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[Will Randor]

Are there any developer plans for a Commander “radial command wheel” or similar does anyone know?

Teamspeak and voice largely allow these things:

Tells you to regroup
Tells you which mech to fire at.
Few other key commands like “get into cover” or “wait here”, “engage at long range” etc.

All of these could easily go into a Commander radial interface. Commander could press a key and for example skip over an “Attack” option to a list of letters (A-H) and choose one so everyone can hammer that Hunchback who just foolishly ran over the ridge. Must be really swift UI and not need mouse clicks to select the options (and obviously the radial is on main screen not the map).

The command could then be a “bitching betty” audio clip to the team or a message on the right side of the screen somewhere (or worst case in the chat area).

Such an interface could make PUGs stronger potentially. I could badly do with such an interface in PUG games as pretty hard typing little messages about what we should do while being fired on from all sides. Voice for everyone in-game would do similar but many people would flat out refuse to use voice if in a PUG.