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[Too Much Love]

No words can tell how the new map SUCKS.

1) the old map showed the direction you look at, and the direction of your legs.

2) the old map scale was much much more comprehensive.

Can you give us AT LEAST the choice between the old and the new variants?

Edited by drunkblackstar, 21 June 2016 - 11:33 AM.

[PurplePuke]

The mini-map is upside down.

From a usability perspective, you should never do this to your users. Now we have to perform a quick mental operation to translate the mini-map to our orientation.

You should never increase the cognitive load of your users is this way. What's on your left, is on your right on the map, and vice-versa. Confusing.

I've written technical documentation for avionics, and no avionics instrument would ever do this. It's a barrier to users.

Hopefully they fix this quickly.

[wanderer]

In the War on Info, the new minimap is a Long Tom.

[Killian De Morte]

+500 votes from me on how awful this new map is.

I might have forgiven the scale, as long as future zoom was put in - but not to make the map rotate with the mech is stupid.

The F****ing google map on my phone can rotate with the orientation of my car **BUT** in the future this is "Lost-Tech" for Battlemechs ???

Was going to play this new release for a couple of hours - managed three games - and now need to stop - just cant get my head around having to navigate/work out facing and attack directions with this map.

In fact if there was an option to turn the map off completely I would.

[Hydrocarbon]

LittleGuy, on 21 June 2016 - 11:20 AM, said:

Yup, everything is great, but fix that mini-map. Turn the map not the marker, make the map zoomable - 3 levels or something, and put the grid markers back in the center of the grid squares

Aaaaaaand you just described the OLD MINI-MAP w/zoom. We're trading direction markers for zoom (which were aren't getting til Soon™). My experience so far is it makes me very dis-orientated (borderline sick to my stomach), allows terribads to get lost & better players to tear into said ppl's backs.



Russ - play your own game more than once a month in tier 5 and you'll get why we're angry.

[Euri Yggdrasil]

New minimap needs to be removed until it can be patched to be useful.

[Sopistan]

Pretty bad change, extremely confusing

[Prof RJ Gumby]

Completely unreadable.

Don't mind new icons that much, but lack of zoom makes them completely undistinguishable the moment 2 mechs are close to each other. The fact that there is no option to make it revolve around you is also simply bad.

Argument that the whole map needs to be visible for the command options to be visible is a joke. Since like 15 years ago game developers solved that issue with having coloured directional arrows at the edge of the map.

[wanderer]

I suppose the new minimap is a great way to make info warfare irrelevant, since now nobody can even see the info to begin with.

Seriously, is this a datafeed for ants?

[V1S0R]

new minimap.....*cencored*

[Tordin]

The mini map in the cockpit should rotate with where you look. This needs tweaks.

Edited by Tordin, 21 June 2016 - 11:38 AM.

[Too Much Love]

So... who asked for it, in the first place?

[RussianWolf]

Killian De Morte, on 21 June 2016 - 11:34 AM, said:

+500 votes from me on how awful this new map is.

I might have forgiven the scale, as long as future zoom was put in - but not to make the map rotate with the mech is stupid.

The F****ing google map on my phone can rotate with the orientation of my car **BUT** in the future this is "Lost-Tech" for Battlemechs ???

Was going to play this new release for a couple of hours - managed three games - and now need to stop - just cant get my head around having to navigate/work out facing and attack directions with this map.

In fact if there was an option to turn the map off completely I would.

you can turn off the entire HUD, but that's it.

[deadmedo]

I figured out how the new minimap works. Just dont look at the minimap and it'll work perfectly!

[Burke IV]

Why mess with sometihng when it was doing what it was supposed to do and had been doing so sinse very beginning. If this is part of some major changes then why inflict this on the players half done?

Bets on how long its going to take to get this rolled back, if ever.

[Michal R]

New patch new shhit from PGI.
New mini map = SHHHHHit
Re-scale = mega shi..

The can't do thing good.

But yes buy new mech pack....

[Greeneye]

Please remove this map. I don't know who invented this!

[Octomus Primus]

I played two games with MINI MAP. Confused the heck out of me. Playing a light, you relied on the mini map a lot. The new map is a piece of ****.

[baropara]

I cc here my opinion

As light pilot I'm blind now. I do not see any intel from minimap, can't plan actions, can't guide team pointing to my locked target and UAV is useless garbage now. How you dare ruine gameplay for mech-class without no experience in playing hours in that class? - this question I would ask thouse uebermind from PGI who said 'that's fine, no need on that arrow, zoom?- mb next time, somehow...". Just go outa office and cross highway with eyez closed - that is my feeling with new mimimimap.

UAV... before this evening I was able manage situation around me in critical moment. Now I know that some reds are nere somewhere here. Insterad of positioning tool it is LRM beacon now. I prefer such things to be cured on test server not on me.

I can't imagine new player using minimap from now. That was a step in self development for newbees, now they born blind without chance.

Edited by baropara, 21 June 2016 - 11:48 AM.

[Voidcrafter]

Wanna know how bad it is?
The only time I had that "bad" feeling of this game was when they "accidentally" "tweaked" the LRMs so 3 salvos of them were blowing your head off...
That's the only time this game was THAT bad.
Period.
Fix.
The.
Fracking.
Mechdamned.
Map.