I appreciate how it can be annoying when, in the heat of the moment + the actual audio que may be unreliable + trying to find mortar text in the heat of battle = you could end up dying to something.
Though I think the main issue is that we don’t want these features to be too easy to dodge.
+1 true . i was listening to ken carson and didnt see the ob message because i was fragging so it got drowned out by combat logs and so I died which means the round was ruined for the whole hive sooo yep add this
Here’s proof that I am not the only one having issues with tgchat - recorded yesterday on Fiorina as I was CICing with some dudes.
Besides this, two out of four ARES scans literally were vored by tgchat’s all-consuming void as well. I had to ask multiple times for it to be repeated to me.
I’ll take anything as an improvement. As long as it’s not in the STATUS BAR, or tied to STATUS BAR (xeno hp indicators lie constantly), and not TGCHAT as well. Compass, arrow, I don’t care. As long as it mirrors the functionality of chat warning me.
I might be wrong but I think most instances of silent mortar are due to a xeno moving into the range after the message has already been sent. As in, when the warning message is sent you are not yet in range, but you then enter the range at the last second and get blown up. It can happen very easily as runner but even slower castes can have it happen to them sometimes. This causes you to not only miss the message but the sound effect as well, so you basically get no warning whatsoever.
Chat definitely does eat messages as well but I’m not sure that’s the primary thing causing silent mortars. In fact I’m pretty sure even if chat eats the warning message you should still hear the sound effect.
You already get plenty of time to figure out where it is and dodge it, this would just make it even more of a snooze to dodge than it already is.
ok how
tgchat eats message
I think this whole discussion is beside the point.
CAS should be removed and marines be given more grenades/firepower to compensate. Marines get new fun toys, xenos can actually fight back, everyone is happy
