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idea/suggestion for better communication in battles

Discussion in 'Game Discussion' started by mang inasar, 5 Jun 2017.

  1. mang inasar

    mang inasar Active Member

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    instead of just the usual "together" , "yes" , "negative" etc. , wouldnt it be better if the game let us click on the name of an ally and then click "together" so he would be aware that you are referring to him and not just spouting some random command to everyone?

    during battle, the names of our allies and enemies are lined up at the top of screen and thats what i am referring to being able to click and at least let him know that he is being referred to. also additional commands like "dont go off on your own" or dont split from the group" or similar helpful commands can be added for better communication. as a fixer, id personally like "dont run away from me please, im trying to heal/fix you" added.

    this might be considered useless at higher infamy but people at lower infamy really need better communication. im at 1000 infamy and just now, just before i came here to make this post, my team at my last battle, (consisting of four shooters and one fixer) split up four ways right off the bat and all those shooters seemed determined to not let the fixer do any fixing. maybe some better communication tool would have convinced one or two of them to at least try teaming up with their fixer companion.
     
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  2. Excism

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  3. RangerCA

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    Totally agreed. Being able to select who you are trying trying to communicate with would really help. Something I want to be able to do is attract attention to other teammate's in trouble. "SOS" attracts attention to me, but if I could press "SOS" and select someone else, maybe it could say "HELP [Player]!" That's rudimentary to the point of being ambiguous though ... Am I asking for his help, or am I asking others to help him? Drawing blanks on what better single-word message to put in the place of "help". I am convinced "assist" will be just as much of a problem... ah whatever. You get my point.

    If you will allow me to digress for a moment, this reminds me of a famous dangling participle:
    "I once met this man with a wooden leg named Smith ..."
    To which the reply is: "What was the name of his other leg?"

    More commands that would be helpful:

    Rally at [point of map] (perhaps you could tap on the map to do this.) So far "Attack" "capture" "together" doesn't exactly do the trick sometimes.

    Fall back. "SOS" "together" is so far an ineffective substitute. Could also select a teammate to suggest they not become a martyr. Then if they do still run out and get themselves killed, it would couple up as a silent "I told you so." =P

    Flank. It would be nice to either tell others you are attempting to flank and distract the opponent, also sometimes to tell others when they have a nice opportunity to flank and/or try and get someone to flank with you.

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    An unnecessary (but still worth noting) idea would be to be able to select a teammate and use "together" and have it say "Follow me, [Player]."

    Might also be worth noting being able to use "Flank" on an opponent AND a teammate to suggest "[Friendly], distract [Unfriendly]".

    Like you said, this level of communication is probably completely unnecessary in higher level games, but it's still nice to have regardless. Any level of communication that isn't a free-typing chat is still an improvement in my opinion.

    @Excism: The destroy selection feature mentioned in that thread would be umpteen times more convenient than the current one. Those fixer huddles make getting the right command very difficult.
     
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  4. mang inasar

    mang inasar Active Member

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  5. mang inasar

    mang inasar Active Member

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    id go out on a limb and guess the other legs name is "Mister".

    the fall back and flank command would be really useful.
     
  6. lolawola

    lolawola Active Member

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    if you read the second post, it suggests the same thing you did.
    ready for the apology now. :)
     
  7. Excism

    Excism Well-Known Member

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    Was about to say this. I'm ready as well :p
     
  8. ThatCraneGuy

    ThatCraneGuy New Member

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    Just imagine you can customize your own command and sign.
    Then I'll just put everything in "NOOB" and "GG EZ".
     
  9. mang inasar

    mang inasar Active Member

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    although i had a slightly different suggestion for "new commands" like stick with the group or dont run away from me(fixer) ....
    ok i get it, second post had suggested clicking on ally too. sorry about that.
     

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