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[Egg Fu]

Thanks for keeping us updated, Andi Nagasia!

Hotfix tomorrow? Dang that is quick!

Big props to the devs on this one!

[smokytehbear]

Thank you Andi, this is exactly what I was hoping to hear from them. Score for the community, and more importantly score for the devs both for listening, and for not torpedoing their own game straight to hell. Well at least not for more than a day.

[Triordinant]

Andi Nagasia, on 21 June 2016 - 05:43 PM, said:

New Info Added, Patch Date, Tomorrow at 5:00pm,

Confirmed: https://twitter.com/...427917040082944

[Kubernetes]

So... they release this steaming pile of crap and then can turn around in a single day and add (1) rotation, (2) grid legends, and (3) fov cone? Wtf were they doing before today?

I don't think I've ever been so pessimistic about PGI and the future of this game. I'm sure Russ means well, and I've never really felt strongly about him either way, but the guy needs to go. The fact that he approved the new minimap tells me that he never actually playtested it. It's just messed up.

[Ted Wayz]

Russ is still convinced he knows better than the player base on what they want.

Just sad.

[Moonlight Grimoire]

I honestly feel whoever did the testing for the minimap wasn't asked for feedback (or asked to do a 12v12) on how well the information flowed with seeing the whole map. I don't hate the new minimap, I got plenty of wins today and didn't get lost. I feel this wasn't a misstep (or step backwards), but, more of a stumble. Maybe I just like giving the benefit of the doubt because I am not as cynical, but, I do think this minimap once the hotfix hits will be great. Yeah we lose the directional info of enemies, but, I relied on that much less than knowing what tonnage (and thus what likely the mech was carrying) when choosing to poke, chase, assist, or flee from a mech than what way it was facing.

Hell majority of the complaints I heard while playing today was it was zoomed too far out and people were misplacing their feet, so, since that is getting addressed (and I also was tweeting with Russ today to which he confirmed the vision cone was returning) I am not bothered. So, woo, exciting things coming with that look into future stuff with tag and uav's giving us directional information (yay a point to scouting with tag instead of LL's) as well as a point to the D-DC's command console and hopefully also the Cyclops. Possibly throw this onto the Rifleman and Jagermech since they also had advanced tracking radar (meant for AA work, but, eh, it makes sense to be a built in feature that just gives it to their mech only).

Just glad PGI didn't stay quiet about this until they rolled out a hotfix, that would have caused nothing but trouble.

[Burke IV]

Hopefully the big white arrow i seen on the picture will be on a toggle.

Edit: strange, i had to go look on youtube to see if that thing was there before and it was

Edited by Burke IV, 22 June 2016 - 02:11 AM.

[TWIAFU]

Lily from animove, on 21 June 2016 - 03:23 PM, said:

yes thx, making it rotate and havign the cone of view is a very important part in the minimaps usability.

the rest is something one can get used to, even if kinda suboptimal.

All I want/need is the ability to zoom in/out and able to set a level of transparency.

Oddly, this is not my first game ever where the map does not rotate.

[Hobbles v]

Well at least they are somewhat "fixing" it.... I think the 2000^2 is still a little too zoomed out, crowds are still going to be hard to tell specifics on and Seismic sensors in a brawl will be far less useful. People don't need to see mechs on their radar almost 2km away, we need accurrate information on enemies nearby. 1500^2 would be better.

[Remover of Obstacles]

Please confirm Doritos will be back at 5 o'clock fix.

[AnTi90d]

Remover of Obstacles, on 22 June 2016 - 03:22 AM, said:

Please confirm Doritos will be back at 5 o'clock fix.

Russ says:

[MOBAjobg]

I'm winning most of my games with the new mini map. So, it's an implementation that have some beneficial progress although there are some annoyance.

Please continue to work on the complaints until perfection is achieved.

[Andi Nagasia]

New Info Added,
(News- Regarding the new Mini Map)

Also
Stop Making MiniMap Topics, your Ganna Burn Derek out!
(Derek Please Pin this for the Time Being to Stop Cross Topics, Thanks)