two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

[dukegamma]

1) The change team and change squad buttons are too f---ing close together to not have a confirmation box. This is a serious pain in the a--.

2) Binding keys. Most people bind their keys by just going right down the list, yes? It makes more sense than jumping around from one item to the other. Most people know what keys they want to use, so if it's bound to something else, most likely that's not what they wanted. So why the system resets your mouse to the center of the screen after every bind (and failed attempt at a bind) is beyond me. Also, if you have bound quite a few keys it would be nice that in the event of an accidental press of the ESC key, it would ask whether or not the last 5 minutes you spent binding and unbinding keys was intentional instead of scrapping them. I swear that the guys who made this system were either smoking crack or deviously plotting ways to **** the f--- out of people. I mean, comon. It's not that difficult to follow a practice of user friendliness in the cofiguration screen. They could learn much from Valve in this regard.

Is there a consensus of agreement?

[Scoobing]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

Hehe yeah, I certainly have done what you outline in point 1 a couple of times. :)

Binding keys don't bother me too much since I tend to stick with default controls most of the time.

[vbl]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

I agree that the "you can't bind the letter 'Y' because it's already bound to something else, so go find it manually and come back when you've unbound it" behavior is 100% ridiculous.

Even an intern usability engineer would know better than to design it that way.

[dukegamma]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

I agree that the "you can't bind the letter 'Y' because it's already bound to something else, so go find it manually and come back when you've unbound it" behavior is 100% ridiculous.

Even an intern usability engineer would know better than to design it that way.

Yes, yes! It is f---ing ridiculous. I swear, binding keys has never been this tedious before, especially considering the five separate categories that each need to be individually configured.

[DezemoDova]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

no what really is the most annoying thing is the typing something that contains or ends with the letter E while youre in a blackhawk or anything that FLIES. goddamit!!!!!!!

[JonnyMacFred102]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

Yeah , its on the huge entire ****ing list and you search for it. I wish it was like Halo where you bind a key and it usefully erases the command you didn't want to bind the letter to.

[Flatline_hun]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

And to my gratest amusement there are (were? 1.00) some keys that can't be bound. I play with cursor keys config, and I wanted weapon change on the numberic keypad. It didn't allow 2,4,6,8. (said it is already bound - but it wasn't) However, after editing the controls.con with notepad - everything worked fine. I can't really understand how they didn't notice that this keybinding system is sucks....

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

1) The change team and change squad buttons are too f---ing close together to not have a confirmation box. This is a serious pain in the a--.

I'll have to give you a big "roger" on that one. I know I've clicked the Team tab by mistake a few times. It's a real PITA, especially when you are charged a suicide and can't switch back.

[Retribution.]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

I'll have to give you a big "roger" on that one. I know I've clicked the Team tab by mistake a few times. It's a real PITA, especially when you are charged a suicide and can't switch back.

oi easy!
we dont want any rogering here thank you :hmm:


:laugh:

[AlphaNut]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

It's also amuses me that you can unbind TAB, however, once unbound, you can't assign anything to the TAB key, plus you won't be able to change its bind back to the defauld, unless you hit the "Reset to Default" button which resets ALL freakin binds for all vehicles also...
Sometimes I wonder if half the the developer team was assembled of some High school grads...
I really love most of the rest of the game though - honestly :)

[Fullforce]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

there are some proper stupid moments in the game, but the top one has to be the amount of times i have switched to MEC or China as i attempt to click the squad tab then apply for commander. I have clicked in the wrong direction, been issued a suicide, and then im stuck on a team fighting my mates when we were playing well as a team on USMC before. ARGG!

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

oi easy!
we dont want any rogering here thank you :hmm:


:laugh:

My fantasy drum corps is named The Brooklyn Rodgerers :)

http://www.drumlines.org/dlofdc/showonecorps.php?corps=1

[evilzucchini]

Re: two simple things that seriously need to be f---ing changed

I have never had the problem with the squad/spawn screen because I use the key bindings to switch between them and only use the mouse to switch teams. However, now that I think about it, I am pretty sure I have switched the the squad screen when I intended to switch teams.

As to the control screen. . .

Worst
Interface
Ever

Basically, what I did was go through and empty all of them. So, you have to move from the middle of the screen EVERY time and so I had to keep readjusting my mouse. What a pain. However, when I was done, i realized that I couldn't reassign the mouse-axis controls, so I had to reset to default and do it all over again. What a freakin pain in my ass. Seriously, they must have thrown that together in like 2 days.