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GLA Saboteur ability button has no practical use

Open xezon opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

GLA Saboteur ability button has no practical use. The primary attack already performs the saboteur action without pressing that button.

xezon avatar Apr 24 '24 06:04 xezon

Worse than no practical use - actually broken. I would attach a file but it's larger than 10MB - posted in discord instead.

penfriendz avatar Apr 24 '24 07:04 penfriendz

We can probably just remove the button.

xezon avatar Apr 24 '24 07:04 xezon

Brooks (penfriendz)

I click and use keyboard shortcut to try to get it to sabotage something. Then I click on the War Factorty with left or right click: nothing happens - it is actually broken. Hijacker button works.

FireArm

Inf hacker buttons too serve no purpose other than hacking but i think it's good to keep them to let players know that inf hackers have disable ability

kABUSE

I don't get it, what version has this been tested on? works just fine for me. I wouldn't remove the command button as it is the perfect place to put info of what the ability even does.

xezon avatar Apr 25 '24 05:04 xezon

kABUSE

I wouldnt remove the command Button. Instead we should add Info Text for each use case of the ability, as it is the most complex ability in the entire Game with three different actions that can be triggered

MTKing

We can add the info we need on the unit tooltip. We do not have to keep a useless button just for its tooltip. Something like: Sabotage Vs: Refinery: Steals 1K cash Power Plant: shuts down power for x Seconds Superweapon: resets timer CC: resets timer on all Abilities

kABUSE

The tooltip is better positioned on the ability itself. Unit description should be something less specific like: Sabotages buildings Stealthed, weak against scouts Can climb

Point being, in a singleplayer mission for example you might have only a saboteur and no barracks. Not sure about text length limits on tooltips, might also be an issue to fit everything into unit desc.

And this is actually also an issue: Depending on scripting method, removing button will break some old maps. There are two methods of scripting units to hunt using ability. One of them will break (use command button on named object vs. hunt using command ability)

xezon avatar Apr 25 '24 08:04 xezon

It should be operational, but primarily it serves as a tooltip placeholder for what's the unit is capable of:

tooltips

I have similar description in Build unit tooltip, but once it is built, no one will want to go back to barracks and read what it's capable of, right? So you click on unit and see what it can do.

Float1ngFree avatar Jun 09 '24 21:06 Float1ngFree

Tested with both Saboteurs. Worked. Closing.

xezon avatar Jun 12 '24 19:06 xezon