R226 UI Update: Main Menu (Updated 4/28/21)

shardwick

MathiasTCK said:

I want fast switching between PVP and PVE, make it easy to interrupt PVE to hit a red retal node in PVP then resume PVE, and have MPQ remember what team I used on what node.

I want the option to stop the game from booting me out of pve just because some new lightning round started or because someone hit me in pvp. Maybe if there was a ticker on the screen that said "Loki's lightning round just started!" or "You were attacked in Claws for Concern!" then that would be ok and then if you click/tap on it then it would take you directly there, but it wouldn't take you to the main screen. Because it's really annoying when I'm doing my clears and then I get booted to the main screen because some new event started, then I have to go back into the event that I was already in.

XandorXerxes

I've been harsh on some of the changes before where we got mobile-ized, so I'll put my money where my mouth is: thank you for keeping the widescreen format for PC users. 

lvsmr2

Android user here - I've done the update and nothing has changed on mine. Is that right? 

qandols

I've update both my steam and my android account to v226 and still have the old main menu. ??

HoundofShadow

It will be rolled out via patch once everything is finalised.

BlixTheFrog

I think it’s very brave of you to keep on with the new UI rollout considering the risks ! 😂

Waddles_Pines

*edit* there's a new prologue, so that's what the milestones are for...
*edit 2* the inbox is for unclaimed covers, it's the little file folder icon on the right side, upper half of the main screen

There's an inbox now, not sure what it's for. There are new milestones, but some of them are tied to an event title/nodes that I have no idea where they're from... A worldwide web/who are the maggia?  Not sure why cap vs thanos is featured for pvp when wolvie's event is the only one running, and I can't remember a pvp where it's cap vs. thanos.

Still find it too busy and cluttered for a phone screen.

Phumade

So far looks good.  Thank you for the surprise prologue campaign.   That was fresh!

merb713

Are the borders on the boxes for Story and Versus supposed to pulse? Or is that just me?

entrailbucket

This is very different so everyone is going to hate it!

It'll take some getting used to, but people will get used to it.

Sekilicious

Phumade said:

So far looks good.  Thank you for the surprise prologue campaign.   That was fresh!

The poor Maggia could not withstand a champed 4* Juggernaut. I almost felt sorry for them. Then I remembered how much trouble they gave me as a 1* player.

It was also nice they included that and the new milestones for new players. I would have liked additional levels for collecting covers but then I'm just greedy

Punter1

Thanks for the very easy prologue, I almost thought about doing it with my 1*s, but left Thano5 to do the work!

Lots of new milestones too, obviously there to teach the game, like making strong matches and changing positions etc.  Good for new players and easy bonus for us oldies.

Still think the Story and PVP screens need a way of flipping back between each other.  

Cannibalqueen

Some people might want to consider leaving one prologue mission open.  I have two I never completed from the original,
and then they come in handy sometimes if you’re building your 1/2 Thor.  

Like this very event for instance, I don’t want to deal with Mindless Ones setting their tiles every match.  Also alliance events.

I’m good with the changes here.  Kind of like it actually.

vudu3

The new layout is bad. It takes more clicks to do some very commons tasks compared to the old screen. For example, going from a PVE sub to the current PVP event used to take three clicks and now it takes four. 

I’m not sure how I feel about the new character portrait on the top. On one hand it’s wasted space and it’s laughably bad how it looks like Monica is holding a sign for the cover inbox. On the other hand, I kind of love how ridiculous it looks and I really hope that it was intentional just so I can see how they make it work for future characters. 

mbaren

Punter1 said:

Still think the Story and PVP screens need a way of flipping back between each other.  

This is it for me, basically.  I don't love the changes, but I'm sure I'll get used to them easily enough.  But adding an extra step to have to get between these two modes doesn't seem like an improvement.

supergarv

I find it odd that the main menu looks like arrangeable widget tiles, withlut actually providing the ability to arrange tiles to ones liking.

I totally agree that I‘d like a way to switch from pvp to pve with a single touch.

abmoraz

It's busy... but not unusable.  I'll get used to it.

first impressions:

1. Looks a lot more modern.

2. Adds a "quests" button to the bottom row of "hot keys".  It's where the alliance button was, so I hit it about a dozen times already by muscle memory when trying to go to my alliance screen.  That's just something I'll get used to.  No Biggie.

3. No way to go from PvE to PvP without backing out... and the back button is still in the upper left... where my thumb cant reach it.  (long standing gripe, not specific to this update).

4. LOVE the new Campaign additions

5. Not a fan of the "Featured Event" or "Featured Offer".  I guess if they stop making them pop-up every time I log in, this is a reasonable trade-off.

6. "Quest in Progress" seems superfluous to me, especially if it's always just going to be the dailies.

7. Not sure the point of the "New Character" at the top ... which takes up a ton of screen real estate, but isn't clickable and doesn't provide any actual information... Is that MY newest character?  Is it the most recently released character? 

8. I like that you moved the Shield resupply and VIP to the bottom.  They are rarely clicked (with supply being a pop-up and VIP being once a month). 

9. I like the "red dot" to signify that something underneath is new (in my case, the Versus button had the dot to indicate there was a new event in there)

10. Not sure if it was intentional or not, but in the "New Character" spot at the top, Monica looks like she is holding a manila folder in the upper-right that is a short-cut to the Roster screen.  Probably a coincidence with her character art and the placement, but still kinda cool/funny.

11. Timers are inconsistent.  Some show "Time Left" in the button, some as headers to the section

12. Same with Titles.  Some are in the buttons.  Some are labels above the buttons.  Makes it look a bit disorganized.

Overall, I think I'll like this after the initial "New thing is shocking my old muscle memory" wears off.

MorganWick

I get the sense that this is supposed to be a "hub screen" with as much of the game accessible in one place as possible, with everything siloed into particular areas of the game. So I would suggest having the bottom row of buttons consist of the most common areas to go to (Story, Versus, Recruit and Roster from the current row), plus anything you might want to get to urgently at certain times (Alliance), moving Supports to be accessible from the Roster screen and leaving Quests on the Home Screen (perhaps with a checkmark on the Back button, or a popup, indicating completed quests). That's if you don't add some other way to easily toggle between Story and Versus, but that's just a side effect of this change making them feel less like the center of the game.

To me, the tiny folder suggests an "inbox" to me, as in messages and communication from the devs, especially next to the new-character thing, not the vine. Maybe if it had some cover icons (or perhaps a stack of them) and a clock, indicating what's in there and that they won't be in there forever? Or perhaps a file drawer, resembling a longbox, to further the "cover" imagery/metaphor?

ThaRoadWarrior

It is a pretty big loss to the navigation not to be able to “tab” between PVE and PVP without backing out of either. The rest is ignorable, but this change is going to be an active annoyance for awhile.

talleman

Almost claimed my 500 5* shards by mistake from the quest in progress tab in the middle of the screen. Better be careful.