More icons = better overview (PC)?

(Mustkunstn1k) #1

I’ll be honest, I am not the biggest fan of the objectives wheel. Yeah, it’s great for newbies who wan’t something to do, but it’s not for me. Unfortunetly it’s the only way to keep up with everything that is going on.

In Enemy Territory we had the map, it could be quickly opened to see what command posts we have, what have we done etc.

Quake Wars had tons of little icons around the world which would reveal more about them once you aimed at them.

Why can’t there be a system like in those games… or both?

Right now the icons are incredibly big, I understand that they wanted to make sure that console players see those too easily and that putting every icon would clutter up the screen. But if the icons would be very small and just revealed simple information then for me everything would be great.

And if you would loo at the icon you could press the obejctives button to take that objective (right now you can only do it with visible objects).

Just an idea for maybe a future patch. Or maybe you guys can help me and say how you deal with this.

(Breo) #2

I want a mini objective wheel.

1 that doesn’t cover the whole screen :stroggtapir:

(McAfee) #3

[QUOTE=Breo;322167]I want a mini objective wheel.

1 that doesn’t cover the whole screen :stroggtapir:[/QUOTE]

The drop-down list from ETQW, with a cycle button was great:

It was quicker to read the drop-down list and tap a key, than to have to read a wheel that changes every time and navigate to the correct corner of it. While at the same time restricting your movement.

Since the drop-down is smaller. You could make it tweakable so that it idles with the current mission shown, all missions shown, or idles hidden.

Also, why do we need a 3-page scoreboard?
And the end game screen has less information than the ETQW screen, scattered in like 5 pages.

(Overgear) #4

But its obvious what command posts you have just by looking at the HUD. If you dont have it, go cap it.
I would like revive icons to be smaller but if you had icons for everything, you’d have at least 3 icons at all times. Container city would have 5.
Smaller objective wheel would be cool however

(Kurnuttaja) #5

Id like it as an optional setting to show all objectives as small indicators.

(Mustkunstn1k) #6

Yes. Making it optional would be great.
I would definitely love this, I mean I can still signal my team that I am doing something and it’s even easier since I can just look at the icon and activate the objective.

At least then people won’t accidentaly run past a command post since there is no indicator of it once you have selected another mission.