I believe Odyssey UI was made more console friendly. So they can navigate with ease using that big circle or square or triangle...
Odyssey UI will get there, I'm sure. I don't like a lot about it, but I do get where its going.
There's some clunkyness with it and a few bugs still...
Like passenger mission cabin selection with mouse not working on the top row, yet with my hotas it does, but when I press up to go to the cabin selections I get an underlying "faction popup" first, that clearly shouldn't be there, it pops up from nowhere.
Then inconsistencies, like go to passenger missions, hand some in and it returns you to "normal missions" interface instead.
I'm also not a fan of how the menus in the galaxy map (like POI's) work, such as select landable surfaces in the poi menu, then change the info shown on the right popup, to view the info I want, then have to go back to poi's icon and back to surfaces etc.. etc
Not user friendly and not efficient, at the moment, but as above.. I'm sure it will get ironed out eventually.
There's some clunkyness with it and a few bugs still...
Like passenger mission cabin selection with mouse not working on the top row, yet with my hotas it does, but when I press up to go to the cabin selections I get an underlying "faction popup" first, that clearly shouldn't be there, it pops up from nowhere.
Then inconsistencies, like go to passenger missions, hand some in and it returns you to "normal missions" interface instead.
I'm also not a fan of how the menus in the galaxy map (like POI's) work, such as select landable surfaces in the poi menu, then change the info shown on the right popup, to view the info I want, then have to go back to poi's icon and back to surfaces etc.. etc
Not user friendly and not efficient, at the moment, but as above.. I'm sure it will get ironed out eventually.
Many people told FDev during the Alpha that the new UI's were really bad, but they released it anyway.
It's taken 2 months, but the new UI is pretty much back to the functionality and usability of Horizons. Great work FDev (yes, that's sarcasm )
Personally I prefer the Horizons UI for the GalMap and System map, it's much nicely and cleaner.
It's taken 2 months, but the new UI is pretty much back to the functionality and usability of Horizons. Great work FDev (yes, that's sarcasm )
Personally I prefer the Horizons UI for the GalMap and System map, it's much nicely and cleaner.
Not sure about that.
I play on XB with the controller and i find it harder to navigate the tiled interface on Carriers or the right menu (engineers/carriers) in Horizons.
Especially when tiles were uneven.
Proof that FD is completely clueless re ED is the UI debacle.
Have CMDRs complained about ED's UI? Yes. So what did do? Overhaul it in a manner that exacerbates precisely the issues CMDRs have had.
In a functioning company, failures like these would see the responsible heads rolling.
Have CMDRs complained about ED's UI? Yes. So what did do? Overhaul it in a manner that exacerbates precisely the issues CMDRs have had.
In a functioning company, failures like these would see the responsible heads rolling.
Totally forgot about fighting the on hover menu bit. Yeah, I don't miss that too.
I've only been back in Horizons a handful of times since Ody launch.
Did not know this is possible. Where are the controls for that? Mouse-click the heading somewhere?
Isn't it?
It's just the default order in Odyssey, at least for non-passenger missions.
(May be slightly confused by all missions to surface destinations being sorted below all missions to orbital destinations, but it's alphabetic by system within those groups)
Yeah, I can see that, but I usually use the hat switch on my stick, similar to a d-pad on a controller, for navigating those interfaces. I mean, if I just landed then my hand is already on the stick.
I only occasionally use the mouse on those, at least until I get into the sub menus that is. Then a mouse is extremely handy. Especially in the Commodities Market and Outfitting.
Oh, I thought it was sorted by distance from current location, within each category.
I think missions to anonymous locations (salvage, etc.) are done by distance, yes.
The Horizons "transport" mission category is pretty good for showing off the feature, I find.
well, bye then
Personally I prefer the new UI
Pretty much this.
Really, spend some time to get used to it. It is an improvement over the old UI, you just need to get used to it.
One of the major issue and source of complaint from other cmdrs (other than the performance optimization issue) seems to be coming from people that are struggling to get out of their comfort zone.
Once you get used to it, it all starts to make sense. I now much prefer the new UI over the old, and I certainly don't want to go back to that old one.
The initial offering with the new UI was missing too many functions in comparison to the Horizons one. This appears to be 'fixed' (for the use I give the UI) and I'm heppy enough using it - going back to Horizons on the one account that doesn't have Odyssey now feels strange, odd, isn't it?