TTT !menu announcement or popup

[All Ts]

Hey so I've been playing A LOT of TTT and encountering a similar issue among new players.

 

I hear a lot of people not know that !menu exists and saying things like "GMOD TTT had special weapons and was cooler", and then you have to tell them that !menu exists. I've seen players who don't know this exists who get frustrated and leave or overall have a bad experience playing.

 

All I'm proposing is something that comes up either in chat or on your screen when you're Detective or Traitor that tells you that !menu is the Traitor/Detective weapon shop.

 

Obviously this isn't an issue when Regulars or Staff are on the server but would just be helpful to make the server more comfortable for new players.

[Leon Mordecai]

Maybe also putting a message on the server chat advertisements saying something like "If you're Traitor or Detective type !menu to access special items." That and/or having that little pop up in the middle of your screen come up saying the same thing.

 

Regardless though, always gonna have those people who don't read and you have to tell them anyways :/

[All Ts]

Maybe also putting a message on the server chat advertisements saying something like "If you're Traitor or Detective type !menu to access special items." That and/or having that little pop up in the middle of your screen come up saying the same thing.

 

Regardless though, always gonna have those people who don't read and you have to tell them anyways :/

 

Can't hurt to try.

 

The reason why FPS games tell the player that the controls to move are WASD in tutorial is to atleast make the attempt to communicate an element of the game to the player.

 

If the player spends 20 minutes searching his keyboard for WASD after being told that's their problem.

 

If the game didn't tell them how to move it would be considered unfair to the player.

 

 

Anyway I'm more than happy to bind "type !menu for the Traitor and Detective shops!" and press it whenever until this gets implemented.

[Console]

90% of new players come in and ask about how to open buy menu. However, most of those people can remember the command. A popup is not necessary tbh. Maybe we should display it in the motd with larger font...

[All Ts]

90% of new players come in and ask about how to open buy menu. However, most of those people can remember the command. A popup is not necessary tbh. Maybe we should display it in the motd with larger font...

 

90% is a pretty massive overestimate although I agree that there is many people who have seen and played TTT on Garry's Mod and WHO DO ask for the Traitor and Detective shops.

 

A server announcement or prompt isn't too much to ask for especially since even if they have the thought that the server does have the shops there is absolutely no way for them to know what the command is without consulting other regulars or staff.

 

As a side note I was shocked that CSGO TTT even had the !menu command and everything that goes along with it, without it I probably would not play SG's CSGO TTT at all.

[Suri]

We can sure try it but as said earlier people don't read stuff when they join the server.

Even when they buy a jihad/mine/... they don't know what to do with it even when it is explained in the chat after you bought the item.

But I guess you can put it in chat when roles are selected, most people check that anyway (to see how many traitors there are or who you're t buddies are).

[Euro]

Not sure if it says anywhere but I think a small description of the items in the menu somewhere would also be nice. People would know what they're buying before they buy it.

[Goku]

Simply adding something like "Type !menu as traitor or detective to buy special items" or however we want to phrase it is a really easy thing to do and will help players in the long run more than anything in motd would. No one reads motd. We have it for a reason, but 90% of the time people connect and click okay to get to the game faster. Also am not too sure about a pop up. Think adding it to the advertisements would be better.

 

So pretty much what I'm saying is @arottenpickle I can show you later today.

[arottenpickle]

This was added to the server.

[All Ts]

Thanks guys.