Chat and Comm Wheel

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Just some minor things that I hope will get improved:

The chat window is too small and in the wrong spot. It should be on left side, filling most of the vertical space between the HUD and the top when active. Let us adjust the font size, too. Not everyone is playing on a TV 2 meters away.

Don't disable the chat during equipment selection. That's when you may need it most, actually.


And add at least 4 more options to the wheel:

- "Take Cover!" for when you called in artillery, triggered a hellbomb etc.

- "Move!" (like in HD1) to remind your team that there are objectives to be done and not just endless fighting for nothing.

- "Help!" for when your team is leaving you alone with the whole swarm and 3 chargers again.

- cheer/battlecry aka "For Liberty!" for obvious reasons.

If you are thinking now you should respond with "brah, just get a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mic, brah!", this is your chance to prove to yourself what a big boy you are and think better of it, because nobody cares.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Maybe a "Regroup!"/"Stick Together!" would also make sense. It's not necessarily the same as "Follow me!".

[Sloop]

True, or like sticker/callout system in Monster Hunter World, you can easily communicate via premade shoutouts/pictures with people who don't even speak the same language. Coop games these days seem to be very limited in that regard. Could go all out with being able to draw on the minimap, having a callout wheel (at least stuff like "preparing orbital strike in that location" so 3 people don't waste their strategem cooldowns on one nest, etc...,

[Pierrot]

Originally posted by Pliauskis:

True, or like sticker/callout system in Monster Hunter World, you can easily communicate via premade shoutouts/pictures with people who don't even speak the same language.[...]

I would think messages are automatically translated, as it is a wheel.
When you shout "negative", a japanese player would clearly hear "辞めて先制!" :3

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Also, the wheel should be more responsive without any artificial delays or unnecessary mouse-movement thresholds. It should be usable in a split second.

Something else about the interface: There should be a HUD option that let's you have all stratagems on cooldown being displayed, not just the ones that are about to be available shortly again. If you miss that window, you don't know if a stratagem is ready again or not without opening the list.

[Dynamiez]

On the other hand... you can use the ingame voice chat to shout those commands manually

[McFuzz]

A help callout would be very nice

Originally posted by Dynamiez:

On the other hand... you can use the ingame voice chat to shout those commands manually

All well and good for you to say but I'm Australian
g'day mate
crikey
how y'goan
c-word

These are australian verbal compulsions and i don't want to embarrass myself :<

[Dynamiez]

Originally posted by McFuzz:

A help callout would be very nice

Originally posted by Dynamiez:

On the other hand... you can use the ingame voice chat to shout those commands manually

All well and good for you to say but I'm Australian
g'day mate
crikey
how y'goan
c-word

These are australian verbal compulsions and i don't want to embarrass myself :<

For me that would be okay 😅 my native language is german but i play with a group (new friends i met on day 1 after joining a random game) who all speak english. Yeah, i can speak english from school, but i think i sound like i am retarded. Or like those german meme characters in some games.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Originally posted by Dynamiez:

On the other hand... you can use the ingame voice chat to shout those commands manually

No, I had absolutely no clue. Thank you for telling me.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

There really needs to be a cheer option at the very least. Other games that come to mind have "For Rock and Stone!" or "For the Emperor!"... I mean what is this? A "For Liberty!" after a tough situation - there's really no excuse for not having that...

We also need (correct and more accurate) kill messages whenever a Helldiver is killed. It is sometimes hard to tell when someone is excessively team killing. Then people tell you to kick XY and you have to take their word for it. And sometimes you just explode in the middle of nowhere without a clue what happened.