No shade, but are those getting eye strain from new UI survivor mains?

TheClownIsKing
TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278
edited February 2021 in Feedback and Suggestions

Serious question.

Because as someone that plays killer a lot the new UI isn’t causing me any issues.

Why?

As a killer my eyes already were darting around the entire screen all the time anyway looking for movement, scratch marks, and crow activity, especially out of a chase.

Like... to me this is something every killer should already be doing. So what’s also moving your eyes around to new HUD placements?

So I have to ask, seriously, are those experiencing problems players that never play killer?

edit: apologies. Seems many on both sides are experiencing issues. I need to be grateful that I’m lucky to not be having problems.

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  • Kolonite
    Kolonite Member Posts: 1,346

    I played a few hours of killer today and the new UI didn't bother me at all. It's not as if you need to constantly keep tabs on the gen's and your perks. Everything important is on the left side. Your power, hooks, and survivor health states.

  • AChaoticKiller
    AChaoticKiller Member Posts: 3,104

    I understand that logic but when looking over to the important things your focus is on that and since everything is everywhere your focus is less on finding survivors and on gathering information

    it's not by much but it's just bad anyway.

  • bm33
    bm33 Member Posts: 8,204

    This. I play both sides but today I only played few matches of survivor. I had to look away while doing interactions because if I tried focusing on skill checks/progress the stuff all over the screen is trying to pull my focus in multiple directions at once causing eye strain followed by headaches. If I decreased the size of the HUD it increased eye strain. I only played a few survivor matches before shutting the game off because a headache was forming from the eye strain, I didn't even bother trying to play killer.

    It's one thing to move your eyes around to check surroundings voluntarily, it's another when your eyes are being pulled involuntarily in multiple directions.

  • pseudechis
    pseudechis Member Posts: 3,904

    No I think I'd find it less distracting in 3rd person view but in first person having the still icons at both sides and above with the background rushing past game me motion sickness tonight.

    I prefer killer to survivor but I really couldn't focus in 1st person view with that UI it felt cluttered and made me nauseated after a few games. I tried to ignore it and push through thought I'd give it a good go and get used to it but now my eyes are strained and I just don't want to look at it anymore.

  • EvanSnowWolf
    EvanSnowWolf Member Posts: 1,583

    I have now played 3 games as a Killer and 5 games as a Survivor under the new UI.


    The only difference is I had to change my Discord overlay cause it was blocking the Survivor portraits.


    Other than that, I'm good.

  • gendoss
    gendoss Member Posts: 2,270

    lmao nobody is getting eye strain from the new UI. Every modern game out there has a UI like this. People don't play Call of Duty or League of Legends darting their eyes around the screen and get eye strain. I don't understand why people hate the UI so much and at this point people are just making stuff up. Either the community just doesn't play any other modern video game or they're just trying to find things to get mad at.

  • Rullisi
    Rullisi Member Posts: 392

    Actually when I think about it, it wasn't as bad as the killer yeah. I don't really keep track of gens or hooks. I just catch survivors and have fun with them but as a survivor, you constantly have to look up a little and the hook timers are bit difficult to see. It felt more easy on eyes to look down rather than up which opens eyes more.

    I guess that could be one reason. Still very minor difference though.

  • gendoss
    gendoss Member Posts: 2,270

    So anybody that experiences eye strain from a UI all the way around the screen can't play

    Call of Duty:

    League of Legends:

    World of Warcraft:

    Civ 5:

    I'm sorry for making such a long post with pictures but those are just examples from the many genres that use UIs like this. I would be hard pressed to find any modern game that doesn't have stuff in 2 different corners at least.

    It sucks that people that experience eye strain can't play these games but at that point they literally can't play 95% of all video games because dbd is one of the only games that had everything in one spot. No games do this anymore and the reason why is because it's useful. It was popular at one point in like 1996 with the original DOOM games but not in 2021. If a game wants to be even somewhat competitive they need a UI like this. Nobody plays Call of Duty or any other shooter you can name and goes: "WAIT.. I have to look in the bottom right in my screen to see my ammo count and then look in the top left to see my mini map?? NOOOO". That just doesn't happen. This was a good change and i'm just waiting for people to calm down about it and get used to it. it's modern game design.

