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Wrench modes (conflicting controls fix)#1091

As mentioned in #1089, the wrench has conflicting controls with the toolbar now. You can’t scroll to the device you want to place because you will instead scroll to the next tool in your hotbar. The toolbar shouldn’t be reverted, but instead, here’s what could be done :

The wrench could have two modes : a “repair mode”, in which you can only use repair kits and breach remplacements, therefore you never have to scroll, only to look at what you want to repair. The damage indicator prompt would show only in this mode too.
The second mode would be “build mode”, in which you can build as usual, but can’t repair anything, or even see the health of something. I guess switching between these modes could be as easy as pressing ‘E’ or something. In this mode, scrolling changes what you’re placing, not the tool in your hotbar. To access your hotbar again, you have to switch back to repair mode, or press the numbers on your keyboard to directly select a tool from your hotbar.
That way, scrolling will change what item you’re going to place in build mode, and it will change the toolbar slot in repair mode. It sounds like it would work especially well given most of the time, we use the wrench to repair the ship quickly inbetween doing other things, but when we build stuff it usually takes longer and we don’t need other tools during that time.

2 years ago
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Changed the title from "Wrench modes" to "Wrench modes (conflicting controls fix)"
2 years ago