Options
Oh_deer Member Posts: 28
July 18 in General Discussions
Does anyone think these big red exclamation marks improve the UI?
They're an eye sore and an ugly way to direct players to the cosmetic store imo.
13
TragicSolitude Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 6,911
July 18
Options
It's horrible. It's exactly the kind of graphic and tactic used in free-to-play mobile games to get people to spend money, and it's a loud annoying visual distraction that comes off as gauche in a paid PC/console game. It's as tactless as putting the newest character at the top of the list whether you own her or not.
This wasn't done with the goal of improving the UI, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who thinks it does improve the UI. It's marketing. Shoving marketing where it's not appropriate doesn't improve anything for the user; it benefits the marketer.
19
shalo Member Posts: 1,508
Options
How do i make it go away? I went in to the store and looked at the exclamation marked items, but the mark remains.
Found out i have to go back to the lobby and then the mark goes away, more pointless extra clicks.
Mooks Member Posts: 14,637
July 18
Options
adding because I just used it in another related thread.
9
radiantHero23 Member Posts: 3,656
July 18
Options
Ohhhh...
That's what they are for...
No, that's awful. The icons should only be visible in the shop.
I thought, this was something like: hey! You haven't leveled this character yet. But then I realized, that I very much had leveled that character. I desperately tried to get the icon away.
Someday they will realize, that in regard to the ui, things that are fine need not be improved.
There are certainly other aspects that could need that extra bit of polishing.
1
Peanits Dev, Community Manager Dev∙Community Manager › Posts: 7,460
July 18
Options
These notifications are being removed in an upcoming patch. They will only appear in the store to help you find new outfits, not in the character selection screen.
12
Krazzik Member Posts: 2,438
July 18
Options
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762764#Comment_3762764
Thanks for letting us know. Stuff like this shouldn't have been added in the first place, but at least BHVR has noticed the backlash. Hopefully they'll backtrack on some of the other UI changes too.
2
Iron_Cutlass Member Posts: 3,055
July 18 edited July 18
Options
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762764#Comment_3762764
Can we just have a button in the shop to remove these notifications? Either that or can they be made temporary and go away after a certain amount of time?
I find it annoying to see the "new outfit" icon for outfits that Im already made aware of from the promotion material and/or the "featured" section of the shop.
For single piece sets spread across multiple Survivors it can be especially annoying to manually click through all of them to remove the notification (e.g. the Iron Maiden collection, the Cats and Dogs collection, etc.), so have a button to just outright remove them or have them passively go away would make it easier.
6
Mooks Member Posts: 14,637
July 18
Options
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762774#Comment_3762774
yes! This please!
It was so annoying to manually click through all those Iron Maiden Shirts
2
Jaysax Member Posts: 22
July 18
Options
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762764#Comment_3762764
😊👏
1
MaTtRoSiTy Member Posts: 1,807
July 18
Options
Oh thank goodness they're removing them, I find them extremely irritating. I feel like I have to clear them by doing tedious store clicking that I really don't want to do.
1
Laluzi Member Posts: 5,933
July 18
Options
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3762764#Comment_3762764
I hate to jump in on any dev response and try to solicit a Q&A, and I'm not expecting a response, but all the same I have to ask - are there any other plans to change elements of the current UI, or talks about doing so? Feedback seems unanimously negative and while I'm as happy to get rid of the exclamation points as I am the owned stickers, it doesn't fix other problems like the customisation menu being harder to find and having much less functionality than before, or the newest character being stuck in the top left, or the game no longer neatly grouping your owned characters and putting the unowned ones greyed out in the back, and now having to sift through piles of characters you don't own (with a less clear visual indicator that you don't own them.)
3
