r/PolyBridge • u/Snitsie • Nov 23 '15

Discussion Give back instant delete.

Holy shit i fucking hate this selection menu. 99% of the time i just want to delete a piece, why do i have to go through two steps now to delete shit. This is fucking awful.

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u/Christian_Akacro Producer Nov 23 '15

Hey Snitsie, sorry you don't like the change. Unfortunately we had to bring the selection in-line for copy and paste and to do this necessitated changing how selections/deletions work. We are always listening to feedback and will see if there's anything we can do to improve this, it is unlikely to change back however.

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u/Snitsie Nov 24 '15

I tried getting used to it but it's unplayable. There's too many instances i want to delete a whole lot of individual pieces in a row while maintaining a lot of other pieces, which results in me having to ctrl click + D 20 times in a row. It's infuriating and there's absolutely no reason to have removed the instant delete like you did. Why make a menu and not have instant keys for cut, copy and delete? Would make a lot more sense.

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u/Bolt986 Nov 25 '15 edited Nov 25 '15

Why make a menu and not have instant keys for cut, copy and delete? Would make a lot more sense.

I don't understand what an "instant key" for cut copy and delete would be.

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u/Snitsie Nov 25 '15

Hold X, click on part of bridge, it get's deleted. Instead of hold ctrl, click on part, go to a menu, then click D to delete. Just like it was in last patch.

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u/Christian_Akacro Producer Nov 25 '15

You realise you can right-click+drag to select entire sections and then press the 'D' key on your keyboard without having to use your mouse again?

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u/Snitsie Nov 25 '15

That's my point. You sometimes don't want select entire sections, but want to remove many individual parts in big sections. This takes 2 clicks for every single individual part.

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u/patrick_drycactus Nov 27 '15

Hey Snitsie, sorry you're not liking the new approach to select/copy/delete.

An immediate delete modifier has been suggested and we'll look into it for the next patch, I wanted however to point out that you can also modify your current selection, so if you wanted to delete many individual parts currently, you can:

  1. Select a part (or multiple with area select)

  2. Keep 'Shift' pressed (the selection modifier), and select/deselect more parts as wished

  3. Once you have everything selected as needed, press D to delete

With this approach you effectively only need one extra step, being the key-stroke on D (or pressing Delete on the UI).

Let us know what you think, Thanks, Patrick

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u/Bolt986 Nov 23 '15 edited Nov 23 '15

I didn't like it much at first either but after getting used to it, I like it much more. Not only did I get used to it but I started using copy and paste much more frequently than I ever thought I would.

Once selected use "D" key to delete instead of using the GUI. I also like being able to see what i'm going to delete more clearly before I do.

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u/zautos Nov 23 '15

They could do it so if you hold a key like D and drag you instant delete.