Since you say you can't zoom out, can you add an autocast to the spectre's snipe ability, and limit it to things at 10+ range only? like so he auto-snipes enemies at 10-13 (i think his snipe is range 13) range? because the viewing window seems to be around 14 wide each side and 9 up, 8 down... so you really can only cast his spells for a short way vertically... the stuff like explosive shot not so important but at least snipe should be for full range... not sure if that would be possible to do. other than that I'm kind of used to him shooting outside of vision range now, it's not ideal but not much you can do there i guess.
another thing I've noticed is that when people speak, the voice chat notifier popup whatever, that lists their name and has the mute button, is shown in the bottom right where your exp is, which makes it a bit hard to see. if possible it would be good if you could move it to an empty part of the screen, such as between the character info and command card, or just above your mineral count, so it's not overlapping with anything? only a minor suggestion but if it's all beta as you say then little things should be fixed too, not just big things ;)
also, zealot Zeal ability isn't applying attack speed correctly. move speed is fine but attack speed is being calculated wrong. 80% attack speed buff to 1.2 base, with 10% accessory, is only giving -0.67 for attack speed. without the zeal, accessory is -0.24 so that's working fine. basically i think zeal is counting it as 4 stacks of -20%? which is why it gives a much lower attack speed buff than it should? the run speed is increased by 80% as it should be.
So unless you level up your abilities after joining arena, I
don't see why it wouldn't work.
Come to think of it, I did upgrade my synergy after joining the arena, I didn't think that was important but it makes sense now that it is...
e: maybe an easy fix would be to just disable leveling up skills while in an arena (to save having to fix the whole thing)... i mean, if you forget a skill before entering one, you can just -leave, set the skill and rejoin...?
I've been playing this for a while and I have to say the biggest annoyance I've come across so far is with the spectre. I bought him the +range mod to make better use of his stationary sniping. This means he now has 15 shot range.
Camera range is about 14 to the side and about 8 down, 9/10 up the screen, because of the fixed camera. This means that on some maps where enemies come at you from above/below (e.g. temple) you can't see what you're shooting, you can't target the weaker enemies, etc. Basically your guy just stands there and shots and you see kill count go up but can't do anything useful like using skills on what you're shotting.
Now, you might say, get closer for your skills, well, that's not how a sniper should be. Could you do something about that, like zoom out the camera some more while using a spectre or something? or give some kind of auto-scroll-view to wherever he's shooting? At the moment it's just not satisfactory.
As for the medic buttons bug, here's a bit more info from what I saw personally:
-buttons work (heal, shield, synergy)
-play a game, level up (i put a skill point in synergy if that made any difference)
-next arena, only heal button worked, shield and synergy didn't. Had to manually target people to apply the skills.
-leaving game and joining a new one fixes it. reloading hero in-game does not.
maybe this can help you fix it ;)
also, a description of what you need to unlock kittens (i saw one guy with them?) in the help text or something would be nice, so you know exactly what to aim for. if it's there already then ignore this, but there was a lot of text and i didn't see them with a quick scan over it.
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got really, really weird bug last game. dunno what caused it, but it made us have to suicide and restart. see screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/451jp.jpg
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Since you say you can't zoom out, can you add an autocast to the spectre's snipe ability, and limit it to things at 10+ range only? like so he auto-snipes enemies at 10-13 (i think his snipe is range 13) range? because the viewing window seems to be around 14 wide each side and 9 up, 8 down... so you really can only cast his spells for a short way vertically... the stuff like explosive shot not so important but at least snipe should be for full range... not sure if that would be possible to do. other than that I'm kind of used to him shooting outside of vision range now, it's not ideal but not much you can do there i guess.
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try instead of "-t5" using "-t5arenas"
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another thing I've noticed is that when people speak, the voice chat notifier popup whatever, that lists their name and has the mute button, is shown in the bottom right where your exp is, which makes it a bit hard to see. if possible it would be good if you could move it to an empty part of the screen, such as between the character info and command card, or just above your mineral count, so it's not overlapping with anything? only a minor suggestion but if it's all beta as you say then little things should be fixed too, not just big things ;)
also, zealot Zeal ability isn't applying attack speed correctly. move speed is fine but attack speed is being calculated wrong. 80% attack speed buff to 1.2 base, with 10% accessory, is only giving -0.67 for attack speed. without the zeal, accessory is -0.24 so that's working fine. basically i think zeal is counting it as 4 stacks of -20%? which is why it gives a much lower attack speed buff than it should? the run speed is increased by 80% as it should be.
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Come to think of it, I did upgrade my synergy after joining the arena, I didn't think that was important but it makes sense now that it is...
e: maybe an easy fix would be to just disable leveling up skills while in an arena (to save having to fix the whole thing)... i mean, if you forget a skill before entering one, you can just -leave, set the skill and rejoin...?
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I've been playing this for a while and I have to say the biggest annoyance I've come across so far is with the spectre. I bought him the +range mod to make better use of his stationary sniping. This means he now has 15 shot range. Camera range is about 14 to the side and about 8 down, 9/10 up the screen, because of the fixed camera. This means that on some maps where enemies come at you from above/below (e.g. temple) you can't see what you're shooting, you can't target the weaker enemies, etc. Basically your guy just stands there and shots and you see kill count go up but can't do anything useful like using skills on what you're shotting. Now, you might say, get closer for your skills, well, that's not how a sniper should be. Could you do something about that, like zoom out the camera some more while using a spectre or something? or give some kind of auto-scroll-view to wherever he's shooting? At the moment it's just not satisfactory.
As for the medic buttons bug, here's a bit more info from what I saw personally: -buttons work (heal, shield, synergy) -play a game, level up (i put a skill point in synergy if that made any difference) -next arena, only heal button worked, shield and synergy didn't. Had to manually target people to apply the skills. -leaving game and joining a new one fixes it. reloading hero in-game does not. maybe this can help you fix it ;)
also, a description of what you need to unlock kittens (i saw one guy with them?) in the help text or something would be nice, so you know exactly what to aim for. if it's there already then ignore this, but there was a lot of text and i didn't see them with a quick scan over it.