It would be really REALLY helpful if a tiny indicator was added to the Engineer UI to indicate how many of your deployed mines were still "alive". There is so much message spam flying around on the screen that I can't keep track of whether or not my deployed mines have detonated or expired. It doesn't need to be anything elaborate, a sequence of little dots somewhere on the UI would suffice.
I agree. Since it is possible to "overwrite" a mine in the field, I'd like to know if the next mine I place is my first, second or third that will erase another.
After 68 views I figured more people might find it useful. Funzo, I guess it's just you and me on this one buddy.
You have my sword! A mine indicator is essential to the plant-and-forget side of mine use due to the limited amount we can plant before mines despawn. If I throw down two mines at point A, then run off to points B, C, and D while waiting for the mines at point A to explode, I should have some way of knowing without going back to check. For all I know, the mines I previously placed were blown up by a stray explosion and I'm holding out on laying more mines for no reason at all!
Yeah, and these things are damn expensive! Need an indicator to help not waste purchases and ideally to know which mine and where is still active (though I'd settle to simply know how many left alive).
Most definitely. At the very least some sort of indication that mines you've set have exploded. Something.
+1 on this one. I'm burning resources and I don't always notice one poofing so an indicator is high on my wish list as well.
+1 another beta topic that finally came back They definitely need to have this in game. I know it was mentioned at one time by one of the devs, hoping this will jog their memory and get them and the interface guys to add this soon.
No, absolutely not, would we be way too overpowered and would totally break the game... Annnyway on a more serious note, agreed - it's a wonder the small, sensible things like this weren't implemented in the first place, they probably should've put this game through some sort of beta testing first...
Yes this would be great. They are too @#$% expensive to just disappear. Also we need to be able to pick our mines back up. If any one can disarm explosives its engineers.
In a perfect world, we'd get them to show up on the mini-map, along with an indicator showing deployed/total, the way we had in PS1. But a simple dot indicator like the OP suggests would be a great start.
This would be a nice feature, but not strictly necessary; with the very limited number of mines that we can place, I don't find it difficult to remember how many I have already placed, and I'll usually just drop new ones when I arrive at a different base anyway.
Ryekir - it's less "How many have I placed?" as opposed to "How many of my mines are still out there?" The idea is that we'd know if mines we'd already placed were still active, or had provided an enemy with a complementary trip to the spawn room by exploding.
