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first match of the update and impressions.
1) the new ui is TOO SPREAD APART.... only good thing about it is the more scoring events happening at the same time, but even that is bad.
2) what size monitor are we supposed to play this on now? 10 inch diagonal? because in order to even look at the number of remaining gens takes me away from my focus, looking at the surivivors is more time and there is no information on how to even read it well.
3) survivor portraits are not colorblind friendly and are even worse than before.
4) number of hooks counter so far off screen to me i didn't even look at it once. (as killer)
5) Survivor animation, need to get used to it a bit, so no real response on this.
I play on a 32 inch monitor and this ui looks like it was designed for the switch's screen size! where you can take the whole screen in one glance, this is going to cause EYE strain for players that play on larger monitors and I do not foresee people continuing to play if it is going to affect their health or eyesight.
This UI change could have been accomplished by re-organizing the bottom portion of the screen and not increasing the survivor portrait to huge proportions. You do not need that clear of a portrait to know which survivor you are after. ALSO the fact that survivors get to see the individual hooks each one has done makes it easy for them to say nope not going to save that one because they are on death hook, i'd rather stay on this gen. killer does not have that information and as it alters the play of the survivors it could alter the play of the killers.
In short and TL;DR: UI changes are crap and cause eyestrain on larger monitors and is unequal in information given to all players.
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The UI doesn't meet the parameters of what I good UI is supposed to do. It's supposed to be congregated in the same location to be able to easily and quickly gather the information.
Old UI all you needed was a quick glance down to gather all your info.
New UI in order to get the same info you are having to look in 4 places...it's a mess. You're having to look all over the screen just for basic info.
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Aside from the UI being too spread out, I also hate that it says GENERATORS in big letters next to the symbol. Anyone who's played even 1 game of DBD knows what the symbol means. It's such a waste of space, it hurts my eyes.
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I'm with you on that 100%. i've played two games and i'm done for the day, the eye strain is real.
UPDATE: Had a dc (survivor) and the hook state ui said I got 3 hooks, and at the end it said I had 12. but i got a bronze in devout and had only 20 hook states (what ever the 20 means). the eye strain got to me and i had to shut down after TWO, count them TWO matches. I will never complete a tome with 2 games a day and if i strain my eye sight what am I supposed to do? send behavior the bill for new glasses?
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