I just got the Holiday update with FSD Beta, and in the span of a few minutes, I gathered the following reasons why I don't like the UI at all. I not only think it looks like a rushed design overhaul with mismatched color schemes, icon designs, and inconsistencies, this update actually has taken away a lot of conveniently located items and buried them in menus, thereby sacrificing functionality and efficiency.
I have enumerated my reasons here and the link below references images.
- The icons are childish and unpolished. Someone else had said the icons look like they were designed by a 3rd year old. I agree. The colors remind me of off-brand phone OS, and there is inconsistencies in icon design. In the old build, the icon bar at the bottom nicely blended with the rest of the UI and the icons weren't vibrantly blinding you with colors. They were quietly sitting there blending with the rest of the UI! I really don't like this, as you might be able to tell from the emotions, haha!
- The speedometer is terribly small and horribly positioned in the leftmost corner. In certain driving positions, your right hand can block the view of it. What was wrong with it large, bolded, and centered?
- Checking trip information was easy and one slide away. Why is it now buried in the menus?
- Same as in 3. but for tire pressure.
- When you pull up from the bottom of the screen, no matter where you begin from, the HVAC controls come up. This seems like a waste of gestures in functionality. For example, it was nice that in the previous builds, we could get different music player UIs by sliding up and down on the icon.
- The full-screen FSD Beta visualization is nice, but it should not have replaced the semi full-screen view. I loved the 2/3 1/3 split between Beta and maps because it gave me the best view of what Beta was seeing and about to do and what the next maneuver was based on map data. I don't really see the point of this full-screen view. I don't trust Beta enough to let it go without me seeing the map in full detail. The little window in the left bottom corner only tells you your next move, so it's not as detailed as a full map with your position on it.
- This one kills me. Why did they remove frequently used items from the top of the screen like Dashcam and move it to the Controls menu? Imagine while driving you want to suddenly record a clip. Instead of the conveniently located icon which was on
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One of Riot's stated goals in the item rework was to introduce more item diversity in the game. This is a very noble goal, and I think the Mythic Item system is an excellent opportunity to do this. But, Riot's method of achieving this is goal with Mythics has it backwards, in my opinion. More specifically:
Mythic items should be intentionally non-diverse for each specific champion, and in return, almost all of the item diversity should come from Legendary items.
Here's why:
1. Mythic Passives
Besides their sheer scale and cost, the most notable thing about Mythic items are the Mythic passives, which grant increasing amounts of stats the more Legendary items you get. I love this system, because while Riot isn't using it this way, it represents an amazing opportunity for Legendary item diversity.
Many champions heavily rely on specific stats to operate. Assassins need their AD and Lethality, Battlemages need their HP and AP, Wardens need Resistances and AH, et cetera. This requirement means that buying items that don't give those stats in abundance is often self-sabotaging, and any deviations into other items have to be extremely well justified.
You can likely see where I'm going with this. The very nature of Mythic passives is that, even when someone chooses to branch out into a weirder item, they can still receive some of their vital stats. Now if your Braum decides to buy into a Redemption for some extra utility, it won't feel like a waste of gold as long as he still gets some HP or Resistances from his Mythic. Diversifying your items won't be as punishing.
2. Kit Synergies
When the rune rework came out long ago, many people had concerns that the specific keystone masteries would synergize to strongly with certain kits, locking some champions into certain runes while leaving others without any strong choices. This has proven, in part, to be true, although made better by practically every champion having at least one good choice. Basically every champion has 1 or 2 best choices for keystones, and that's satisfactory.
The same is true of Mythics. Many synergize extremely well with a specific champion's kit, to the point where picking anything else is borderline trolling (try playing Samira without Shieldbow or Rek'sai without Prowler's/Stridebreaker. Or, better yet, don't).
Now, this doesn't need to be a bad thing, as long as this fact is leaned into rather than resisted. The very nature of "very powerful, niche items"
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In my experience of both playing and fighting him he is a turtles wet dream. Block and GB bait galore. Zero aggression capability and a kick so reactable a fucking grandma could dodge it. Slow attacks, low damage, and hilarious delay into his stance.
So I guess this is just a rant about wishing he was as good as he is flashy
I’d also like some visual examples if possible. I’ve always wondered why some lefties need certain things that were specifically designed for left-handed people instead of just holding those things a different way.
If you've been on this or any other RPG design forum long enough, you'll have seen someone ask something like
"I'm designing an RPG about X. I know characters are going to have N main stats. Can you tell me what those should be?"
I don't get why anyone would impose such constraints on themselves. It's like a school exercise, except that in school I wasn't taught to make up such questions for myself.
What i mean is in those designs.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/ee/2a/7fee2a5451a3c00fbfda392592fcdb6e.jpg
https://img1.pnghut.com/15/25/5/AXpJQxyrvX/tree-heart-silhouette-flower-frame.jpg
I love those art styles a lot, but legs always confused me.
