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The Saltening

The Saltening

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I was excited until I wasn't. The old UI felt lore accurate in a sense. From the moment you opened the game everything had this amazing artistic style to it. It felt cohesive and put together as one universe. This new UI is the definition of corpo slop. It is just as cluttered if not more cluttered than before. The artistic styling of the old UI is completely gone and replaced with the most generic possible cookie cutter streaming service tile based UI on this planet.

This new UI completely breaks my immersion every time I am booted back to the main menu. The old UI made me feel like I was in the universe. Full immersion. This new UI legitimately makes me feel like I am just a dude playing this video game on a shittier version of hulu.

Every single FUCKING action in this new UI REQUIRES at minimum 1 extra click per action with multiple actions taking up to 6 EXTRA CLICKS per action. Not to mention the first screen you see after booting up the game shows you not 1, not 2, not 3, not even 7... BUT EIGHT DIFFERENT MENTIONS OF THE BATTLE FUCKING PASS. The entire point of a new UI was to clean it up. They not only made it less clean and less easy to use, they made it worse in every aspect while also removing all soul they possibly could.

This was one of the single most unique and interesting games I had ever played. I gave them my money in support of a product I thoroughly enjoyed and sunk well over 1000 hours into. Now I get given this fucking bullshit.

The shock I experience going from in-game to the main menu is insane. I felt like I was in an experience before suddenly being ripped back into reality as I stare down the artless, styleless, soulless, corporate slop main menu. I used to boot up the game and from the moment the main menu loaded I was in the world of Hunt: Showdown. Not anymore. It is fucking over. The main menu is a chore to navigate, has no character, no spirit, nothing. From the moment I boot up the game I feel like I am staring the barrel of a corpo faggot gangster demanding more of my money.

I remember when this game was making money hand over fist because people like me loved it and supported it. They didn't need to push sales. People willingly gave them money for a product they loved. DLC, Blood Bonds, etc. Now it is all they fucking care about. Fucking nigger corpo faggots ruining another great IP while trying to milk it for every last fucking cotton picking cent they can.

The new engine is good. In-game looks and feels good. Sound is amazing. But holy fuck the UI might actually one of the worst things to ever happen. It is so bad I do not even want to play it.

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St.Davis said:
The new UI is honestly pretty horrific, though the game does seem to be good.
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Yeah that's where I'm at. I don't like the UI. It's worse than the old UI, which was already bad, which makes the new one a horrific clownshow, but that only applies to the lobby and menus, not the actual in raid gameplay.

That being said, I'm very pleased with the changes to the hunter roster and equipment selection. I also like the new map, it adds a lot of variety.
 
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Yeah that's where I'm at. I don't like the UI. It's worse than the old UI, which was already bad, which makes the new one a horrific clownshow, but that only applies to the lobby and menus, not the actual in raid gameplay.

That being said, I'm very pleased with the changes to the hunter roster and equipment selection. I also like the new map, it adds a lot of variety.
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I used to be able to spam buy the stuff I wanted for equipment. Now every time I buy a tool or consumable it boots me back a screen requiring 2x the clicks it used to. It is annoying. I never understood why people hated the old UI. It was not that bad. I never had a problem with it. Same with the lowered crosshair and the original lowered gun state. Pussies can't handle that a game is not 99% similar to every other game. If you run gunslinger you a straight up faggot
 
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I can't find anyone elsewhere (even on Youtube) who can apparently be bothered to show an actual comparison, but I did find a video straight from the developer highlighting the brain rot that led to their decisions on these changes. It's a doozy!


TL;DR: Ripping out features from the game (not just the UI), dumbing it down for consoles, more microtransactions.
 
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moocow said:
I can't find anyone elsewhere (even on Youtube) who can apparently be bothered to show an actual comparison, but I did find a video straight from the developer highlighting the brain rot that led to their decisions on these changes. It's a doozy!


