Make the indirect fire line dashed (in addition to being curved)

[Chunt]

In some cases, it is hard to tell if the line of fire a mech has is direct or indirect when the line of fire line is drawn.

In most cases, it is easy to tell if the line is flat (direct LOS) or curved (indirect). But in some cases my eyes have told me it is a straight line, so I move and then find I can only fire LRMs.

Having that line also be dashed would be a quick fix to help my (aging) eyes out.

 

[Amechwarrior]

I want this stock so badly. The BTMLColorLoS mod does this and also changes the colors drastically for both IDF and obstructed shots. The dashed line helps so much when I usually play with as much of a "top down" camera as I can. It's so easy to not see the arc if you're looking directly down the line of fire before you confirm the move.

 

[Justin Kase]

I have played hundreds of hours of this game - and I repeatedly messed up noticing that a LoS is Indirect Fire because I was viewing from overhead.... until I loaded the BTMLColorLoS Mod. Now I only mess up when I forget to reenable BTMLColorLoS after Mod testing

Something like BTMLColorLoS really needs to be implemented as part of the base game

 

[Donvale]

This is probably my current number one UI issue at the moment, has been right from the start really.

 

[Icewraith]

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. Yes.

 

[The Shadowhawke]

If the camera angle is too sharply vertical, it is easy to make this mistake. We've all done it.

I believe that at least one mod, Roguetech, IIRC, has changed the color of the firing arc to blue. That is really all we need, it would probably be easier to remedy graphically than dotting the line.

 

[Justin Kase]

The BTML LoS Firing Line mod allows you to :

• Change fire line colors (you can pick the colors)
• Set solid and/or dashed lines
• Have the line change colors where the LoS is Blocked
• Allows you to swap colors mid game with a hotkey, just in case the colors you like are hard to see in a particular map

But, yes, I'd be thrilled if HBS/Paradox just implemented different colors in the base game - but no reason all the above couldn't be implemented.

Wouldn't mind seeing the minimum range color change as well - but now I am just getting greedy

 

[DarkSpade]

If the camera angle is too sharply vertical, it is easy to make this mistake. We've all done it.

Happens to me all the time because I just happened to have the camera directly behind the firing mech.