Do we need UI changes?Follow

I wanted to say that I think the way the UI has been done in XIV is brilliant, with almost everything drag and droppable into the hot bar.

It's good enough that right now I don't feel the need to add anything else to the game screen. In FFXI, we turned to gray area third party programs to augment our UI, since it was lacking some basic information (primarily due to a lack of screen real estate on PS2.)

But I'm just me, and others have different opinions.

What, if anything, do you think could be added or removed from the UI to improve it? (Besides the RMT spam in the chat logs.)

The PS3/PS4 needs to be allowed access to the Windows UI components. I'd love to have a customized action bar on the side similar to how you can have on the PC. I could stick the Teleport, Mount/Dismount, and Return there to free up space on my bars.

I'd love to see actual integrated damage logging, first party. I mean, it's not like SE is unaware that it goes on. Might as well add it as an optional install for your client as well. Hell, you might even get cleaner data this way.

Quest tracking needs to be fixed. It's still not selectable which quests you can track and which you can't. I miss that from the beta, that was a royal snafu.

PS3/4 needs better chat handling too. But that goes back to allowing access to the Windows UI options.

I've mentioned it on Zam before, but I'd really like to be able add a regular hotbar when in controller mode, even if i need to use the mouse to utilize it.

The hotbar concept is awesome, but the space is limited, and as an ACN/SMN/SCH, I need quick access to my pet commands. I know I can switch between hotbar sets, but in the heat of battle, I very often end up on the wrong set without realizing it.

I'm on PC, and would love to know how she was able to do that.

If they keep true to their word about letting the user base creating addons for the game, I would look forward to a total revamp of the UI among other things that's if you want that. I look forward until they give the green light for people to make them as I will be one of them.

I will check tonight and post it, if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Offhand, I think she said she went into the UI customization (where you can move around windows) and there was an option to add additional bars. But again this was from me talking to her about the game for about 5 minutes.

edit: There ya go!

I knew she mentioned the UI section to get it positioned at least.

Edited, Oct 3rd 2013 11:05am by Pawkeshup

CatWho I'm thinking you're on PC?

Wait wait... Are we saying that on the PS3 you CAN have the strait hot bar like on the PC?

If you can, Ill be doing that tonight. If you can't, why the hell now? I was PS2 player on for FFXI and all you had to do was hold a shoulder button and it brought up the macro menu, then you quickly left or right to the icon you wanted to use. Hold down Left Trigger, use D-Pad to scroll, "X" to trigger. That's not hard and you can even add: Hold Left and Right trigger for a third hot bar.

Its the PS3, they should be able to do that if they haven't. Did they? I want it!

Unfortunately, no. All the information I've seen says that you can't use the PC style control scheme on PS3.

I don't really see why, either. I fully expected to be able to be able to use the FFXI control scheme you mentioned when I tried the game on my PS3. I doubt it's due to hardware limitations, seems more like a design decision made by the devs.


Edited, Oct 3rd 2013 2:44pm by Pickins

The one thing I'd love to see for the Controller/XHotbars:

Add a third grouping per XHotbar activated by holding down both triggers. If they did this, I'd never have to swap XHotbars mid-battle again.

For the maps:

Allow us to select the text size for labels. I'm so tired of trying to zoom into a map to see the names of areas, only to remember that they never change size...

Oh, and I support the Quest Tracker change back to beta, let us select which quests to display already!

FFXI controller scheme sucked due to scrolling. This game is paced too fast for that option. This UI exceeds the controller UI in every way when compared to XI.
-Less scrolling/steps selecting from 16 skills
-View-able cooldowns
-Autofill actions
-Cleaner UI

My problem isn't with the UI as much as UI latency. I don't really like the combat system on the whole.
-No on the fly team synergy mechanics requiring synchronicity bewteen players, no skill chains.
- Limit breaks are just two hours non innate to a specific class,that you need permission from the group to use.
-The position based bonuses aren't too noticeable and feel less weighty as they did for Thief in XI.
-Limited amount of skills per class 1-35 make combat feel very monotonous.


Anyways I feel this game has surpassed XI in more areas than it loses. But combat, grouping freedom options, weaker monster characteristics(excluding bosses, some ARR bosses are well done), make the game feel very small when compared next to it's old brother and I'm not talking about zone size.

You didn't need to scroll in FFXI. I did it because I have fairly good reflexes still, and could go pretty damn fast. However ALT/CTRL+# could instantly access any macro, and back in the day I had one of these bad boys:



You could easily switch to whack your macros, then place your hand back. It was pretty sweet. Then I got my hands wrapped around a controller and moved away from that into just flicking my thumb like a madman.

So handy. I have one for chat of all kinds, one for what I am doing including EXP gain and loot, and one for what the enemy is doing (which includes system error messages). So I can glance to see what I need to see. Those error msgs are hell if you are using battle macros. But if you turn them off you won't know what is going wrong. So stick them in the most unimportant chat box.

You just click and drag the tabs to another part of the screen.

PS3 could really use this feature. Too much important info is going on in the chat box and it scrolls too fast.


Edited, Oct 3rd 2013 2:26pm by Gnu