Shoving & faster actions

[dulix11 731]

The walkways in some buildings are death traps. Especially if you're getting chased by zombies, and you think you can lose them, you head up there looking for a hatchet or something, but no. If you go up on them things, whilst getting chased by zombies, you're fucked.

You can't go back the way you came because zombies block you. You just run into them getting gang raped and knocked down. Its only by some miracle that you might glitch past them,but even thewn you've already lost too much blood and you may aswell kill yourself.

So here is my suggestion: Shoving, or knocking the zombies down.

Take the example above, if you are close enough to a zombie, you can press a key and you'll shove it: either into the ground or just to the side. This will give you some time to get past them, instead of being raped by them. This will also save alot of time and deaths, especially for new players.

And my last suggestion: Faster animations.

I know the SA already has some faster and more accessible ways to do things, (eg. looting) but things like getting in and out of vehicles, climbing ladders etc takes too long. To climb ladders you need to stand in the most precise location, find the option to climb it, select 'climb ladder', holster your weapon and THEN climb. Meanwhile you are most likely mauled to death by zombies.

Sometimes there are too many options on the action menu thing. For example: getting out of a car in a hurry. You have 4 options all in the way: Engine off, Get out, eject, and gear, and if you're like me, you'll be in a hurry to get out of whatever situation it is. 90% of the time I miss and end up selecting something I didn't want to, thus giving the zombies more time to eat me while I try again.

There should be a key you can press (F maybe?) that quickly performs the action, but only when facing a door / gate / ladder / vehicle.

For instance you run over to a ladder, hit F and you start climbing, instead of having to cycle through options.

And just so you know, I'm not ranting, I'm just saying there needs to be a quicker way to do certain things.

Thanks for reading, tell me what you think:

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

Some actions, such as exiting a vehicle and ejecting from a vehicle, have options to bind keys for them. (I use "V" and "2xV")

Some actions are made more complicated depending on the context, like trying to climb a ladder if a car is parked close by, or opening a door if you've got a few magazine types to choose from at the time.

What I'd like to see (which ties into the introduction of a "shove" move) is the ability to "shove" a door open.

You'd still need to mousewheel if you want to close the door, but 9 times out of 10 you need to open a door in a hurry, not close it.

I think simple hand to hand fighting is planned for SA already. We'll have to wait and see how that works out.

For cars, if possible, a GTA style "enter the nearest vehicle" key would potentially reduce the number of mousewheel actions appearing at a time. You'd just jump in the closest available seat.

Ammo types/magazines could be handled purely in the gear menu, or through the new "quick-bar".

Just some ideas that might make the mousewheel menu less cluttered, so that important "emergency" actions are easier to accomplish when we're in panic-mode.

EDIT: I lost my train of thought. If I'm not making sense, forgive me, I'm a wee bit hungover.

Edited June 16, 2013 by Chabowski

[Drakan 62]

+ 1 especially for some actions (vaulting / lying on the ground) must be faster / smoother.

[-Gews- 7443]

I saw a suggestion , must have been on the bistudio forums, to speed up the ArmA vault so it is smoother and doesn't leave you at a disadvantage for stepping over a tiny obstacle. Sounded good to me. I see the standalone has a little bunny hop thing. I suppose that works too.