Jaizo Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Imo we need a built in "Power Auras" since Bioware won't allow addons, this will fix the whole flash thing imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotDeath Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 im starting to lose patience with this game.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztee Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 im starting to lose patience with this game.... i know man .... i know .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibrand Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 They're just making the game more and more visually difficult. It was bad enough that so many specs were created to be dependant on procs, so you have to spend your time staring at your buffbar (seriously... give procs a sound). My eyes can't sort out this new white-washed and constantly flashing change. I'm pretty much just button-mashing in combat at this point. That's bad enough in PvE, but in PvP it means losing every time. I guess some people like the new change. But for me it isn't a matter of preference, it's an inability for my eyes to handle it. Hate this. I want to play, and until they change it I'm stuck with chatting and crafting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreverfury Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 OmniCC has been out for 5 years. Use this method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starke Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 This game is being run like it's a free to play game and it's honestly embarrassing even from the outside. Patches are going out without critical testing, servers are being taken down more often than they need to be and whoever is in charge of approving UI elements needs to be re-evaluated. It's strange to me that extremely critical issues like item, currency, valor and equipment exploitation can be handled with an allowable level of loss. While non-critical issues that are purely speculative are being handled hastily by a the UI team that has more important things to do. (like getting us an adjustable UI!) These type of changes are going to be what makes or breaks this game. You've gone and made something that was a non-issue for 80% of your players into a major issue. To fix: Use GCD from last patch. (Black) Use CD timer for this patch (White) on skills with CD's longer than 4 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leporello Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 LOL, BioWare. So when are they going to fix group frames, a real problematic issue (health not displayed correctly, characters missing)? A year from now, can we expect a fix on that finally? And will it actually fix anything, or will you just swap some colors around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztee Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 This game is being run like it's a free to play game and it's honestly embarrassing even from the outside. Patches are going out without critical testing, servers are being taken down more often than they need to be and whoever is in charge of approving UI elements needs to be re-evaluated. It's strange to me that extremely critical issues like item, currency, valor and equipment exploitation can be handled with an allowable level of loss. While non-critical issues that are purely speculative are being handled hastily by a the UI team that has more important things to do. (like getting us an adjustable UI!) These type of changes are going to be what makes or breaks this game. You've gone and made something that was a non-issue for 80% of your players into a major issue. To fix: Use GCD from last patch. (Black) Use CD timer for this patch (White) on skills with CD's longer than 4 seconds. i like your suggestion, but i would prefer they remove the white borders and have CD's greater than the GCD be white. The blackened colour of GCD post patch was great .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starke Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 LOL, BioWare. So when are they going to fix group frames, a real problematic issue (health not displayed correctly, characters missing)? A year from now, can we expect a fix on that finally? And will it actually fix anything, or will you just swap some colors around? At this rate, I would rather wait a year and have it done right than to have them attempt another "fix" and have it worse than before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giolon Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) I like the new (original?) cooldown animations. With the prior version, you couldn't tell what long-cooldown abilities were available and which ones had just a single pixel or two left "covering" the icon. This is closer to the way it was originally at release that many people cried out for Bioware to bring back. Kudos to them. I also like the new flash to let you know when an ability is ready. It's not much different than what WoW (blasphemy!) does when your abilities come off cooldown. And yes, I'm a hotkey user. Edited February 7, 2012 by Giolon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishbrewed Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I think they prefer PRETTY over functionality.... Someone said, oh wow that flashing looks really slick and cool lets do it. Ah the while the guy in the back who actually plays the game was yelling IT'S FAIL.... All flash little substance...comes to mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujojax Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 when the cd is so close to being reset its hard to tell when its right near the bottom. how difficult would it be to put the numerical value over the spell, or do people not want this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rukks Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Prefer new, but both are fine. I didn't even mind before the first change. Find something else to make a fuss about -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketain Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 They're just making the game more and more visually difficult. It was bad enough that so many specs were created to be dependant on procs, so you have to spend your time staring at your buffbar (seriously... give procs a sound). My eyes can't sort out this new white-washed and constantly flashing change. I'm pretty much just button-mashing in combat at this point. That's bad enough in PvE, but in PvP it means losing every time. I guess some people like the new change. But for me it isn't a matter of preference, it's an inability for my eyes to handle it. Hate this. I want to play, and until they change it I'm stuck with chatting and crafting. hehe...ya I tried it and it's offensive to the eyes. I put in a petition and logged. I can't play like that. I'm doing the same thing; just logging in to craft and logging back out. Guess I'll have alot of rested xp time though once they fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leverage Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 There is no reason to show every ability on the GCD. I just logged on and was like OMG why. This is the worst of the 3 options we have seen in the last month+. I love SWTOR, but these kind of things really make you scratch your head. If I quickly look at abilities mid GCD it now tells me NOTHING about what is on CD or not. It is really horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naroga Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Currently, my Sentinel is not playable with the new UI. I can't tell which abilities are ready because they are constantly greyed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VenthiosLestaran Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I still don't understand what's wrong with a numerical countdown for longer CD's. Ones comming off GCD don't need a 1.5 second cooldown number. For most of my WoW career I used Bartender to organize my hotbars - exactly how I wanted them, configured with proper numerical countdowns, followed by a small flash. I could also use another addon to give a sound queue when an ability was off cooldown. Example: Lava burst. Playing as elemental for some fights I had it give a gentle "ping" whenever it would come off cooldown, via proc or natural. It would "ping" and I'd cast Lava Burst. Never had to look at my hotbars for it. Why are we not doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graburr Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Graying out all icons during the global cooldown is not a fix, it further hinders the players ability. wanna know the best part? Patch Notes 1.1.0 *The cooldown indicator on hotbars no longer causes all ability icons to appear grayed out (unusable). Now, when an ability is on cooldown, it will not be grayed out if its activation conditions (like resource costs or range) are met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zilod Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 i think the new ui is better than the old one in the old one it was difficult, on long cd skills, to tell if something was up or not as the only portion of the icon grayed out was the one below the "cd bar" with this ui at least we can clearly see if something is up or not, even if i agree that there are way too many effects going on and it could cause some distraction. hopefully with the new and more customizable ui there will be options to tune down these ui effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacil Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 please bioware i play a lvl 50 scoundrell with the new cooldowneffect it´s imposible for me to see the procs correct, and after 30 minutes playing i´m become strong headache from the ligh blue flashing icons. please give older players a chance to enable this! thanx, cacil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotDeath Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Game is ruined until fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koobluh Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I don't ever post in this forum but I came here specifically because of this GCD...the game is not playable like this. SWTOR is and has been a good game but this GCD is definitely a huge usability blunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonic Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Ive lived with all the other bugs and not whined while others have,giving this game all the chances i could,but after today and these new abilty cd changes i really am not sure bioware actually have a clue what they are doing,i mean before this wasnt even much of a problem,why even change it and ok you changed it but its a total MESS now,seriously whatever knobhead came up with this idea/look needs to be handed his p45 tommorw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archfiend Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 horrid change. both the GCD and that asinine flashing. please make the flashing stop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duusor Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 It's definitely easier to see when your cool down is up. I like the brighter GCD display, but I'm not sure if I'm in range when the spells go dark. I've been doing a lot of press and pray tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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