Let's Talk HUD and UI

  • Callum5771
    Ship Mate
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    Hey all, I absolutely love this game, but I hope other people agree with me when I say that some of the UI and HUD features absolutely.. well.. let's just say they could be vastly improved.

    The feedback I give below is firm, but I hope the developers, community team or whoever else reading this can see this comes from my deep love of this game! At the same time, I think Rare will only make this a priority if other people feel the same, so please, get involved! What would you like to see on the HUD (things and menus that pop-up on the screen), do you have any ideas on how the points below could be improved? Do you have an issue that I haven't mentioned below? Let's get this talked about.

    Here are the key things that wind me up:

    • No Clear Tracking Of Commendation Progress - why do we have to go through what feels like half a million menus just to see if the game tracked progress towards a commendation we're trying to get - if it can say 'Skeleton Ship Skuttled - Added To Log' why can't it show me if I made progress towards a commendation? It's things like this that keep the game alive for veteran players and it makes the little events we already have MUCH more satisfying with a change like this. This really could improve the gameplay repeatability WILDLY for older, veteran players - I'd LOVE to know I'm still making progress to unlock new stuff!

    • Ship & Pirate Milestone Notifications - why do we get half a million pop-ups when we could literally get one popup saying that we reached the most recent (highest) milestone we unlocked. For example, when unlocking milestone 238 for something, just say I got that milestone. But no, instead if you went from 230 for example, you'd get 8 different popups. For some reason we get the option to disable these popups entirely, which ruins the purpose of this feature for me, it's like it's known it's a problem, but instead of sorting it - we just get a disable button.

    • Starting a Session - why do we have to press what feels like a lot of buttons to sail for a guild (as I would assume most veteran players are doing) I feel like I've developed muscle memory for the 6/7 clicks it takes me to start a session, which is far from ideal. Not my biggest concern given the two points above, but just something that could be improved.

    Thanks for reading all & have a great time on the seas!

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  • BurnBacon
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    You worry so much over all these things.
    Frankly it always better to just play and be more amazed or shocked when an achievement unlocks when you do something.

    Monitoring yourself would be unhealthy. But I guess if you need motivation.

  • SolarBAM404
    Marauder
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    @burnbacon I don't think monitoring commendations are particularly unhealthy. For some people, it's about the sense of accomplishing something; for others, it's about getting close to unlocking the cosmetic they want.
    I find the commendations to be a significant motivational strength for me (and mainly the only way my friend gets me to play the game with them at times :D), as it feels like I'm accomplishing something extraordinary. I would like to see, even just like an option to have a small event list at the side of my screen that goes "hey look, you progressed this far in a commendation".

    My main thing, though, is that I find the pop-ups at the bottom of the screen when you sell to be very annoying. More often than not, I'm selling multiple items at once (often over 30 items), and those pop-ups can feel like they are going on for a while. So, I would rather see an option in the menus to have an event list on the side, indicating which items have sold, which emissaries have had their rep increased, etc., so I don't have to see the pop-up all the time.

  • PotatoSord
    Marauder
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    @callum5771
    1.) A commendation tracker would be so nice. Maybe even add a page to the inv/rep menu that has the comms you wanna track.

    2.) I honestly think it's just worth disabling them outright, which you can do in the settings.

    3.) This I think is the least necessary concern. It feels like you can't really make this take less clicks without revamping the menu system

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