Multiplayer Tab 2 - help please

Started by garry · 5 hours ago · 4 replies · 236 views

garry
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JoinedApr 2021 Posts452 Score2,405
I've gone through the feedback in the last thread and I think I addressed everything that was bought up.

Can you all take a look at the latest staging version please and let me know what you would change, what is confusing, what is broken?

Basically:

1. Server browser - standard feature
2. Party list - should list joinable parties with game name etc
3. Global chat - able to talk and advertise your party etc

The party popup now lets you choose a game and its settings before you start playing. I'm thinking in the future this could also be a good point where everyone downloads the game, or at least start downloading it?

I'm not posting any screenshots on purpose because I want you guys to jump in the game and try it.
Қatka ♥
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JoinedMay 2021 Posts4 Score2,270
Seeing there is global chat but I haven't found a party chat, that might be something worth adding, too.
SuperCoolNinja
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JoinedJan 2023 Posts8 Score1,290
 Two things: 


1 - Global chat and party are confusing. (In the chat at the bottom you can see yourself in a party with others, but on the right you appear alone, how does that work?) 


2 - When you get kicked, please let the user know (e.g. “You have been kicked from …”). That way the user understands what happened. 


I’m going to give it another try later this weekend, but I really like it. It’s cool to be able to download the game while waiting for others before joining it. 
great idea ! 

garry
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JoinedApr 2021 Posts452 Score2,405
Party chat is just pressing ENTER anywhere on the menu
edited 3 hours ago#5
Doctor Law
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JoinedApr 2024 Posts15 Score2,390
This is significantly better.

- Looks less AI (less glowy, no mild gradients on every panel -- could be placebo but it looks better)
- It's very easy to navigate to different game categories
- Only a lunatic would put global chat in a game like this, but I don't make the bacon here
- We have a server browser!
- The fact that I can move panels around is an insane W

I think that ...

- Switching to party chat is confusing
- The Active Multiplayer servers (Active Games) is low-detail. It doesn't have to be like Garry's Mod, although it's kinda close and I do like it, but what happens if it's an open source gamemode and people have servers that have their own identity? Right now it just shows the name of the server and who runs it. There's nothing else to it. This might take time to tune right, because it depends on whether the game is more of an independent project or something that can be networkable and people host their own.
- Friends list is a nice touch. I think it would be cool to have a favorites at the bottom where I can add five.
- I really wish the global chat was collapsible to its own panel. I think it's an eyesore sharing a page with the server list and the party list. Can we make this its own subpanel that can be opened from a bottom right tab like old school IRC's?
- There is no chat censorship for super bad swear words. I get that it's not a politically correct game, and that's fine, but allowing people to say whatever they want in an IRC like this could spell disaster.

** I also would like to disable or somehow close the global chat. Thirty seconds in and it has already been a very Christian and above-board experience...
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