I like the idea on naming battles but i feel the honor of that needs to be earned some way be it through great sacrifce or a strike for participation or something maybe can change.
Hmm, actually, it would be cool to have a helmet on/helmet off option that related directly to the HUD. It depends a bit on the intended damage model of course, but in case it very location-oriented, why not have the HUD crack up, stactick, HUD elements being distorted etc etc. And then you could opt to remove the helmet, lose the armour points, but get clear vision again, with greatly reduced information available. Would work for every faction, although for orks it'd be more something along the likes of goggle, monocles, helmets.
"Regional Analysis Screen" This is basically a screen that appears when you respawn, choose your strike cruiser deploy location and possibly in your menus and also your map. It Displays pretty much everything in a region to a rough estimate so you can determine if you want to be in the battle or not, and the areas your team needs you the most as well as the dangers associated with these zones. It could show a rough enemy player count, an exact allied player count, rough tyranid count (or danger level), general danger level, region value (valued by assets within the region), team orders per region, special things about the area, a recommended deployment there (yes or no) and more specific orders such as exterminatus, capture, sabotage etc. Thoughts, ideas, suggestions, add ons regarding this? I'd really love to see something of this sort implemented.
If anyone here has ever played Star Wars: Republic Commando, you must know how awesome the visors are in there. If it rains, your screen gets "wet", because the rain drops on the helmet's visor. Then there are these tiny windshield wipers, that make things clear again. That not only applies to rain, but also blood and oil (droids). Hmm... not sure if this is the right place to mention this, but I will post anyway.
You said StrikeForce can have 100 ppl max if i'm right. But how are you doing, for the lead, to manage his Strikeforce on the battlefield ? Because well, I mean, you can't display 100 status bar on the screen or this kind of thing...
If the character page where our armor and weapons are displayed is any different than current MMO's, I'd suggest it to be more active than simply dragging and dropping items into boxes. I'd really like to see the character page change as much as the character themselves. Declaring ones self as an assault marine would change the borders in Aquillian wings that spread out when you equip your jump pack. Other little neat effects could have purity seals, chains, and perhaps even your current objective in the form of an oath on a scroll somewhere on the page as well. Obviously each race would diversify from there, but that's the idea.
Same as in Planetside probably, and you most likely won't have status bars like health i.e. on screen. The SF leader would probably see his SLs, while they see their whole squad.
Some of the people i talked to about this game were saying if we were to get the full scale warhammer type warfare, that all of the factions are dropped onto a continent right? but why not have a space battle over which continent that you would actually start with. All of the books that i have read with planetairy warfare have had a space battle while the ground war wages which would be an awesome part of the game.
