John O'Calagan
SLEEPY TENDERNESS
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Posted - 2017.03.01 11:58:37 -
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I've tested this new shiny thing.
As a wormhole player, it is really important that the new probe scanner interface is perfect because I use it so many times.
The UI effort is great, everything is smooth, no more sudden teleport from the signature, everything is animated, there is sounds for each actions you make, which makes a great feedback to the user. I just have some concerns about performance, but I haven't noticed any frames drop, but I have a good computers, so it might be good to test it with some low-grade computers.
The icons on the directional scans are greats ! They are much better indications than the names, I appreciate a lot that new feature ! It will also be a lot easier for the newbies to quickly understand how big is that ship he has on D-scan ! 
By the way, I had the directional scan problem, but I cleared the settings and it was fixed.
However, I have some critiques to give :
1. No map button :
I know it has been already said a million times, but this is important. As a wormholer, I have always my probe scanner on my screen in case there is a new signature and because I use it a lot. I've out found that you can undock the probe scanner from the map, so it works. (even though I had trouble finding that button, it was pretty well hidden)
However, there is no way to display the map again if you don't know the F9 shortcut, so it might be a good idea to add the map button again. Without that button, the newbies will be lost if they undock the probe scanner and they don't know the map keyboard shortcut.
Maybe makes the map button display when the probe scanner window is undocked.
2. Focus problem between the cosmic signatures and the probe positionner :
After you have successfully scanned down a signature, if you have the probe positionner right on the cosmic signature, when you try to drag and drop the probe positionner to another place, the focus will be given to the cosmic signature, so the action wheel of the cosmic signature will pop up. It also happens with the epicenter of a shattered wormhole, so it might happens with a lot of things. It is important to give the focus to the probe positionner instead of the cosmic signature because the probe positionner can be moved, the cosmic signature can't.
3. No keyboard shortcut to switch Top View to Side View and vice versa :
The switch from Top view to Side view and vice versa is a great idea ! It is adequate with my main method of probe positionning which is first adjust the position from the top, then from the side.
However, I find myself not using that feature even thought I've scanned two wormholes with the new UI.
Why ? Because a double click is less efficient than a click and drag the camera to the right position.
With a keyboard shortcut, I will use that features more often because pressing a keyboard key is much faster than click and drag.
4. The weird static sound when scanning
It is personnal taste for this one, but that sound when your probes are traveling sounds bad to my ears. Maybe it sounds glitchy, dunno. I don't have any problem with any of the new UI sounds except this one. The old one was better.
I'm done with the major problems I had when I scanned down all the sigs in two wormhole systems.
With those issues fixed, I'm sure it'll be a great update for the probe scanner. |