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[Foxtrot four eight]

A command wheel is going to be placed in the game in June. What messages should be in this command wheel? What kind of messages for scouts or spotters?

[GonaDie]

''Plz halp!'' would be the most usefull.

[Rushin Roulette]

"Dont go there you scrub"
"At least attempt to shoot the enemy instead of friendlies"
"Its always fun pushing alone. We really appreciate those LRM/Sniper mechs at max range back there"

[Alistair Winter]

I really hope they've had the foresight to monitor communication in both VOIP and team chat and make a note of what commands and reports are most common. But I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they try to use some generic commands and then people still have to manually ask for LRMs on a NARCed target, or ask people to capture Kappa, for example.

How about this though?

Edited by Alistair Winter, 14 May 2016 - 09:31 AM.

[Johnny Z]

"Form up noobs"

"stop shooting me in the back noobs"

"quit using me as cover noobs"

[visionGT4]

"use your gunz"

"use your armor"

[zudukai]

the menu from MW4 is a pretty good start...



what other games have menus like this? i know chromehounds does but i don't have a screenshot, planetside 2 does, and it changes with context, depending on the vehicle you are in e.t.c.

[Felbombling]

"OMG... I overextended... help me!!"

[cazidin]

"Stop exploding you cowards!"

[MonkeyCheese]

zudukai, on 14 May 2016 - 01:37 PM, said:

the menu from MW4 is a pretty good start...



what other games have menus like this? i know chromehounds does but i don't have a screenshot, planetside 2 does, and it changes with context, depending on the vehicle you are in e.t.c.

The planetside 2 wheel was fantastic to use, you voice call/text call for ammo and a random engineer would drop an ammo pack.


I am hoping for some decent targeting options, aka
-target in xx (my current grid)
-target seen in my current crosshair location

[Lazor Sharp]

NOOB, don't walk up behind me, when i'm backing out of the line of fire of the whole f'in enemy team......!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AssaultPig]

'I am the greatest'

seriously though they should just steal tribes (planetside 2's implementation was terrible)

[Johnny Z]

By the way. I cant wait for this update.

[Triordinant]

"If I can't back up because of you I will vaporize your sorry ***"

Edited by Triordinant, 15 May 2016 - 12:38 AM.

[LordNothing]

"use your flippers!"

[Dogstar]

The worst thing would be for them to be orders ('Attack my Target!', 'Do what I say!') because people don't respond well to orders from random strangers on the internet.

Much better would be 'help' and warning messages:

• Assisting [team mate]
  
• Help, I'm in trouble
  
• On my way to [team mate]
  
• I'm flanking left/right
  
• Enemies Behind Us!
  
• Enemies Flanking Left/Right

Obviously the wording needs to be better than this but the point is that messages that tell other people what you are doing to help the team would be more useful than messages telling the team what to do.

[Meathook]

Not exactly a command itself, but I would love if they would add coordinates to friendly chat and commands like so:

"Meathook: Im getting rekt over here, plz halp"

becomes

"Meathook (C4): Im getting rekt over here, plz halp"

Can you do this, PGI?

[Insects]

On my target (current target. Red box will flash for 5 sec. R will go to target if pressed within 2 seconds)

Enemy sighted (map dot added at current crosshairs 5 sec. Drag mouse out further to indicate more mechs)

Help (map dot at current location 5 sec)

Move to location (map dot at crosshairs 5 sec)

Cover location (map dot at crosshairs 5 sec)

Look! (map dot 3 sec)

Mute (mutes targeted player voice and cmd texts)


The rest can just be custom text, with default whatever.
Allow all text to be customized in case people can think of better personal settings.

I think the more useful feature is adding map/hud markers which benefits voice coms too.
Text shortcuts not so special, if you really want them then you can quite easily use Autohotkey to create your own macros right now. If there was a big demand for it there would be a popular thread on how to us the super MWO chat macro, but there isnt, because text shortcuts arent truly desired. Map and Hud markers is what would be valuable to communication.

[LordNothing]

i got a better one:

"ort ort ort! dont club me! ort ort!"

[Ryllen Kriel]

"Shazbot"

"Hold your fire, that's a friendly!"