Hey Trion Worlds, PC UI Is Still Garbage.

[ironhands]

It's not an excuse, it's a fact. Why don't you head over to the threads with people that can't download, or connect, and tell them they should wait because the UI needs an improvement, despite working.

Yes, they patch each independently, but they still share quite a lot of code. A navigation bug in one will behave the same on the other versions. Keeping them as close as possible to each other helps eliminate possible issues, especially early in the development.

We are playing on a PC, SOME of us demand more from the game, but not all. Many are quite happy to play as is, knowing that an update will be made.

[Drandorion]

I was not in Alpha or Beta, but I find it hard to believe that no pc testers pointed out how clunky this UI is. Why is a UI designed for console controllers with limited buttons the same as the pc UI which has a keyboard and mouse?

Yes I know there are game breaking issues that some people are having and I feel bad for them, these should defiantly be fixed along with server stability. However, this is not a free pass to ignore how bad the UI is.

[mid9sun]

Well, knowing that this is a console port and we did jump into it,especially many of us did alpha or beta so we really cannot complain too much even though I hate the limitations placed on PCs due to console considerations.

In Trion's best interests, I believe (hope?) they will probably fix the UI.

Anyway, I will probably stay away from console ports games from now on.

[Coraline]

Give reasons why it's bad instead of just saying hey this is garbage. There is seriously nothing wrong with it.

[Blackwolfe]

Oh it was pointed out to them alright, in long and detailed well written posts. Not sure if they listened or even cared though.

[ironhands]

Give reasons why it's bad instead of just saying hey this is garbage. There is seriously nothing wrong with it.

There are some problems with it. The inventory management and salvage menus could be made much more efficiently. It reminds me a lot of fallout 3/new vegas. Not game breaking, but could certainly use some tweaks. same with the chat

[Biowraith]

Give reasons why it's bad instead of just saying hey this is garbage. There is seriously nothing wrong with it.

Way too many clicks/keystrokes to perform most tasks, for starters (salvaging is particularly bad, as mentioned, especially for a task that will often be performed in batches). Minimising the number of clicks required is a fairly fundamental part of good UI design.

The pointless extra radial menu - why 'hide' the icons in two different places when there's easily enough space for those icons to be along the top with the others? It's not very intuitive.

Having each UI window take up the entire screen, blocking any view of what's happening with your character, something that not only isn't necessary, but can result in untimely deaths.

The chat is laughably basic, only shows a few lines and can't be resized, and is only visible for a short amount of time; there's a reason there's none of the usual mmo chatter in the game, and it's not because mmo players have become awfully shy all of a sudden.

There's more, but those are basic enough flaws to be starting with.

Don't get me wrong, it's not the end of the world that we have to deal with this - I've certainly played and enjoyed games with even worse UIs - it's just that, well, if you're going to do something, do it right, you know? Especially in a genre with tens, even hundreds of examples of what does and doesn't well (with a playerbase that'll damn well let you know about the latter), and even moreso given that Trion themselves have done so much better in the past.

[goldtupac]

I see the PC master race is still acting superior.

[ironhands]

compare window is bugged out as well. the radial menu is find, but it'd be nice to be on screen instead of completely closed out in a menu

chat is being actively worked on

[Blackwolfe]

I see the PC master race is still acting superior.

So if the UI was crappy for Consoles, would you not want it changed?