Green text spam

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-07-30 04:42

I think the quartermaster system should be limited only to the person that is requesting the kit, so they see it when they need to, but nobody else has to.

it really takes away from game experience when the text is scrolling with,

"im sorry, no more marksman kits are available. how about a whiskey?"
"i can't issue sniper kits until rienforcements arrive. how about a lemonade?"
"so and so, i've allocated your blah kit [_ of _]
over...and OVER again.

If this isn't possible, can you guys just take it out completely? make it VOIP or something?

IRL, you wouldn't see text scrolling in front of your eyes when bombs are blowing up and suppresive fire is in your face.

Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-07-30 04:59

pasfreak wrote:I think the quartermaster system should be limited only to the person that is requesting the kit, so they see it when they need to, but nobody else has to.

it really takes away from game experience when the text is scrolling with,

"im sorry, no more marksman kits are available. how about a whiskey?"
"i can't issue sniper kits until rienforcements arrive. how about a lemonade?"
"so and so, i've allocated your blah kit [_ of _]
over...and OVER again.

If this isn't possible, can you guys just take it out completely? make it VOIP or something?

IRL, you wouldn't see text scrolling in front of your eyes when bombs are blowing up and suppresive fire is in your face.

You also wouldn't see people talking about a map in the top right of your view

But I agree with the idea... except the VOIP part which I don't get

Eddiereyes909 · Post by **Eddiereyes909** » 2007-07-30 05:06

I think he meant like the QM having an automatic voice that plugs into your VOIP and tells only you.

like

*requests sniper kit*
QM "sry I've already given away all the sniper kits, how about i give you a whiskey"

It should be like
QM "hell no you lone wolfing jerk,no sniper kits for you"

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-07-30 07:08

i just hate stuff like that

Post by **Ghostrider** » 2007-07-30 07:16

Its unfortunate but you'll have to live with it. The text you see in the upper part of the server shows up depending on the channel it is sent through.

The channels are ServerTeamChannel or ServerGlobalChannel. Those are the names if I remember correctly (its been a while since I've had to deal with those).

There is a function to send player-only messages but its broken. It seems DICE never implemented it, possibly because they didnt have any use for it (which makes sense), or just never finished it because of time constraints. I believe the 1st option is more plausible because if not it would've been used by them and/or fixed/added in a patch.

In short, player-only server messages are not possible. At least we can send Team-Only messages

EDIT: The "In real life there is no text" blah blah argument is old and already worn out. Please people, stop using this argument to try to make a bland argument more 'convincing'. If you want more real-life, we'll just kick you off the server and format your HDD as soon as you get killed in-game. You can't get more hardcore than that in PC gaming. Problem solved.

-Ghost

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-07-30 07:22

could you make it show up in the chat box instead? and make it squad or something?

I seriously wish it was a VOIP thing tho, but thats time and money and work.

Post by **Ghostrider** » 2007-07-30 07:23

Eddiereyes909 wrote:I think he meant like the QM having an automatic voice that plugs into your VOIP and tells only you.

like

*requests sniper kit*
QM "sry I've already given away all the sniper kits, how about i give you a whiskey"

It should be like
QM "hell no you lone wolfing jerk,no sniper kits for you"

Something like this is possible....if EA/DICE take the time to do it. If they dont do it, its not possible. So...dont wait for it.

-Ghost

AnRK · Post by **AnRK** » 2007-07-30 11:34

I'm a little confused. How did you get rid of all the kill messages then? They seem to still come up in the console but are blank lines instead of text, that's all I can gather from it.

If there were a way of curtailing the messages though it'd be nice to see the requests from your own squad, it'd help you make those kicking decisions much quicker.

Sabre_tooth_tigger · Post by **Sabre_tooth_tigger** » 2007-07-30 11:45

In half life theres a command to reduce the time text stays on the screen I think. Would anything similar exist in bf2?

Surpressing the text to the console would be ideal but again not possible I presume. I do sometimes get console text when I request kits but only when its broken! lol

l|Bubba|l · Post by **l|Bubba|l** » 2007-07-30 13:57

Couldn't it be done with the help boxes?

Zodiaccup · Post by **Zodiaccup** » 2007-07-30 16:47

l|Bubba|l wrote:Couldn't it be done with the help boxes?

I really appreciate this idea.

Spaz · Post by **Spaz** » 2007-07-30 17:02

l|Bubba|l wrote:Couldn't it be done with the help boxes?

That would make it even more anoying!

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-07-30 17:27

Yea I agree the green text is really an eye sore, I think some of the coders were looking at just that (help messages and rank awards messages) but I dont think they have found a definite answer yet

Zodiaccup · Post by **Zodiaccup** » 2007-07-30 18:03

Spaz wrote:That would make it even more anoying!

How is this more annoying, if you can only see messages that are directed* to you?!

*What happens about only 3-4 times (maximum) per round.

Post by **dbzao** » 2007-07-30 18:05

KoC is working on some way to make it only show to the player as a HUD event. We don't like the spam either, but until now was the only way to do it.

EyesOnly · Post by **EyesOnly** » 2007-07-30 18:08

I second that.
The spamming must stop! Making it visible only to the player requesting the kits would be a great solution.

geogob · Post by **geogob** » 2007-07-30 18:23

As a squad leader, I really like to know when one of my squad member requests kits. That feedback is good. It also gives me a quick idea on which kits are available or not, so I wont send someone back to a really point to get a specific kit when none are available.

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-07-30 18:25

Zodiaccup wrote:I really appreciate this idea.

I'd like to see that too.