The UI is still a mess
As the title says the UI still needs lots of work. For example THIS looks like a health indicator while the actual HP is barely noticeable. And just overall it is still a stepdown from anything ...
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@Buzzfunk wrote:Yes, because the game was made to be played on consoles. Thats why the GUI is big, ugly and clunky. (No offense to console gamers).
Please do not offer EA such lame excuse.
Because it is.
We have perfect 4k 120FPS monitors on consoles.
So the UI is looking just as clunky and awful on consoles as it does on PC's.
There is zero excuse for EA game designers not to have made the UI super sharp and crisp, as we all wanted it to be.
Also the weak color schemes used, and the constant flickering of the info screens is a total misconception of how a soldier's battlescreen will look like in 2042, even in a postapocalyptical no-pats world...
@CyberDyme I do think Buzzfunk is on to something though. See 2042 was originally to be only on next gen consoles and PC. Its when they found out not enough PS5 and series X's were not in homes, EA had to call a late game audible and place it on last gen consoles. Imo, this is one of the issues that has caused a lot of problems for them. This game was not suppose to be on last gen hardware.
- @ghinavirus Could be something in that, though they did announce rather early that last-gen would be limited to 64 players, so it would seem a little odd that UI issues regarding that would be dragged all the way to this point in development.
Would almost be easier to do an UI for those platforms alone rather than try to make a shoehorned version that works across all platforms.
I think the UI team is just haunted by the ghost of windows 8 tiles myself, and that's how we ended up with the lego rose.
(let's be honest, at this point that's as plausible as anything else regarding speculation about the last few months)- @Fringerunner Like I told Carson , it will be an interesting launch for sure.
What i wish is this game would be delayed only a few months minimum and we get another beta. I personally feel one more beta for a span of a week for all could be the feedback actually needed. But we both know thats not likely. Its the cool thing to do these days by releasing an unfinished game and fix it as they go.- @ghinavirus Agreed, but i think it's fairly likely at this point that won't happen.
Let's be honest, while the "lessons learned" post did address the most obvious stuff like UI and whatnot, some issues were flat out ignored and just doubled down on instead.
The end goals are set, if we see any major changes i think it'll be like you said, it'll be "on the go" just like BF5 (ie; they're not learning fast these days)
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... 😎
