Quality of Life Enhancements - Compilation of Ideas for Fatshark

[Ralendil]

@Mezmorki

Add better options for item / inventory sorting. Crucially, there needs to be an option to sort items by type, mark, and BASE rating in a grouped manner. Lo and behold the “Item Sorting” mod adds exactly this option. Total PiTA to manage a big inventory without being able to sort and group items by blessing type in a logical manner.

Add this to the compilation…
This one, I waited it for a long time

Weapon Filter

[FrankJack]

i feel many quality of life improvement are needed.

but your list places stuff in high priority that is actually super niche in games…

idk, you should optimize the list to the obvious essentials.

[FrankJack]

i reworked the list with different priorities and removed some unnecessary topics!

High Priority/should be added:

-Add more information to the combat UI (Numeric UI) / Additional UI indicators (like volley fire timer, not crit chance indicator and niche stuff like that)
-Chat Block
-Accessibility addons
-Deployable equipment should show charges remaining
-Add opinion to sell items directly from Hadron’s screen
-Add a Scoreboard
-Remove the rotating shop / FOMO system.
-More Loadout Slots

Medium priority/adding them improves the game:

-Visual Indicator for being close to Books/Skulls/Etc. (accessibility addon)
-Tooltips for talents
-Loadout Naming
-Improve Usability of the Talent Tree.
-Add creature spawner
-Add a little weapon customization

Low priority/niche additions:

-Show player insignias next to player portraits
-Display the “True Level” for characters
-Improve the Mission Board and Sort Missions

there’s stuff in the original list that honestly only mod users will be interested in them.
this improved list focuses the discussion on easier additions along with improvements that will be the most noticeable quality of life.

[Kade]

@Mezmorki

Add more specific numerical information to the combat UI (e.g. per the “NumericUI” mod). These features could be disabled by default and users allowed to toggle them on in the options menu. Top of mind includes: (a) % of ammo remaining per teammate (rather than a color-coded symbol), (b) effective dodge counter, (c) seconds timer on Ult meter, (d) toughness + health exact numbers, (e) mission timer, (f) exact peril amounts (not rounded increments).

As long as this is option and can be turned off. I personally don’t care for this. I don’t think it’s high priority at all.

@Mezmorki

Chat Block. When typing in the chat menu (or in-game menus), your character should automatically pull out their melee weapon and enter a block state. This was in VT2 (eventually) and should be here too. See “Chat Block” mod.

Again this should be an optional feature that IS NOT enabled by default.

@Mezmorki

Display the “True Level” for characters. This was a feature in VT2 and the mod “True Level” adds this functionality to DT. Its weird seeing everyone capped at level 30 when maybe player’s have 100’s of levels on a character.

@Mezmorki

Add a Scoreboard. At this point, there’s been a scoreboard mod in use for well over a year. There is relatively little toxicity in the DT community and barely any I’ve noticed that can be attributed to a scoreboard (again, lots of people are using the scoreboard mod already). Toxic people will find a way to be toxic, scoreboard or no scoreboard. Might as well include one to close the loop on player performance and feedback. Ovenproof’s Scoreboard mod is excellent if you’re looking for a better example.

These should stay a mod so if the tryhards really want it, they can have it. This will will just enable toxicity and kicking as it always has. Love that the developers did not include this in the base game. Play for fun, not bragging/flexing rights as most people who use this use it for. This is a team game. These absolutely SHOULD NOT be enabled.

@Mezmorki

Weapon Customization. The “Extended Weapon Customization” mod is proof of concept for how some limited weapon modification could be implemented - even if it’s mostly just tied to cosmetics. Being able to change weapon sights/scopes around add flashlights to certain weapons is an amazing QoL. It’s not only functional it’s a great way to allow players to make their gear feel/look/be more unique and personalized.

Now that the game is in pretty great shape, I would love for the developers to expand on this feature (or continue from where they left off). Would be a welcome addition to the game and I believe this is something most people can agree on.

[Pirx]

except for fomo removal, every single of these points is covered already by mods, so integrating them into the base game would be easy i guess.

[Frish]

I can’t see a reference to this directly, but I would like to use the “I” key to open inventory in the Psykhanium as you are able to do in the Mourningstar. I still press the damn button every time lol…

[gpkgpk]

Mod.

[Frish]

Yeah I know, I’m missing a few I had before the last update cull that I have been too lazy to update. But here we are in the compilation of ideas for fatshark thread and I want to make sure it’s in here! Making jokes about my own intelligence is just icing on the cake

[gpkgpk]

PSA: Just FYI, IIRC there are at times issues with stuff not being applied in the Psykanium if you accessed crafting view in there with mods, I think it required a loadout change and back at the very least.