» Fri May 27, 2011 12:36 pm So the game is in it's final stages now and the core mechanics are fixed, these will not change no matter what now, so there are other things to discuss that can still be improved upon for us PC gamers.
1) UI - All the User interfaces we have seen till date have been for consoles, none of the PC versions have been shown. The PC version of the game should have an interface specific to the platform, not just a copy paste version of the one for the consoles.
2) Advanced Options - I'm sure id software's famous console will exist but we need a boat load of command enabled too, especially for graphical tweaking.
3) VOIP - I don't think id has mentioned VOIP but consoles have Voice directly according to the platform but PC's need special integration. I don't know if steamworks or some other system is being used but some sort of inbuilt voice system has to exist.
4) Friends system - You should be able to add people as friends I know it goes without saying this will exist but I'd rather say it.
5) Party system - I have been playing way too much starcraft 2 recently and one good thing that I love in that is the party system. Consoles have it inbuilt to psn or xbl but PC will need some sort of implementation for it. Why the party system? because it lets me and my friends join the same game and the same team without any hassles of sharing IP's then joining and then hoping we end up on the same team. Plus parties can have a separate party voice system where they can only talk to each other and other players on the server can't hear them.
6) join by IP - This is a must. Every id game I have seen has it but I hope RAGE does too. So many times because of firewalls or ISP's me and my friends can't see the same servers or if I create one they don't end up seeing the server. The join by IP option has helped so much.
7) Support for other peripheral hardware - I don't personally use anything but the keyboard and mouse but I have seen many other players use optional peripherals. For them this game should at the very least be compatible if not fully support other peripherals.
8) Other stuff - Fully mappable controls, random stuff from quake like cross hair type, color, option to change hit sound etc.
9) Score screen - I made this a separate category because recently I have been seeing that the devs like to put the Score and common chat area on two different page. Crysis 2 and Brink had this. Personally I think it's bad UI design by making a player shift from the score screen just to chat. This makes me either only look at the score screen or only communicate in the time the next game loads up. I loved the score screen UI in ET: Quake Wars, everything was on the same screen no clicking to shift from page to page. I can see my score and brag/[censored] about it simultaneously about it in the chat.
Mention other stuff you would like to see added in the game that is NOT gameplay related and bump this thread so that the devs and mods see it and consider our opinions. It's not too late for these additions/changes and even if it is they can still try to implement it by the first patch to the game.
