We don't kid around when we say we're putting the strategic element back into RTS games. Want to see what's going on in that battle to the northeast? Pan your cursor over in a half second and zoom back in with the right stick. If you want to know what's going on in Supreme Commander, just pull back on the right stick and you suddenly have a full view of the theater of war. In other games you may find yourself panning back and forth across the map to try and keep track of the action, but that can use up a lot of time. IGN: Specifically, has anything been done to the commander and zoom controls that Supreme Commander is so well known for? Marc Scattergood: The zoom is still one of the most important features of Supreme Commander. But as your skills grow there are more complex hotkeys and functions available to the player, such as using combinations of the right trigger and the A, B, X and Y buttons. You can play the entire game with just the standard buttons, barely even touching the left trigger or left bumper. The final layout achieved our goal of making all the gameplay basics easily accessible. As for the actual controller, we had a working scheme in place well over a year ago, and have spent much of our time playtesting and iterating on that control scheme. Every other piece of UI only turns on when needed, like the build menu, command and control and grouping wheel, unit info and scores.īehold the new user interface. For the interface we picked the elements that we knew needed to be onscreen all the time, such as economic data. The latter is especially important because Supreme Commander is an extremely deep game. IGN: How have you adapted the interface to work with a controller? Could you give us a rundown of the HUD and controller changes? Marc Scattergood: When we started this project, it was understood that the biggest challenges were making the controller feel natural and keeping the interface as simple as possible, but still capable of relaying all of the necessary information.
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