Character menu UI Constructive Feedback with visual aids

A lot has been said about the new changes to the UI. I have read from Mandy that apparently the biggest reason for these changes were technical limitations and that the old system had to go. In light of that I don't think were going to see the changes get reverted like most people are asking.

While in my opinion it must surely be possible to re-skin the new system to just look like the old one - and I don't quite understand why thats not possible - if it really isnt possible, then I wanted to give some very clear and concise feedback on the worst issues with the new system. Alongside some very rough ideas I had to help brainstorm what a better version might look like.

Point 1: Character sorting

Characters have been sorted by release date for years, most people want it to stay that way. By default the newest character is at the top, and the following ones are sorted by release date. This shouldnt be the case, but what makes it worse is that when you choose how you want to sort the characters, your choice is not remembered, and you will have to change the sorting again each time you open the list. At the very least there should be persistence to what you chose.

Point 2: Needless icons

We don't need "!" and checkmark icons on every character portrait. The white corners are enough to tell us what character we have selected, if the fact that the character is stood on the right and it's name is displayed above at the top of the screen wasnt already enough. I'm not sure what the point of the "!" above the portraits is for, it's not intuitive at all, or explained anywhere in the menu, but I can make a big brained assumption that its to signify new cosmetics.. we don't need this displayed on each character. A better solution would be to display the "!" above the button that takes you to the store, whenever a character that has new cosmetics available is fully selected, or just not at all.

^^ None of the highlighted icons are necessary.

Point 3: Changing cosmetics

The most important problem about how cosmetics are now changed is how hard it is to find the items you currently have equipped. Before we could see the headpiece, chestpiece or body and third piece we had equipped next to eachother. Now, we can only see one at a time, and if there are enough options for one slot, you cant even easily see where they are. Similarly, changing charms is now much harder, before it was easy to build up muscle memory as to where they are but now even when you click one in the tiny menu we now have, the list does not move to where the charm you just clicked is.

^^ List does not scroll to where the charm is that I just clicked. (Unintuitive)

Secondly, the spaces that were used to put icons could have been more efficiently used. Heres some very rough ideas; the screenshots speak for themselves.

^^ Green arrows, again, are not neccessary, a number, of a tally, would be more useful

Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the space used to show the currently equipped charms covers the search bar! Very silly, and unintuitive. The placement of this menu looks like an afterthought also.

^^ Covering the search bar

Point 4: Character information

The placement of certain information doesn't make sense to me. For example, a character's perks and power if its a killer are hidden behind a button, on a screen where other characters are displayed alongside them, but they're nowhere to be found on the loudout menu for that character, or the bio of that character. Please see the images below.

^^ And this also does not need to be on this menu, the "All killers" menu.

^^ Here is a slightly redesigned version of the "Bio" screen. A characters perks and power, if they have one, should always be in the bio, that is where it makes the most sense for them to be, and to be described. I would also like to see the return of the two buttons that let you cycle through the characters while remaining on the Bio screen, so you can quickly go through them, read their power, perks and other info all in one place.

^^ Here is the redesign explained. I don't think its necessary to have the "show mori" button on this screen. It looks out of place, and the space could be used more efficiently to explain what the Speed, Terror Radius and Height icons mean without requiring the player to "mouse over" them for a tooltip.

Additionally, the headers for bio, customisations and character selection could be placed better, to use the space more efficiently and include more important info like a character's perks and power, without using a section behind a button.

A couple of rough ideas below, notice the addition of a characters perks below their name, and icons for characters, cosmetics and bio below that:

What I have shown above is what should happen when you click the "bio" button.

Point 5: Smaller criticisms and QoL changes requests

Killers powers, when they have enough information, do not display correctly on screen. They should scale better than this and theres no reason they cant be wider and easier to read.

There are now no icons to show where a killers perks and power and addons are going to appear, though hidden. Now, unlike before, there is just a blank image, it looks showhorned in and unfinished, and is objectively less informative and polished than what we had before.

Player banners are misaligned with the seperation lines in the scoreboard screen:

Changing the order of these buttons to this would make more sense to me, as the tutorial would be used less than the "custom game" option so it should be at the bottom.

Rift covering the post-game chat:

Please, if anyone thinks something glaringly important has been missed, let me know so we can discuss it and perhaps post some ideas in this thread.😎