Im having the hardest timee getting my graphics the way i like them: Low, but with warp in animations so I can see the units as they materialize. aarg... took me forever last time to set it up.

Wingblade

United States1806 Posts

August 01 2012 03:47 GMT

#582

On August 01 2012 12:44 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote:
Does anyone else notice that it says that it's season three?
Because it's definitely season 8

It's the third season of this year. They changed it to base everything off of years.

thrawn2112

United States6918 Posts

August 01 2012 03:52 GMT

#583

On August 01 2012 12:42 DwindleFlip wrote:
1.5 is the ugliest pile of trash i've ever seen come out of a professional game studio.

Is Blizzard letting their interns design their ui now? This is so hacky, the old ui is so ripped apart. Too much bold, black and white blue high contrast elements. Its like when you put windows xp on handicap mode.

Did Blizzard outsource all of their artwork and coding to a slave nation? This does not seem professional at all. What a disaster. I have lost all faith at blizzard, starting with Dustin, David Kim, and now the art team? C'mon whats going on there?!

is their ui designer still the same guy that used to be the xbox live ui designer? cuz that would explain it

Medrea

10003 Posts

August 01 2012 03:56 GMT

#584

Patch looks good.

No performance change, I dont notice much difference either.

Bit more friendly to bitcoin mining it seems. Using a 7970 as the card to run the game.

L3gendary

Canada1470 Posts

August 01 2012 03:56 GMT

#585

On August 01 2012 12:52 thrawn2112 wrote:

Show nested quote +

is their ui designer still the same guy that used to be the xbox live ui designer? cuz that would explain it

Nah the old UI was very console-like while this new one is more smartphone app-like.

Prime Directive

United States186 Posts

August 01 2012 03:57 GMT

#586

I wanted more stats and gave the appropriate feedback in the beta forums. They respond by actually taking away stats from the profile pages...

rhs408

United States904 Posts

August 01 2012 03:58 GMT

#587

On August 01 2012 09:59 Amikar wrote:
The profile page for Patch 1.5 is a huge step backwards in terms of aesthetics and information displayed. People expressing concerns in this area aren't just “whining about change”. The new UI removes functionality and statistics that players have come to expect from the StarCraft II experience.

*Career Wins have been removed
*Snapshots for 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 have been removed
*Team games have been lumped into one “Team” category.
*Current League is bugged (Example: Says your current league is Diamond when you're in Platinum).
*Lots of un-used spaced
*Text feels flat and boring
*Your league information can no longer be directly accessed from the Profile screen (clicking the league icon)

What a mess.

This. Please change the profile page back.

zachMEISTER

United States625 Posts

August 01 2012 03:59 GMT

#588

On August 01 2012 12:57 Prime Directive wrote:
I wanted more stats and gave the appropriate feedback in the beta forums. They respond by actually taking away stats from the profile pages...

You forgot they still have to hang shit in front of our faces like a carrot in front of a horse. HoTS is not out yet, so they streamlined the UI so they can withhold the features for more money.

IshinShishi

Japan6156 Posts

August 01 2012 03:59 GMT

#589

I think I figured it out, go to the variables.txt and change alternateLowTextures from 1 to 0 and then you will have the old low back.

larse

1611 Posts

August 01 2012 03:59 GMT

#590

I posted like 3 threads on the beta feedback forum back during beta. But nothing back then I said is solved or improved. Sigh.

Kharnage

Australia920 Posts

August 01 2012 03:59 GMT

#591

On July 31 2012 21:39 Melty Butter wrote:
Did anyone else notice that it now takes 3 clicks to start queuing for a ladder 1v1, as opposed to 2 clicks before? Maybe it's a minor quibble, but- No, it's not, it's dumb and I don't like it.

Proud of his 100+ APM
...
Complains about 3 clicks to start the game.

Fortis-Et-Fidus

United States119 Posts

August 01 2012 03:59 GMT

#592

this kinda feels like a beta for a brand new game, like this could be seen in 2010 and i would say ok, well blizzard is definitively gonna change this in the coming patches...right? maybe its because i have had the same UI for 2 years but this just seems like turning back the clock, and i keep instinctively hitting the arcade button for ladder.. gonna take A LOT of getting used to, but maybe this will be more efficient and a better experience in the long run

HeeroFX

United States2704 Posts

August 01 2012 04:03 GMT

#593

Its ok. I like the darker screen. The new fog of war is pretty cool. My only complaints are 1. The social aspect feels exactly the same as before, as in there are no clan support, and chat channels are still not that special. (also its amazing you can delete channels now lol took them how long to do this?) 2. It seems like they made it complex to go online and search for a ladder match. It took me awhile to figure out where i had to go to search 1v1 at first But it just seems disorganized and complicated for no reason. WC 3 UI was not hard and it was one of the best UI imo. I would give patch 1.5 like 7/10.

Emuking

United States144 Posts

August 01 2012 04:07 GMT

#594

Fungal growth's green target cursor sometimes sinks into the terrain so you cant see where your cursor is very well; its a bug.

i dont like the new creep on the minimap, dont really care about the main screen visual creep though because i used the minimap to see how far my creep tumors were without having to check the distance on the main screen. Its an odd way to time your creep tumors out, but that method has become harder for me now because creep is so dark.

The rest is fine. This patch did not get the gold medal that's for sure. Go Phelps!

LagT_T

Argentina535 Posts

August 01 2012 04:10 GMT

#595

I can't find marine split challenge. Awesome T_T

DemigodcelpH

1138 Posts

August 01 2012 04:12 GMT

#596

On August 01 2012 12:38 JazzJackrabbit wrote:
I'm almost afraid now to install this patch and just wait for the next one.

Don't be. The patch is beautiful, and worked flawlessly for me.

Emuking wrote:i dont like the new creep on the minimap

One of my favorite parts actually. It's much better the new way.

Icekommander

Canada483 Posts

August 01 2012 04:14 GMT

#597

I like the new UI, in terms of text and pictures. Dislike the fact that everything besides custom games was shuffled around without actually adding anything relevant.

SkullXbones

United States58 Posts

August 01 2012 04:17 GMT

#598

I personaly dont like any of it. The new UI is horrid, they just said "hey we need more buttons" so they added more. Enought that they now need hotkeys to navigate eaisly. The new fog of war looks bad. I can understand if they are trying to fix what you can and cannot see at the edge of fog of war, but you dont have to make it like this. I feel there was an elgant solution to this problem that they missed. Have you even seen overlords. Lol they move then the the fog of war jumps to keep up, its always behind the overlord whenever its in motion, not smooth at all. The faster the units the fewer problems i guess. The new low settings are U.G.L.Y. They raised the minnum sysem specs for the game only to make it look worse on low settings. Mind you I can play at make with over 100 "fps", but i like playing ladder on low, custom games on max. The only thing i like about this patch is the new team color health bars option. I think it looks cool having your opponent health bar as red instead of green. But overall i give this patch a D minus. Would have been an F but there was a single thing that i liked.

Pobearo

United States351 Posts

August 01 2012 04:18 GMT

#599

The only thing I really don't like here is that Blizzard doesn't trust us with our own stats. What if I want to know how many wins I have? What if that is enjoyable for me, why remove it for everybody? Since getting Activision'd, blizz has started acting like a bunch of control freaks about how you are allowed to play their games. I'm losing my once unshakable confidence in blizzard's decision making.

Emuking

United States144 Posts

August 01 2012 04:18 GMT

#600

On August 01 2012 13:12 DemigodcelpH wrote:

One of my favorite parts actually. It's much better the new way.

Why do you say that?