9 replies to this topic

[ManDaisy]

Please add steam and heat waves if we get our mechs sufficiently hot inside the cockpit. Also color coded warning light glows would be awesome too. Everything is normal when suddenly you cockpit if illuminated by the red glow of reactor breach or heat level critical warning lights.

[Geist Null]

there does seem to be a lack of "omg!" lights in the videos when mechs are overheating...

[Adridos]

It would be good, but imagine it from a design perspective.

If they implement it, it's a feature heavy on HW. Therefore, it should be able to be turned off in options, but that makes it unbalanced for those that want to see those effects.

[Mason West]

WARNING! WARNING! this is your on board computer : you are going to die...im sorry for the inconvenience.

[Angelicon]

Adridos, on 09 May 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

It would be good, but imagine it from a design perspective.

If they implement it, it's a feature heavy on HW. Therefore, it should be able to be turned off in options, but that makes it unbalanced for those that want to see those effects.

This would not tax hardware heavily. It's only a matter of a blinky light and then shifting the color of cockpit objects a bit to the "red" side.

[William Petersen]

Angelicon, on 09 May 2012 - 10:16 AM, said:

This would not tax hardware heavily. It's only a matter of a blinky light and then shifting the color of cockpit objects a bit to the "red" side.

I think he means the mirage effect.

[Bullwerk]

Damage and heat indication in the cockpit environment should be something included with the game and I would be surprised if PGI drops the ball on this item. These type of effects go a long way to creating an immersive environment whne done right and everyone wants their MWO experience to be as immersive as possible.

The fact that we have not seen them yet bothers me not a bit though. Lets face it their are much more important things to get right like movement, weapons, damage modeling, environment models, mech models, etc, etc. These effects if planned for can be added in at anytime before launch when the more pressing (and game breaking) concerns are dealt with

[William Petersen]

Did you guys really not see the big red warning letters when heat got to 75% or more (estimate, I wasn't watching the heat scale that closely; too many lazors! @_@ =D)


Granted, mirage effect, steam, or some other obvious (and, more importantly, interfering) graphical queue is important, but it's not unnoticeable that you're at high heat and about to shut down.

[Yoseful Mallad]

i hope they have your on board computer talk to you. I want my mech to talk all sexy like to me lol

[Mason West]

Yoseful Mallad, on 09 May 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

i hope they have your on board computer talk to you. I want my mech to talk all sexy like to me lol

"Im scared Dave"