improvement would not cause any problems.

[Atkinson]

* Add the ability to remove boxes (AT, mortar crates etc...) with Spacebar-menu and/or make empty (and why not full/half-full) ones disappear after some time. There is sometimes a huge clutter of empty, half empty and full crates around the Ammo Supply cos ppl take out a box, then take out the weapon and ammo, rearm it and load the weapon to some container or truck etc. for faster deploy in the field. This leaves a huge amount of boxes with just sandbags in them at the main...

[Zapata]

Yes when there are lot of empty boxes around its possible to destroy the weapon when trying to unload it. Kill or hurt your self still an open issue of unpacking.