Announcements at the top of the screen [will be tamed according to Higby] - Page 2

sylphaen · 2012-07-09, 05:12 PM

Size. Always. Matters.

Stardouser · 2012-07-09, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by basti

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:16 PM

"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 · 2012-07-09, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by 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

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

LegioX · 2012-07-09, 05:21 PM

well that fixes that problem..lol

**Higby** · 2012-07-09, 05:27 PM

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

Yeah i saw that!

LegioX · 2012-07-09, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

good to hear higby. thanks for letting us know

The Kush · 2012-07-09, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

Haha yea that looked rather annoying.

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

Zidane · 2012-07-09, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Gryphon

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

lolz

Baneblade · 2012-07-09, 05:48 PM

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

Antivide · 2012-07-09, 06:35 PM

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.