No love for the User Interface (HUD/Scoreboard/Minimap/etc) ?
blackpiranha
Germany Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14375Members, Constellation
Germany Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14375Members, Constellation
Recent updates are great and all, the game is pretty playable, but why is there never any (re)work done to the UI, Minimap/Scoreboard/Chat?
I am aware that this may be at the very bottom of the priority list, but I mean come on. The game hit retail, is available in Steam Store, so should it not look at least more polished? Gameplay aside, I think the visuals in the game as for now are pretty weak.
- The scoreboard is hopefully a placeholder... basic, dull and unfinished, no own style
- The Alien HUD is overloaded, has weird design (i.e Gorge menu) and colors and lacks polished fast menus
- The MOD List in the main menu is really annoying, you cannot sort map mods and active mods etc, this should be more user-friendly
- Serverbrowser needs some tweaking aswell (but this is being discussed already I think), someone already released a promising looking non flash Browser
- Marine Commander has no squad system, waypoint blips are way too large for marines and block vision
- Minimap should be alot more polished with outlines and better, maybe larger indication of RT's and Powernodes and Infestation, or even be reworked
- There should be more options for the player's HUD (position, size, crosshair, transparency you get the idea)
what do you think?
I am aware that this may be at the very bottom of the priority list, but I mean come on. The game hit retail, is available in Steam Store, so should it not look at least more polished? Gameplay aside, I think the visuals in the game as for now are pretty weak.
- The scoreboard is hopefully a placeholder... basic, dull and unfinished, no own style
- The Alien HUD is overloaded, has weird design (i.e Gorge menu) and colors and lacks polished fast menus
- The MOD List in the main menu is really annoying, you cannot sort map mods and active mods etc, this should be more user-friendly
- Serverbrowser needs some tweaking aswell (but this is being discussed already I think), someone already released a promising looking non flash Browser
- Marine Commander has no squad system, waypoint blips are way too large for marines and block vision
- Minimap should be alot more polished with outlines and better, maybe larger indication of RT's and Powernodes and Infestation, or even be reworked
- There should be more options for the player's HUD (position, size, crosshair, transparency you get the idea)
what do you think?
Comments
Obviously that information wouldn't be always on... it would be shown on a key press, maybe when opening the map.
Commander Squad system would be amazing, especially if there was a tint on the armor of the marines so that they would know easily which squad they were in
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we will see rayyon : D
Anyway, i agree with the fact that User Interface isn't that great, but I'm not really sure UWE have time for this right now. Especially since they are working on another top secret project of d00m.
It's true it could give a better impression for fresh new players about the game... When you launch a game and find it looks like a mess, you don't really want to look for the informations you want. Things should look more pure and natural, well placed, etc...
I prefer seeing gameplay changes than this
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