There should be a way to selectively remove your own buildings easier. The way it is now, you need to take a weapon that has good wood damage in order to deconstruct something in a reasonable amount of time. The importance of deconstructing is so you can free up one of your 6 building slots so the next building you place doesn't eat up one of the more useful ones. I had two main solutions in mind for this;
- Instead of a throw the alt mode on the blacksmith hammer could be a deconstruct mode, one that does high wood damage. Just have the animation of flipping it to its wedge side like the heavy handaxe. This would also give the hammer a unique advantage over other repair weapons, since non-engineers could also take it to use against enemy buildings. I'm aware the heavy handaxe sort of does a similar thing since the axe side is good at demolishing, but it kind of feels like the heavy handaxe is a necessity to be a fully functional engineer and I'd just like to bring other options into being viable.
- Or while having your toolbox out, if there was an option to just look at one of your buildings and press a button to delete it. Would be nifty if this also refunded the building supply, but it might be abusable by picking up buildings that are currently being damaged to get the supply back. This could be balanced by having the requirement of the building being full health first for the refund, otherwise it just destroys the building with no refund, which leads into my next suggestion
It would also be cool if people with toolboxes in their loadouts could see the healthbars of buildings and vehicles (not horses) when mousing over them. Considering vehicles already have visible healthbars when using them I don't think this would be too much of a stretch. Also are there still plans to introduce ways of identifying buildings built by friendly engineers? I recall saying it was being considered but I haven't seen any updates or mentions of it since.
I also actually liked the bounding box visual that the toolbox used to have, the issue with it was that the box was way too large for the buildings. If we could have the box visual back but for the currently existing building hitboxes then that would be ideal.
Not really necessary, but would be visually appealing if the toolbox was visible hanging off the waist or on the back when not in use, like the medpack. This would make it easier to identify engineers and also make it a bit less jarring when your character instantly conjures the box out of thin air.
I've thrown together a mockup idea of some hud info in photoshop, the idea is essentially just a way to quickly tell how many buildings the current toolbox has up. This information would only pop up while the toolbox is currently active as to not be intrusive all the time. It would support having multiple toolboxes by changing the number on the top right based on the weapon slot that the toolboxes are in. This would also instantly let newer players know the limits on buildings.
I know that I'm droning on about a very specific very niche part of the game, but its the part of the game that I've actually sunk the majority of my 762 hours in.
P.S Please have a way to allow us to rotate buildings before building them
P.P.S Please never add microtransactions to this game. Right now this game is one of the only few that isn't plagued by them. Im aware that money from initial sales doesn't last forever, but it was worth saying anyway.
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