How Are We Going To Designate Airstrike Targets?
#1
Posted 13 March 2013 - 08:49 AM
???
Is it going to be from the cockpit?
THe battlegrid? where you have to zoom every single time you open the thing. ?
Its been a pet peeve of mine that pgi has known that one of the major problems for players is the lack of functional communication tools for non voice com players..
Lo and behold here comes a money maker mechanic where suddenly we will be able to designate an area of the map for bombardment.
I am dying to know if they only figured out how to do this to implement the money bombs?
Whether or not they even are going to utilize the mechanic to help non voice com communications?
Many questions..
#2
Posted 13 March 2013 - 08:51 AM
#3
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:09 AM
Version 2 : Battlegrid
I'll guess there will be a two month gap between the versions.
#4
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:13 AM
Thomas Dziegielewski, on 13 March 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:
Version 2 : Battlegrid
I'll guess there will be a two month gap between the versions.
Why so long to add battlegrid targeting? Seems like super simple math problem how to translate coordinates from minimap to real map.
#5
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:19 AM
Also, once the function is in, refining it and adding improvements to it probably moves to the bottom of the priority list in a beta game like this.
That said, thanks for the super fast response, Thomas
#6
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:19 AM
#7
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:35 AM
Or a feature for the commanders console with a symbol to place on the mini map.
An air strike with a start and end point to maneuver the drop azimuth.
#8
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:36 AM
#9
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:41 AM
Thomas Dziegielewski, on 13 March 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:
Version 2 : Battlegrid
I'll guess there will be a two month gap between the versions.
Version 1 is more usefull for most situations. Version 2 is only good if you can't see the target area.
A bit of a wait. But, the more important part is being done first.
I assume that the Version 2 is mostly dependant on the BattleGrid changes.
#10
Posted 13 March 2013 - 09:45 AM
MadPanda, on 13 March 2013 - 09:13 AM, said:
Why so long to add battlegrid targeting? Seems like super simple math problem how to translate coordinates from minimap to real map.
The gameplay code side is not the problem. It is done exactly how commander orders are issued right now.
#11
Posted 02 April 2013 - 02:26 PM
ItsAPotato, on 13 March 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:
Also, once the function is in, refining it and adding improvements to it probably moves to the bottom of the priority list in a beta game like this.
That said, thanks for the super fast response, Thomas
It can keep track of the waypoints people set and the mechs on the map. It is clickable (can add waypoints). What's the problem?
#12
Posted 03 April 2013 - 07:08 AM
Fate 6, on 02 April 2013 - 02:26 PM, said:
Holy zombie thread, Batman!
My original post still applies. Things often seem finished or implemented in the coding world when they really aren't. I can't tell you how many times my boss tells me to push some coding endeavor to production when exactly 0% of the back end is actually functional because it LOOKS like everything is in place.
For example, one situation I could see: None of what we put on the map now translates to anything appearing on the actual 3d world in which your big stompy robot walks. The battle grid that the commander uses may just be an image which players edit, none of which gets translated to real-world coordinates on the 3d map.
Obviously something is holding them up, because they've said (in this very thread) that the ability to order strikes via the battle grid is coming. It may be gameplay balance issues, it may be technical issues. Understand that the people seeing this code every day know more about it than you do.
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