New Player Menu - Reduce Key Combo "Width" to 1-4.

[molten nacelle]

The new Player Menu is a very welcome adition, and it shows lots of promise!

THANK YOU whoever thought of us keybind maniacs, your efforts did not go unnoticed! I got hyped when I figured out I could tap 2-2-2 to insta-build a wall as Support. 🙏 THANK YOU.

However, the "width" of the menu - how far you have to stretch to hit it's key combos - is a tad awkward in the current iteration.

This suggestion is to avoid going "2-6-6" (which is a VERY far stretch from WASD) to put a basic instant-barrier, and instead you would keep the keypresses from 1 to 4. More comfortable/ergonomic, faster and IMO more natural overall.

I'm not sure how useful the "repeat last command" part of the wheel is. It might be better suited to reduce menu width instead?

So... instead of 2 for ALL buildables, and 1 to "repeat last", you could use 1 to house the Wall buildables (sandbags, cement barrier), and 2 to host the "Advanced" buildables (TESCO, barbed wire).

Just to imagine it;
1-1-1 → Cement Barrier
1-1-2 → Full Sandbag Wall
1-1-3 → Killhole Sandbag Wall
2-2-1 → Barbed Wire
2-2-2 → 1-tall TESCO
2-2-3 → 2-tall TESCO

You can swap things around and see how it affects what players naturally use in a match. Most players should default to 2-2-2 or 1-1-1, as it's the fastest to spam in a hurry.

In the above scenario, I'd then expect to see 1-tall TESCO and Barriers used more often than other buildables. Interesting to think about and tweak for balance/meta impact!

Let me know what you think, discuss below! 😊

(I had to split the post, I think I was bonked the first time around because I nearly hit the Discord character limit. 😅 Sorry! 🙇‍♀️)