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OFFICIAL PLEASE PUT THE UI BACK TO OLD VERSION PETITION
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Completely understand that. I honestly don't use DS or OoO but that would make a lot of people unhappy. Wish they could've announced it just like they did with OoO
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yeah, thanks
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from a design standpoint that just doesn't make sense.
How would there
1. not be a system backup?
2. be a way to just move the icons through their elements?
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You just need to use the magnifying glass for it, youll get used youll see...
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I like the update, you guys are complaining about everything and you have not tried it barely, thank goodness that they will not change anything if you dislike it so much quit the game.
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I can get animations but ui like keep the of layout if you are going to change it
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There are only two possible explanations.
- They dont understand what they are doing as a job.
- They are lying.
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Don't waste your time, as long as players keep buying skins and battlepasses the devs won't listen to you.
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You're so inconsiderate. Have you've been reading on all the posts that players have been making? No
Which is obvious. Some people are getting dizzy from looking around the whole screen to see information that worked well in the bottom left corner. Some are getting headaches (myself included) that basically make the game unplayable. They broke hit boxes (no surprise) and some hits are hitting when they shouldn't be. Point is make sure you're getting all your facts straight before coming here and stating "If YoU dOn'T LiKe It ThEn qUiT tHe GaMe" Everyone who is complaining about the game CARES about the game and want to enjoy it but if they can't of course they're going to complain.
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Funny.
Your nick means "joke" on my language.
Like the update :)
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Exactly so if they dont want communal uproar like this they should really announced big things like this about a month or half a month before implementation
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You forgot that this
1.Is Dead by Daylight
We can be happy that this game didn't accidentally deleted itself after the devs tried to fix the missing leaf on tree RG78 on macmillan estate D:
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Well then looks like it's time to start form scratch
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Yea 90% of console players get their ptb info from streamers like tru3 otz ect ect and I bet that pole they posted also included a majority or console players as well
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I watched Otz, Tru3, Monto, Puppers and OhTofu. I don't think I needed to personally try it because I could just see how terrible it was from their streams
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and.. now you will see , your killer xD something like motto for the last update? or do you have some other? Maybe: you can test our new movement with the hit, because you will get the hit for sure, we know xDDD stop joking, more seriously, ..hmm.. when the next update? xDDD
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The devs really need to revert the UI change. It's just so unnecessary.
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What is really weird is that anyone with any familiarity with gamedev or coding knows that the statement that they CANT go back is...
A complete boldfaced lie?
Its either a lie or BHVR is basically flirting with completely torpedoing their company if they ever commit a patch that has a bug they can't find that makes the game unplayable. You keep copies of old revisions, the idea of not doing that is actually crazy both because you might want to do a revert and because having the old patches is critical for bugfixing and troubleshooting.
They might not WANT to. They may really like the changes they made to the back end and want to keep working with those and would rather fix the current UI to be better than revert it. But they absolutely can go back.
And like... Scott pointed this out and I know I thought of it immediately: The actual visuals of the UI and where the stuff is located has nothing to do with the back end of the UI? Like you could, using the new backend, just recreate the old UI. UI design isn't some crazy thing where if you alter it it breaks the game, your literally just referencing assets that can be changed and telling the UI to put it somewhere.
I get it, UI changes are always radicially unpopular and spart outrage. This coulda been the best UI ever and it would still be a controversial issue because change bad. But it... looks so bad in an already bad situation to like... tell a really obvious lie about why it won't go back. I get Not Queen was in a bad position because the real answer is 'We want to see if this is actually people being change averse or actually is a bad UI so we were going to ignore you no matter what' (And, to be extremely fair, that is what you NEED to do with these changes. Again, there was a 0% chance this would not be a controversial change even if done well, you HAVE to ignore complaints about UI updates for the most part) but... cmon. Your not gambling your project on every patch being perfect and never needing to compare it to previous revisions to find the sources of errors, I refuse to believe it.
