Matt Higby recently posted a picture of the new Loadout Screen, that is currently in development, on his twitter page and I was wondering what everyone else thinks about it or if you have any suggestions to make it more functional and informative. Personally, I am glad to see more information about the weapons without having to consult a spreadsheet at any given time and I think this will be invaluable when comparing. Now I would also like to see weapon stats update when equipping different attachments so that you can see exactly how each attachment effects overall performance. I am interested in what everyone else thinks of the new Loadout Screen.
It's kind of hard to form any kind of useful opinion of the new load out screen from one screen shot. It looks pretty, but that said I'm more interested in the function than the looks of the load out screen. Will I be able to save weapon profiles?
I understand that you can only do so much from a single screenshot but I think it is still a good opportunity to discuss what kind of functionality you would like improved over our current system. Now this doesn't have to be limited to the weapon section itself, for example I would also like to see more information when looking at the classes. It would be nice to see how each level of nano-weave changes effective health or how an advanced shield capacitor effects the shield cooldown.
Well I agree there is alot they can do informational wise. For instance, for the longest time I had no idea what exactly the Infiltrator's EMP Grenade did, but I wasn't willing to waste certs on it to find out. It wasn't until they released the VR Training room where I could actually see the grenade's useful description, as to what it's purpose was. So yeah, a lot more information on every thing is what I would want in addition to the per weapon load outs. The one thing I could see from the screen shot that was nice is that it looks like they are getting rid of the vague "bars" to describe weapon performance and replacing them with useful stats found in the spreadsheets. I'd really like to see how far they go with that, as I realize that they really don't want to give every stat as that would be information overload for most players.
There might be a bit of reluctance to show how some weapons are either complete trash or not that different from some others too, at least that's how I saw it up until I saw that screenshot. I like having lots of stats to compare... but I also like the Armored Core series which has 10 to 30 different statistics for each part out of hundreds of parts. I welcome this change.
I tried it out and personally, I think it's way too busy. It doesn't really add anything new that's good, just a bunch of advertisements about what you don't have. Also it's a really big problem in the Camo section because you only have 1-3 camos and there are 50 more being advertised.
The part about the camo being even worse concerns me. I'm hoping for an easier time with the camo, not worse. I use my three load outs for different scenarios, like, CQC, long range for my medic, G2G or G2A for my Heavy and such. Resetting the camo options for 3 loadout when I switch continents is never any fun, if it gets worse that would be rough. Hopefully they'll come out with a system to more easily apply camp as the loadout screen continues to develop.
I would really love if they give you the ability to specify a camo type for each continent and have it auto switch for you. By all means not a top priority but it is a little fluff that would make me happy.
