Subtle, yet useful addition to the Mercenary HUD

Started by tigaer, August 18, 2010, 02:02:43 AM

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tigaer

Simple:
A little icon indicating the location of an ammo depot pops up onscreen when your ammo gets low; say when you're on your last clip. It would look similar to the objective icons. Subtle, but very useful for new-comers and basically anybody else.

Spark Mandriller

May as well just make it show up all the time like objectives do. Put in a toggle to turn it off too, and we're done.

Do health too.

tigaer

Quote from: B-3A Misty Lady on August 18, 2010, 02:06:12 AM
May as well just make it show up all the time like objectives do. Put in a toggle to turn it off too, and we're done.

Do health too.

Having it up all the time will just clutter the screen up, and it'd be useless. I agree on the health pack icon though, I didn't think of that yet.

Spark Mandriller

Hey, the objective markers get in the way, and nobody seems to mind them. I'm thinking people could live with being told where ammo is too.
But yeah there should be an option to turn it off. Keeps everyone happy, right?


tigaer

Not to mention that this is going to insanely useful for custom maps...

DreadStunLock

So does the Production Team thinks it's a yes? Cause I actually think it's a brilliant idea.

VaNilla

Great idea; I disagree with the guy talking about objective markers though, it's useful to see the percentage of which an object has been hacked, what kind of objective it is and things like that.

frvge

Quote from: DreadStunLock on August 18, 2010, 10:18:36 AM
So does the Production Team thinks it's a yes? Cause I actually think it's a brilliant idea.
tigaer is the UI guy, I'm the UX guy. But we'll see about the implementation.
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MulleDK19

In my opinion, there shouldn't be any markers at all.

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DreadStunLock

Quote from: MulleDK19 on August 18, 2010, 04:57:37 PM
In my opinion, there shouldn't be any markers at all.

You can always make a checkbox that says Hardcore Mode

Which means it will have no markers at all. Makes it more difficult then.

VaNilla

Quote from: MulleDK19 on August 18, 2010, 04:57:37 PM
In my opinion, there shouldn't be any markers at all.

You could turn them off with F10 in CT, scrolling through to 'just objectives', 'all warnings' or something like that, and an option to turn them off.

Spark Mandriller

Quote from: STON3COLDKILLA on August 19, 2010, 11:24:45 AM
You could turn them off with F10 in CT, scrolling through to 'just objectives', 'all warnings' or something like that, and an option to turn them off.

You couldn't if you wanted your sound to work properly as merc. D:

VaNilla

Nevertheless, it's a function that can implemented :P

DreadStunLock

I think there should be a keybind for every icon like:

Show Bomb
Show Disk
Show Disk Drop
Show Ammo
Show Health Depo
Show Computers

And it should be upto the host to change or not. You know session options?