Announcements at the top of the screen [will be tamed according to Higby]

[The Kush]

Updated: Higby response here (http://www.planetside-universe.com/showthread.php?postid=775689#post775689).

Ya know, the ones that say "NC defended x facility"

or..

"TR captured x facility"


after watching higby's stream for 2 minutes I realized they need to make these a lot smaller. They take up a third of the screen.

[Razicator]

At E3, it was kind of jarring after a capture to see a huge alert with your faction symbol to cover the top half of your screen and say that you defended a particular spot. I'm watching Higby's PS2 stream now, and there was a point when four or five alerts popped up in sequence, resulting in what felt like a few minutes of half of his screen covered by the "Facility A defended" or whatever the exact wording was. Anybody else think that such an alert should be much less prominent? Perhaps a notification somewhere small, like in PS1?

Heck, people can just look at the prominent box in PS2 with the ABCDEF capture point graphics and see in a glance that a certain place was defended. The huge alert just seems redundant.

[diLLa]

Agreed.

Should at least be customizable.

[Sledgecrushr]

Great point, I hope it can be changed with the ui customizer.

[The Kush]

yea an option to change the size at least would be nice

[Stew]

At least it will be clear for those who always complain they will not feel they WIN lol while playing planetside 2 because the continents have foot hold instead of having sanctuary and continents lock !

HEY YOU WIN BODY !!!! FEELL IT ??????

Whith thats big ass messages they CANT MISS IT LOL so maybe they will feel it moaaaaaaarrrrr lol :lol:

[cryosin]

i agree as well. was watching Higby's stream just now and every few seconds it would take up the screen.

I can picture a solid firefight where you are shooting someone up top and then that gets in your way and you can't see what you're doing.

[LegioX]

I can already tell this will get annoying pretty fast. Imagine having that thing pop up every 10 sec saying certain facility captured by....insert here. Make is small....or something else.

[Absentis]

Yes, it needs to be smaller.

[The Kush]

its way too big even if it is only there for a few seconds

[Traingye]

I think there is an issue with the UI. It appeared to get stuck saying the same base was defended over and over again. I believe I saw Higby use some sort of admin command to clear it.

[TheDAWinz]

Hell if higby got annoyed by it, its a guarantee downsize.

[Pella]

http://i45.tinypic.com/2z74om1.jpg

Yes, 15 of us on mumble was like.... That shit would annoy the hell out of me! No wounder Higby rage quit the steam.

Matthew Higby ‏@mhigby

Yes, that facility defended stuff is fixed in the latest build, but not the build we were just playtesting. Drives me nuts too.

[Ghryphen]

Yes, that facility defended stuff is fixed in the latest build, but not the build we were just playtesting. Drives me nuts too.

https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/222450757914460161

[basti]

http://twitter.com/mhigby/statuses/222450757914460161

Yes, that facility defended stuff is fixed in the latest build, but not the build we were just playtesting. Drives me nuts too.

http://twitter.com/BastiVC/statuses/222450945928343553

@mhigby Can it be made smaller / replaced completly with a message in the text window? :>

http://twitter.com/mhigby/statuses/222451025376849920

@BastiVC that's how it'll work for regions you're not actively fighting in.

[sylphaen]

Size. Always. Matters.

[Stardouser]

http://twitter.com/mhigby/statuses/222450757914460161



http://twitter.com/BastiVC/statuses/222450945928343553



http://twitter.com/mhigby/statuses/222451025376849920

Higby, that's great and all, but could we possibly have it able to be customized so that the notifications can be turned off or made small even in the area we are fighting?

[Envenom]

"Yes, that facility defended stuff is fixed in the latest build, but not the build we were just playtesting. Drives me nuts too."

- Higby via Twatter

[Ghryphen]

"Yes, that facility defended stuff is fixed in the latest build, but not the build we were just playtesting. Drives me nuts too."

