The alt-fire/mouse2/ special ability....

[o_shaolin]

Yeah but you can't actually use those functions unless you are that class. It's semantics really, but I see your point.

[o_mooga]

Anyone can pull up the menu but engis and spys have spechal on the menu.
The point is that anyone can access the menu, by not everyone can access the Engi and Spy options.

That any better?

All you do is press shift (by defalt) in game play

[o_saintgreg]

I think that pressing secondary fire as spy or engy should skip all the general options that everyone has and go stright to the important ones. Having to track the mouse all the way to the bottom of the first list to build anything could be sped up a decent amount each time by having right click only be building for the engy. You could still access the general options by having this bound to another key.

[o_silver]

having a seperate gui for the spy and engi would be nice

[o_[kain]]

My biggest beef with the old-school Neo-TFC (I last played it in 2000) was you had to bind the "special" key, which was never very conveniently placed because all easily accessible keys are already bound.

[o_1337-n008]

Originally Posted by Shaolin

I thought I would ask what the team intends to do with the alt+fire function.
I think in the original game, it wasn't a terribly useful function. Going from memory:

Civilian: lol yeah right etc.
Demo: det pipes
Engineer: build menu
HWguy: switch to AC
Medic: switch to medpack
Pyro: umm switch to flamethrower??
Scout: who has flag
Sniper: zoom
Soldier: reload
Spy: spy menu

Now, asides from spy and engineer, the special was essentially just a scripted bind that could be re-keyed anywhere. In essence, the special ability was not special and not class unique.
I'm wondering if the team has any ideas on implicating class_specific unique abilites.

P.S. Search function seems fubared for me, I get a list of topics but can't click and read those topics without losing connection to server...

Here's an idea.. learn how to script and the sky's the limit.. mouse2 is whatever in the hell you want it to be.. for me it was jump.. no need for anymore "special" functions.. everything can be scripted and binded to keys. It's already in the game, just look for it. Well it will be if they mimic the code from TFC.