Removing Quartermaster chit-chat

Seirrah · Post by **Seirrah** » 2008-01-28 16:46

I was wondering whether there was a way of removing the Quartermaster chat at the top of the screen as I am a fan of not having unimportant text on my screen. I don't need to know what my team-mates are requesting, and I don't really need to know whether I have been successful getting kit or not, as I can look down to my feet to see that.

Are there any console commands that could do this?

Thanks,
Seirrah

KingKong.CCCP · Post by **KingKong.CCCP** » 2008-01-28 17:27

yea, is there a way to remove ALL chat messages?

Katash · Post by **Katash** » 2008-01-28 18:33

renderer.drawhud 0 will do it I think

dunno tho

Post by **Pride** » 2008-01-28 18:41

Katash wrote:renderer.drawhud 0 will do it I think

dunno tho

That will remove everything

Text, Spawn screen, Caps map, minimap, ammo counter, scope crosshairs...total realism (Except the crosshairs)

Spaz · Post by **Spaz** » 2008-01-28 18:49

KingKong.CCCP wrote:yea, is there a way to remove ALL chat messages?

Team chat is a great way to talk bettwen squads, if they remove that teamwork will drop like a stone.

zangoo · Post by **zangoo** » 2008-01-28 19:56

or squads will have to talk to the commander over voip.

Sadist_Cain · Post by **Sadist_Cain** » 2008-01-28 19:59

Pride wrote:That will remove everything

Text, Spawn screen, Caps map, minimap, ammo counter, scope crosshairs...total realism (Except the crosshairs)

It is the purist's way...

Seirrah · Post by **Seirrah** » 2008-01-28 21:04

I'd cope without any text (including chat) if that was a possible...as I use voip always anyway.

Post by **Spec** » 2008-01-28 21:40

Teamchat is useful to tell where one placed a mine. Then there is at least proof it was that damn APC drivers fault!11oneone

sorry. Chat is useful sometimes imo. For example if you simply cant understand someone...

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-29 00:43

At the DEV chat they announced that they are trying to reduce that, but so far there is no way other than removing your entire hud.

Seirrah · Post by **Seirrah** » 2008-01-29 12:24

BloodBane611 wrote:At the DEV chat they announced that they are trying to reduce that, but so far there is no way other than removing your entire hud.

Shame. I hope they, somehow, allow us to remove some of the text in the future.

KingKong.CCCP · Post by **KingKong.CCCP** » 2008-01-29 17:01

Team chat is useful sometimes, but 90% of the time is just anoying. Plus, if you take a look at screenshots/wallpapers, all made without any radio chat, they look so much more real.

Bottom line, text is in the way. I'm not saying it should be completely removed, but if there would be an option to turn it off, I believe most of the players would do so.

Suggestion: How about moving text to the bottom of the screen?

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2008-01-29 17:09

I remember in Delta Force they had the text chat on bottom, screen looked really clean, but you only had two lines instead of four.

Brummy · Post by **Brummy** » 2008-01-29 17:18

Umm, the quartermaster stuff is removed from can't take kits from RP, so why is it not possible to remove it completely? Though it would be harsh for new players, it would promote reading the actual manual.

DeePsix · Post by **DeePsix** » 2008-01-29 18:13

What if you had the chat messages sent privately to the player when he requested a kit only? For example I will only read the **QM** text when I request a kit? Maybe sent the text to the squad chat? That would limit the information to squads which would definatly cut it down from what it is now.

I'm not familiar with the coding aspects/capabilities - just throwing some ideas out there.

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2008-01-29 18:43

Deepsix - if we could send individual messages to players like that, it would already be in place.... the way its done right now, is the only way the BF2 engine would allow it....

Now thats not to say that the devs arent trying new ways to try to remove the text, cause as you can see by our current HUD, we really dont like all that **** on our screen. No promises but its being looked into...

Post by **Masaq** » 2008-01-29 20:09

Fuzz - in the interim, perhaps removing some of the text is an option?

Abbreviate

"You need 2+ players in your squad before I can issue you a SNIPER kit, Sniperboy123"

to

"+1 player in the squad needed for that kit, Sniperboy123", for example.

"Kit Issued, Frankie" for successfully receiving a kit.
"No more Kits, Player1 " for maxed out kits like AT etc.

Is that possible? TBH the spam doesn't bother me except when there's a ton of people requesting all at once - since 0.7 there's been far less, as people are taking longer to die.

Seirrah · Post by **Seirrah** » 2008-01-29 20:25

I guess it would surely be possible to remove all QM messages if desired as it was added to PR. The problem is that some people might want/need the messages. As fuzzhead said, the best was would be individual messages which it seems isn't possible.
That being said I think that the QM messages could be easily reduced, as they are a bit chatty. "**QM** Seirrah - req. approved" ..not loads of text and chat about a rice wine etc.

pureperversions · Post by **pureperversions** » 2008-01-29 21:12

its usefull for squad leaders to see what there squad members are picking up with out having to check the whole time

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-29 21:40

The thing is you want to know whether you're being rejected for the kit or if where you are isn't spawning kits or somesuch. It's info, and if it really bothers you it can be pretty easily ignored.