With this major update, we are seeing an introduction of a large number of new controls which arent obvious in their function. I would confidently say that around 1/3 of all controls are not entirely obvious in their function. We are seeing War Thunder become more complex and a need for more controls is innevetiable and more than a few of them will likely be the same.
So, I would propose adding tooltips to controls, whether they are just purely text based or also include graphics is a decision Gaijin will need to make, but I think a mix would be appropriate. So that when you hover over a control, it gives you an insight as to what the control is meant to do and an indication of where to use it. This would be a notable QoL improvements for both veterans of the game and especially newer players.
Settings that are not obvious in their function without an understanding of what is being explicity stated:
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Tooltips of this nature already exist within the main settings and provide exactly the kind of information required
Would you like to see control tooltips added
- Yes - All settings
- Yes - But only the less obvious settings
- No
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Would also be nice if we’re to improve controls to add context menus to certain key presses navigable with mouse wheel / mouse movement to group a few controls together. I only have so many keys that aren’t already bound for these extra air to ground binds that are getting added.
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I voted “All settings”, but it wouldn’t literally need to be all, but just most of them. (I’m not so keen on the “less obvious” terminology, as less obvious to who? There are probably settings you think are obvious, but to me are a mystery).
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something that should become a normal suggestion
might put that into the pipeline
If nothing appears. I might, But ive got about a dozen suggestions, including several from the better part of 4 years ago, that still havent been passed onto the devs yet.
So this thread has a better chance of being seen by the devs than any suggestion I have ever submitted imo
The main ones I was thinking as “obvious” being ones such as “Drop bomb”. I dont necessarily feel a description is required for that.
I dunno, some of this playerbase might be able to do with the hint.
