[Suggestion] A Party-frame for Generals?

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from Demigod Forums

So after playing one game just now as the Queen of Thorns, and a few games last night as Erebus, I've noticed something that's annoying me, not to the extent of "Aggghhh I hate this game", but more to the extent of, starting to influence my DG choice depending on the size of the map.

 

Playing as a general, to get a good overlay of your entire army and the lane, I play zoomed out, not fully zoomed out, but enough, and it seems tricky to manage my mini-army not due to difficulty but due to being unable to see when one of them dies in a fight, quickly finding something to Mulch (This is made alot worse when it gets to the point of giants) and telling what I need to resummon and when.

 

I mentioned this idea while playing with some friends earlier as one of them was playing Erebus and thought it was a good idea.

 

So,

 

Do you guys think that some sort of Partyframe for the generals would be a nice idea, telling you current/max of each type you can summon, and maybe even little drop down expanded frames so you can see the specific healths of each of them, or tiny bars next to each other under one heading (With some sort of funtionality of targeting by clicking the bars), it would make it easier as Queen to mulch something quickly in a big fight, to heal your army,  you won't have to zoom all the way in under that Giant's ass to see what units you still have alive, and you can manage your army a little better.

 

Anyone agree/disagree?

 

Edit: And woops, can someone move this to the Idea's forum maybe? Thank you :)

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah I have been playing almost all QoT general and I find it quite silly that there is no status bar for my minions. With the constant flooding of portal and enemy minions it would be nice to have a small picture with a health bar at one of the corners of the screen (even better if we could move it!).

As it stands now it makes it harder to see what's going on and may be confusing to some when playing a general, which will just lead to stacking of assassins.

 

P.S. Think this is my first post so I thought I would just put it out there... Great job with the game! I am really enjoying it so far and I am suprised to not have encountered a single bug when playing multiplayer so far. ^_^ Coming from dawn of war 2, this release has been much smoother... hope the train keeps rollin'!

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I agree.

One of my fustrations with playing QoT was that it was often times hard to select a minion to mulch with large characters in the way (Rook).

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Oh god yea,

 

Playing with a rook player on the team when trying to mulch something as QoT is horrible, if you panic, you're so so dead.