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On Teamplay/Balancing/Switching - the path of Prosk

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#1 Spiderz

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Posted October 29 2012 - 08:45 AM

so, i am Prosk.

so yeah... you cannot chat in the "READY" lobby, only when you're spawned in-game, therefore you can't kindly ask somebody to switch, nor can you chat with players on your friends list, the friends list simply allows you join on friend, i'd assume in the future you'll be able to mail other players, given the mailbox icon, but i would sooner suggest a party IM system for both social and server

if you're on Teamspeak with half a dozen people and you all want to team up, you cannot form a party, you must play on Prosk, why? because when a server fills, it fills from left to right, therefore any new players entering the server will appear in Sentium, giving you the quick opportunity to switch to Prosk where your friends are, this means if you're playing as a clan or group you will always be on Prosk side

however, whats annoying is if we populate an empty server and don't "ready" until we're ready and balanced properly while waiting for people to fall into Sentium to team switch, we can be booted for idle and have to restart our clients to re-enter our match even tho we're the ones who populate the empty server and have not pressed "ready" i'd like to think if i don't press ready, i'm simply not ready? thus its seriously painful not having party join and its not uncommon to have our team divided, saying all this i would really love a party join option in the future

its what we had to do, but regardless we got there in the end and we had fun.
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Posted October 29 2012 - 09:26 AM

I ran into this problem just playing with one friend. This is during CB1. WE had to find a server that wasn't too populated and we could both join. Yesterday didn't have many servers not displaying -1/-1 and we ended up playing MWO.

unrelated note: i can't handle MWO's controls XD

#3 Lord_Trent_Kellan

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Posted November 05 2012 - 09:34 AM

I really, really quite want a party system.  I think many of us will, for as we all know, a lot of gamers play multiplayer games with their friends.

It sucked even with the people who I just met online and wanted to team up with-- I would try and join a server but sometimes it randomly wouldn't let me, and other times it took like 3 games JUST to get on the same team due to how it currently works.  You can't message each other, you can't necessarily team up, and when you're against each other, you can't talk over Hawken voice chat, and a lot of people don't notice the text messages to all because they disappear or get small so fast and the game is fairly intense.

Other than that, when I was actually teamed up with friends, it was VERY fun.  I would also really like to see the option to use AI bots again.

That said, I know the devs have stated they are working on a fully integrated social system for Hawken, so we may just need to be patient for now. :P

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Posted November 05 2012 - 10:06 AM

This is pretty much the only reason I haven't joined a Clan yet.  Hopefully they have this ready by the open Beta but as long as it's on the list I'll just enjoy blowing the heck out of everything in sight!
When I've launched onto the battlefield, torn my enemies to shreds.  I stride through the field and listen, I see a ping.  I quietly take my time moving into position, it pings.  I see him...but he doesn't see me.  That feeling of making someone feel defenseless in that moment.  It is glorious!


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Posted November 05 2012 - 11:32 AM

Closed Beta means Closed Beta... so to speak.

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Posted November 05 2012 - 07:46 PM

I can't remember on which menus, etc this applies to, but from CB1, you can open up your console using the tilda key (~) and then type "say [yourMsgHere]" for communicating.

I know this applies to the spawn screen and ingame alteast ...
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Posted November 05 2012 - 10:40 PM

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