Let's Talk About the UI

[ribena]

The UI in this game is, to be blunt, horrible. Both fonts (serif and sans serif) are ugly and are too big. The icons aren't easy to understand; I think they look too complicated. In the earlier releases of this game, it was easy to see at a glance what you were looking at. Now, however, it just looks messy and cluttered. The 3D models used look cheap and low quality.

Despite putting the UI/HUD scale down to minimum, the box for the tooltips is way too large. This is even with minimal tooltips enabled. If you scale the HUD down to minimum, you can't see icons properly because they look like garbage. If you scale up the HUD to maximum (or anything above 75% really), it dwarfs everything on the screen.

The game itself plays great, and the terrain, units and buildings look so good now. It's such a shame that the only thing that's wrong with this release is the UI. It's downright ugly, and everything else is beautiful.

I sincerely hope changes can be made, as it's putting me off the game.

[Kinvadren]

There is a tool tips size option in the Interface settings that only effects the text size of tooltips. The default text was very big but adjusting that down made it a lot better. It only effects tooltips, not the whole GUI.

[von Clausewitz Style]

Have they fixed Multiplayer and the Performance Problems yet ?

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by von Clausewitz Style:

Have they fixed Multiplayer and the Performance Problems yet ?

-Please do not derail other community member threads. This is your last warning.

[von Clausewitz Style]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

Originally posted by von Clausewitz Style:

Have they fixed Multiplayer and the Performance Problems yet ?

-Please do not derail other community member threads. This is your last warning.

Why you keep closing Posts from people who have problem with game performance ?

[Kinvadren]

And I agree that some icons are too small. Icons of selected units or of units or research being produced in a building are especially bad/small.

[Karl Perkins]

It's a mess. Some icons are too small, some text is too big, some text is too small. Icons, UI panels, UI text, tooltip text and subtitle text should all have their own slider for smaller-bigger size, right now I found no size where everything is ok without something else being too small or too big. UI panels is the biggest offender for me. To make text and icons clearly readable I have to play with the panels covering half the screen.

[Sir Phantom]

Originally posted by Karl Perkins:

It's a mess. Some icons are too small, some text is too big, some text is too small. Icons, UI panels, UI text, tooltip text and subtitle text should all have their own slider for smaller-bigger size, right now I found no size where everything is ok without something else being too small or too big. UI panels is the biggest offender for me. To make text and icons clearly readable I have to play with the panels covering half the screen.

Same problem with me. Too small icons compared to those of AoE II. Please fix this issue for the sake of some short sighted players.

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Yeah, the UI is horrible compared to AOE 1 DE.... I hate those black tooltips, they look ugly as hell against those good looking graphics... The UI in AOE1 was perfect...