Is the UI overhaul still a priority?

Is the UI-overhaul still a priority?

As far as I know, the UI was a pretty big reason the game got 5/10 (or was it 4/10?), so is that still being worked on? If so, how is it being worked on and how soon will players be able to take advantage of it?

And if it's not a priority, oh well, I guess that makes sense. After all, PS3 users will be fine with the present rendition, and supposedly it is PS3 players who will be this game's salvation.

I was just wondering is all.

I don't know where you been the past 4ish months, but the listed priority is the Battle System. The UI is fine beyond the latency problems due to it's serverside nature.

I think there's going to be a UI change when the battle update comes out, but I'm not sure.

So it's "all hands on deck" then for the combat system?

This means we can't have a UI overhaul which is pretty much 80% unrelated to coding a new battle system?

Funny how when SE releases new events the old adage that "SE has several separate departments" stands and yet whenever it doesn't suit them, SE can only focus on one thing at a time.

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Originally Posted by Sonic_the_Hedgehog

I think there's going to be a UI change when the battle update comes out, but I'm not sure.

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Probably, but it should be a minor case though, because the UI to really looking good right now, why mess it up? lol but things are looking up for FFXIV, these Companies are a start of something big!

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Originally Posted by gifthorse

So it's "all hands on deck" then for the combat system?

This means we can't have a UI overhaul which is pretty much 80% unrelated to coding a new battle system?

Funny how when SE releases new events the old adage that "SE has several separate departments" stands and yet whenever it doesn't suit them, SE can only focus on one thing at a time.

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For fucks sake, do you ever stop complaining? Anyway have you thought that maybe they're changing the battle UI too, so instead of doing it a piece at a time, they want to do all UI changes at the same time.

The UI is really not fine. It definitely needs a pretty major overhaul in the future, it looks horrible and archaic (Menus and such I mean, I quite like the basic screen UI) and needs some serious cleaning up. They should ditch a lot of the server-side stuff too.
Considering the gorgeous looking menu systems of even FFXIII, it's pretty disappointing to be subjected to such an awful looking piece in the next game of the FF series.

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For fucks sake, do you ever stop complaining?

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He pretty much doesn't, and then makes 'baww' threads about getting no thumbs up, lols.

Edit: I should clarify, whilst I do think the current UI is piss, the other things like content and battle systems should definitely come first and foremost.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

The UI is really not fine. It definitely needs a pretty major overhaul in the future, it looks horrible and archaic (Menus and such I mean, I quite like the basic screen UI) and needs some serious cleaning up. They should ditch a lot of the server-side stuff too.
Considering the gorgeous looking menu systems of even FFXIII, it's pretty disappointing to be subjected to such an awful looking piece in the next game of the FF series.



He pretty much doesn't, and then makes 'baww' threads about getting no thumbs up, lols.

Edit: I should clarify, whilst I do think the current UI is piss, the other things like content and battle systems should definitely come first and foremost.

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Cant please everyone

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Cant please everyone

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The name 'Starlord' doesn't please me, so, yeah, you can't.

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Originally Posted by Sephr

The name 'Starlord' doesn't please me, so, yeah, you can't.

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Sorry im not to your liking =)

What is your guys' problems? Was it something I said?

Always Gifthorse Always

Let me put it this way XI has probably the worst menu navigation I've seen in a game but XIV took the no.1 prize in that competition in few minutes.

Why I can't even access all the menus on a controller in XIV!

Other fun things:

-Skillbar is to the XI spell menu what Tabasco is for a cake. Once you end up in a wrong row you're probably taking 3 punches to the face before you find the skill you're looking for.

-...Which is insane since XIV skill bar let's you use about 1/4th of the skills that were available to me in XI lol

-Why the hell is the equipment screen such a mess? Honestly did the devs even TRY to navigate from head to pouches using a D-pad?! Honestly as punishment they should do 20 000 equipment swaps on a controller.

-Fishing ('nuff said)

-Just let me eat this useless Culinarian item real quick...wait...I CAN'T!

-It's understandable that chatlog gets 99 999 lines of spam even on the most minimum log settings but it would be nice to access the text in full-screen while auto running over the copypasteville to see what that NPC said

Reducing the menu lag was a massive improvement but after that I haven't seen any of the real issues being adressed in any way.

