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New Interface Needed !
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New UI has been needed for awhile but I'd still put this lower on the priority list as you can still get to all the tables and play them. For me I see the immediate priority list as:
- DX11 (in progress)
- Table difficulty + separate leaderboards
- Enable PC Tournaments
- UI
- DX11 (in progress)
- Table difficulty + separate leaderboards
- Enable PC Tournaments
- UI
EldarOfSuburbia
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That's because it just had an overhaul. The leaderboards are new, sparkly, shiny, and actually more than a decent effort at making them good. (Still has the same old suspect scores, but there has been an attempt to filter out some of them; it's a manual effort though so it's not perfect and never will be.)
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Kratos3
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Interesting. Looks good. Kinda like what the new UI will be.
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December 2013. LMAO. Screenshots still available here.
"We will be implementing a new and improved interface that will greatly improve the user experience in 2014!"
That interface looks really amazing and very useful to me. Last played table, random table, table of the month... It looks ready so why they don't release it ???
EldarOfSuburbia
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"It looks ready" and "it's just a bunch of screen shots our artist put together in Photoshop" are very different things.
What you see there is much closer to the latter than to the former.
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Because that was just the design look of it. Programming it to work was being done by someone else who wound up leaving the company. He was doing it as a side project, after his main work was done, in an effort to push it through. When he left, so did any momentum. We have been told that UI is actually now slotted on the 'to do' list which means it will be given priority at some point, with a focused effort. Much like what happened with DX 11. While that might not appear to be anything, it is in fact an improvement from being on the "we're looking into it" or "we'd like to do that" status it had been. Like I said, it moved to a position of getting done officially due to other things that are being planned for the game but can't go forward without a new UI.
Flipperdeflip
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They regret it as much as the Xbox 360's April Fool's joke on their Facebook page in 2012.
https://www.facebook.com/pinballarcade/posts/380592491961817
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Rich Lehmann
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I have all the tables and scroll through them fast enough. I don't know what you all are crying about.
Flipperdeflip
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That's because you have a Kindle Fire, the menu is made for touch devices.
Try it out on PC or console and you know what we are all crying about.
Tann
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Another example: you want to check a table leaderboards. Let's say Monster Bash.
1- You must select the table (in the middle of the scrolling menu, sorted by alphabetical order)
2- Enter the menu
3- Select "Leaderboards"
Now, you have the crazy idea to check the Who Dunnit? leaderboards.
4- you can through ALL the tables between Monster Bash and Who Dunnit? in the leaderboards menu (can take a while, because sometimes, the leaderboards freeze until the data are displayed)
or
4- you quit the MB leaderboards
5- You quit the MB attract mode
6- You goes to W?D icon (or search it) in the scrolling menu
7- You select menu in the W?D attract mode
8- You enter "Leaderboards".
OH BOY.
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I only posted this in Android initially because it related to that platform. But it seems to dovetail quite nicely into this discussion as well.
I created an Android User Guide because of deficiencies in the UI and subsequently the overall UX. The introduction to the guide pretty much sums up my feelings about the UX and the purpose of the guide.
http://goo.gl/PSa4h5
I created an Android User Guide because of deficiencies in the UI and subsequently the overall UX. The introduction to the guide pretty much sums up my feelings about the UX and the purpose of the guide.
http://goo.gl/PSa4h5
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I was just thinking about this last night. Very unfortunate, that.
Bowflex
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They didn't do it this year though! I was so relieved when April 1st was over and they didn't post anything.
rehtroboi40
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I think the timetable they gave on some of these things is what's biting them in the a--. What sucks is that the UI looked great. PAD is a good idea. Orbals is awes....I'm sure it's going to be neat. DX11 is finally coming out....a year later than hoped for, but it's imminent. X360 gets closer every day, and those users are very patiently waiting.
But they did give us Haunted "Ghostbusters" House and now, they have given us a SS standalone app for Android. One table for $5 as opposed to paying that amount and getting SS AND Big Shot (you know, like most of us did three years ago). Plus, FarSight continues to drag their knuckles on the 360 and PC DX11 releases.
In regards to the SS stand-alone, it's on their FB page. You all can look it up-and I apologize for not knowing how to post links.
rehtroboi40
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I'd LOVE to see Jay Olbernolte stammer as he tried to explain FarSight's way out of this one!
Sometimes words that we say on the internet in jest have a cruel habit of coming true.
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We can only hope.I've got a feeling this feature is coming soon
And have you seen a citation from FarSight that this might be happening soon? Do share!
Rich Lehmann
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I would but that would mean I am sitting on the couch staring at my tv or sitting at a desk staring at a monitor and I think that is just sad. The only excuse for an adult to play a video game is on a tablet or cellphone while at the airport or on the toilet.
