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[Hexenhammer]

MWO Moon Map?

Star Wars Approved!

[culverin]

If they open up the API, then maybe the community can take 3 weeks to scrape together a nicer UI 2.5 or something.

With a paper doll.



Also.
Mech Building.
It doesn't get any better than this:

http://www.sarna.net...ws/tdbv207b.zip

Quick and fast.

[Poerisija]

How many gold do you think they're gonna charge for UI 2.0?

[Heffay]

Poerisija, on 21 October 2013 - 01:30 PM, said:

How many gold do you think they're gonna charge for UI 2.0?

Gold? I think you're looking for the World of Warcraft forums.

[Kaldor]

Xfire or SLI support WRU?

Im tired of having to disable Xfire on my 6970s to play MWO

[ConstantA]

As usability junkie (I design web interfaces) I can have no other reaction to UI 2.0 but facepalm. Even the early prototypes were better. It seems that there's no highly qualified personnel at PGI sans artists and modellers. Even the MC-grabbers (marketing team) are probably from IGP.

The best interface is intuitive interface. PGIs UI 2.0 is a mess.

Sorry, PGI, 3/10 from me.

Edited by ConstantA, 21 October 2013 - 01:56 PM.

[Poerisija]

Heffay, on 21 October 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

Gold? I think you're looking for the World of Warcraft forums.

Mechwarrior gold, MC, whatever you want to call it.

[Heffay]

Poerisija, on 21 October 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

Mechwarrior gold, MC, whatever you want to call it.

Oh, I get it. You're being silly.

[Hexenhammer]

ConstantA, on 21 October 2013 - 01:53 PM, said:

As usability junkie (I design web interfaces) I can have no other reaction to UI 2.0 but facepalm. Even the early prototypes were better. It seems that there's no highly qualified personnel at PGI sans artists and modellers. Even the MC-grabbers (marketing team) are probably from IGP.

The best interface is intuitive interface. PGIs UI 2.0 is a mess.

Sorry, PGI, 3/10 from me.

I'm going to watch the video a few more times to get over the WOW factor and start picking it apart.

[Oni Ralas]

YESSSSSS>....... Even with the audio issue (My brain was trying it's hardest to ignore...but nope).

[FupDup]

This map shall from this point forward be referred to as "Death Star" just like Terra Therma is Mordor.

[StalaggtIKE]

James The Fox Dixon, on 21 October 2013 - 11:12 AM, said:

I want UI 2.0 NOW! The new map reminds me of a Borg planet....

'Borg...? Did someone call?

[Von Falkenstein]

It's cool to get UI 2.0 at last but that new map looks like Star Wars and not like anything I'd expect seeing in the Battletech universe where things are a bit more... down to earth / at least superficially realistic?

[Vassago Rain]

I don't like the new interface. The one they showed months ago looked better. At least it has documentation now.

New map looks pretty good. We'll see how it plays.

[Squid von Torgar]

OMG its full of Stars!
UI2 looks awesome and like a real help to new players wanting to kit out their mechs. Watching the feed I can see the amount of work that has gone into this. Good job chaps, keep it coming.

The moon map looks great. Its a real salute to Classic Sci Fi. I see influences of Star Wars and 2001. I cant wait to breath in the (Lack) of atmosphere on this one, really different and once again your art department should pat themselves on their collective backs.

My only gripe/suggestion would be to include environmental (read Vacuum) effects on it. Both for sound (you can only hear your own mech) and maybe gravity and decompression effects. Heres hoping. Either way seriously stoked about this, MWO is coming of age.

[Otto Cannon]

Well the UI looks console friendly. Seriously though, it does seem to have a lot of information and do what it should do. Hopefully something we can be positive about when we get chance to try it.

As for the classic Starwars style death star map-


Now we know why the Locust arms make it look like a Tie Fighter.

Edited by Otto Cannon, 21 October 2013 - 05:43 PM.

[SgtMagor]

thx for the show, UI 2 looks good. like the moon map kind of creepy was waiting for some monster to jump out, haha imagine a Cyberdemon

[mike29tw]

UI2.0 looks meh. Can't believe there's no paperdoll in mech lab or clicking the rendered mech to select said body part, that's the best part of the old UI. Aside from that, it looks like another confusing mess to navigate through, albeit in a different color scheme.

Moon base looks interesting though, I wonder if the gravity will affect JJ performance. BTW I'm not really familiar with BT lore but are we now fighting for oil rigs around an HPG now? Does that make any sense?

[Kiiyor]

DoktorVivi, on 21 October 2013 - 12:24 PM, said:

It's a hyperpulse generator, not a factory (basically a sci-fi communications array). But yeah, the design seems weird. All that stuff on the outside that you walk over seems like it should be flat, protective plates to protect the systems underneath, but the amount of detail makes it look like you're just marching 100 tons of mech across delicate, breakable stuff. Makes more sense on the walls / ceilings, but the floor? Where things walk / drive across?

I was thinking the same thing! It looks amazing, but the whole area seems as if it was made with only mechs in mind. Pedestrian traffic looks like it will require not only a space suit, but a whole swag of mountain climbing equipment just to walk across the floor! And vehicles? It would be like driving on a high-carbon-steel motocross track.... which I actually endorse.

[Hexenhammer]

mike29tw, on 21 October 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:

UI2.0 looks meh. Can't believe there's no paperdoll in mech lab or clicking the rendered mech to select said body part, that's the best part of the old UI. Aside from that, it looks like another confusing mess to navigate through, albeit in a different color scheme.

Moon base looks interesting though, I wonder if the gravity will affect JJ performance. BTW I'm not really familiar with BT lore but are we now fighting for oil rigs around an HPG now? Does that make any sense?

I don't think MWO is going to deal with gravity. Other wise JJs would be a near must have on the Death Star map.