- Higby via Twatter
Did Higby post something about it on Twitter? Think someone needs to confirm that, 3 isn't enough. :p

[LegioX]

well that fixes that problem..lol

[Higby]

there was a bug with that. We have two issues currently that was causing that spam.
1 - You're seeing resecure messages for bases which are captured from proximity, so when someone drives or flies into the proximity of the capture point and then flies out it says "Base is resecured!" this is gone because, duh.
2 - the large messages should only play for your currently active region, not each region on the map, other regions will play a smaller message that's way less intrusive.
It was driving me insane in the playtest too, you probably saw me run a script a few time to clear it.

[TheDAWinz]

there was a bug with that. We have two issues currently that was causing that spam.
1 - You're seeing resecure messages for bases which are captured from proximity, so when someone drives or flies into the proximity of the capture point and then flies out it says "Base is resecured!" this is gone because, duh.
2 - the large messages should only play for your currently active region, not each region on the map, other regions will play a smaller message that's way less intrusive.
It was driving me insane in the playtest too, you probably saw me run a script a few time to clear it.

Yeah i saw that!

[LegioX]

there was a bug with that. We have two issues currently that was causing that spam.
1 - You're seeing resecure messages for bases which are captured from proximity, so when someone drives or flies into the proximity of the capture point and then flies out it says "Base is resecured!" this is gone because, duh.
2 - the large messages should only play for your currently active region, not each region on the map, other regions will play a smaller message that's way less intrusive.
It was driving me insane in the playtest too, you probably saw me run a script a few time to clear it.

good to hear higby. thanks for letting us know :)

[The Kush]

there was a bug with that. We have two issues currently that was causing that spam.
1 - You're seeing resecure messages for bases which are captured from proximity, so when someone drives or flies into the proximity of the capture point and then flies out it says "Base is resecured!" this is gone because, duh.
2 - the large messages should only play for your currently active region, not each region on the map, other regions will play a smaller message that's way less intrusive.
It was driving me insane in the playtest too, you probably saw me run a script a few time to clear it.

Haha yea that looked rather annoying.

Thanks again for the update and showing us some footage. It was awesome!

[Zidane]

Did Higby post something about it on Twitter? Think someone needs to confirm that, 3 isn't enough. :p

lolz:lol:

[Baneblade]

It should only be that big when it has my name on it.

[Antivide]

I have something else big...

In my pants...

It's my mag shot.

But really, nice to see they're going to tone it down. BF3 does a simple voice over like "We have taken the objective!" or "The objective is now ours!" with a small flash over the objective in question.

[MonsterBone]

Its time to get busy!

[vVRedOctoberVv]

Already fixed. Nice. Cause that was annoying. It should really only display the one region you're in (apparently everyone else thought so, too)

[Pyreal]

Already fixed. Nice. Cause that was annoying. It should really only display the one region you're in (apparently everyone else thought so, too)

Not quite, there will still be larges notifications in the center of the screen. They need to go altogether.

Keep the HUD clean!

[Canaris]

there was a bug with that. We have two issues currently that was causing that spam.
1 - You're seeing resecure messages for bases which are captured from proximity, so when someone drives or flies into the proximity of the capture point and then flies out it says "Base is resecured!" this is gone because, duh.
2 - the large messages should only play for your currently active region, not each region on the map, other regions will play a smaller message that's way less intrusive.
It was driving me insane in the playtest too, you probably saw me run a script a few time to clear it.

good to hear, would also like to see a HUD option to resize and move them to a less obnoxious place on the screen if you can :)

[Gonefshn]

I'm glad to see this change.

For the first time during the last stream I thought the entire UI seemed large to me. I don't know why it never bothered me before but this time I kept noticing it.

I am very curious to see exactly how much customization they will actually allow in the final game.

[Pancake]

I hope they really scale down the size, but I would prefer if they had it at the very top of the screen as a ribbon.

[Kran De Loy]

With how much they boasted about customization for the ipad and android applications I figure it would be pretty odd for them to not implement the same levels of customization for the in-game UI as well.