Any chance of adding colour to ammo icons?

(doxjq) #1

What I mean is how when people have 50% or less ammo now they display an ammo symbol above their head but it’s very vague.

I’d like to see it have a range from going from white to red say, where white is not so low and it slowly turns pinkish as the ammo count drops and then turns to red when someone is on their last clip. Or something along these lines.

It’s really annoying since the update where you guys changed the ammo count for the symbol to show. I mean it currently shows when people still have half ammo, so it’s really hard to know who has 50% left and who is on their last clip.

I’d say this could apply to medics, but medics kind of have this already since they can see their team mates health bar, they know who the more urgent person in need is.

(Amerika) #2

I would like this as well since it would make you prioritize who to give ammo to in a crowd. It might even make somebody who doesn’t think to give out ammo often actually do it when they see an angry red icon over a person.

(ClemClem7) #3

But, max ammo are (exemple on m4) 105+35, then 4 clips.
Half ammo are 2 clips.
1 last clip, is one last clip…
If someone is 50%, he need ammo anyway. Because if he start shooting, he’ll be on his last clip by the way he reload.
Color will be a nice stuff. But it can make people says “oh, he’s not red, he don’t need it now”. You don’t know how weird people’s mind can be…

It can be nice if you can take an ammo pack from arty or sky without him pressing the key. Like a brainless dispenser. Especially on low levels who don’t drop ammo.

(doxjq) #4

Yeah, but you don’t spawn with 105 spare, you spawn with 70 spare. Soon as you use one clip you’ve already got the ammo signal above your head. Same goes for all guns, unless the person is using a card with spares, then they have two clips before they’re showing low on ammo.

They changed it too much. It was fine at the old 25% or whatever it was. Currently I am running around throwing packs around to people who don’t really quite need them yet. My mates are always saying things like “why are you falling off point to give me ammo when I don’t need it?” when I have no idea. Soon as I see an ammo symbol I try my best to give them ammo.

Personally an even better implementation would be allowing us to set it ourselves. Like a slider bar in options, where you can choose what % of ammo a player has left before the icon appears.

(DarkMatterMatt) #5

And, to top it all off, you could have varying colours, and be able to set each colour / amount before the icon shows yourself.

(Reddeadcap) #6

Why not a mix of this and Brinks ammo meter system?

(SlyWolf10) #7


We would like to see rework all hud elements colours like health ,ammo; when low, medium, full it will change to yellow,orange green etc.

(watsyurdeal) #8

…

I approve…you’re a damn genius

If nothing else we could make the icon change scale, super small means he needs a teensy bit of ammo, and a large one means your a scrub, and need to give him some damn ammo…you scrub.

(Borganism) #9

Agreed. Even with the last change Ive still had to stand on front of many a skyhammer and shoot them in the face with a pistol as i dont have any ammo for my main gun. Changing to red icon for super low / out of ammo might help this issue too.