Emotes! What do you think is important?

[kylerk]

Hey Everybody,

We are currently working on an emote system.

It pretty quick and easy to use.

1. Hold left trigger on your controller.
2. Press a direction with right stick to select a category,
3. Press another direction with right stick to select the emote.

It's modeled very closely off of rocket leagues system, and we will likely have a few that are exactly the same directions and wording. All emotes will be translated into all supported languages, so you will be able to communicate with people from around the world.


We are also considering doing a context aware emote system, so that it is different depending on if you are in the Lobby, in the Build mode, or in Run mode. That way we can have some pretty useful emotes in the lobby like "Waiting for a Friend", "BRB", "Goodbye", and things like "Glue" or "bomb" while building.

So what type of things do you think we should have in the emote system?

Also, full chat will be available as well.

Cheers!
OMG!
No Problem!

Kyler

[Equanimity]

Sounds great!

[superbank]

"Wating for players" to let the others know you're waiting for randoms players.

Consider all the bugs and crashes I think "broken" or "not working" emotes are needed, in-lobby and in-game. I can identify when the room is broken but many players are willing to jump right back into a broken level. A way to let them know things are borked would be useful. Similarly a "recreating room" emote would be useful to let them know to search for my new room after I restart the game.

[kylerk]

Superbank, good suggestions. As for bug related emotes, I think we will just leave that to you to type with chat.

[superbank]

Hmm, ok. I haven't played RL so I'm not sure what emotes are for exactly. If chat is in then I'm fine with typing things there.

[kylerk]

Emotes are now online! Just pushed the update.

[KLJF22]

Originally posted by kylerk:

Emotes are now online! Just pushed the update.

Thanks, just updated. Trying it now.

[Pancake]

Could you possibly list the keyboard commands for emotes? Trying to figure them out right now and don't have access to a controller.

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. Just gotta press the numbers.

[KLJF22]

Originally posted by Heytheremrguy:

Could you possibly list the keyboard commands for emotes? Trying to figure them out right now and don't have access to a controller.

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. Just gotta press the numbers.

Also, V for commands, and T for chat.

[k4llin]

could you give each character more than one dance move?