TL;DR: Ripping out features from the game (not just the UI), dumbing it down for consoles, more microtransactions.
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I found this but I don't really know what I'm looking at. The only thing I'm taking away from this is that the new UI has far less information shown. The old one didn't look very good either imo but there's something to be said for familiarity and if that's what people have been use to for years, changing it now seems like a slap in the face.
@The Saltening is this an accurate and appropriate comparison?
 
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I found this but I don't really know what I'm looking at. The only thing I'm taking away from this is that the new UI has far less information shown. The old one didn't look very good either imo but there's something to be said for familiarity and if that's what people have been use to for years, changing it now seems like a slap in the face.
@The Saltening is this an accurate and appropriate comparison?
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Yeah I would say so. You get to see both UIs. 2x the menus, 10x the clicks, 0% the charm. The old one was not perfect, but it beats the pants off this new one. 99% of players are on PC and yet they do this shit because console.

The old UI people said was cluttered and confusing, but this new one is so much worse and also feels soulless and generic/less visually pleasing at the same time. Truly magical what corpo money chasing faggotry does to a nigga
 
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The Saltening said:
Yeah I would say so. You get to see both UIs. 2x the menus, 10x the clicks, 0% the charm. The old one was not perfect, but it beats the pants off this new one. 99% of players are on PC and yet they do this shit because console.

The old UI people said was cluttered and confusing, but this new one is so much worse and also feels soulless and generic/less visually pleasing at the same time. Truly magical what corpo money chasing faggotry does to a nigga
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I'm assuming this corresponded with the addition of the "1896" tagline. Is there a big push on consoles? I wasn't aware the game was even available on consoles. Are they also pushing cross platform play?
I can empathize. I'm a vermintide player and a while back, fatshart pushed the console UI on everyone, although they did leave the old UI accessible, just no longer officially supported.
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Pretty much none of the UI mods work with the new one.
 
The old UI and new UI are like two different eras of shitty, soulless menu design. The old UI was just the soulless Skyrim black box menu with fog effects. The new one is just the soulless COD store GIANT RECTANGLES with bits of dead by daylight. Truly fascinating.

They are correct in that the old menu was getting too bloated. Half the shit didn't do anything and the other half was hidden away in endless scrolling. I'll have to play with the new one but I'm sure nothing much will be improved. The hunter store looks like a fucking mess, just tons of random hunters with tiny icons that you have to scroll through individually. The perk menu does look better though, the old had needlessly massive rectangles that took up the whole screen with only a tiny line of text actually explaining what it does (with some random fucking symbols next to it sometimes)

The stuff I'm really gonna miss is the actual content. Why the fuck are they removing the monstrum and lore sections? That's the only reason I bother killing shit half the time. And they're getting rid of trials because of overhead and "it was a major factor in people quitting the game"? What overhead? You havent made new trials in years. And who the fuck is getting filtered by PVE trials?
 
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Fuck this
Worst UI I have ever seen


Edit: This really is absolutely awful. I play Hunt fairly regularly, not a ton but often enough. This is trash, so bad I'd consider uninstalling it outright until they fix it. It's not that it's ugly. It is, but I always thought Hunt Showdown's aesthetic was goth tryhard anyways. It's that its cumbersome, it spazzes the fuck out if you press anything, things are buried in weird places, basic functionality has been removed, the degenerate that made this should be shot.
 
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I started playing again but it is still bullshit that they downgraded the graphics and whoever did that should be anally raped with a studded mace. I figured out how to stop the WORST of the texture pop-in, but it still has this gross little washed out low detail shiftiness about it that it never had before, just to serve the purpose of reinventing the fucking wheel on a game that was already a smash hit.

Oddly enough, no Colorado map either. Maybe it’s out of the rotation for retooling right now.

The UI is still personality-less, but the upshot is that they did it where you can basically speedrun setting up a new hunter and getting a new match through hotkeys.

I like bayoneting zombies with a bayonet.
 
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