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and.. now you will see , your killer xD something like motto for the last update? or do you have some other? Maybe: you can test our new movement with the hit, because you will get the hit for sure, we know xDDD stop joking, more seriously, ..hmm.. when the next update? xDDD
unplayable - this is also bug, right LOL
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It's not even that bad? the only thing i would change is the placements and such, for streamers you can adjust but it is kinda overcrowded compared to the other. Even so you can rescale the new UI if you stream. It shows me whos who, the ticks for survivor hooks count. i like it!
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i don't like that one imo too similar, these new ones are pretty cool with the pictures!
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I literally made this account just to say a few words about the new UI / animations.
I don't really comprehend how could you make something so atrocious and anti-UX and say "we can't go back" afterwards. As a software enginner and UI/UX designer this is just painful for me. The UI is scattered all over the place, which is the rule nr. 1 on how to NOT make good UIs. The position of the UI is not the worst thing however, it's the UI itself. It's boring, doesn't match the game at all, and it's just objectively ugly. Player names are not even properly positioned, the "obsession" icon literally touches the text (who the hell thought that this is a good idea? do you guys have no people with OCD in your office?). Injured icon looks low-res and doesn't match the rest of the UI. Everything is super flashy, super "fancy", but it's completely unreadable, especially taking the UI placement into account. And gen counter? You really want me to look all the way up to the top of the screen to read how many generators are left? Who the hell designed this? I don't even want to think about people with colorblindness, these guys are probably not able to even play the game properly right now. (I stopped looking at the HUD alltogether, trying to enjoy the game without it)
Animations are a joke and that's all I have to say about them, especially running while injured - it looks like you are 90 years old and have a big stick up your ass.
No one asked for these changes, no one thought that the old UI is bad, or that the animations need an "upgrade". Literally no one.
You guys made a classic mistake of breaking the most important rule of software development - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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This. Why fix something that isn’t broken.
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This change to the HUD is really bad in a way that hurts me. It's scattered all over my screen in a way that does not feel conducive to providing information to a player quickly in a game that is time-sensitive. Sure some upgrades could have been made to the previous HUD, but there was a charm to its simplicity. I really don't Like this new HUD, please bring back the old one.
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Let's all stop playing the game for one day and see how much the total players decreases to
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Bhvr after seeing this poll
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Listen here devs, we don't like the new UI, we want the old one back. We like to look at the bottom left to see what's going on, I have a glass eye you know, and the new UI blends in, and I can't see what the hell is going on from generators to hooking and downs. Oh yeah and another thing, I don't like what you have done with undying, I liked to be informed when some little sneaky rascal is on my Hex totem, I like to think to myself when someone is cleansing my hex 'I see you my little munchkin, now be a darling and get of MY TOTEM' Smack, Smack, crack, crack, bang, bang, right on the hook.
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@not_Queen was really that difficult to ask? To show a prototype before work on something none asked for? Also what's the point of the ptb? Feedback was negative but nothing changed after one month, disappointed patch after patch.
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I want the old hud back too. It was pretty comfortable.
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Oh ######### you're right; God has spoken.
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There is literally nothing good I can say about it. I've been saying this since the first day we were shown it: It is objectively bad game design. The fact it made it through the concept phase is, frankly, unacceptable.
As a a side note: Everyone I've seen defending the new HUD has not come up with a good argument as to why it is good/why they like it, or they just insult everyone who has an issue with it.
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as many times was SAID, THE HUD WAS PERFECT! one of the few things THAT DIDNT NEED a change, the game has many flaws but 100% there was ONE THING that was working perfectly, for years, because it was a good invention, was well designed, PERFECT design, literal perfection... and that was THE HUD, no changes were needed, no chages were asked but they changed people hate it, is someone impressed? because im not, there are so many things taht need change and they change the one thing that didnt need a change.
im just asking WHY cant they take the feedback? it hurt them or something that we said we hate it?
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Devs are probably doing their best to avoid admitting a user did a better job than they did.
We'll have to wait who knows how long before they admit they messed up.
