Console controls

[softsound]

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Controls:

Left control stick

• Move cursor by moving stick (large & noticeable like Pikmin/Overlord console games)
• Push in control stick to LMB

Direction Pad

• Move control group by moving stick
• Push in to set group
• Double tap to release group

Right control stick

• Move mini map cusor
• Hold down to focus map on your ships
• Click twice to send ships to mini map location

A Button

• Select something (RMB)
• Hold to create selection ring/box that expands as long as you hold down.

B Button

• Cancel any action

X button

• Select closest object/snap to closest object
• keep tapping to go through nearby objects in range

Y Button

• Follow
• Toggle again to unfollow
• (Hold to set "ship mode", scout, defense, offense, hold time scrolls through options) Feature Creep

RB Button

• Select all ships of selected type (i.e. scrapper)

RT Button

• Move through action menu right

Start Button

• Pause game

LT Button

• Move through action menu right

LB Button

• press once to select all combat or civilian, press to toggle back n forth

Template for modding later

[josefnpat]

@softsound This is interesting, and I think this can work if we can refine this.

Some notes:

1. Tieing left-stick-press to the LMB for cursor sounds terrible. I don't even have to attempt to code this to know that.
2. I'm not sure how the control groups work. The D-PAD does not have a press.
3. Tieing RB to "sellect all of ship type" sounds incredibly tedius. There's currently 16 ships, and we intend on adding more.
4. The logic of select ship select movement RMB doesn't make much sense. Is this:

if ships_under_cursor_or_selection() then
  select_ships()
else
  move/attack/gather/follow()
end

5. Follow doesn't make sense, as it's tied to move/attack/gather/follow (RMB) already
6. Cancel does not exist yet, and we have no UX for it. This ticket may be blocked by that? Or just remove it until the feature exists?
7. Pause makes no sense, as it's currently on a multiplayer server

I think we need to do some more research on how the best RTS games on consoles did it.

From the StarCraft64 Manual:

From tooth and tail:

From Halo Wars Manual

From Halo Wars 2 in game:

From C&C64 manual see pages 9-19. (complicated)

From WC2 PS1 Manual