EPTPatch 1.5 thoughts? - Page 4
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NOOBALOPSE
Canada802 Posts
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larse
1611 Posts
The following is just my opinion and I'm fully aware this is just beta. Even though the Arcade thing is an improvement, the 1.5 UI in other aspects is NOT an overall improvement. I post 6 sets of screenshot comparisons below and show how 1.5 UI is still not better than 1.4.3. All upper pictures are from 1.5, and all bottom pictures are from 1.4.3. ------------------------ 1 Comparison: the home screen: http://imgur.com/a/KacLr The home screen has been criticized most for not utilizing the empty space. As you can see from the screenshots, the 1.4.3 utilizes more space than 1.5. --------------------------- 2 Comparison: Quick Match: http://imgur.com/a/jyRnp The pictures of the race selection are ridiculously bad at representing the race. The pictures of three races look somehow like from a single race. People not familiar with the races may not even think Terran is human. Most importantly, the new button style is inconsistent with the old UI elements. In the 1.5 screenshot, in the upper-right, buttons are the old 1.4.3. light blue buttons, but all the other buttons are the new 1.5 dark blue buttons. Anyone with a basic aesthetics will think the UI style in bottom screenshot more mature and harmonious. ---------------------------- 3 Comparison: Versus AI: http://imgur.com/a/3D7vV Really? No preview window of mini-map? ---------------------------- 4 Comparison: Game lobby: http://imgur.com/a/LPseH Look at the right side of the 1.5 screenshot, there is a scroll bar and no all the options can be shown. You need to scroll up and down to see all the options. While in the 1.4.3 screenshot, you can see all the options at one glance. ---------------------------- 5 Comparison: Score screen http://imgur.com/a/dGurv In the 1.5 screenshot, the elements inside the score window are all the old light blue style, but all other things outside the score window are dark blue. In the 1.4.3 screenshot, everything is just highly consistent and harmonious. ---------------------------- 6 Comparison: Settings http://imgur.com/a/gK3dU Sorry but I have to say that dark blue buttons are just so ugly, especially in this screenshot. ---------------------------- People were not complaining about the UI style. The UI style was great. People were complaining about the layout of the UI and how the empty space is not utilized to provide some important information. I know aesthetics can be very subjective. People may not buy into what I said and I heard many people said the new UI style is better than the old one. However, everything I saw from the 1.5 beta is not great like they said. | ||
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SilSol
Sweden2744 Posts
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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Doko
Argentina1737 Posts
On August 01 2012 00:01 GreyKnight wrote: to be honest i don't know how they worked on this for so long on something so irrelevant and unnecessary. And dint notice that the transparency on drop down boxes is too high and overlaps with the text below. Ie. The graphic settings main selection drop down menu. | ||
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SnuggleZhenya
596 Posts
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InfCereal
Canada1759 Posts
On August 01 2012 00:01 GreyKnight wrote: to be honest i don't know how they worked on this for so long on something so irrelevant and unnecessary. I believe a lot of the was put in for HotS support. Things like clans, and better community support, rather than the UI. | ||
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Aegeis
United States1619 Posts
I prefer the old interface look but this one is alright, gets the job done. | ||
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Mazaire
Australia217 Posts
On August 01 2012 00:00 larse wrote: When I post this during beta, no one seem agreed with me. Sad The following is just my opinion and I'm fully aware this is just beta. Even though the Arcade thing is an improvement, the 1.5 UI in other aspects is NOT an overall improvement. I post 6 sets of screenshot comparisons below and show how 1.5 UI is still not better than 1.4.3. All upper pictures are from 1.5, and all bottom pictures are from 1.4.3. ------------------------ 1 Comparison: the home screen: http://imgur.com/a/KacLr The home screen has been criticized most for not utilizing the empty space. As you can see from the screenshots, the 1.4.3 utilizes more space than 1.5. --------------------------- 2 Comparison: Quick Match: http://imgur.com/a/jyRnp The pictures of the race selection are ridiculously bad at representing the race. The pictures of three races look somehow like from a single race. People not familiar with the races may not even think Terran is human. Most importantly, the new button style is inconsistent with the old UI elements. In the 1.5 screenshot, in the upper-right, buttons are the old 1.4.3. light blue buttons, but all the other buttons are the new 1.5 dark blue buttons. Anyone with a basic aesthetics will think the UI style in bottom screenshot more mature and harmonious. ---------------------------- 3 Comparison: Versus AI: http://imgur.com/a/3D7vV Really? No preview window of mini-map? ---------------------------- 4 Comparison: Game lobby: http://imgur.com/a/LPseH Look at the right side of the 1.5 screenshot, there is a scroll bar and no all the options can be shown. You need to scroll up and down to see all the options. While in the 1.4.3 screenshot, you can see all the options at one glance. ---------------------------- 5 Comparison: Score screen http://imgur.com/a/dGurv In the 1.5 screenshot, the elements inside the score window are all the old light blue style, but all other things outside the score window are dark blue. In the 1.4.3 screenshot, everything is just highly consistent and harmonious. ---------------------------- 6 Comparison: Settings http://imgur.com/a/gK3dU Sorry but I have to say that dark blue buttons are just so ugly, especially in this screenshot. ---------------------------- People were not complaining about the UI style. The UI style was great. People were complaining about the layout of the UI and how the empty space is not utilized to provide some important information. I know aesthetics can be very subjective. People may not buy into what I said and I heard many people said the new UI style is better than the old one. However, everything I saw from the 1.5 beta is not great like they said. I would like to point out that all those screen shots are irrelevant because 90% of the revamp was on the custom game side of things to breathe new life into custom map makers and casual players who didn't ladder nearly as much. They didn't tweak with the laddering system much at all. Did you even bother to look at the new arcade button? | ||
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conz
United Kingdom163 Posts
On July 31 2012 22:50 Existor wrote: Zergs need to spread creep tumors and inject alltime You kinda missed what he did there. | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
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Akinokaze
Australia326 Posts
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Negatiive
Canada207 Posts
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Liman
Serbia681 Posts
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SpiZe
Canada3640 Posts
On August 01 2012 00:15 djcube wrote: There aren't hotkeys to navigate through the interface, right (unless I've been missing it for a long time)? Would have been nice to have. They were just added | ||
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TheWorldToCome
United States452 Posts
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Emuking
United States144 Posts
THANK GOD | ||
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Art.FeeL
1163 Posts
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DarKcS
Australia1237 Posts
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Lorch
Germany3690 Posts
On August 01 2012 00:33 Art.FeeL wrote: I really wonder that the hell are they doing at the Blizzard headquarters. They have been hyping this patch for months, yet the majority of these changes are irrelevant. Does it really take so much effort to do what they did? Really depends how many people are working on it. Given how all their starcraft people are either working on stuff for hots or lotv I doubt there are many to do a patch for wol. But then again they said they'd do 1.5 before beta so you never know. But na with a modern sized development team on it this could have been out months ago (given how early the beta for it came out). | ||
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