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[RexCorvus]

Due to the minimap "improvements" (to be honst I think the new minimap is really worse compared to the old one) the coordinates are hard to read.
The size of the letters like D4 of G7 is way too small (no even bold letters) and light grey
How actually thinks that this is better than the old one ?

[Wintersdark]

RexCorvus, on 23 August 2016 - 11:29 AM, said:

Due to the minimap "improvements" (to be honst I think the new minimap is really worse compared to the old one) the coordinates are hard to read.
The size of the letters like D4 of G7 is way too small (no even bold letters) and light grey
How actually thinks that this is better than the old one ?

I like it more, and don't find the size of the letters unreadable, but I'd be totally unsurprised that their may be scaling issues with different resolutions.

Works fine for my 22" 1080p display.

[RexCorvus]

27 Inch Full HD here and look how itr looks like on certain maps (grim portico is a really WORSE example)



E7 / D7 absolutly NOT readable and this is the case on several maps that the letters cannot be read.
The Minimap was fine like it was.. every "improvement" is a drawback

Edited by RexCorvus, 23 August 2016 - 11:41 AM.

[b34r5]

mini map is completely unusable, large map is not much better.
font is too small, map looks CGA or nearly so - running 1900 x 1080

Prior to patch - you had a great thing going with it.. now however.. facepalm

Mini Map:

https://drive.google...UFBIRmNDTHhrMVE

Large Map:

https://drive.google...c0V0MUs2cW43czQ

[RexCorvus]

Even worser on snowy maps:

[Strelok7]

Ok, I get it. PGI likes to fix stuff that is not broken.
Well, no need to worry about it no more then.

In that case, I recommend to dial up the contrast and brightness on the mini-map.



mm-mm-mm so much better.

To be fair, I'll add that Crimson Straight's map (and the way it shows on the minmap & the battlegrid) looks awesome, though.

[Doxylicious]

Wintersdark, on 23 August 2016 - 11:31 AM, said:

I like it more, and don't find the size of the letters unreadable, but I'd be totally unsurprised that their may be scaling issues with different resolutions.

Works fine for my 22" 1080p display.

[Redacted]. You clearly have some laser vision and [Redacted]

Edited by draiocht, 23 August 2016 - 01:19 PM.
inappropriate language, nonconstructive

[BlackW1nd]

At 15" laptop it's completely unusable.

Spoiler

I can see nothing at Battlegrid without zooming and minimap is just useless.

[Dee Eight]

Yeah, snow maps unreadable now. Its like they forgot the coordinates should be a contrasting color of the background. So use white on a black surface, or black on a white surface.

[Alicornus]

The new minimaps failed to hit the mark. I don't need a work of art when I look at it, I need it to display crucial information immediately and clearly. The old maps missed important informations about the terrain, the new ones tend obfuscate important informations like coordinates. A more stylized version of the maps could do the trick.

[BlackW1nd]

Dee Eight, on 23 August 2016 - 01:14 PM, said:

Yeah, snow maps unreadable now. Its like they forgot the coordinates should be a contrasting color of the background. So use white on a black surface, or black on a white surface.

Everything was OK before this patch. They just broke it again.

[lb34]

good old pgi they do a patch and break the mini map

[RexCorvus]

BlackW1nd, on 23 August 2016 - 01:16 PM, said:

Everything was OK before this patch. They just broke it again.

Agreed - it was fine before and there was NO need to change it. Now it is improved and it is more or less useless

[vidaholic]

yup, cant make any tactical decisions based on tje map. cannot coordinate with team using the grid now.

[Dee Eight]

then again, half the time players don't even pay attention to the minimap anyway. BIG glaring enemy locked up beside them...then they wonder how they died...

[Sunstruck]

The fonts for the sector coordinates need to be bigger, I agree its difficult to read.

[Wintersdark]

RexCorvus, on 23 August 2016 - 11:39 AM, said:

27 Inch Full HD here and look how itr looks like on certain maps (grim portico is a really WORSE example)



E7 / D7 absolutly NOT readable and this is the case on several maps that the letters cannot be read.
The Minimap was fine like it was.. every "improvement" is a drawback

Yeah, depending on colors some lettering can be unreadable, no doubt. A black shadow around the lettering would fix that right up.

Except D7 is perfectly readable on my display, though F8 is not.



Edit: To be clear, at no point did I say there was never contrast issues, just that I found the font size just fine at 22"/1080p (but suspected it wouldn't scale well with resolution and/or screen size)

Edited by Wintersdark, 23 August 2016 - 03:31 PM.

[Wintersdark]

BlackW1nd, on 23 August 2016 - 01:12 PM, said:

At 15" laptop it's completely unusable.

Spoiler

I can see nothing at Battlegrid without zooming and minimap is just useless.

Your screenshots are perfectly readable on my display, but again: Like I said, I'd be totally unsurprised to find that they're unreadable at certain resolutions or screen sizes.

Doxylicious, on 23 August 2016 - 01:11 PM, said:

[Redacted]. You clearly have some laser vision and [Redacted]

Well, that was mature.

[Gaudium]

My god PGI, why do you constantly break things that are fine? The "improved" mini map is trash again. As said already, hard to read the coordinates, all of the icons look like ants along with it, just please put it back as it was pre-patch.

[Brom96]

Unfortunately, minimap is bugged in its current state. Detail on the map are obstructed, lettering is unreadable on most if not all maps. Thus it contains even less info then the map before. Not to mention that you can't direct teammembers anymore since no one can read coordinates. Another issue is that the whole shadow/light thing seems to be off, too bright which also imacts on minimap. There was no need to change at all, but once it was done, it looks like there was no testing.