Eat_my_shorts said:
Brizz have you ever really played u2xmp properly?
What's this? Asking me a question I have answered a hundred times already? I played U2XMP from the very first beta all the way until I realized that the community was not backing it and the playercounts dropped back to "normal". If you don't believe me, ask many of the beta crowd. I played with them often. And as in my other reply, how often I played U2XMP hardly has a bearing on how much my opinion matters.
Nembers on the hud are VERY useful ie. the number of spammed deployables and another one that has been removed; your speed...
Where did I say they weren't? Did I say they should leave them off? Well if you can read that into my post somehow, you might have just confirmed my worst fears.
me - FIXED said:
THEY CAN STILL ADD THE NUMBERS TO IT.
Does that help you comprehend what I was saying?
Artifacts do not show up properly on the new f1 menu...
I don't know what you mean by this. I have never had a problem.
Making the new HUD more opaque also makes the text more opaque - which is silly...
ummm....right.....the point is to make it more see-through. I have mine set to 70% and I don't have any problems reading the HUD or seeing through it.
Would it have not make a whole lot more sense to first do an exact port, release it when ready, and then change things afterwards? One of the main ideas of the port was to please the XMP community... Has it achived this aim?
No. Why does that make more sense? You know as well as anyone that people were already complaining about stuff in UTXMP that hadn't even been discussed by FMI on the forums before the Beta started. You also know as well as anyone that people were already complaining about how long the game was taking to get released as it was. I'm too lazy to look, but I wouldn't be surprised if you were one of them.
The port was meant to get XMP into a better position to be supported and patched and to bring XMP gameplay along with it. Not to bring U2XMP and all it's problems into UT2004. Personally, I wouldn't have minded if the game was 100% different and they tweaked it back to the way it was just enough to get everyone to shut up.
Reading comprehension--;
And because I know you (or someone else) is dying to make the accusation:
I don't think they should not bring the old HUD back. I just don't think they should ditch the one they have.