Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#4009 new enhancement
Slim pause GUI
Reported by: | elexis | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Nice to Have | Milestone: | Backlog |
Component: | UI – In-game | Keywords: | simple |
Cc: | Patch: |
Description
As mentioned in #1950, it would be nice to not have an overlay graying out the entire screen when someone else pauses, allowing the others to continue clicking on units and buildings, investigating what the allies and enemies are doing etc.
There should be a setting so that people can chose which variant to use, defaulting to the current one.
The pausing players can be shown in the topright corner where lagwarnings are also shown (see that removed TODO in the commit of #1950).
Notice players can technically still issue commands, which could probably be stopped by returning false from controlsPlayer
if it's paused.
The current overlay might disable the camera hotkeys using #3676 since scrolling with the mouse is equally impossible.
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
comment:2 by , 7 years ago
Isn't it unbalanced game for player who has paused it? Because all players could do something until paused player is absent (like make an useful queue of units or something else).
comment:3 by , 7 years ago
Allowing the non-pausing players to continue doing things meaningful to the match, besides chatting, while waiting for the pausing player(s) is the purpose of this feature. I don't mind if pausing is penalized.
comment:4 by , 5 years ago
Component: | UI & Simulation → In-game UI |
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Move tickets to In-game UI
as UI & Simulation
got some sub components.
comment:5 by , 3 years ago
Keywords: | simple removed |
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severity: | → simple |
comment:6 by , 3 years ago
Keywords: | simple added |
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The fundamental issue is that the overlay thing removes the ability to control anything in the session. It would also be good if the player could still select things after disconnect, open the chat history (with disabled or hidden controls), open the diplomacy screen and check the map.