Tanaka mentioned a new UI being worked on that would be ready during Feb or March or something.

I imagined it to be an entire upheaval of the original system and supplanted with something similar to the Microsoft Windows UI (with lots of customisation and resizable windows) or a Flash-based UI or something.

Heya!

I guess they working on a new Battle System means a re-control of the UI. We'll be able to exploit the problems that will merge from the new UI by Yawping In These F**CKING FORUMS LIKE LITTLE BI- giving constructive suggestion on how to give a better User Experience.

So basically yes. In my opinion, they revamping the Battle System means working on the UI too and adapt it to both PC and PS3 users.

See ya!

The current priority is now fixing the engine, the server interaction coding and the convoluted AH system. At least that's what it should be.

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Originally Posted by Dizmo

The current priority is now fixing the engine, the server interaction coding and the convoluted AH system. At least that's what it should be.

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The priority is the battle system right now. Welcome to the forums, you'll get on well if you like stating your opinions as fact.

As much as I am a fan of the FFVII UI looks wise I dont think a futuristic FFXIII is in keeping of the game, however I think the current UI could be given a little bit of sparkle and still be in keeping with the game's aestics.

The functionality of the UI needs to be improved, Yoshi-P did suggest back in Feb/Mar that two UI's could run in tandem a PC based 'drag and drop' style UI and a PS3 controller friendly UI. Hopefully more details will become clear closer to the mega patch in June if any UI changes will be made. (crosses fingers)

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Originally Posted by Elexia

I don't know where you been the past 4ish months, but the listed priority is the Battle System. The UI is fine beyond the latency problems due to it's serverside nature.

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UI IS NOT FINE!

Please go look at any other MMO out there and tell me that "it's fine"

The UI is not designed for PC and it needs to be, SE need to make 2 versions of the UI one for PC and one for PS3 (which is what we currently have)

PC UI needs:-
- UI needs to be client side and not server side
- drag and drop
- right click to equip items
- better icons in the inventory (not a list)
- more action bars
- action bars that don't pop up and diappear during battle
- needs an in game graphics configuration panal
- a UI configuration panal with tick boxes and options for all the text based commands they have added. (such as displaying of head gear, enemy hp, enemy icon's etc)
- a better way to change class/equip/actions etc (Macro's are far too slow)
- there is tons of other stuff that I can't think of right now ..

PC Controls:-

- we need Mouse look with left click
- auto run with left and right click
- dedicated hotkeys for menu's like equip page, inventory etc (hell even FF11 had these)

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Originally Posted by Jinko

there is so much wrong with it that its hard to believe this game was made in 2010.

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It was in production in 2007.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

UI IS NOT FINE!

Please go look at any other MMO out there and tell me that "it's fine"

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I play a lot of MMOs currently, and this is one of the few that allows gamepad use and I actually like gamepad controls. It's call personal preference, and to me, you can do everything you need to with the current UI, but it still has latency problems.

Also, I like not having my view distrupted by a big ass actionbar in the bottom-center of my screen all the time.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It was in production in 2007.



I play a lot of MMOs currently, and this is one of the few that allows gamepad use and I actually like gamepad controls. It's call personal preference, and to me, you can do everything you need to with the current UI, but it still has latency problems.

Also, I like not having my view distrupted by a big ass actionbar in the bottom-center of my screen all the time.

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Obviously you haven played XI on a controller. It sucks to control but it sucks a lot less than XIV. At least in XI you can do everything you need to on a controller.

No wonder they pushed back the ps3 release. Something like this would NEVER pass Sony's quality assurance, not even the alpha phase.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It was in production in 2007.



I play a lot of MMOs currently, and this is one of the few that allows gamepad use and I actually like gamepad controls. It's call personal preference, and to me, you can do everything you need to with the current UI, but it still has latency problems.

Also, I like not having my view distrupted by a big ass actionbar in the bottom-center of my screen all the time.

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Both Tera and Blade and Soul are designed to be played with control pads, the difference is they are optimised to be played with both/either.

FFXIV favours control pad and that is partly why we have the clunky mess of a UI we have now.

SE should have made this game with PC UI first and then ported it to the PS3 afterwards.

I also use a gamepad from time to time in this game but thats only because using a mouse and keyboard sometimes is so counter-intuitive.