New Title Menu - Horrendous!

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

It stuns me how there are so many issues with the game...

...but developers find time to make the new title menu and screw on with UI.

The font and size is terrible. It's so in-congruent with the rest of the game.

 

[Factabulous]

Bizarre - everyone else so far who has posted said they like it a lot. Guess you truly can't please everyone

 

[Flimley]

I am going to give that complaint one out of ten Flimley points. ...Just for effort.

Flimley

 

[Stealthie]

I can't say I'm keen on the way the old menu-background flashes up momentarily.

The fact that it still exists and is, apparently, "underneath" the new menu reeks of "bodge".

 

[babelfisch]

While I would prefer a more minimalist approach, horrendous isn't how I would call it. Most people actually seem to like it, I am pretty much indifferent about it simply because it's just the main menu.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

I didn't post about it for points - I posted about it because I can't stand it any longer.

Why did it need to change? Why is it so large? Why did they choose that font?

So theres a new widget in the bottom corner which gives you some galnet fluff... thats not the kind of "IN GAME" we were on about for events / happenings / outcomes etc

 

[Jmanis]

The font and size is terrible. It's so in-congruent with the rest of the game.

Is it?

Sample UI from the Menu:

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... Compared to other menus/displays in-game:

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... seems pretty congruent to me.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Show it in context with the full screen....

 

[Jmanis]

Show it in context with the full screen....

To achieve what?

Your complaint is the about the font and size.

• Font type is consistent throughout the game
• Size is consistent throughout the game (detail text is comparable size between both sections, as is the header sizes)

Also, forum dies when I try a full-screen shot.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

Now they've dragged in the Station Services font, style, colour scheme across in to it.

(I tried uploading a full screen pic too and its having none of it)

 

[VR andysonofbob]

I REALLY like it. I love how I can see my ship and watch it scale up from a Sidey to Anaconda

 

[Factabulous]

I REALLY like it. I love how I can see my ship and watch it scale up from a Sidey to Anaconda

Yeah but those fonts! How dare they use consistent fonts, they make it unusable! lol.

 

[Red Anders]

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

Now they've dragged in the Station Services font, style, colour scheme across in to it.

OK so we've established that you don't know what the word 'incongruent' means. What's next?

Edit: (lol ninja'd)

 

[VR andysonofbob]

Hehe

@Factabulous
Now you have made your case. On behalf of all of the other fans of the new menu, I apologise.

 

[babelfisch]

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

Now they've dragged in the Station Services font, style, colour scheme across in to it.

(I tried uploading a full screen pic too and its having none of it)

First you complained that the fonts are in-congruent, and now you are complaining that the fonts are congruent? That's a joke, right?

 

[Jmanis]

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

Now they've dragged in the Station Services font, style, colour scheme across in to it.

(I tried uploading a full screen pic too and its having none of it)

But the background shot is the same as if you were inside the station... so it should be consistent with that theme.

Making it different would be, well, incongruent....

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

The font and size is terrible. It's so in-congruent with the rest of the game.

So the font size should not be incongruent with the rest of the game, it should rather be the same as in the rest of the game?

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

So the font should be incongruent with / different to the rest of the game?

Which is it?

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Elite Dangerous logo has its own font - something that was similar to that was used in all the menus / options outside of the "game mode".

Now it's all one. That's merging everything together and doesn't fit with established themes 'inside the game' and 'outside the game'.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Everything is san serif and orange. Everywhere.

It goes against what was established as an out of game menu previously - like a sense of pause outside of playing the game.

 

[Jaymundo87]

The title menu, options etc should have their own font and style.

You can't be serious, that would look horrendous!

More importantly, it's just a menu, it's not meant to be stared at. Do you not enter buildings that have doors you don't like the style of?