Broadsword56 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Just wondering -- forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere. But in CM:BN will individual soldiers have names, in addition to just their unit having the unit leader's name? I find it helps with immersion and makes me protect soldiers' lives more when they have names. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 They do have names. If your leader dies, the next in line's name and rank are shown in the unit panel. What you're really asking is to be able to see their names at any given time. But there's the problem: where would that list of names go without being in the way? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanzfeld Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I am SURE we could fit it in somewhere. I mean there is quite a bit of dead space in the UI of CMSF and I am sure that there will be some in CM:BN. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 "Dead space" is in the eye of the beholder UIs that have information crammed into every pixel tend to be extremely fatiguing to use. So the "dead space" is more like "breathing room" IMHO. And no, we have no plans to show individual names for individual soldiers. Generally speaking it's not in keeping with CM's scale. However, as we develop the Campaign over time we might revisit this issue. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 OK, I just thought that since every soldier is now represented, it might be also possible to know who they are. Also, some UIs use a little "expand" + sign on the corner of a box that lets the player see deeper info, so I imagined something like that could become a flyout roster of the men in a unit, without fatiguing the eye or giving players more data than they care to see at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 It's pretty simple really.All the Germans are named "Kraut" and all the Americans are named "GI". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 It's pretty simple really.All the Germans are named "Kraut" and all the Americans are named "GI". I thought it was Joe for the Americans? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottie Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 However, as we develop the Campaign over time we might revisit this issue. + 1 to that. Without opening the whole topic again , in a nutshell that would be marvellous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Or Fritz in the OstFront version 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sluggo337 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Or maybe a simple interface to allow you to create and input your own names? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottie Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Or maybe a simple interface to allow you to create and input your own names? Possible in CMx1 ... couldnt see the option in CMSF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Deadmarsh Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I wanna be able to write "Brooklyn" on the back of a soldier's jacket so I can have that one loudmouth from New York who never shuts up. Audio with Brooklyn accent and attitude must also be included. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Possible in CMx1 ... couldnt see the option in CMSF. You can name the leaders in CMSF now, like you could in CMx1. Since the beginning you could rename formations, and since, maybe 1.30, you could rename leaders of units. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I wanna be able to write "Brooklyn" on the back of a soldier's jacket so I can have that one loudmouth from New York who never shuts up. Audio with Brooklyn accent and attitude must also be included.Yea,he needs to have a name like "Rizzo" .LOL.Not trying to stereotype or anything,but every American Squad in every war movie about WWII has an Italian guy from Brooklyn named Rizzo.I really thi nk all Italians from Brooklyn must be named Rizzo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 LOL. And all the Rizzo's seem to have terrible attitudes but a great sense of humor and they end every sentence with "ova here". They're always good fighters though, afterall, they're descendents of the great Roman armies. "Eh! Dem krauts is shootin at us ova here!" Sounds like a mod project for one of you east coast guys ova here! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 Just look at these posts -- you see how much atmosphere a little thing like a name adds to this game? It gets your imagination going, and pretty soon your little guys aren't just pixeltruppen anymore. It's really pretty common now to have named soldiers -- Achtung Panzer:Kharkov has them, so did Theatre of War II (although something was lost in translation when the Russian designers did it -- the minimized GUI showed the soldier's first name rather than last name, so the titles looked kind of silly... "Sniper Tom, Sgt. Roger, etc." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietrich Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 "Sniper Tom, Sgt. Roger, etc." Or even Major Tom. :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Why no individual names? To quite former Sec of Defense Rumsfeld "People are fungible". Oh, its also bad luck! It seems every time I get interested in the exploits of a particular pixeltruppen during a scenario that guy's guaranteed to eat a sniper's bullet. Its like my singling out a man automatically turns him into a bullet magnet. Like every gizzled veteran in every war movie made in the last 50 years - its best of you don't make friends. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Names can make everything so much fun.Remember the movie Airplane. One of the many memorable lines from the 1980 film Airplane! Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Victor Basta: Request vector, over. Captain Oveur: What? Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324. Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor? Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over! Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over. Tower voice: Over. Captain Oveur: Roger. Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: Roger, over! Roger Murdock: What? Captain Oveur: Huh? Victor Basta: Who? :D:D Watch this movie while drunk,you will never be the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I agree with the previous post. I watched Airplane once after a particularly hectic night on the town and laughed so much I ended up vomiting over my neighbours' fence and onto his drive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetori Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 They do What you're really asking is to be able to see their names at any given time. But there's the problem: where would that list of names go without being in the way? WM_MOUSEMOVE ? Popup on mouseover maybe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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