Re: The UI is still a mess

What I see on-screen of UI for the Beta looked like some spaghetti code put together by a teenager making his first lines of software code.  Not something that should have been the result of 3+ years of coding by hundreds of professionals in a $5B company... 

Even if they are lazy and may have used same code and same UI for both the new gen and last gen consoles, then we all know that in both BF4 and also in aka BFV this looked super sharp and crisp.  So no.  There is no excuse for such sloppiness. 

There were so many misconceptions and terrible designs in the Beta, that we can only seriously doubt if those designers and programmers ever played a game previously themselves?  Let alone tried to run the code themselves, that they had been sitting and fiddling with now for 3+ years...

@CyberDymeA bit overexaggerating there... lol

They clearly know what they are doing and going for, but have obviously not settled on the finished "look" with each UI feature.  Ever since Battlefield 3, they have tried to change the UI for each game to fit the theme of the game... they are doing the same with Battlefield 2042.

Oh you really think so @carsono311 ?  😀

Maybe its just me, but which software coder team in their right mind would think:  

"Oh yeah, we are going to make our soldier UI now for a futuristic setting in 2042, so how about we make it as clunky and unreadable low-res as back in the first PC shooter games back in the early 1990ties?"

Brilliant game btw, doing absolutely fine at the time with a readable UI at 320x200...  😎

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@carsono311 wrote:
@CyberDymeI am sorry, but I must not have experienced what you did in the Open Beta… UI was always clear and sharp for me.

Not sure what to offer now…

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Btw @carsono311 ,

If you care to share:  Was you on PC or on console for the beta?

I was myself solely on PS5 the first days.

And had a shocking poor experience.

And then the last day I tried on a friend's PC and here it was still not great, but absolutely much much better!

Game fluidity, hit registration, vehicle movements, etc.

All certainly aiding to the PC players probably gave a much more positive feedback than what some of us on console experienced.

Now for the UI, several very poor design decisions were left in there.  (we talk about the soldier infomatics, like ammo, health, weapon/vehicle data...)

Aka the color choice of some of the frames/numbers/graphics.  And that there was no proper background contrast color.  Next to the dimensions of many of the elements were just clunky and clumsy, while the screen resolution and color scheme would allow it to have been much much better in contrast and clarity.   But think that was no matter which platform we played on.  But screen flickering and vehicle/enemy teletransportations nonstop on the screen probably did not improve the mood of the console player in that mess. 😀 

@CyberDymeI am a PC player and I am also fortunate to have a robust computer to play the game on as well.

So you are likely correct that certain issues were more pronounced on console vice PC… I am sorry for that.

I am not saying the UI is perfect by any means, just that I like the general look and feel so far

As a long time PC gamer, 3 things always tell when your fav PC franchise has been "consolized". (IMO)

1. No server browser. 

2. Usually larger/clunky GUI (the so called scoreboard in the beta, if you recall it, looked like an Xbox game from 2011)

3. More focus on making things simpler. Maybe in this case, guns have less recoil? I noticed that I played a lot better in 2049 then in BF V. 

To be honest, im so tired of yapping about this game. Nothing we'll say right now will change. The game is done (Since there are  physical copies made, the game has to get manufactured). I just wish we would get some kind of dialog going with Dice. Dont they have a community manager? I haven't seen him answer a single question. Only post a link to that blog. 

But in the end, my biggest concerns are far more important than the GUi: Lack of scoreboard and that tons of same looking clones will be roaming the maps. 

Sigh