Option to Remove the Circle Image on Skill CD

[Mindylou]

Errr.....its good that 90% of the in house testers liked it ,but that awfully limited pool to base a decision on lol oh my?

Should always let the players choose and vote to really know what customers would like. OR always have option to turn a feature off.

I don't hate the changes but would have vastly preferred just the counter not the circle. We need the ability to have player designed UI add-ons, its overdue se, please consider this ,there are very talented players that could whip up numerous variations to suit everyone needs and preferences.

[Breezelyn]

Is it really that hard to add an option to remove it entirely, or add the CD countdown to the center of the skill icon with the icon darkened slightly? This change is rather distracting, and I'd rather have the option to turn it off. I have messed up on my heals and barding a lot more than usual since 3.2 dropped. Just wish they had a poll on the main site or patcher to ask people's opinion on such things as this. :/
But this is just my opinion on this and it won't change for who knows how long. e_e

[Arkenne]

I personally like it but, I dislike that he numbers of the countdown are so small.
Some of them get often hidden behind other objects like the Controller Button's icons, and whats worse, if a skill like Trick Attack that isn't always enabled is on cooldown, the numbers for the countdown are also greyed out, which makes them VERY hard to see.

I would like it for the numbers to be way bigger and more to the center of the icons if possible :/

[Edewen]

I dont mind it for cooldowns. But dam does it have to be on every GCD? On every single button? Every 2.5 seconds? That is tha main issue. It wouldn't be distracting if the gcd wasn't making your whole dam bar flash every couple seconds like a bunch of disco balls. Even crap games with much more hardware issues than FF are able to throttle crap like that for the GCD as to not annoy the hell out of their players.

[Sicno]

I'd love to tell you that you're right about that because it seems so sensible, however, he explained exactly why that is not the case. It may seem to be poor implementation, and perhaps it is, but the implementation that they are using according to the dev post is an entire packet of hotbar images all loaded at once such that every conceivable icon that could be on a hotbar (and as such any recast animations) are all held in memory at once. He mentioned that there are some exceptions, presumably for icons that change (MNK's chakra perhaps) or for whatever reason don't need to be in memory and for which some display lag would be acceptable. Something that would be called every couple of seconds at least in battle doesn't qualify.

But that's the thing, you don't have to do the replacement every time something is cast. You do the replacement in memory JUST the moment the setting is changed and then keep THAT in memory.

Edit: Or worst case scenario, have it be one of those changes that applies on next restart. At least it would give us a usable alternative.

[Mykll]

I'll give up idle camera, autoattack marker and group pose to free up memory for this.

Yeah who exactly needed that auto-attack marker? Is the enemy in combat? What extremely rare circumstances do we need to know that an enemy fighting us is currently NOT auto-attacking?

Who exactly needed the extra clutter of "Market Prohibited" on the bottom of item specs, when up top we already have UNTRADABLE"? 100% of Untradable items should be Market Prohibited. And if you can trade it, you should be able to market it. otherwise, individual items need to be updated.

Yeah seems like some wasted memory by the way they programmed the UI and things added we don't really need or ever asked for.

You can revert back to the old hotbar cool down timer graphic by simply unchecking the following...

That only changes the little number counting down, not the circles.

[Laraul]

You can revert back to the old hotbar cool down timer graphic by simply unchecking the following...



It's in the patch notes.

A recast timer for actions and items will be displayed.
For Windows, Mac, and PlayStation®4, this option can be enabled or disabled under the Display tab of Hotbar Settings in the Character Configuration interface.
For PlayStation®3, this option can be enabled or disabled under the Cross tab of Hotbar Settings in the Character Configuration interface.

All the talk about the PS3 preventing an option to choose between the updated and original cool downs is now completely debunked. If you would like to see for yourself the actual PNG images used, used a dat miner/viewer.

The original recast overlay texture prior to 3.2.

[Rowyne]

Who exactly needed the extra clutter of "Market Prohibited" on the bottom of item specs, when up top we already have UNTRADABLE"? 100% of Untradable items should be Market Prohibited. And if you can trade it, you should be able to market it. otherwise, individual items need to be updated.

^I can't like this enough! When I read the prelim patch notes, I definitely had WTF-face. Is 'Untradeable' not enough clarification that it can't be sold on the market board? Please, make sure my coffee lid says, "Caution, contents HOT"!

[Linadae]

In WoW (yes yes BOOO HISS evil how dare you bring up that curse word) they had a small flash on the icon when a skill was ready. It wasn't distracting but it was helpful when things got wild.

[Fevelle]

This whole thread is why we can't have good things. So what? They will remove it and people who liked it and had their life made easier will now have to deal with the old bars again...