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How do you feel about the new UI changes?

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  • Caiman
    Caiman Member Posts: 2,573

    The only thing better is that the menus are smoother to scroll through on Switch.

    Everything else is worse. Navigation, appearance, it's all worse.

  • Madjura
    Madjura Member Posts: 2,442
    edited July 18

    Regarding being open to feedback: they definitely read it. "The players don't like the new UI." And then they celebrate and pop champagne because it's working as intended.

    Annoyed by the exclamation marks that show you there's new stuff in the store? Working as intended. Edit: This is being removed! https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762764/#Comment_3762764

    Annoyed by seeing new characters you don't own yet on top? Working as intended.

    It's supposed to be in your face and you are supposed to hate it because a lot of the annoyances can be fixed or mitigated by spending money or opening the store which encourages you to spend money.

    Hostile UI isn't new either: redeem code button in the store, battlepass popup on the side, battlepass forcing you to open it to get the items instead of just giving them automatically, thus forcing you to look at the paid tier, news popup for store updates. All of these could work differently or be placed somewhere else without any negative effect on the players.

    This isn't an unintentional misstep, it's deliberate and not new.

    Post edited by Madjura on
  • SkeletonDance
    SkeletonDance Member Posts: 295

    Can't get use to it. Feels so weird

  • Laluzi
    Laluzi Member Posts: 6,048

    Thank you for keeping us posted! That's really heartening to hear.

  • ArkInk
    ArkInk Member Posts: 653
    edited July 18

    I like some of the improvements but it feels like I'm controlling a mobile game with a stick. Since it was confirmed checks notes six minutes ago that there'll be more updates in upcoming patches, I hope that they improve the looks department and remove some of the more cluttered aspects of the UI.

  • WashYourHands
    WashYourHands Member Posts: 255

    The charm selection panel looks like it was added last minute lol. I liked having larger portraits. If you're gonna make it 4 per row, make your character smaller on the right?

  • fussy
    fussy Member Posts: 1,468
    edited July 18
  • Madjura
    Madjura Member Posts: 2,442

    The first step would have been to not make obviously bad changes.

    Rolling back bad changes is a great second step. If the positive changes outweigh the remaining bad ones then at least it can be a net neutral.

    Rolling back all bad changes would be an even better step.

    Arguably the most important step is to then learn from the mistakes and to not repeat them.

  • HearinStormborn
    HearinStormborn Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 1

    The customization menu is a mess. It's really weird that they took away the ability to change stuff mid lobby. On top of that, all icons seem to be smaller in-game for some reason, including survivor names which occasionally helped when two people had the same character. Why change the things that work okay and make them bad but leave other problematic things in the game (like tombstone myers) that the community has been screaming about for the past however many years? Also the endgame lobby is also a lot harder to see now as well…