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introduction and context
today i created this topic because i would liked to share this improvement and idea that i had for a while.
and that one is related to the personal Order.
Personal order for those that don’t know, it’s a semi advanced system that allows players to better mirco-manage their soldiers positions within a squad.
aka, being able to divert soldiers in a specific/different areas. hence the name, " personal orders ".
given individually to each trooper.
this can be used in conquest to divide your squad in two objectives, or prominently used, in defense inside buildings or points.
where you might want to place an smg / shotgun guy behind a door, or in a corner, place your riflemen behind fornitures, place soldiers generally in different areas of the house, etc etc.
the main problem
in my opinion, this system is really great.
it does what it’s supposed to with albe it, some pathfinding issues, that’s not related to the system it self.
however, most annoying part is, whenever you switch to one of the soldier that you gave a personal order, they often “lose the order” and regroup instead of staying at the designated area.
i’m not talking about the distance order before your squad will regroup, but actively switching among soldiers with personal orders, will reset their behavior and force them to regroup ( often getting themselves killed in the process ).
they don’t save the position once you switch among them.
hence, the fix and improvement for this suggestion;
the main suggestion
so, the main idea would be, add a new behavior in the command wheel to " save current personal order ".
meaning that, when it’s enabled, you command your AI to be in specific places as you would normally assign them.
but,
when it’s enabled:
players will be able to safely switch between soldiers and their personal order will be " saved ". meaning that, whenever a player is done controlling that soldier, the AI will fall back to the original personal order. without losing it’s placement.
in order to be different and distinguishable, in my opinion, the whole green markers ( for both personal order on the floor, and the Dots above the soldiers UI ) should be changed to something else. perhaps blue.
when it’s disabled:
on the other hand, if some folks do not like that, they can switch this feature off. and it will pretty much work like it does now. with the green markers which will disappear once you switch to those soldiers.
but in both cases, you can easily remove the commands and personal orders by ordering your bots to fall back / regroup to you ( by holding X )
how would any of this work?
very simple. pretty much like switching formations, or order your AI
and that is pretty much all.
some sort of system that retains the orders so that, i don’t overplace all of the soldiers orders when switching on accident, and they will save the personal order position once i’m done with a soldier instead of having to place it back each time.