Some Quality of Life Changes

Darkstirling · June 2017

Here are some QoL changes I would like to see for this game, add any more you can think of!

-Option to not select builders when dragging a selection box over military units
-Ability to rebind hotkeys
-A hotkey to show webway auras, and also range of waaaagh towers
-Units stances (hold ground, passive, aggressive)
-A way to make units automatically shoot out of stealth cover when something gets in range (maybe related to stances?)

MaxwellsDaemon · June 2017

I'd also like the ability to select infantry and NOT set up teams ideally with separate keybinds.

Praxis · June 2017

Are range markers for units that require set up too much to ask for?

Kaadu · June 2017

Game control:

There seems to be lag when mashing an F key to select and snap to a hero. It seems to snap to faster when scrolling the screen and mashing the F key for some reason.
Option to not select workers with mass selections tools (select box and select all units hotkey)
Option to have exclusive groups. Each unit can only be a member of one group.
Enable/disable auto reinforce by right clicking on the reinforce button
Force melee button / hotkey like Dawn of War 2
Button to select (closest) idle worker
Attack moving onto stealth terrain should set your units to engage enemies immediately instead of hiding. This might help the usefulness of doctrines that boost attack range in stealth terrain / heavy cover.
When an enemy unit enters stealth terrain, pursuing melee units should charge in after them instead of stopping in their tracks and pretending they don't know where their target went.

Game UI:

Instead of having unselected unit cards greyed out, always colour the unit cards, but add an animated border around selected units. Since when unit portraits are greyed out, it's hard to see what they are.
Add consistency between the building buttons and unit cards. Currently selecting a unit causes it to become coloured, but selecting a building button causes the button to grey out. (both should use the animated border method)

Main Menu:

Speed up the main menus exit game button. It does a long fadeout for some reason
Speed up swapping elites / swapping races, the pillar should not lower and raise, just add a teleport effect or something if the pillar needs to change size. It seems like I'm waiting on the pillar rather than the time it takes the elite to load.
Speed up post game rewards screens, preferably uniting the rewards screens into one screen and having a 'Skip' button that skips all reward animations. Not sure why you have to waste time clicking 'Unlock' on rewards that are probably skulls.

Cursed · June 2017

Best change they could make: spice up the cover mechanic.

The game could badly use something to make combat more dynamic (maybe not exactly the right word, but to make it more interesting and variable as well as giving tatictal depth to combat)

Seriously. They have deployable cover as a thing for Eldar, there's no reason they can't start implementing it elsewhere too.

Stoner · June 2017

Biggest QoL needed right ++heresy redacted++ now is custom keybinds and observer mod, with everything else missing we can yet live.

PaztheLobster · June 2017

@Cursed said:
Best change they could make: spice up the cover mechanic.

The game could badly use something to make combat more dynamic (maybe not exactly the right word, but to make it more interesting and variable as well as giving tatictal depth to combat)

Seriously. They have deployable cover as a thing for Eldar, there's no reason they can't start implementing it elsewhere too.

Hmm, you have a point there. Buildable heavy cover with less HP? Sort of like Terran Bunkers from SC2? I could see how it could add something to the game.

Darkstirling · June 2017

Change to the cover system isn't really a Quality of life change, more of a gameplay one.
For this thread, I am mostly thinking of changes to things like units behaviours, hotkeys, UI improvements, and the like. Things that would make the experience of the game feel more refined and streamlined

Here is another I thought of
-players should be able to set rally points onto webway connected buildings (and units built would automatically walk through)

Darkstirling · June 2017

Some more suggestions to improve the menu UIs

Improve the elite selection screen, currently it is really annoying to manage your elites and select command doctrines. It feels clunky
Allow the player to change their colour scheme while in the automatch queue searching for game
In the automatch screen currently, you cannot have every queue deselected (3v3,2v2,1v1). This sometimes results in extra mouse movements and clicks that could be avoided if they could all be deselected. **

**(For example: If I have 3v3 and 2v2 selected, but I want to do 1v1, the natural mouse movement for me is to deselect 3v3, then 2v2, then enable 1v1, currently this is not doable)

Andtaxes · June 2017

@Praxis said:
Are range markers for units that require set up too much to ask for?

A million times this.

Pegleg · June 2017

Bind keys. Whats is this, Blizzard? Lol.

Some Quality of Life Changes

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