Pentara Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Been playing for 2 days now, keep up the good work. I'd like to see a return to simpler and smarter controls in combat. An example of this is the TU reservation panel. Instead of a slider showing all options in the game with some greyed out, how about the mechanic used in X-com with buttons. And you only see the buttons for those options you have. Clicking is a lot easier than positioning over the slider, holding the mouse and then moving up or down. The analogy I can give are games you play where you have to log in and on the title screen you have to click on the password field before you can type it in instead of having the cursor already there. It's a small step, but when you do it hundreds or thousands of times it adds up. Imagine a game you log into 4 times a day, it would get annoying fast. Thing along similar lines for all other controls. Oh, and make the scroll bars wider too. Mousewheel doesn't work too well, it scrolls down the list and changes the selected soldier/item. And the current bars are so thin (I play at max res) they are hard to catch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Dread Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 +1 for wider scrollbars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitso Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Yeah, I've been bitching about the scroll bars for ages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 But slimline scrollbars are so elegant! I will bear in mind your complaints and consider expanding them, it's not too difficult to do but it would be time consuming to do all of them again. The game's too far gone to revamp the UI again beyond minor changes though. It's not perfect but it's already significantly more streamlined than the original game...or even the original implementation of the UI in Xenonauts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Dread Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 dont get me wrong, i like the look of the slim ones... i just cant click and drag in the right place when using my laptops mousepad ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Pity you can't combine the two. Nice visually pleasing slimline scroll bars that expand on mouse over to make them easier to grab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thixotrop Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) I do not have the problems with it as I absolutely detest laptops. But...Is it possible to enlarge the sliders when the cursor is hovering over it? Just like a popup of a tooltip or a magnifying glass? You could even put a game options (use it or not) behind this, like "Laptop aiming help" for all those tiny interaction thingies the laptop mousepad is too clumsy for. Just a thought. Edited January 17, 2014 by thixotrop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentelin Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 (edited) dont get me wrong, i like the look of the slim ones... i just cant click and drag in the right place when using my laptops mousepad ;P Why don't you use mouse ?Who today still using touchpad to play video games even TBS (when was ever used). @thixotrop No one tells you ,,its forbidden to use thing called mouse". Edited January 18, 2014 by Sentelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thixotrop Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 @thixotrop No one tells you ,,its forbidden to use thing called mouse". I am using the mouse, don't have a laptop and never will. Got a standard PC with monitor, keyboard and mouse. I just wanted to help and hint a possible solution to aid those laptop-users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Dread Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Why don't you use mouse ?Who today still using touchpad to play video games even TBS (when was ever used). I travel a lot, a mouse isn't practical on trains and planes when i want to kill a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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