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No,the new UI is fine
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The player count leading up to and after the new update:
a few thousand people disagree apparently.
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that and hitboxes mess up aswell are helping, im gonna be honest with you this update the 3.5.0 has the actual potential to be the worst update ever released.
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I wish the other platforms had this. Be interesting to see console player before and after.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
it's almost like i predicted if it wasn't obvious already back when the UI was first shown in the livestream.
it's god awful and to no one's surprise the majority of players hate it
that's why you don't push these kind of things through devs show us something first ffs
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they will just say "players aren't used to new HUD yet".
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Seeing this actually makes me extremely sad. Not only does this look perfect, but it's such an obvious change to make. You add the new features, but retain the look of the old one.
But we all know they will never implement this. They won't even try to.
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the only thing it has over the old one is the portraits(which look awful) and hook counter
anyone not brain dead or new can easily keep track over those things
everything else about the UI is much worse then the old one
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Lol earlier i had the final two survivors on hooks and i was just standing around by one and did not even realize one of them got off the hook because I am not used to looking up at the new set up....dude just walked on in and grabbed the other dude....im like wait what just happened.
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What really irks me is the reason we were given "we plan on adding more info and we need space for that", more info on what? what more info we could possible need or they could possible add? the game is not THAT deep.
The only thing that comes to mind is a totem counter but that doesnt justify such HUD changes, they could put it near the gens in the old one and it doesnt explain the awful portraits and the tiny bars.
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Just adding my name to the list of people who hate the new UI.
It’s the most BHVR thing ever that they took one of the few parts of the game that was totally fine and nobody was complaining about, focused their resources into changing it for REASONS, turned it into a dumpster fire, asked people what they thought about it, were told by everyone that it was a dumpster fire, and then implemented the dumpster fire into the game anyway.
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Your idea that PC players are the supreme masters of Dead by Daylight, entitled to decide, at their own discretion, what is allowed to be released or not, while the right of the console players to try the new content is just an excuse, is intrinsecally awful: the PTB is intended to collect data about bugs and severely hurting unbalances, which would break the game if they were released in the live version, not more, not less. PC players' tastes about the patch changes are not a good reason to prevent all the other players from trying them and have their direct experience, and Youtube or Twitch streamers don't change the difference between seeing and playing something.
On the merits, I like very much the new HUD: it introduces some freshness to the layout, give us more options to change its size, and leave more space in the bottom side of the screen, which is the most important. I don't know what will happen in the future, but today the survivors and the stealth killers don't fly in the sky, but crouch on the ground to evade the killer or to ambush the unaware survivor, so a cleaner screen to check better and more quickly the bottom corners is absolutely reasonable.
In my humble opinion, the real reason behind this kind of riot against BHVR is that they removed the freedom to replace official icons with personal ones, which means they don't let you manipulate the game files, not even for aesthetical purposes. It's not hard to understand why they are not happy if you touch their files: there is a risk of cheating, and they can't check, one by one, all lines of programming on your PC, so they remove your temptation even to try.
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This looks dope!
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This new UI on console is absolute garbage, It takes way too much effort to SEARCH for information on the corner of a TV, where everything is as far off as it can. and it's bs that it can't be reversed, and if it is true, then I'm curious on how BHVR works as a company, as BACKUP IS MANDATORY for any tech company nowadays.
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“the real reason behind this kind of riot against BHVR is that they removed the freedom to replace official icons with personal ones”
absolute nonsense, there might be a small minority that dislike the new UI because they can’t mod it but it’s definitely not “the real reason”
most players have openly said they don’t like extra info splattered across multiple parts of the screen, that is the only reason I don’t like it.
Dead by daylight is supposed to have that spooky vibe going on, the old minimalistic style worked nicely especially for those who get immersed in the game.
The newly released one takes all of that away, besides the complaints were already made loud and clear before it made it into the current version, way before anyone would realize they couldn’t use personal icons.
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What is a toggle button?
Why does no one ever do this?
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