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Hi there, Hi NADEO,
I'm not so happy with the color of things in ShootMania. I understand that you use a certain set of rules and there are already some possibilities, but imo it should be improved.


IDEAL SOLUTION:
1. PING COLOR ( PERSONAL PREFERENCE - Colorpicker )
Give your own and other pings the same color. This color should be selectable and not linked to anything else. It's a personal preference. Also let us pick the sound that we wanna hear when someone pings. Maybe also use .ogg/.wav?


2. ENEMY COLORS ( PERSONAL PREFERENCE - Colorpicker )
The enemy color changes :
- Enemy HUD elements such as SIDEBARS/Scoreboards
- Enemy StormMan Color
- Blocks linked to the enemy(-spawn)
- Enemy notifications
- I'm probably forgetting something
--> Everything enemy-related should have your chosen color.


3. ALLY COLORS ( PERSONAL PREFERENCCE - Colorpicker )
The ally color changes :
- Ally HUD elements such as SIDEBARS/Scoreboards/Stamina-&Reload Gauges
- Ally StormMan Colors
- Ally notifications
- Blocks linked to yourself/allies
--> Everything ally-related should have your chosen color.


4A. CLUBLINK COLOR OVERWRITE? ( PERSONAL PREFERENCE - Checkbox )
--> Let clublinks overwrite my personal settings: YES/NO
To be clear : Logos/Teamnames/Sponsors should always be displayed. If your team uses a yellow clublink and you hate that them you can uncheck this checkbox and use your own custom colors but still enjoy the clublink.


4B. DONT AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE CLUBLINK COLORS
--> In my clublink-settings I setup my colors to be RED because my team-colors are RED ( CPLAY ). Somehow in-game it's never ever red. Always yellow or pink.
The idea is good on paper, but it's not loved in reality. So disable this color-correction or make it a setting.
Resetting your clublink-colors to default is simply impossible which isnt good.

Have you ever tried to read a yellow notification on a green grass background?
Very unreadable. It's these little things that create small frustrations while gaming.


5. DO NOT RESET COLORS INBETWEEN ROUNDS.
It's weird that everything resets to default ( red/blue ) and then when you respawn it changes again. Make this colorchange happen in the background or something or make it less distracting.


6. KEEP YOUR OWN COLOR-SETTINGS IN REPLAYS
I spectated matches were the team had pink clublinks. They had a nice match so I saved some replays. I open those replays and all hud elements are pink. My own settings are Blue & Yellow (because I'm colorblind to pink).


The entire color-scheme should be in the hands of the PLAYER. He is boss and he can use which colors he wants for various reasons (increased visibility, better gameplay, color-blindness, etc). Give us back this control please.

I know this would be another low-priority request, but I cant possibly understand how you wouldnt like my suggestion. It sounds perfect. So if you do happen to have some extra time, then please squeeze this request into your awesome game. Tyvm.

Eeem, some of the things are already in game. Like glow color for enemies.

djhubertus wrote:Eeem, some of the things are already in game. Like glow color for enemies.

novationx wrote:Hi there, Hi NADEO,
I'm not so happy with the color of things in ShootMania. I understand that you use a certain set of rules and there are already some possibilities, but imo it should be improved.

I can't say that all these affect me, but I totally understand that it can be useful for you.
My only gripe about colors is that when I choose red color for opponents and green for my team, then I want my hud become green, not red, when I am on the "red" team. When I see my hud red then I sometimes inadvertently think that my red opponents are teammates because they have the same color as my hud and vice versa. I prefer red for opponents in instabib, it gives better visiblity.But yeah, this is a small issue. Aslo, I think, this is easy fix as some other suggestions in this forums, and if they agree with this and other features and decide to implement them, then somehow I still think it will take many months to make it to the game - quite unfortunate.

Alexey85 wrote:I can't say that all these affect me, but I totally understand that it can be useful for you.
My only gripe about colors is that when I choose red color for opponents and green for my team, then I want my hud become green, not red, when I am on the "red" team. When I see my hud red then I sometimes inadvertently think that my red opponents are teammates because they have the same color as my hud and vice versa. I prefer red for opponents in instabib, it gives better visiblity.But yeah, this is a "small" issue.

Thats exactly the one thing that bothers me the most. Thanks for explaining this a lil more so the devs can , hopefully, fix this.