Work In Progress: New User Interface PDA

I'd like to see a few more key bindings, e.g. for "Feats" and other stuff you're checking on a regular base. Maybe replace Feats with Reknown (default shortcut: N). Aditionally, a consistent way keyboard-only use for stuff like hitting "Yes"/"No"/"OK" in prompts would be nice, as you currently have to press space bar to hit Yes while applying power/skill points, but items (collections etc) are consumed via ENTER. Cycling through respawn nodes without mouse in PvP has to be done by pressing UP, DOWN (x times, depening on the node you want to use) and then space bar to lock the selection, while ENTER would activate the chat.

I'm curious how ESC will behave in this new UI. Is it possible to close the whole menu instantly by pressing ESC or will you have to press it multiple times to get back into action?

Good.

The funny thing is that moderators banned me for 5 days and accused me of trolling because i expressed my opinion.

How rough is the UI that was demonstrated in the video? Is it basically just the rough layout that we are meant to get a feel for, or is this something like it's actually going to look? MS Windows is more attractive at this stage. One drawback that I perceive with cascading windows is that unless you can close the entire PDA with Esc, it's going to take longer to close each open window, unlike the current UI where only one interactive screen is up at one time and can be closed quickly. Accessing inventory and such on the fly, maybe in combat, means a quick into and out of UI is really crucial.

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Oh thank you guys, finally DCUO is stopping to waste screen space! I never thought I'd see the day.

Way less scrolling to do with this UI, which is something that most users hate (myself included).

My Questions:

1. The devs said in the video that the UI colors can be customized and went on to elaborate "you can go on and customize your UI color to whatever character you're playing". Does this mean that the color settings for the UI will not be saved for our entire account, but instead for each individual toon on that account? (The latter of which would make perfectly sense, and I am really hoping you'll say yes)
2. Will the resizing of the UI boxes be permanently saved or will the resize just be temporary and the next time we go to that menu we'll have to resize again? (Saving would make sense)
3. In the Inventory UI, I noticed that some of the style and some of the gear items were STACKED!!! Will we really get this? Being able to stack gear and styles? Will we maybe be even able to stack all kinds of items in the future? That'd be so awesome. While we're at changes to stacking: Will the max stack count be adjusted in some way?
4. Also inventory related: Can you please, please, please implement for pc users that we can hit shift and select multiple items at once? It has been a pain in the whateverbodypart to select every single item, go to "delete" and then confirm delete. And instead of being forced to mouseklick a delete button, could PC users please be able to initiate the delete action via the DELETE KEY on our keyboards? (and the confirm delete screen should still appear and still be confirmable via some key, as it is now) Please give PC users shortcuts and hotkeys for everything. Feats menu is long overdue for a hotkey.

While going further with the development, please keep in mind:

For EVERYTHING you do, please ,please think if it might make sense to apply an order, as the non existing order of things in the game is the worst possible nightmare for every German!

In the FEATS menu, of course the current order of feats makes sense. First the categories, then subcategories. Then feats sorted by tbd/done. However, the ones that you'll still have to do should get some kind of sorting that would make sense. That could be either alphabetical, by location in which the feat can be obtained, by amount of featpoints earned through that feat, etc. Maybe even allow us to choose one of these sortings, that'd be the best thing, because when someone asks me how a feat can be done I might prefer alphabetical order (especially when I did it a long time ago and can't even connect the feat to the location), while right after a new DLC came out, it would make more sense to have them sorted by location (or rather: instance)

COLLECTIONS/BRIEFINGS/INVESTIGATIONS: The current first order (gotham/metro/global) makes sense. However, after you clicked on gotham (just for example), there doesn't seem to be any order, while the only permanent order that would make sense here is alphabetical. Being able to choose from alphabetical or "last updated" order would make sense as well.

In the INVENTORY section, I think the style and color menu should NOT be in this section in my opinion. Color and Style would make way more sense in the character section. For detailed ideas see my pictures.











Hope anyone likes this and the devs take it to heart. Would be a shame if the work I put in this would have been for nothing. If people seem interested, I might make more visuals that explain how I would like the inventory in the other categories.

Hey Carp Im the person that likes to get my styles just right and the character/ toon appearance seems dead could you by any chance kinda give it some life like the old UI with a little movement and perhaps some better lighting. and maybe making it a wee bigger would be nice along with centering the Character display instead of placing it oddly to the side. That part of the UI is especially important to me and I don't want to see it become something I hate to look at. Thanks for your time and if you could reply that would be like icing on the cake.

This is nice, I wonder if you can display traits and journal together so you click the screen on the one you want to look at?

nah it don't work that way

I agree completely. This looks like a strictly functional UI with zero personality. Thus is something I would expect from a toll at my job, not from a game that's trying to look and feel fun. Also, it looks like something that good be in any second rate game or alpha-beta version of a game.
If I were a new player to the game, I'd see this and think they just decided not to put any effort into the menus.

Looks like a rough draft but seems good, but please change the font to something sexier. May help with it's blandness a bit!!

They're using the DCUO font. It's called Gotham.

Beautiful.

Whatever it's called needs some spice added to it, like an old english type style instead of just plain normal text hehehe

Will there be any changes to the mailbox UI?

I'd really like a tab which filters out the friends list when composing mail and allow me to efficiently mail things to my alts/bank toons.

My initial reaction is not exactly positive as it just looks bland, boring, and overall inconvinient. This could be because I'm used to the old UI, but I can still see this as being an inconvinience in some way. Like a few people already said, it takes away DCUO's uniquness and it is basically just an unattractive selection screen. I'm sorry, but this is just my opinion on it.

I like the extra in depth information, but I really still like our UI we have now. It be cool to just give our recent UI a makeover and some added extra information along with it.

I suggest that at the location on the video where you were showing us the ps4 controller, you should allow the text box to overlap the PDA menu or push the PDA menu up so we can still see the text box, it is important to players to watch whats going on in the community textbox if they were to look in their inventory but are trying to keep an eye on LFG at the same time.

Also I suggest leaving room in the UI program/coding for the possibility of adding different type of UI customization such as change letter font type or making the borders of the UI look simular to classic DCUO UI's techy borders or, allow other types like plant like border, electric like border, icy border, firey borders, etc to allow players to have the UI look like their character type

I would like to see more travel shortcuts. Take the Hall of Doom for example when traveling from wing to wing, you are in the power core area and you want to go to the next wing you either have to go to the Sabotage Chamber, The Pit or up into the broker areas. I would like to see short cut paths directly from section to section or at least teleporters something like in the safe houses with multiple choice destinations. Also I would like to find out why it takes so long to exit the safe houses while entering is much faster? I appreciate your initiating my suggestion about the sound alerting you when a on duty mission is ready .

I'd like to to see 4 things implemented.

1. A fourth color customization in style tab.

2. Better names and health/power bar info. (Such as being able to see numbers or percentages of player and other players' hp/pp)

3. In the style tab a window that lets us see which styles we have collected and which ones we haven't collected alike. This could be done more fluidly with a UI such as this.

4. BETTER PARTY/RAID FRAMES!!! - (The current party and raid frames are a disgrace! They hardly give you any information on anything other than "oh look that player has green hp and blue power bar. - What I'm saying is, make them look a bit more tidy and eye catching).

Thumbs up.