Guild Wars 2

Brief suggestions on how to improve the ingame features, mainly those that bridge the gap between the voip and non-voip experience.

Voip gives you more control over a squad and the people u command no doubt. Its a third party system though, not supported by the game itself. Its important we have a system ingame that brings the ability to play as close as possible to the voip experience. Many great features have been rolled out to address this. Not limited to:
-the target marker
-our wonderful 8 markers
-our wonderful 8 target markers
-our 4 map command markers
-squad messages
-squad broadcasts

Things that weren’t done well though:
-map pings
-shift+T target markers
-distinguishing between party and squad members
-drawing on the map with the line tool

Things needed:
-Even More distinguishable markers tbh
-easier ways to get players in the squad
-ways to bring the party ui into a squad
-More ways to bring little bits of information to the attention of the squad
-ability to mark a route for moving the squad from 1 point to the other. (would love an actual line system ingame indicating to squad members how u want them to traverse certain territories.)

I don’t really feel like giving specific ideas. I could but I feel general broad statements are the most useful to both my purposes and the purposes of any developers looking at this. I mean to get people to do something, the best method is to give them a say in how its done.

Maybe quick commands?

I remember in AOE2 you could type a number out and it’d say something predefined, same went for Diablo 2 and pressing the numpad for various messages. This was of course under the assumption that you couldn’t type out what you were going to say.

I agree with the quick command idea. It has to be local area and put a chat bubble over my head too (cause zerglings eyes don’t leave the center of the screen). The commands should be keybinds you can set. Ideally your character should shout the command verbally (ingame audio) too. These should not be subjected to spam filters either but would be suppressed if you block the person trying to use them.