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Proposal/Request: Separate Enemy and friend targets

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Playing a RA5 Cruiser, I have had a little trouble with the current targeting process. I have to double-click/hit the F1 etc. key in order to target myself or teammates to heal, and even with the automatic target switching turned off, still find myself constantly targeting the wrong enemy, or healing the wrong friend.

Though improvements to the automatic target switching will definitely help this situation, I believe the best improvement would be to separate out friend and enemy targets, so you could have one of each. It is a game mechanic which has been used in a couple of other games, and allows the greatest flexibility for anyone who is juggling healing and damage.

With that change in place, you could allow single-clicks of the mouse to target friends again, which would speed up healing reaction times for those still using their mice to navigate the UI, and give teams a better option for focus fire using a MA concept.

It would be great to get feedback from other players as well, to see if they have any problems/questions/suggestions about the concept I'm proposing. I understand that many of you might be able to make the current system work, but do you think the targeting system has problems and could use some work?

ObliKhan
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    I've only been on the game a little while, but targeting of enemys in battle is tough. If your in a good fight,hitting the tab button many times gets you nothing...and I've tried setting 'keybinds' to fix it, that doesn't work either, so in short...yes, targeting needs work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    currenty for space i have f2-5 (defualt) set to where my wsad keys would be on my G13 gameboard since i use the joy to fly and i have select nearest/closet to z key (thumb key on the board) also have tab but barley use it, since in pvp we have one of us calling out targets in vent and i runn of his and use the f key setup for healing where i can.

    For ground its a different story, not being able to have my medic Boff's abilites on my tray, i have to manually click on a team mate then be quick enough to pop of the heal from my officer before im autotargeting my targets target. can get frustratingly annoyin at times.

    Having different shaped outlines for enemies will go along way esp when having so much goin on on the screen, i have it set to use outlines and boxes and have names showing at all times atm lol.
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