FD: STOP spamming the UI, plz...
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The vocal reminders don't bother me so much, rather the opposite. I kind'a like the "Frameshift Drive Charging" and such. It's only the unnecessary visuals that could be done a less. It's a bit cluttery as it is anyway.
I think you it the button on the head, to have instructional info on the hud, ruins immersion.
You may as well flash up THIS IS A GAME, every 5 mins in the centre of the hud.
You lost me at cartoony.
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That's because it is.
Thanks for your post Unikorn mate, we know it's a game, but really do we want to be reminded?
Well, the dev's are playing, aren't they?
I definitely saw one play on a live stream...
OK fun over, back on topic plz
We know, but we don't want to be reminded of it. Just like you need the suspension of disbelief for a movie. You want to be involved and engaged in the story and not having the actors suddenly look at you, breaking the fourth wall, and tell you, "by the way, viewers, this is a movie, just so you know." Sometimes its used to create an effect, but if the movie isn't that kind of movie, you don't want it. It'll ruin it. Elite is a game you get moved into, into its own world and existence, where you become one with the stories you make. If it was just a game, there's no need for the elaborate real life lookalike graphics and mimicking physics and whatnot. People's emotions are engaged in Elite because of the attempted realism, and anything that breaks that is a sore thumb every time they see it.
I guess that could have been phrased better.
Stellar insights there. Is your entire closet filled with T-shirts with your name printed across the front?
...back now, to insights and suggestions on cleaning up the HUD, plz...
I wish I could move some of the displays as well. Currently, my setup is 4 monitors. 3 in width (5000+ pix), and a console below. In the console, I have browser, 3rd party tools, etc. And the 3 monitors is a single unit full screen. It's really cool to play elite this way. But... I wish I could put the radar and some other things on the console screen and on the side monitors. Everything is in the center screen. Oh, how I wish the UI could be customized.
In ED HUD-spamming fashion, SLOW DOWN. I know people love to blame consoles for everything ranging from climate change to Brexit, but poo-leeze! Red Dead Redemption 2, a console exclusive, has a very minimal UI. It definitely doesn't hold your hand. And yet I'm pretty sure more copies of RDR2 have sold on my one console than ED has sold on all platforms everywhere for all time. Blaming consoles for Frontier's design choices (at least those mentioned in OP) is a silly red herring, and assuming console gamers are "dumb" is insulting.
If Frontier wanted to target the "dumb general public", they should have released ED for mobile devices like the iPhone
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but its there for the NEW player
The ones I really hate are the ones that mention key and stick bindings by name ... eurgh!
My least favourite at the moment is "press unbound to open Codex" which seems to pop up after every honk.
My least favourite at the moment is "press unbound to open Codex" which seems to pop up after every honk.
In ED HUD-spamming fashion, SLOW DOWN. I know people get love to blame consoles for everything ranging from climate change to Brexit, but poo-leeze! Red Dead Redemption 2, a console exclusive, has a very minimal UI. It definitely doesn't hold your hand. And yet I'm pretty sure more copies of RDR2 have sold on my one console than ED has sold on all platforms everywhere for all time. Blaming consoles for Frontier's design choices (at least those mentioned in OP) is a silly red herring, and assuming console gamers are "dumb" is insulting.
If Frontier wanted to target the "dumb general public", they should have released ED for mobile devices like the iPhone
Thats a good point. In many cases the constraints of designing UI for consoles can lead to better, more refined interfaces. But the constraints are real, and it's not necessarily all having to do with the general public being "dumb". There is an issue of resolution. There is the fact that console players are generally going to be much further away from the screen. And there's the interface itself; everything has to work pretty OK with a gamepad.
So you get icons. You get giant pop-up windows and oversized text highlighted in different colors. And you can't rely on fine details to convey meaningful information the way you can on a PC screen. The metaphor for graphic design on PC is like a page in a book. For consoles it's something closer to a poster on a wall. There are some strategies which work well with both, but most solutions work way better in one than the other and some are absolutely mutually exclusive.
None of this excuses Frontier's GUI spam, though it doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that some of these bad decisions were the result of Frontier TRYING to optimize their game towards consoles.
Maybe an expert mode is the answer, as Rusty Dog mentioned on a stream tonight.
You can turn off all written warnings and info when your ready.
Alternatively FD could auto switch them off, maybe after a thousand repeated occurrences, maybe that should nail it.
i just noticed the new line int he chat "select to type here" and thought "What the ..."
yes, i would love a switch to turn all that off.
together with the stupid profanity filter and the postFX filter that makes most of the HUD unreadable because of over saturation, that they call "new lighting"