Making the multiplayer better ?

[HolgerDK]

Have now played over 100 hour's of this great game... is still learning and trying to finetune my tactics....
But i think it needs better communication between players in the battle.
So i was thinking about better support markers than the ones we have now.
Maybe... artillery support marker,tank support,.air support etc
Just an idea..what do you guys think ?

 

[I WUB PUGS]

Not a terrible idea.

 

[Rojan]

Sounds like a good idea for a mod since I think there are bigger fish to fry unfortunately.

 

[Valdus]

Good idea. You can do something similar right now using the custom marker (I drop things like "anyone have bombs?" on AT guns) but making it easier to use could get more players doing it.

 

[dmdelor]

Sure, that seems like a simple and reasonable improvement.

Not sure I'd generally expect anyone to be able to and willing to respond to specific requests for help in SD'44; there's a lot less arty and air support going on than in RD, getting around the map can be very slow, and deck availability can be pretty tight. Still, "need fire support here" and "need AT here" probably could be squeezed into the signal bar without taking up a ton of screen real-estate, and would be a little more specific than just "Attack" or "Defend".

 

[Herr_Robert]

Yeah, an artillery support marker would be great -- especially for marking enemy artillery.

Sounds like a good idea for a mod since I think there are bigger fish to fry unfortunately.

I'm sure that's hardcoded.

 

[Protosszocker]

Markers like in Lol or SC2 would be cool were you can choose fast betwen 4 simple but helpfull options more than just deffensive or offensive
Like for offensive: Push here, Arty here, airstrike here, Kill tank here. for deffensive: need at here, need Inf here, need AA here and need supply here.
would be a good improvement for fast communication. Overall i think all those small things like this that everyone knows from other games and misses in this one were a big part in why the playerbase never grew big.