choosing weapons/ kits in lobby (ubi read) | Forums

[XxMiRaClExX]

i want to see gr3 go back to choosing weapons/ kits in the lobby. Real soldiers dont pick their weapons when they get into the battle, the choose their equiptment be4 they go in. also in OGR and GRIT it was pretty simple to get out of spawn camping if u had some skillz. in gr2 it brings up that stupid weapon screen every time u die, and chances are that u will die be4 u can choose ur weapon, even with the invulnerablity time on, its just stupid. who else would rather choose their equiptment in the lobby rather than at the beggining of the round?

[ILOVECUNNY]

I would much rather choose my weapons before the round starts.

[Tchaikovsky.]

I agree that they should change it back to normall again cause imo this is simply worthless.

The only thing I can come up with why they chose to make it like this, would be so if you chose the wrong weapon you can now pick a new one without the server having to restart the match.

And that's the only positive thing I can think of, while it brings only more negative things with it. For example try to play some siege on maps like Battlefield or "The beginning of Dam" (?).
I promise you as soon as the game starts atleast half of the defending team is dead within the first 3 seconds.(yahoo up to the next round... )

[MaggotSteve]

Although I agree with you guys about bringing back the old way you could choose a weapon. Alot of people I know hated not being able to choose a different weapon in case a sniper or gunner was needed. But if they combined them I wouldn't mind being able to pick my weapon while I wait for more players to come in the room.

[blood01]

i say lobby.how many times you pick the wrong weapon,die using it,and then gotta sit there till next round.in the lobby you make a mistake and you can fix it

[theliberalleft]

This is the <span class="ev_code_red">ONLY</span> area that Red Storm should copy Zipper's Socom games.

Their **** lobby, skin, and weapon selection system is perfect.

OGR was pretty good. However, it could occasionally be confusing for new players... but not nearly as bad as the system they’ve implemented in GR2. Choosing the player skin you want in GR2 is just a huge pain in the ***… having it tied into the player you picked in your profile might be the stupidest ****ing thing I’ve ever seen in a game. How anyone could’ve thought that was a good idea…. just… wow.

Anyway… Socom has a good system. While in the pre-mission lobby, you can jump over into the armory. There you can choose one of the four skins available and pick/customize weapons. When the round starts you’ll have what you picked in the armory.

However… if you don’t like what you have, after you die and you player is laying there on the ground, while everyone else is still playing, you have access to a menu that’ll let you change up you’re loadout (but NOT your player skin). When you spawn or start a new round, you’ll have the stuff you picked.

That system is superior to the broken mess we have to deal w/ whenever playing GR2.

Bring back OGR or copy Socom, that’s what I say, yo.

[Tchaikovsky.]

Sounds alright with me. But whetever they do don't keep this, cause this new system isn't just new or modern it's simple ridiculous, confusing and annoying.

Also the server settings why on earth doesn't the game remember the last used settings?

For example 2 days ago a friend of mine was hosting and I guess he was a bit tired so he forgot to turn the lone wolf off so he had to restart it. The game was restarted and than someone else mentioned that the radar was still on "full" so he had to quit out again. But while in the stats menu he pressed the wrong button so the game started again. So he had to shut it down another time and than we finally could play.

[Brainlicker]

I'm all for the the Original load-out where you pick what you carry before the round starts. You should also have the ability to create pre-sets for your load-outs. For example people are pretty particular about what weapons they carry and usually carry the same weapons over and over depending on what type of map they are playing. If I am on a sniper map I should be able to (when the weapons load-out screen comes up) have already set up a kit and saved it for sniper maps, and the same with support weapons or rifleman. Just pull and hold the left trigger which opens up a saved load out menu which you can scroll with the stick and pick the weapons load-out that will go best with the type of map you are playing. If you (for whatever reason) don't want to use one of your presets then you can just not pull the left trigger and go through the weapons load-out process as usual.

If you cant do that the amory room sounds like a good idea as well, and at the very minimum go back to the lobby load-out setup.