Gameplay could be greatly improved with chat options.

(Jambiman) #1

Hey guys, I just thought I’d like to share an opinion.

I love Brink, but I find it very difficult to communicate with team mates, so I have some ideas that might help improving it.

First I’ll get this off my chest, I really hate it if I accidently press ‘t’ and the chat windows opens and I can’t close it until I have typed anything in. So I usually type one letter and everyone in the game thinks I’m an idiot. Could perhaps pressing enter in a blank chat box close it? Pretty please.

Also, I think it would be fantastic to enable chat during end cut scene of the mission. People can throws all the "gg"s they want to.

But most importantly, it would be great if I could select options from a dialogue box like, “I need ammo”, “I need a medic”, and then my character could be highlighted so the requested support could find me more easily.

Thanks guys, I hope to see you all on the Ark!

(Litego) #2

I agree with this. Accidentally opening chat has killed me, its annoying as hell. And I want to chat at the end of each mission, but I cant, also annoying.

(matsy) #3

You can press Escape to close it, but I do agree pressing return would be ideal to close it as its very annoying!

That and at the end of round scores, I feel very alone once the map has finished :frowning:

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I think this is really missed, even though I have a massive medic icon above my head people still don’t revive me, which is your like me could be because you have no supplies left which is most of the time and thatsanother point I hate and I don’t know how people are supposed to know you have no ammo or not and I keep forgeting I can go to the control point…

(tokamak) #4

But most importantly, it would be great if I could select options from a dialogue box like, “I need ammo”, “I need a medic”, and then my character could be highlighted so the requested support could find me more easily.

Oh right smart guy, where would the button for that fit on the controller hm?

(Litego) #5

If it doesnt fit then it doesnt fit. Thats no valid reason to not give it to PC gamers.

(Shinta) #6

Oh right smart guy, where would the button for that fit on the controller hm?

Things like this can easily fit on the d-pad. Hell they could have it be a reaction to clicking the left joystick and then have a scroll menu.

(tokamak) #7

Yeah but you can say that about a lot of things in this game!

(Pakaa) #8

Along with crosshairs while zoomed using ui_showgun 0, this is the thing I’m really missing in the game. The cutscenes just feel like wasted space as it is now.

I usually do a “say gg” in the console at the end but no one else ever does. :frowning:

And I miss VSAYs, add that please, v 5. :(:frowning:

(cptincognito) #9

That gets me in every game. If you’re worried about fat-fingering t when you go to reload, just rebind it to ‘j’

I like J because if I need chat, my right hand comes off the mouse, finds j with the index finger (it’s got a little bump on my keyboard) and i can start typing right away.

(eMwegA) #10

great idea :smiley: but to be honest. the enter -> close blank message box thing. doesnt sound too complicated to change the binding from esc to enter. Would make lots of ppl happier :smiley:

(Deltaz) #11

I agree with all your points. Specially the last one.