Nanfoodle Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 On patch day, and most of the players have yet to log on. This will soon become a legend, leading eventually to "Daddy, where were you when BioWare made THE MISTAKE?" inquiries from our yet to be born children. Its a small hick up that most people wont even remember. Again BW custom UI would make everyone happy as they could pick the changes they like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fieryabyss Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Did one daily on Ilum and already had a headache due to seizure time going on in my game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptwonline Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm still a fan of the pre-patch UI interface. The GCD was a subtle effect and all of my abilities that were usable (even if they were on GCD) were still lit-up/visible. This new interface makes it extremely difficult because as soon as I use one ability all my abilities appear dimmed out and unusable. I play a Juggernaut btw. I'm not sure if this new improvement was to help another class or not but it is severely detrimental to the Juggernaut I play. The only problem with the old one was that longer abilities with a few seconds left looked like they were available, but weren't. The correct solution is to put a numerical countdown on abilities that are close to ready, not to make it very hard to tell for ALL of your abilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadalyn Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I liked the animation from pre-patch 1.1.2 just fine. Now my whole bar lights up blue and it makes it harder to see the abilities on my bar so I know which one I want to use next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurojiin Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) hahah so true half the people are probably just making stuff up to get it rolled back Seriously, you dont like flashy lights. What about all the Sorcs and the lightning spam How hard is it to read a couple of posts and understand the true problem. You don't know if an ability with conditionals on GCD will be available after cooldown or not. It's seriously not that hard to exercise a tiny bit of intelligence, you know. Edited February 7, 2012 by Aurojiin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossos Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Is Cover now on the GCD with this new UI change? I'm hearing mixed info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKaine Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I hope they fix this soon. Currently I have a piece of tape over my hotbars on my screen, because I don't want to have a seizure from all the flashing. I hate to say it but i suspect this ^ will be better than the fix they come up with next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armytank Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm sitting browsing the internet and not playing. the new effect is tarabad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthStalker Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Yep, the first version was the best version. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghaiana Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I think BW should just stop listening to complaints about this for now. As it seems every change they do on the global cooldown makes another part of the players unhappy. Some want numbers, other more visual effects or less visual effects, it will be impossible to make 1.7 million subscribers happy about this issue as it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fieryabyss Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm sitting browsing the internet and not playing. the new effect is tarabad. I hope they fix this soon, if i have to heal a raid with that going on ill be dead before the 2nd boss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsith Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) The only problem with the old one was that longer abilities with a few seconds left looked like they were available, but weren't. The correct solution is to put a numerical countdown on abilities that are close to ready, not to make it very hard to tell for ALL of your abilities. Ah yes, now that you mention that I do see that being a problem. I have run into that issue before but most of the time my longer CD I would either be clicking them so I could see the CD in the tooltip on the right. Hmm... I can understand a little of what they were trying to fix, I just think they may have caused another issue in the process. Edited February 7, 2012 by Kirsith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahor Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Ever 1,5 seconds I have 4 bars of flashing stuff. Hey guys, I am to old for disco! And all I get from this flash flash flash is bad headache. The animation is ok, all visibile ... but PLEASE remove this terrible final flash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptwonline Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 hahah so true half the people are probably just making stuff up to get it rolled back Seriously, you dont like flashy lights. What about all the Sorcs and the lightning spam It really isn't the same. I don't have the medical background to explain why some kinds of lights create headaches and eyestrain and others don't, but I do know that it didn't before today, and it does now. And from the looks of it, a lot of other people are having the same problem. I just did 1 more daily, and now I'm taking a 30 minute time out to recover because I don't want to throw up. I know it's sounds like I am being melodramatic, but that's also the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpeeGamers Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) Hum, no? They can easily give us the choice through an option. Mk, I'll set the over under at 50 pages on the new topic once this gets fixed either tomorrow (most likely since people are probably claiming their brother is now dead because of this) or by next weeks patch. I'll take over...people will whine whine whine. Get the Waaaaaaambulance ready. Edited February 7, 2012 by TheSpeeGamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthStalker Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I think BW should just stop listening to complaints about this for now. As it seems every change they do on the global cooldown makes another part of the players unhappy. Some want numbers, other more visual effects or less visual effects, it will be impossible to make 1.7 million subscribers happy about this issue as it seems. As I said earlier in this post, I didn't think the UI could get any worse, but it continues to do so. If after this, they once again make the actionbars even wors, I wouldn't even be angry anymore. I'd start venturing into "amazed" territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpenConflict Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 How hard is it to read a couple of posts and understand the true problem. You don't know if an ability with conditionals on GCD will be available after cooldown or not. It's seriously not that hard to exercise a tiny bit of intelligence, you know. What are you talking about? I was talkin about the flashy lights not some CD issue. Its pretty easy to tell if a skill is off CD after playing alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thesseract Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I think BW should just stop listening to complaints about this for now. As it seems every change they do on the global cooldown makes another part of the players unhappy. Some want numbers, other more visual effects or less visual effects, it will be impossible to make 1.7 million subscribers happy about this issue as it seems. Or they could first fix something that makes the game unplayable for a large group of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorefultv Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 The new GCD is just awful. Definitely getting a headache from it. The last version wasn't perfect but please roll back and do some user experience testing before you release something that gives people headaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghaiana Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Or they could first fix something that makes the game unplayable for a large group of people. Tell me how large, do you have numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrikeOfLight Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm not one famous for getting sick from visual stimulation, but it managed to do it to me. Also have migraine. Only other time I get feeling like this is when I am surrounded by florescent lights in a warehouse or store. I simply won't play like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amarinth Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) And in my naiveté I didn't think they could possibly make it worse, not after we gave them plenty of suggestions on how to improve the system (none of which at all resemble the horror they've turned it into now) in the last thread... *facepalm* Is it too much ask to just have a simple, functional cooldown display where I can see which skills are ON and OFF cooldown at a quick glance, without all of these unnecessary fuss and frills? I don't need nor want my skillbar looking like a disco floor - it's bloody distracting. Edited February 7, 2012 by Amarinth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCorvin Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 A simple fix for this would be to add an option in the interface options to change the opacity for the gcd animation. I was fine with the old system and welcome change but, this new change is an inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKaine Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I think BW should just stop listening to complaints about this for now. As it seems every change they do on the global cooldown makes another part of the players unhappy. Some want numbers, other more visual effects or less visual effects, it will be impossible to make 1.7 million subscribers happy about this issue as it seems. Let players have custom UI options. 1.7 million people happy. Problem solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordGeneral Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Someone at Bioware should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom) before they decide to play around with the visual aspect of the UI. One of the major triggers for these is a flash of light in the peripheral vision (which is what your current ui does). It's likely the major reason so many people are posting about feeling dizzy, nauseated, sensation of numbness, headaches, etc... - Also BW consult your artists before adding flashy lights to the very bottom of the screen. It distracts the focal point of the composition and confuses the eye. It pulls the eye down straight vertically which isn't very comfortable since the eye's movement is primarily horizontal. ^ This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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