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

The Kush · 2012-07-09, 05:21 PM

Updated: Higby response here.

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:22 PM

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:23 PM

Agreed.

Should at least be customizable.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-07-09, 05:24 PM

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

The Kush · 2012-07-09, 05:26 PM

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

Stew · 2012-07-09, 05:31 PM

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

cryosin · 2012-07-09, 05:46 PM

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:46 PM

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:48 PM

Yes, it needs to be smaller.

The Kush · 2012-07-09, 05:49 PM

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

Traingye · 2012-07-09, 05:53 PM

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 · 2012-07-09, 05:54 PM

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

Pella · 2012-07-09, 06:03 PM

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.