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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@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.
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... 😎
- @CyberDyme I am sorry, but I must not have experienced what you did in the Open Beta… UI was always clear and sharp for me.
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