I am a big Arma fan and had never really heard of this game or the original until earlier this year. But I like strategy games so I thought I'd give it a go. Some quick first impressions :
I know you have been working on this for some time and i don't want to upset any developers who have worked on this but the opening FPS section is flat out bad. I wasn't expecting Arma, and I know that it's not the meat of the game but at this level of quality it'd probably be better to create a good first impression and skip straight to the section where you are in control of the carrier (and the quality of the game dramatically improves) I do not look forward to any further FPS moments, and i can see it putting some people off.
I am only a few islands in but the Carrier Command style strategy game is really well done I can see myself enjoying this. The UI could do with some work, IMO the map zooms out to the global view too quickly. The mouse acceleration is not good. The Radial menu is useful, but difficult to select (maybe a line from the centre showing where the relative mouse position should be like in some of Maya's menus) and the context sensitive nature of it is difficult to understand.
The games runs like a treat on my GTX460, would it be possible to get more than one picture in picture views of your active craft?
please please please add an option to disable mouse acceleration (or whatever it is that is causing the acceleration like effect) it's awful, and makes somethings hard to control.
First Impressions
in CARRIER COMMAND: GAEA MISSION - GENERAL
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Hello BIS
I am a big Arma fan and had never really heard of this game or the original until earlier this year. But I like strategy games so I thought I'd give it a go. Some quick first impressions :
I know you have been working on this for some time and i don't want to upset any developers who have worked on this but the opening FPS section is flat out bad. I wasn't expecting Arma, and I know that it's not the meat of the game but at this level of quality it'd probably be better to create a good first impression and skip straight to the section where you are in control of the carrier (and the quality of the game dramatically improves) I do not look forward to any further FPS moments, and i can see it putting some people off.
I am only a few islands in but the Carrier Command style strategy game is really well done I can see myself enjoying this. The UI could do with some work, IMO the map zooms out to the global view too quickly. The mouse acceleration is not good. The Radial menu is useful, but difficult to select (maybe a line from the centre showing where the relative mouse position should be like in some of Maya's menus) and the context sensitive nature of it is difficult to understand.
The games runs like a treat on my GTX460, would it be possible to get more than one picture in picture views of your active craft?
Keep up the good work!