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• Just to give some background info about me, I’m a console player on PS4 and have no vision issues etc.

  
  

  UI and HUD

  I do like it in the sense that it feels more modernised and updated. But it has many issues. The obvious one is layout- it was great with the way it was before. Neat, concise and you can get all the information you need in one glance. With this new layout, it’s made it much more harder as the information is all over the screen.

  Second biggest issue for me, is the scale of some of the different elements. To me, the perk icons and the power/item (and addons) icons feel way too big in comparison to the other elements. The hook timer and name, as well as the text for the points you gained in the top right as well as status effects such as (borrowed time, exposed etc) is very small. I appreciate the ability to adjust the UI scale in the settings, but the problem is that editing it to be smaller/bigger makes everything smaller/bigger. Why is this a problem? With the different elements being all different sizes, you can make, for example, the perk icons smaller at the expense of all the other elements being even smaller. You should either fix the different sizes to be at a suitable size (such as in the old UI) or allow us to individually change the different elements.

  I have also found certain icons hard to distinguish too, such as the timer for your exhaustion. The time remaining is a lighter red, while the rest of the circle around the exhaustion icon is a slightly darker red. Again, I don’t have any form of colour blindness but even I find it a little difficult to look at, as the two different shades of reds just blend together until I really focus and take time to look at it.

  There’s certain unnecessary information that just takes up more space on the screen, such as the different information for survivors and killers where the generator counter is. For the majority of the people, they don’t need to be told to ‘find the hatch’ for example. It should just be shortened and made cleaner as it’s just taking up room.

  
  

  ANIMATIONS

  I personally prefer it over the old animations. I like that survivors aren’t slouched over anymore, I like that they don’t just have their arms sticking out. It makes sense and feels more natural and realistic to some degree. The problem is that it makes them feel too much like a statue. One you stop moving, There’s nothing natural about them standing still. They don’t start to slouch, lean more on one leg, cross their arms, literally anything that is just natural to do. Before they used to turn their heads and look around if you didn’t move the camera, but I’m pretty sure they don’t do that anymore. So yeah, for me I think the issue lies more with when you become stationary, but I think when you’re actually moving, it’s pretty nice.

  I also wish I could walk with a straight back rather than slouching over, it’s more natural and the fact that you go from a straight back when stationary to slouching when moving exaggerates it. Not a huge fan of that.

  and the injured run... I really don’t like it, looks quite silly in my opinion!

  Turning now feels very weird. Especially if you’re downed on the floor. It’s like you’re pivoting around a specific central point which feels odd to me, at least it didn’t feel like that before the update.

  EDIT: I assume this is a bug or something, but when getting hooked, your camera goes down instead of up towards your face/body for a brief second, as if you’re being downed again (Going from the normal POV to the dropped POV when downed). It’s nothing major, but it does get very irritating after a while.

  EDIT 2: Survivor icons and injured icons are very hard to differentiate. They are really unclear and not nice to look at. It also gets confusing when you’re playing a character and the cosmetics you use are completely different to the default icon that are used. For example, I had a Cheryl teammate but they were using the schoolgirl outfit (Alessa Gillespie or something along those lines) and it was quite hard to tell initially who they were in the top left. If it could be updated to change with your cosmetics then that would be great. I know that games like Ror Honor has this feature in loading screens and leaderboard/scoreboards.

  It also seems less obvious when you have certain effects active, such as Borrowed Time after your unhooked, the little icon and notification that pops up isn’t as obvious as before.

  in Feedback for UI & Animation Comment by Beauchamp February 10, 2021