Friendlys on Map

[retrofly]

Hi
Its so hard to know where your team are, even using the VOIP thingy its hard to coordinate an attack with a group of people, and the ammount of Tk's I see becuase people are lobbing nades over walls is silly.

Also you need to show where friendly satchels are, im a sapper alot of the time and eveytime I put one down, wether to kill a tank or blast open a door some numpty always stands on it, normaly resulting in multiple kicks.

Its not their fault if they didnt see you plant the satchel how do they know where it is.

I know this games going for realism, but showing friendlys on the map would greatly improve team play. Which I think this game should prmote more, not realism.

luke

 

[Innociv]

no. A thousand times, no.

And sachels are frekaing bright yellow. Do they need flashing red lights or something? I have only been killled by a friendly satchel ONCE in like 200 hours of playing. I have no problem at all seeing them and staying away.

 

[TheBlackHand]

Yeah back in ole' ww2 I had me one of thoes magical maps that showed me where all my comrades were, good thing the Germans didnt develop magical maps like we did or the war may have turned out differently!

Other WW2 games put teamplay at the top of th ladder with icons and such.... RO:O promotes teamplay but only to the extent that REAL warfar allows...yes! that means the just like in real life you gotta talk and LISTEN to people talking to you, to coordinate an attack, not run around silent with you map on following people...

 

[Molnies]

I agree with the others. Those things are far from realistic. With good VOIP you will know where your team are, and if any satchel has been planted. I mean VOIP is not that realistic if not used "local", but I think that's needed for the game play, "magical maps" (loved that description) however is as far from realism as you can get. Learn to use VOIP and to get your team to use it, I've seen alot of servers where this have worked perfectly

 

[TheBlackHand]

What! no magical maps! o lord how will I be expected to play! Ok... ill stop now I just couldent resisit

 

[Deathsai]

Definetly no.

 

[Ron]

Hi
Its so hard to know where your team are, even using the VOIP thingy its hard to coordinate an attack with a group of people, and the ammount of Tk's I see becuase people are lobbing nades over walls is silly.

Also you need to show where friendly satchels are, im a sapper alot of the time and eveytime I put one down, wether to kill a tank or blast open a door some numpty always stands on it, normaly resulting in multiple kicks.

Its not their fault if they didnt see you plant the satchel how do they know where it is.

I know this games going for realism, but showing friendlys on the map would greatly improve team play. Which I think this game should prmote more, not realism.

luke

I actually agree i've brought this up before but i'd like to see it tried first on a trial basis on some servers, i dont think anyone can disagree to an expriment just for a week or two on one or two servers i'll agree voip is perfect when its used but often people dont and sometimes because of an accent you dont know what their saying.

 

[TheBlackHand]

Your not serious right?

 

[retrofly]

Hi
Hmm sensing a little hostility.

I do use the VOIP infact on some servers im the only one talking, does anyone take notice no, does anyone dive for cover when I shout nade no!, does anyone one stop shooting me when I say im a friendly NO!

If people played the game right then maybe there would be no need for "magical maps".

Luke

 

[Molnies]

Well, I think your problem is that you haven't found the right server yet. Either search for server with either "tactical" or "realism" in the name, or search the forums, there have been some topics about good realism/tactical servers.

 

[TheBlackHand]

In my opinion they should all be realism servers its RO, now tho the influx of noobs who saw this on steam and downloaded it expecting an arcade game have really ruined about 80% of all servers completely, im talking tking tank snatching, no coordination, the works.

 

[aar88]

There should be a converting process from rambo to teamplayer, don't you agree ?

 

[takadi]

hMM I think this is just an issue with the VOIP not the lack of a magical map, lol.

What if they could design a mic or VOIP program where voice volume actually translates to the volume in the game? Like shouts would be loud with echoes, there would be whispers, etc. That would make it so much easier in terms of communications. But of course you could always use your radio if they are too far away to hear you.

But i think they definitely need to do something with the range of volume of the voice commands. People could say ENEMY AHEAD and you would get all scared, but it ends up they are on the other side of the map.

I think we need to see that since we took out some features to make it more "realistic" we have to implement more realistic features to balance that and make it flow in the game.

 

[gonzman]

I actually think it should put a dot on your compass in the direction of people that call for backup or ammo etc. Since the game is unrealistic enough to give a detailed description of a players location when they teamchat, this woulden't hurt.

I read somewhere the game does this for objectives but i'm yet to see anything but a boringly static rotating compass.


I don't get you guys, You are all against helpful things to teamplay because it may not be realistic, but theres loads of stuff in the game that make it worth playing already that's not realistic, Death messages are usefull, cap bars and voice commands that can be heard from anywhere on the map, Hell i'd even like to see a small icon appear over the head of an MG thats requested ammo as well as have an icon pop up magically on the map.

All the realism in the world is fantastic but unrealistic features that are HELPFULL and do not comprimise gameplay are VERY good things indeed. Stop shooting your selves in the foot !

 

[takadi]

yea the compass is pretty worthless, I think it's just some WWII game gimmick thing that's kind of "obligatory"