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Register Time: 18 Nov 2012, 19:26 PM
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Thread: Map Review #1 - Pripyat9 Jun 2013, 13:24 PM Use my review as a debate starter, what do you think of this map? Do you agree with the points I made, if not why?! edit: of course there's no fixed positions in CoH2 yet, just ingore that bit In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 23:16 PM To TychoCelchuuu: Hahahahaha nice one! Someone should get Quinn Duffy on the line quick! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 21:15 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jun 2013, 19:57 PMRelic_RWestwood Great video! Thank you for putting this together. Two things you missed: 1) The task-bar (big space with unit text displayed) is meant to be an isolated /clean place for you to view all unit icons in a multi-selection. 2) The Global Unit Control in the top right of the HUD can be hidden using the arrow to the left of each icon row You totally nailed the horizontal resource layout. Great work Rob (UI lead) Thanks Rob, good to know I was along the right lines. Yeah I thought about the multi selection in the bottom tab after I made it, haha! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 14:17 PM Ta-da! There you go everyone, a forum debate over a game that ended amicably! Thank you.. thank you... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 14:08 PM "i MIGHT be an exception, but honestly, i'm not that good" You're the worst example to use ever! You bloody dredge through the stats files and analyse it! Dear God.... "ever thought about the coh1 resource layout and having the info pop up to the right of that? the so called bridge" Yes that would be even better! But as it is, it's still better. "my problem with coh2 is that relic never really bothered to check/ask what the more experienced players would have liked to see" Tbh I'm glad they didn't take stock in experience of 'pro players', after reading most of the forum comments. I think you'd get just as much insight and worthwhile opinion from asking the YouTube comments section of a Krebs video! (Not really). Ideally though yeah, the resources could have kept the vertical layout and still incorporated the cool functionality of the hover over allignment. That would have been best. As it is though, I still think it's an overall net positive effect. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 13:42 PM I'm going to have to massively disagree with your exaggerations there dude. It takes way, way, way longer than a few games to memorise that kind of information, even then patches come and go and the information changes. Plus there's countless units in the game. There's only a hardcore minority of die hards that are going to have all those figures memorised a few weeks after release, and to them the argument of horizontal vs. vertical is negated anyway. As they've played so much their eyes are used to the locations of the numbers. Well over 90% of players are casual once a week players, to them the unit cost being exactly next to the resources is extremely intuitive. It's bad design to have them on the other side of the screen. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 13:16 PM "the only "contestable" fact is whether it is easier to read the resources from left to right or from top to bottom, and i find it very easy to prove that reading them from left to right is a lot harder:" Haha! you're wrong Crawler, you never need to read all four resources at once, they're largely independent of each other. You need to reference one at a time at very specific points in a game. Not sit back and think... hmmm it's time to take stock of all four resources and compare them to each other! No! - you think hmm do I have enough munitions..? yes. Later. Do I have enough fuel... no. So your argument doesn't hold up. The main point I make in that video is that they've made it better overall, because the tool tip info now lines up perfectly with the resources so you can see how much you need for what, and if you've got it. So all the information is in one area. This is great for new players but also as experienced players we can still see at a glance how much of a specific resource we have. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 10:44 AM I'd argue that's more about what your eyes are accustomed to. The focus will come eventually. It's no more intuitive to not float in CoH1 vs. CoH2, after 1000 game hours I can attest to that! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 09:38 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Jun 2013, 09:37 AMAmiPolizeiFunk Why not embed it? Good idea! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UI Breakdown and Comparison5 Jun 2013, 09:31 AM Created a video that compares the UI from CoH1 to CoH2, and alpha to beta. Hopefully it creates some discussion. My opinion has become a lot more positive compared to Alpha - here's the video I did in January. I'll be creating a lot more smaller videos such as this one for Company of Heroes 2, analysis, strategies and hilights. Subscribe to see more. Album of stills used In: COH2 Gameplay