Notify text

(colic) #1

Is there any way of removing the notifying text that says a was killed by b, picked up an ammo pack etc.

The obvious cvar \cg_notifytext doesnt do anything neither does descriptivetext so whats the use of these cvars for???

({}Yojimbo) #2

I’ve been searching and testing for an answer to this one too. So far nothing, so it does not seem to be possible to remove that text (you could do it in Wolf but that command does not work here)

(colic) #3

Its a shame realy, I cant see me playing this game much tbh :frowning: The HUD items just make it look very cluttered!

As well as the who killed who writing that take up a third of the height of the hud then you have the player speak text at the bottom then you have a massive compass at the top of the HUD.

Dont know how it doesnt annoy more people :confused: and its unbelivable that there is no option to get rid of it. Why have redundant cvars in their :confused:

Take this as an example

(kyleb) #4

playing on a shrub server helps, it puts the who killed who stuff down with the player chat.

(colic) #5

Just looked for all the shrub servers there are 19… but all in USA im from the UK so the ping is a bit nasty :frowning:

(Ubiquitous) #6

Having played the game for many, many hours in matches, scrims and pub play, I can say that the text does not get in the way at all.

(colic) #7

And I can say it does :stuck_out_tongue: :slight_smile:

Just personal preference I suppose but I realy hate it over the old style.

Just find it a bit poor that you have no control over what is displayed :frowning:

(Englander) #8

It doesnt put me off playing at all,once the game starts I dont even notice it and I can say that its never affected or got in the way of me playing the game at all.But if it does bother some people there should be an option to disable it or even move it to another area of the screen,but TBH its never bothered me.

(Vengeance) #9

It dosnt bother me personnaly, however, i do believe there should be an option for this. I like options the more of them the better :slight_smile:

(Dingo19) #10

If we could just get rid of the skull icons and single, not double space the text, I’ll be happy.

(strobor) #11

The only thing I can suggest is to change the length of time that the “x was killed by y” text is displayed. There is a way to do this through the in-game options. Just change the ‘message time’ or whatever it’s called to short. I too would like to remove it as i find it gets in my way too, but this is the best solution for me atm.

(Belisarius) #12

Whoa, that HUD seems huge! :eek: To be honest, it has never bothered me at all, but I can almost swear my HUD is smaller. Have to check that out when I get home tonight. What screen rez. are you running at?

Compass? Heck, I’m almost always a medic (=lazy), so the compass is my friend! :banana:

(Sick Boy) #13

you can do /cg_draw2d 0 but you’ll miss important stuff like your crosshair :frowning:

There should also be a var to give the text a different color cuz if I tweak the way I like it, I can never read it when walking in snow :eek3:

(BondyBoy007) #14

Would probably be alot better if you upped your resolution, that looks as though it’s in a very low res

(cynric) #15

yeah … i really hate it
missing important chat-messages because lots of death messages scrolling by … don’t know who got the idea that this is a good thing to do :banghead:

(puds) #16

There a few Shrub ET servers in the UK…

All the bygames.com ET servers are shrub as are the www.byrtcw.net ET servers…

bygames.com ET #1,194.117.138.229:27960
bygames.com ET #2,194.117.138.229:27961
bygames.com ET #3,194.117.138.254:27960
www.byrtcw.net #2 ET,213.161.86.125:27960
www.byrtcw.net #1 ET,213.161.86.125:27961