Desperately Required Emoticons

[COL Nathan R. Jessup]

Stop Moving
Ammo
Health
Focus Fire
Group Here

Can they just get rid of all the decorate crap and have some functional team play behaviour communication to instil team mechanics? I'm a crap player like most of us, but I've had people give me good tips. Not being able to communicate functionally at all in the team is so frustrating with new players I just end up abandoning the mission.

Watching the same guy position himself directly in front of you when you haven't moved for 2-3 seconds and no way to correct the behaviour is maddening. Doesn't help the team when you need to stop shooting. Doesn't help the player because they're not learning. And doesn't help the overall game when people abandon a mission or stop playing in frustration.

[Clockeye]

just shoot through them. Stupid needs to learn the hard way.

[Carl Brutananadilewski]

I always keep point and some kind of confusion/no on my list of emotes for that purpose. It's not great, could definitely be improved. I'd love if you could call out to people directly with pings Just lines like 'Hey Doc' or other shorthands for calling out the class to personalize it a bit. There's only, what, six voices? Not sure what those actors are doing now but it couldn't cost TOO much but, right now, I'd rather they put money into building more of the game. It would really just be nice to have limited text chat, even if it's a wheel of text you pick from contextually based on what you're looking at.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by COL Nathan R. Jessup:

Stop Moving
Ammo
Health
Focus Fire
Group Here

Can they just get rid of all the decorate crap and have some functional team play behaviour communication to instil team mechanics? I'm a crap player like most of us, but I've had people give me good tips. Not being able to communicate functionally at all in the team is so frustrating with new players I just end up abandoning the mission.

Watching the same guy position himself directly in front of you when you haven't moved for 2-3 seconds and no way to correct the behaviour is maddening. Doesn't help the team when you need to stop shooting. Doesn't help the player because they're not learning. And doesn't help the overall game when people abandon a mission or stop playing in frustration.

Do you even know what an emoticon is? It's not an emote as in, dancing, waving etc.... I suggest you google what the word you used means.

[flick]

look at an item, player, alien, button, floor or whatever and click middle mouse.

[COL Nathan R. Jessup]

Originally posted by flick:

look at an item, player, alien, button, floor or whatever and click middle mouse.

It provides the absolute minimum but can’t communicate “ammo” or “use specials”, etc.

Not even the most basic thumbs up/down in lobby to discuss use of cards or consider respeccing for this fight.

[Anticitizen 1]

What, you don't reckon that idiotic interpretive dance routines can communicate simple things efficiently to your teammates? I am shocked!!! Shocked I tell you!

- No comms wheel
- No text chat
- No voice comms

Welcome to 1999.

[Ryvucz]

Hold the Line helps control stupid movement, but most try hards don't even aim, so....

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

What, you don't reckon that idiotic interpretive dance routines can communicate simple things efficiently to your teammates? I am shocked!!! Shocked I tell you!

- No comms wheel
- No text chat
- No voice comms

Welcome to 1999.

'95 games had text chat.

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by Ryvucz:

'95 games had text chat.

Well, looks like some game devs devolved even further back than I originally thought.