  • Grimm120
    Grimm120 Member Posts: 60

    Oh my Lord someone who's not bashing on the complain train. Finally. I agree with a lot of what you said and it sucks for the people who get eye strain from the new UI but I mean with the examples you've given... You're right. Hopefully people calm down and actually attempt to get used to it before trying to burn down BHVR. Play it for a week. Don't like it? Then you can complain about it. Getting all worked up over something that hasn't been out for even a day yet is pointless.

  • Moofy
    Moofy Member Posts: 31

    Yep. I find it makes me a little motion sick and the white gen font at the top is hard to read on certain maps.

  • RocketPenguin
    RocketPenguin Member Posts: 374

    i mean for cod you only really need to look at the bottom part of the ui, for league its the same, and idk about civ/wow.

    DBD Ui has important info on both the top left and bottom right. With items and the gen count on the top and bottom left which are somewhat important to look at every so often. and then crap apears on the right side of the screen like exaustion which is very important and then theres just scoring events which can be distracting.

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  • Freki
    Freki Member Posts: 1,903

    I play both but I could not play more than 2 games as killer. I don't have to jerk my eyes around in how i look at the screen on the same 32 inch monitor i've used for years now. Literally the issue is this: to see status of survivors glance left, have to chcek the center screen, look around, then glance up for gens..... meanwhile the movement on the irght side with the scoring events pulls me so instead of one place for most of the information i'm being dragged away from what i'm actually doing and it hurt

  • RbLen
    RbLen Member Posts: 144

    Same, thought when playing survivor it was way worse than killer. I think I will check out Civilisation this month and the next.

  • HectorBrando
    HectorBrando Member Posts: 3,167

    Its not only about the position, its also about the size, the contrast with the background and the need to check that info regularly.

    First image the minimap is pretty big, unlike the icons of the Survivors, also the mission objective and the compass on top is not info you need to check several times, plus the map has a nice contrast being light gray against a black circle.

    The second is WoW which is know for being easily customizable with addons (most people do change the HUD to something else), also the bars are brightly colored and have a nice contrast against the background plus the info the portraits give is also available on the center of the screen (the damage you deal appearing as floating white/yellow text over the mob, the damage you receive appearing in floating red text over your character), the abilities at the bottom dont really need checking for once you memorize their hotkeys you dont even have to check them.

    The third is CIV, a game that can be paused to check wathever you need without a hassle also the circle on the top left corner is the research you are doing, a mechanic that takes several turns to complete, the icons on the top right corner are the menus, both displays dont need to be checked regularly.

    All these 3 examples arent valid because the problems are the new HUD in DBD is very small, fixed in a location, has very dark colors against a very dark background and is info you need to check several times in the lapse of a minute not once at the start of your turn.

  • ShamefulKing
    ShamefulKing Member Posts: 130

    Yep. The eye strain is real.

  • Grandpa_Crack_Pipe
    Grandpa_Crack_Pipe Member Posts: 3,306

    Look, the new UI doesn't give me motion sickness or eye strain or send me spasming and retching and somehow give me malaria like it apparently does for a lot of other people.


    It all just gets funneled into being pissed off.

  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,531

    while I don’t hate the new hud I liked the old one since I could look in the bottom left a get an idea of the current state of the game I’m in.

    It was just easier to see everything you needed to see. Blood points were also in close proximity to your icons so you could get an idea of where you were in terms of BP while still knowing what everyone was up to

    Also while I don’t get affected by motion sickness I have seen people get motion sickness from the sudden camera change when downed which is not good.

    People are overreacting but it isn’t really a good change

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    Playing both and it's a mess on both sides.

    The thing is now that your eyes flick more. As killer and survivor the main attention is on the central row of a 3x3 grid, occasionally flicking to either corner with the old HUD. with the new one you flick your eyes around to pretty much all sections of the grid (3 places for three different bit of info that were condensed in one sector before)

  • Another_LegionMain
    Another_LegionMain Member Posts: 399

    Killer main, I hate it.

  • gendoss
    gendoss Member Posts: 2,270
  • Freddo
    Freddo Member Posts: 139

    Doesn't give me eye strain but it's more annoying having to grow my third eye out just to play.