Multiple monitor

DeadMG · August 19, 2012

I already backed, just so you know, but what's the multiple monitor support going to be like?

xedi · August 19, 2012

See this interview:

PC Gamer:
That touches on something I wanted to bring up: with the action happening across all these different play areas, it would seem like situational awareness will become a real challenge for the player. I might be really focused on an intense battle on one planet, and then something else equally important begins to happen on a moon somewhere far away.

Mavor:
There are two things that we’re doing to address that. When you’re zoomed out to the solar system scale and you can see everything that’s going on, we’re putting down big icons that represent where your base locations are, with a status on them.

The other thing I’m going to do… If you remember, Supreme Commander supported multiple monitors. I don’t know if you ever played it in that mode or not. You had one monitor that was your main one and a second monitor that was another view of the world somewhere else.

We’re going to bring that feature back, but we’re going to make it more flexible, so you’re going to be able to split your viewpoint and look at your different bases on the same screen. You can have a viewpoint that’s got your moon base, a viewpoint that’s on the asteroids, and then a viewpoint on the planet if you want to.

PC Gamer:
So like a bank of security cameras…

Mavor:
Exactly. And they’re all active windows. You can do everything in those windows, contextually, that you’d be able to do in the main window. Now, I don’t necessarily expect every player of the game to split their thing into a bunch of windows and use that, because I really want the high-level strategic awareness to be there. But advanced players are definitely going to be able to do that.
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DeadMG · August 19, 2012

Ah, sweetsauce.

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