Friday, September 21, 2012

The Quick Switch Cabinet

Recently, TF2 added support for multiple loadouts to the backpack. Well, a year ago, so... recently enough. The Preset Loadout GUI, if you're unfamiliar with it, allows you to create four loadouts for each class. These loadouts can be any permutation of items an individual TF2 class can have, with individual items available for use across multiple loadouts. Ideally these loadouts reflect "ideal loadouts" for various situations. As a Demoman you might have loadout A set to your vanilla Demoman and loadout B equipped with the Demoknight set.

Anyway, I had a crazy idea. Since you have four available loadout presets, why not create an in-map interface that automatically allows you to swap instantly between preset loadouts? In keeping with TF2's deliberately very-simple design, the Quick Switch Cabinet requires that you walk up to it and press 1, 2, 3, or 4. With that press, the relevant loadout is activated. You can still play around with your loadout in the loadout menu, but now each preset loadout is accessible at the press of a button, without having to go into the backpack and select.

Upon activation of a particular loadout, the loadout appears on the right hand side of the screen so you can be sure it's the one you want, and boom, transaction complete.

Stick one of these in every spawn room from Teufort to the Gravel Sea!

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