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Author:  polar [ Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Chat options
Hi

I find the current implementation of the chat too distracting/disturbing (I talk about the "list" in the upper left corner, not the bubbles next to the players) Often enemies are hidden below the white background and also the constant popping up of the messages is.

I would recommend to use a smaller font and set the background to transparent. Additionally an option to hide the chat always would be welcome. What do you think? Btw, you can choose more than one option.

polar
Author:  pasik [ Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chat options
The chat log and scoreboard will be remade at some point in the future, around those times it would be a good spot to cleanup the on-screen radio comms notifications, same goes for the kill notifications on the right top corner.

Currently you can control the amount of AI commander notifications in the options, turning it off can help coping with it to a degree, but you also won't get any extra info anywhere.

I haven't thought the area through yet, but I'd say you'll have the options to control whether global/team chat/notifications are shown on field screen, and as you can then indeed hide them, you need to be able to see them in the logs then. If you've got them disabled, you'd probably just see some indicator telling you've got some unread notifications in the log.

There might be a UI element scaling option coming, but not sure about that, as it appears the font doesn't scale down very well, and if we go for a smaller font, it won't scale up very well. The current UI has been made to fit my own gaming habits using a large TV from ~2.5m distance, and the font size seems about fine to me.

Most likely the background frame will stay with the notifications. It's possible to mod it to remove it.
Author:  Modest [ Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Chat options
If I could add to this suggestion one thig... Could You make sure Pasik, that global and team chat messages, that are being shown in left top corner currently, have something that will mark them diffrently? Like, those that are global to be writen in black, while those that are team only in teams' collor (green, brown or grey). Reason why I am asking for that is very simple - do You remember when Yesterday You did managed to kill me on roof? I send You than something like "Good Aim". What You do not know is that I had to send it twice, because first time I sent it via team chat. Should it be written in diffrent colors - I would see in instant that I am making something wrong.
Author:  joneau [ Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Chat options
Modest wrote:
If I could add to this suggestion one thig... Could You make sure Pasik, that global and team chat messages, that are being shown in left top corner currently, have something that will mark them diffrently? Like, those that are global to be writen in black, while those that are team only in teams' collor (green, brown or grey). Reason why I am asking for that is very simple - do You remember when Yesterday You did managed to kill me on roof? I send You than something like "Good Aim". What You do not know is that I had to send it twice, because first time I sent it via team chat. Should it be written in diffrent colors - I would see in instant that I am making something wrong.

would like to see this happen too
Author:  pasik [ Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Chat options
Modest wrote:
If I could add to this suggestion one thig... Could You make sure Pasik, that global and team chat messages, that are being shown in left top corner currently, have something that will mark them diffrently? Like, those that are global to be writen in black, while those that are team only in teams' collor (green, brown or grey). Reason why I am asking for that is very simple - do You remember when Yesterday You did managed to kill me on roof? I send You than something like "Good Aim". What You do not know is that I had to send it twice, because first time I sent it via team chat. Should it be written in diffrent colors - I would see in instant that I am making something wrong.


Yea, there will be a marker icon/rectangle/stripe at the start of the chat / radio notification bubble that shows the faction it goes to / comes from.
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